Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

“The Globalization of Markets.” In it, he described “a new commercial reality — the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined... View Details

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

01 Mar 2018
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March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, they suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is... View Details

31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop

opportunity to work in derivative markets like secondhand clothing. “I wrote my final paper about thredUP,” Reinhart continued. “When I went back and read it recently, it was kind of hilarious. Once you... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

which panelists discussed the integration of financial markets and collaboration among different players in technology sectors as evidence of the power of globalization. Attendees could then choose one of... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

would bridge private- and public-sector work,” he says, “so it was an opportunity see how that could play out in an amazing, mission-driven organization.” The experience led to his joint MBA/MMP studies at Harvard. “I was meeting people... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination

exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a View Details

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

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

impact on how they dealt with me during and after my illness." Today, Haberkorn is on the boards of three companies-Armstrong World Industries, a leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings, and cabinets; the Enesco Group, a... View Details

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

900 MBA students each year to more than a dozen cities, including in China, India, and South Africa. Without a doubt there is more we can do, as we are witnessing interesting business ideas and opportunities View Details

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

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

Capitol Hill. The Case for More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that targeted government regulation of financial markets has worked in the past to lower risk and instill... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up

established market channels. Many top-notch sales reps balked at taking on a new company that would compete with the brands they were used to selling. Similarly, many retail outlets weren’t interested in... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

package and used her time to get involved in various volunteer and charity activities while remaining active in her industry. After teaching a course at the annual cable television View Details

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

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women’s voting rights... View Details