Publications

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

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

2018
Book Review

Review of "Natural Resources and Economic Growth. Learning from History"

By: Valeria Giacomin

Aug 2016
Conference Presentation

Moving Clusters: Rubber and Palm Oil in Post WWII Southeast Asia

By: Valeria Giacomin

June 2018
Article

The Emergence of an Export Cluster: Traders and Palm Oil in Early Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia

By: Valeria Giacomin

Keywords: Clusters; Palm Oil; Rubber; Traders; Southeast Asia; Industry Clusters; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Southeast Asia

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12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

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

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

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

November 2017
Teaching Plan

Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

By: Geoffrey Jones and 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