developing markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

painted a two by two matrix, you might put Silicon Valley on the top right. Incredibly developed startup ecosystem and one of the most developed markets in the world, the US,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank

“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student Christina Adams (HBS 2013)... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2001
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Platforms and Collaborations

even superior to similar products available on the market today. The next step, according to Dean Clark, is to enhance learning through a “collaborative learning environment.” The HBS IT Group has developed... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

Sawyer is one of two bots that Rethink Robotics has developed for the small-business market. (courtesy of Rethink Robotics) You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital screen with two expressive eyes.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2003
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Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management units,... View Details

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

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

given your background in technology? Ingersoll: There's some really easy ways of applying some of the things that I've seen before, so we could talk about how to do growth marketing here, for instance. And growth View Details

01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way

market the grapes, Russo negotiated the transactions. At age 17, she left high school after failing to pass a requisite Grade 10 English exam and quickly parlayed her one marketable skill — typing sixty... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset

its reasonable hours allowed Cohen time to raise her children, Amanda (now a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council) and Eli (JD/MBA ’06). During her NTHP tenure, from 1980 to 1993, she focused on developing programs to preserve... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

groups such as the Global Business Coalition for Education have been pushing governments to meet the UN's Millennium Development Goals around education." —Ashish Dhawan TAKING BUSINESS BACK TO SCHOOL "I do not see charter schools becoming... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
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1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners

Market Research: Forty-two MBA students traveled to Accra, Ghana, where this team spent time at a local market. The world became HBS students’ classroom in January as the entire first-year class spent a week learning hands-on what it... View Details

Keywords: Professor Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Mar 2017
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Such Great Heights

Texas, with Dell computer. And during my years at Dell-- I was there about eight years-- I worked in marketing and e-commerce. I had a couple of overseas assignments but always loved exploring. And in fact, living overseas a couple of... View Details

Keywords: mountain; climbing; adventure

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

world-class athletes. Successful marketing of the Olympics - which is essential for financing the Games - depends on the Olympic movement's continued integrity, reputation for excellence, and "goodwill." That inherent value, Frazier... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2006
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Strange Bedfellows

into parallel universes. Large, unexplained gaps — more than $100 billion — have developed between the profits reported to capital markets and to tax authorities. These discrepancies can no longer be... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

party in Boston that raised more than $2,000 for the Irish Hospice Foundation, a nonprofit based in Dublin that supports the development of hospice care. It’s part of an active off-campus life, which is dominated by her love of sports. In... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Sep 2020
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Road Work

small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

25 Feb 2013
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Among millions, a blank slate

01 Mar 2014
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Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry

Brooks, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. In a recent paper, Brooks offers a counter to that prevailing wisdom, detailing four study situations where an apology for things out of anyone's... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Information

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

to build capabilities that would be hard to replicate. Let’s build a plan here—not just to grow but to develop some long-term defensibility. Some record profits would be music to investors’ ears. —Jeffrey Glass (MBA 1994) Grow View Details

Keywords: April White

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