Emerging Market Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

with a laptop computer, and joined the board of IBM. To expand Mitsubishi's horizons, he pressed for the development of new business in emerging markets such as China and Southeast Asia. "Having taken these... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons

delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from a time of massive pain. When you look back broadly at the last few decades, what were some of the key factors in China’s... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

09 Apr 2025
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The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

York Times Company, for example)-and also the most vulnerable (witness Canada's Steinberg's grocery store chain, which succumbed to family infighting). Howard H. Stevenson, HBS's Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and an expert in View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

operations, remotely disinfecting public buildings and hospitals. "The White Knight drones were in R&D for the last two years; we developed and manufactured them in the last two months in readiness to execute aerial delivery of emergency... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management

randomized control studies started to emerge that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household income, business growth, and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

fellowship for students from emerging markets interested in careers in infrastructure- or property-related sectors. His second act also includes serving as a senior advisor to Global Infrastructure Partners,... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Ronald P. Mitchell

Ron Mitchell says his most valuable learning experience at HBS did not take place in the classroom. Rather, it emerged from his work as student government president. "That's where I learned about working with people in a political and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States. I found that there was a huge opportunity to disrupt the intimate apparel space. People are so tired of high prices and slow fashion from Victoria's Secret, and I knew we could... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details

28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

while at HBS. First, he considered public markets and venture capital, but ultimately was drawn to working with a startup. To break into that ecosystem, Westphal worked on some small projects for startups during his first year at HBS. He... View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

small percent more is being built brand new). Moreover, the world’s dominant habitation pattern still consists of poor people in emerging nations flocking to urban areas to seek work. Typically, these migrants end up in illegal and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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 the free View Details

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 editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent stock View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

work includes papers on "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry" and "The Emerging Position of the Internet as an Advertising Medium." Silk joined the HBS faculty in 1989. Previously, he was the Schell Professor of... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

invest in venture capital. Guided by Cohen, who is regarded as the father of the European venture capital industry, Apax emerged as one of the world’s preeminent VC and private equity investment groups, raising or advising funds now... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

absolutely essential.” Along with Henderson, eight others joined the HBS faculty this year. José Alvarez, senior lecturer in the Marketing unit, was a top executive with Ahold, a Dutch supermarket company, and Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Mar 2025
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Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details