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  • October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Sprout Solutions

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management platforms in the Philippines, guided by the mission to "impact the life of every Filipino by improving... View Details
Keywords: Software; Startup; Technology Ventures; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Venture Capital; Philippines
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Individual Credit Constraints in Rural India (w/ Sendhil Mullainathan)

Credit access for the poor has recently been given center stage in the international policy arena. A plethora of reports and case studies have emphasized the enormous returns that micro-businesses face: the Year of Microcredit website notes that studies conducted in... View Details
  • 2018
  • Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community

  • June 2011
  • Article

Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Djorjiji Petkoski
The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their constituencies' well-being. To do that effectively, you must understand the nuances of people's daily lives, say... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Human Needs; Income; Poverty; Profit; Relationships; Economics; Segmentation
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  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

of companies today is involved in almost every sector of the Philippine economy, with major holdings that include Ayala Land, the Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom, and Manila Water. Zobel says... View Details
  • Web

Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

symbiosis with the local area For instance, at Poderosa, we provide employment—counting our own employees and outsourced workers who do some specific jobs—to over 3,500 people.” Download Transcript Philippines Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2018
  • News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

business owners that promotes economic growth by mentoring and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. Ko was looking for a new managing director of the Philippine chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and Ayala’s name kept surfacing. At... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

    Max H. Bazerman

    Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
    Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals
    • 06 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

    years of the AHA, the researchers note, some 95 percent of applicants were approved. Another unusual element of the legislation: Many of the AHA refugees trained in the Philippines for six months to learn English and become familiar with... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne

      Tarun Khanna

      Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

      • Web

      Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      Peru Lima Financial Services Cluster (2016) Asparagus Cluster in Peru (2012) Peru Tourism Cluster (2010) Philippines The Philippines Electronics Components Manufacturing (2017) Medical Tourism in the View Details
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      Pam Chan

      eventually landed at Facebook, becoming the first employee in its Philippine office. "It was nothing like a comfy tech campus," she says. "It was more like a little startup within a massive company. I began with an empty... View Details
      Keywords: CPG; Tech
      • 13 Oct 2015
      • News

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      National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      Presentations on National Competitiveness The Institute has developed research-based economic agendas for more than 60 nations since its founding in 2001. Asia-Pacific Australia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Mongolia Nepal New Zealand View Details
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      NVC Regions - Alumni

      Asia-Pacific - HBS Club of Shanghai Bobby Yang (Main Contact) , MBA 2023 Veronica Zhao , MBA 2024 Xiaojie Wang , MBA 2024 Asia Pacific Countries Australia China Taiwan Thailand India Japan Korea Malaysia Pakistan Singapore Philippines... View Details
      • 20 Apr 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

      Philippine farmers who saved their money by putting it in a "lockbox" that they could not access were able to save more money than those who did not, even factoring in the small cost of the lockbox. By eliminating the farmers'... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 15 May 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

      ©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 17 Oct 2023
      • Blog Post

      HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day

      a potluck with our other professors joining us, where everyone was eager and proud to introduce their guests to one another. I feel so fortunate to have gotten to know my sectionmates more through the eyes of the people who know them best, and at the same time be able... View Details
      • July 1998 (Revised December 2001)
      • Case

      Jollibee Foods Corporation (A): International Expansion

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Jamie O'Connell
      Noli Tingzon, newly-appointed international division VP at Jollibee, the Philippines-based hamburger chain, is faced with the challenge of expanding fast food operations in Asia in the face of stiff competition. The case describes Jollibee's six-year international... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Expansion; Global Range; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Philippines
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        Terry Culpepper

        Terry II Culpepper researches topics in empirical industrial organization, urban economics, and organizational economics. Prior to Harvard, he studied economics at the University of Chicago, then worked there as an economic researcher in industrial organization. View Details