Emergent Countries - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India

KHANNA: “The countries are inverted mirror images of each other.” Lots of books have been written about modern China and India, but nearly all deal with one or the other — not both. HBS professor Tarun Khanna set out to fill the breach... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade

16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos

their sleeves. "A lot of companies are run by people with no emerging market experience," he says. "They do fly-bys and don't understand the market from the ground—just from a PowerPoint presentation in a boardroom. They're saying, 'Let's... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Sep 2014
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Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground

Israeli companies have pursued novel and successful growth strategies that provide valuable lessons to others. In his research, Elie Ofek, the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration, explains how these firms have achieved their globalization goals:... View Details

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href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/EMIS-Emerging-Markets-Information-System" target="_blank">EMIS Useful for: emerging market information, including company info, news and niche industry reports. Strong foreign... View Details

21 Sep 2016
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Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

emerging countries is very encouraging.” The former executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Wilson is the founder of the consulting firm GV Partners, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her impressive... View Details

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

downswing) was 30 percent over the last three years, 26 percent over the last five years and 16 percent over the last ten years. This compares favorably with the S&P at 10 percent, 7 percent, and 8 percent, and even well against View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Books

incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival

I would characterize it as a naive view that innovation is just about R&D and separate from manufacturing. People in the United States and other advanced industrialized countries say that the future is in innovation, not manufacturing, as... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

their experience, real estate, and logistics. In exchange, you can expand their product offerings and grow their customer segment. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Here are my quick thoughts based on years of emerging and developed market... View Details

15 Jul 2025
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Bringing Business Insights to Micro-entrepreneurs

Every day, more than one million hawkers and other food and beverage vendors across Southeast Asia use the Grab delivery service to operate their small businesses—and grow them for the future—with a little help from Grab’s new AI Merchant Assistant. Via the company’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

March 2006 (Revised June 2010)
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Eldeco: Playing in the Big League

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Siddarth Yog

In 2001, Pankaj Bajaj is considering whether to go forward with a residential development outside New Delhi. Facing an uncooperative local authority, he must determine how to evaluate the risks of proceeding against the potential loss of a golden opportunity to bring... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Construction; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Real Estate Industry; New Delhi

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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog

defined by how business leaders and other stakeholders operate. Course Content and Organization This course offers students an opportunity to explore the historical development of the United States as the country became increasingly... View Details

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

Rather than stifling investment, the proposed change will hopefully trigger increased focus on equity-type investments, on entrepreneurial activities that actually produce products and services to attract investors, and it will shine a positive light on an View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

industries in the host countries have benefited from the semiconductor manufacturers' capabilities. It's no coincidence that the entire flat-panel display industry emerged from semiconductor industry... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2018
News

An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

loads, and a price tag that starts at US$13,000—about the equivalent of a seven-year-old imported sedan. “At Mobius, we get to play a part in the emergence of a stronger manufacturing base.” “At Mobius, we get to play a part in the View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

30 Jan 2017
News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

United States for citizens from seven selected countries and, specifically, targeting those of the Muslim faith. The dampening effects of such a ban have become clear very quickly: students (including a number with citizenship from the... View Details

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

countries closed their borders. Diagne’s first task was to work closely with the ministry’s leadership team in crafting an economic response to the pandemic. Worldwide, crisis management involved very similar challenges—layoffs and... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

uncertainty. Global ventures, or “born globals”, are enterprises that become distributed across multiple countries very early in their life cycle. For these businesses, globalization is a core component of their business model rather than... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

individual countries that are driving these flows, but rather that the willingness has to be on the part of international investors to take risks. And emerging markets can't depend any longer on just... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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