Emergent Countries - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2016
Teaching Note

Mahindra Lifespace Developers' Venture into Affordable Housing

Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited (MLDL) was the infrastructure and real estate arm of the Mahindra Group, an Indian conglomerate with revenues of $16.5 billion in 2014. Employing 400 experts in land acquisition, design, project management, sales and marketing, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

salesmen went door to door distributing trade cards, trade catalogs, and souvenir publications. A change in advertising occurred at the turn of the century when the reduction in postal rates for periodicals resulted in the emergence of... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

students from almost seventy countries discuss a curriculum rich in international cases, many written with the support of the School’s global research centers. The names of several buildings honor recent gifts supporting key research... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
News

Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

degree but by many other things as well. We try to understand our customers' needs, one customer at a time. We've talked about cutting-edge technology. What about the needs of emerging market countries? The truth is that in many View Details

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives as well as from a detailed analysis of current curricula and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

that Khoja—a genial, solidly built man who clearly enjoys a good story—can tell as an example of how Roshan has changed a country crippled for decades by corruption, poverty, and conflict. But before Roshan executives could even think... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

In light of the tragedies in Paris and San Bernadino, a number of politicians, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump, have urged this country to respond by barring immigrants, refugees, and Muslims from our shores. Such a “solution”... View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

01 Sep 2020
News

Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

they coauthored in the report, A Recovery Squandered. The survey found that more than half of all Americans believe the country is not electing the right people and that over 70 percent of HBS alumni believe our political problems are... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

25 Aug 2014
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

figure out how to find care for my family.” That contradiction was not lost on the budding entrepreneur. Marcelo’s family emergency shed light on a market need that she wanted to fill. After a stint at TheLadders, she accepted a position... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions and has quickly moved... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

post-GFC, emerging market corporate balance sheet indicators have not deteriorated to AFC crisis-country levels. However, more countries are close to or in the “vulnerable” range of Altman’s Z-score, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
News

Three Profs Win McKinsey Award

Hal Gregersen of INSEAD, for “The Innovator’s DNA” in the December 2009 issue. In their article, Pisano and Shih argue against U.S. companies’ decision to outsource manufacturing in the mistaken belief that American manufacturing holds no competitive advantage. As a... View Details

Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play. Zeenat Potia: Can you give some context around the downturn of the Indian economy and how it applies to other View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

In 2007 three-quarters of world FDI was located in developed countries. The residual was concentrated in a small number of emerging countries. Large countries with little inward FDI included India and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and income in many View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

In the severe economic, social, and scientific turbulence churning at the dawn of the twentieth century, people were eager for any semblance of stability and predictability. From this need for certainty emerged a group of entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

Working Papers Debt Redemption, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging countries has... View Details