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March 13, 2018

multidivisional enterprises that have diversified into related product lines. The present book aims to fill in this gap in the literature by adopting a coherent approach to this elusive subject. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Business Investment in Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s

By: Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones and Erica Salvaj

This article examines non-profit investments by business in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database, the study shows that more than three-quarters of such... View Details

Keywords: Economic History; Oral History; Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business History; Emerging Markets; Reputation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East; India; Chile; Colombia; Sri Lanka; Kenya

March 2014 (Revised September 2017)
Case

salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico

By: Richard Hamermesh, Regina Garcia Cueller and Valeria Moy

In May 2013 the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth and to fulfill its... View Details

Keywords: Medical Services; Developing Countries; Developing Markets; Health Care Industry; Health Services; Healthcare Ventures; Healthcare Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Mexico; Mexico City

Educators

My time as a Newcomen Fellow has greatly strengthened my scholarship, exposing me to new research topics and facilitating networks with scholars around the world. I met experts in my region of interest— Southeast Asia—who have helped refine and advance my doctoral... View Details

Oct 2017
Panel Discussion

Business History and Economic Geography

By: Valeria Giacomin

May 2014
Talk

The Battle of the Oils: Competition in the Global Vegetable Oil Markets

By: Valeria Giacomin

May 2016
Lecture

Emerging Asia in Global Business Systems

By: Valeria Giacomin

Sep 2015
Talk

Sustainability as a Research Agenda: The Case of Agribusiness in Southeast Asia

By: Valeria Giacomin

Nov 2016
Panel Discussion

Cluster Governance and Shifts in Cluster Boundaries: Plantation Economy in Late-colonial Malay(si)a

By: Valeria Giacomin

Mar 2017
Conference Presentation

The Role of Singapore in the Southeast Asian Plantation Cluster

By: Valeria Giacomin

Sep 2013
Panel Discussion

Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Southeast Asian Commodity Markets: An Overview

By: Valeria Giacomin

2017
Article

Negotiating Cluster Boundaries: Governance Shifts in the Palm Oil and Rubber Cluster in Malay(si)a (1945–1970 ca.)

By: Valeria Giacomin

Keywords: Cluster Governance; Institutional Change; Agency Houses; Palm Oil; Rubber; Malay(si)a; Decolonization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Southeast Asia

Summer, 2018
Article

The Transformation of the Global Palm Oil Cluster: Dynamics of Cluster Competition between Africa and Southeast Asia (c. 1900–1970)

By: Valeria Giacomin

Mar 2017
Talk

Palm Oil and Cluster Competition

By: Valeria Giacomin

Jun 2015
Panel Discussion

The Evolution of the Palm Oil Industry in Malaysia and Indonesia in the 20th Century

By: Valeria Giacomin

Jun 2015
Conference Presentation

The Evolution of the Palm Oil Industry, 1900–1980s: Malaysia and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

By: Valeria Giacomin

July 2018
Teaching Plan

Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin

This Teaching Plan accompanies the case HBS No. 317-028, “Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism.” It provides guidelines for class discussion, as well as a board plan. The case traces the origins of sustainable finance and investor activism through the career... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

October 2017 (Revised October 2017)
Teaching Plan

Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin

Teaching Plan for HBS No. 805-010. View Details