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  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

are competitive enterprises — Rubicon produces high-qualitycakes, for example — that just happen to employ folksthat the rest of the labor market often won't hire," he says. "Wedon't operate on a... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • News

Embracing Chaos

Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

African-American clientele, have hundreds of products for blondes." In a labor market where youth seems to hold a premium, especially for marketing jobs, this notion is... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Marketing After the Recession... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 22 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

India is more Transparent

China, can I believe the financial information in a company’s annual report? “Not really, I say. The annual report does not serve the purpose it does in market economies, that is, to communicate reliable information. “What about analysts’... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 09 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

buyer. Now translate the same situation from a brick-and-mortar bazaar to an online peer-to-peer marketplace such as Upwork, which allows businesses to outsource work to freelancers, frequently overseas. “Workers on the market have lots... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

threat is different from what retailers have faced in the past. Although Walmart took an enormous amount of market share in a diverse set of categories, many retailers were able to respond to and effectively co-exist with Walmart. Related... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • 17 May 2018
  • News

Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

support his family. He heard about the I Create program and signed up. Having noticed a growth in agriculture in the region, Samad was intent on finding his niche in the industry. After conducting market research and consulting with a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year. Multinationals have rushed to take... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

governance, discussed in a presentation by HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu and associate professor Tarun Khanna. They suggested that the need to compete in global product and labor markets actually preceded... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Hot Tip

and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

rethink our corporate governance structure in fundamental ways for the 21st century. There are three things we have to think about during the conference. First, when did executive pay become unmoored from internal labor View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 15 Apr 2020
  • News

Money Matters

For millennials, who were born between 1981 and 1996, this is likely their first encounter with the kind of market turmoil we're experiencing right now. In "How to Cope if You Haven't Experienced Market... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • April 2005 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

American Outsourcing

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Alexander Veytsman
Covers the phenomenon of outsourcing jobs from the United States. Reviews the evolution of Mexico's Maquiladoras, manufacturing special economic areas in China, and information technology and service-sourcing in India. Also reviews exports/imports, exchange rates,... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Emerging Markets; Wages; Trade; United States; Mexico; China; India
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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

for properties in Lagos’s well-to-do neighborhoods, but even there the power grid is so unreliable that tenants need to supply their own generators. Local suppliers were limited, so Dozie and his brother had furniture made to order and imported paper cups from China.... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as "challenging" at best. Yet if the demands... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

created a market out of thin air. “We have customers who have come to us and said, ‘I never previously considered a diamond because of the impact,’” says Aether’s cofounder and chief marketing officer Robert... View Details
Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Case Study: Something New

sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
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