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12 Jul 2016
Video

Doing Good By Doing Business - Creating Emerging Markets

October 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Teaching Plan

Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna and Nataliya Langburd Wright

Teaching Note for HBS No. 319-054. View Details

Fall 2017
Article

The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets

By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones

This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Developing Countries and Economies; Business History; Asia; Latin America; Africa

24 Apr 2014
News

Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets

Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the unbanked and under-banked in View Details

October 2010
Article

The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Allen S. Grossman

Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become much smaller presences in the U.S. industrial... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations

Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

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Global Maps - Creating Emerging Markets

Global Maps Historical Data Visualization The HBS Historical Data Visualization (HDV) tool charts the global growth and evolution of business over time and includes historical mapping of major economic and political indicators. It includes maps of the global expansion... View Details

April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
Teaching Plan

Innovation and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Morgan Spencer

Teaching Plan for HBS No. 319-110. View Details

Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME... View Details

June 2020
Article

U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles

By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina

Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle,... View Details

Keywords: Global Business Cycle; Monetary Policy; Reaching For Yield; Money; Policy; Credit; Emerging Markets

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05 Sep 2018
Video

Clip of James Mwangi Creating Emerging Markets Full Interview

10 Jul 2016
News

Mediconecta Brings Telehealth to Emerging Markets

Awards

Erin Anderson Award for Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor

By: Eva Ascarza

Winner of the 2019 Erin Anderson Award for Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor from the American Marketing Association. View Details

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Teaching Guidelines - Creating Emerging Markets

Uses for Research & Teaching Research Guidelines Teaching Guidelines Teaching Guidelines Transcripts and/or video clips from the CEM interviews were downloaded and used for teaching in classroom settings at over 150 educational institutions located in 80 countries in... View Details

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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

About the Project View Video Creating Emerging Markets explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. At its core are interviews, with leaders or former... View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

Harvard's Creating Emerging Markets Project HBS Professor Geoffrey Jones provides insights on the evolution of business leadership as part of Columbia University's Center for Sustainable Investment's View Details

25 Apr 2011
News

Learn the tactics needed to break into emerging markets

03 Jun 2019
Video

Overcoming institutional voids to succeed in emerging markets

August 2012 (Revised March 2014)
Technical Note

4M: Four-Markets Analysis for Emerging Economies

By: Eric Werker

This technical note describes a methodology for evaluating the political economy of business-government relations in an emerging or frontier economy. The note argues that there are not one but four markets in an emerging economy: the market of "rentiers" such as mining... View Details

Keywords: Frontier Markets; Emerging Markets

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