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Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Oral History; Corruption; Business History; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Asia; Africa; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets." Enterprise & Society 20, no. 1 (March 2019): 19–32.
- September 2016 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy
By: Geoffrey Jones and Amanda Yang
This case examines the recent emergence of Chinese business philanthropy through the case of the SOHO China Foundation established by the wife and husband real estate moguls Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi. It begins by describing the early careers of Zhang and Pan, and how... View Details
Keywords: China; Philanthropy Funding; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Personal Development and Career; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Higher Education; Real Estate Industry; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Amanda Yang. "Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy." Harvard Business School Case 317-045, September 2016. (Revised April 2022.)
- 4 Nov 2007 - 7 Nov 2007
- Conference Presentation
From Demon Rum to Dr. Pepper: Social Movements, Entrepreneurial Opportunity, and the Emergence of the American Soft Drink Industry
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
- September 2022
- Article
How Emerging Telehealth Models Challenge Policymaking
By: Mitchell Tang, Michael E Chernew and Ateev Mehrotra
Policy Points
Current telehealth policy discussions are focused on synchronous video and audio telehealth visits delivered by traditional providers and have neglected the growing number of alternative telehealth offerings.
These alternative... View Details
Tang, Mitchell, Michael E Chernew, and Ateev Mehrotra. "How Emerging Telehealth Models Challenge Policymaking." Milbank Quarterly 100, no. 3 (September 2022): 650–672.
- 2017
- Working Paper
A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies
By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
Giacomin, Valeria. "A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-018, August 2017.
- Article
What are the Industries Attracting Private Equity Investments in Latin America?: Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2001 to 2008
By: Roberto Charvel
This article shows what are the industries attracting private equity investments in Latin America over time. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurial Finance; Alternative Assets; Emerging Market; Business Ventures; Economics; Finance; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
Charvel, Roberto. "What are the Industries Attracting Private Equity Investments in Latin America? Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2001 to 2008." Venture Equity Latin America 8, no. 18 (November 15, 2009).
- summer 1995
- Article
The Emerging Asset Class: Insurance Risk
By: K. A. Froot, B. Murphy, A. Stern and S. Usher
- August 2022
- Case
Air Wars: Deregulating the U.S. Airline Industry
By: Tom Nicholas and James Weber
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the U.S. government assisted in the development of an airline industry by subsidizing the delivery of mail and allowing mail carriers to also fly passengers. Because the government awarded mail routes to the lowest... View Details
Keywords: Government Regulation; Deregulation; Change Management; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Business History; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Industry Structures; Operations; Strategy; Adaptation; Competition; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 624-064. This Teaching Note explores the Fusion Industry Association's efforts to advance commercial fusion energy, highlighting challenges in innovation, regulation, market structure, and financing within the emerging technology sector... View Details
- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various... View Details
- March 27, 2017
- Article
How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amir Peleg
Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets by digital technologies. But a bigger and more impactful trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Utilities Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg. "How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 27, 2017).
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
Western corporate strategies have long been held up as role models for businesses in emerging markets. The reaction to recent financial crises in Asia and Latin America has only served to reinforce this practice. The multilateral... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- Research Summary
Industrial competitiveness in high tech and science-based businesses
By: Willy C. Shih
How do emerging economies develop industrial and technical capabilities that overtake those of advanced economies? Are there some industrial sectors that are especially susceptible to such targeting? What will it take to restore America’s... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries
By: Daniel P. Gross and Maria P. Roche
Complex systems technologies—including “deep tech”—are prone to numerous frictions that stymie commercial development. Yet technologies with these features underpin some of the most valuable industries of the past century. We examine how large, mission-oriented... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Gross, Daniel P., and Maria P. Roche. "Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-027, April 2023. (Revised October 2024.)
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Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities
By: Charles A. O'Reilly III, J. Bruce Harreld and Michael L. Tushman
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Skills; Competitive Advantage; Leadership; Theory; Technology Industry
O'Reilly, Charles A., III, J. Bruce Harreld, and Michael L. Tushman. "Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities." California Management Review 51, no. 4 (Summer 2009): 75–99. (Winner of Accenture Award for the article published in the California Management Review that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.)
- June 1999 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight
Examines major issues faced by Eli Lilly as it evaluates the appropriateness of a focused matrix organization with extensive use of cross-functional teams. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Geography; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge; Management Teams; Product; Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Thomas W. Malnight. "Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization." Harvard Business School Case 399-174, June 1999. (Revised October 1999.)
- December 2002
- Article
The Persistence of Emerging Market Equity Flows
By: K. A. Froot and J. Donohue
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Equity Investment; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Financial Services Industry
Froot, K. A., and J. Donohue. "The Persistence of Emerging Market Equity Flows." Emerging Markets Review 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 338–364. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 9241, HBS Working Paper no. 03-035, September 2002.)
- September 2009
- Supplement
One South: Investing in Emerging Markets (B)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in Chennai, India. The B case provides the reader with due diligence observations, which reveal numerous potential problems with the investment.... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Private Equity; Investment; Foreign Direct Investment; Markets; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Chennai; United States
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Justin Seth Ginsburgh. "One South: Investing in Emerging Markets (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-027, September 2009.
- 2008 - 2008
- Conference Presentation
Organizational Identity as an Anchor for Adaptation: An Emerging Market Perspective
By: Andres Hatum, Luciana Silvestri and Roberto Vassolo
There is little doubt that organizational identity—that which is central, distinctive, and enduring about an organization—mediates in adaptive processes. Exactly how this mediation takes place, and whether it is favorable or unfavorable to adaptation, must still be... View Details
- February 2014
- Technical Note
Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kerry Herman and Christine Snively
Mobile broadband carriers provide network access to the Internet for a range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data... View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Kerry Herman, and Christine Snively. "Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011." Harvard Business School Technical Note 814-009, February 2014.