Emerging Market Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

the relationship between incarceration, employment, and entrepreneurship (including self-employment). He has a particular interest in the fate of the more than 600,000 people in the United States who return home from prison each year,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

president, finance and administration, of the Preco Corporation, a privately held paper manufacturer. In 1981, he returned to the School to lead research and teaching in the field of entrepreneurship and the following year was named the... View Details

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that the overestimation and underweighting pattern can View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, this book takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging View Details

11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain

weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 May 2019
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

market like a local. In this way, my parents exposed me to so many aspects of their lives while letting me shape my own perspective and identity. My mom is always telling me that because of what we have, “every day is extra.” She... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006

2004 at Outdoor Explorations, a nonprofit that brings together people with and without disabilities for inclusive outdoor adventures. She spent last summer doing marketing for Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific–owned manufacturer of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 2024
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Building Innovation at VINCI

By: Dennis Campbell, Aluna Wang and Carlota Moniz

This case study explores how the VINCI Group, a French multinational operating in concessions, energy, and construction, bolstered awareness and adoption rates of new technologies within the organization. Through its separate innovation hub, Leonard, VINCI aimed to... View Details

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Program Policies - HBS Online

Credential of Digitial Innovation and Strategy, participants must complete the following requirements: Successfully complete Leading in the Digital World. Earn a Certificate of Completion in Design Thinking and Innovation, Winning with Digital Platforms, and Digital... View Details

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

by radio stations improves their capability to respond to entry by TV stations. Our research builds on and extends literatures on platforms and learning-by-doing and offers practical implications for managers in two-sided market settings.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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AI Enhanced Learning: HBS IT and Faculty Collaborate on Research Navigator Bot | Information Technology

students conduct customer interviews, perform market analysis, and present their recommendations. Before Immersion Week can take place, however, students participate in “Industry Week,” conducting intensive research on the industry, the... View Details

20 Oct 2022
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Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

2019, so we're excited to get a large turnout to help us build further momentum as we move out of COVID.” A historian by training, Professor Fibiger’s work focuses on Asia’s 20th century. Professor Robertson’s research centers on the history of financial View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

based on their best efforts to forecast customer needs. With new technologies such as online grocery scanners, companies can better monitor consumer behavior, allowing them to anticipate needs more accurately and even create new products geared to narrow View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

February 2021 (Revised July 2022)
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Sarah Breedlove: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer

This case describes the rise of Sarah Breedlove, who later called herself Madam C.J. Walker, from the cotton fields of Louisiana to the head of a successful, nationwide beauty company providing opportunity and hair care products to Black women. The case describes how... View Details

Keywords: Brands; African-american Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Success; Work-Life Balance; Business Startups; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Personal Development and Career; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States

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17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

suspended on that day to allow students, faculty, and staff time to follow events as they unfolded and to check on the safety of family and friends. Across the University, emergency grief counseling and other services were made available... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

even been overtaken by, market forces and finance? How big and how pervasive is the business of sports? Swinging for the Seats A recent Georgia Tech study put the value of the sports industry at $152 billion annually. But HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2004
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A Life by Design

members agreed to shed their titles and hierarchical way of working to eliminate what she regards as impediments to group cohesion and creativity. Participants were left to organize themselves and set their own schedules. And at the end of the first effort, the team... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

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