Emergent States - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Apr 2018
News

Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level

opportunities for positive social impact. “I came to HBS from the Marine Corps. In my Marine Corps experience, I spent several years in Iraq working in counterinsurgency, and from those experiences I became very interested in economic development in fragile View Details

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2014
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Forecasting ’15

service. I believe that 2015 will be filled with the emergence and rapid growth of next-generation sports channels (Twitch), new comedy channels (Fine Brothers), new news channels (VICE), and more.” Photos courtesy of subject View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

21 Aug 2008
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Stylin’ at Gallatin

here. Gallatin was designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1927 as a collection of what were essentially linked townhouses on a U-shaped plan. The building was no doubt charming but a bit of a warren: Some students had to leave their doors unlocked because View Details

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

01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Books

Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus (Wiley) An emerging business trend is for companies to go beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and to integrate them... View Details

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

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working in an View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Gunnar Trumbull Cambridge University Press This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France. Comparison of the two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not a consequence of... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) Penguin Press In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of:... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, which won the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book on International Relations in 1998. Inspired by South Africa's unfolding democracy and dismayed by America's “sclerotic and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit

York, where in September 2009 he enrolled in a fashion-marketing program at the Parsons School of Fashion. Since completing the program in December 2010, Heffernan has divided his time between angel investing and consulting with small clothing and retail brands, while... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2009
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A Student Plan Goes to Washington

Not all financial reform proposals under consideration in Washington sprang from federal agencies and congressional committees. One emerged from HBS. Last spring, students in Professor Rakesh Khurana’s elective corporate governance class... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2004
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Books

biases that make predictable what otherwise so commonly emerge as surprises in business and society. They outline six danger signals that suggest when a predictable surprise may be imminent and provide a systematic framework that leaders... View Details

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

01 Dec 2005
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One-on-One with Peter Cuneo

comic books. In a career that spans more than thirty years, Cuneo has completed seven successful turnarounds at consumer-product companies such as Clairol, Black & Decker, and Remington. He joined Marvel in 1999, just after it emerged... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi

I stayed in a hotel until the house was ready for occupancy. But then as the security situation deteriorated, I made a decision not to live in the Green Zone. I didn’t want to be associated with the kind of bubble environment that emerged... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

rebrand as Gordon Gekko or Lumbergh from Office Space. No, mon frère, I wanted to emerge as a more Rolodexed, numbers-savvy, overall better business journalist. Plus, I’d be riding out a nasty media-sector slump. Three years after my... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

management,” declares HBS professor John Quelch, an expert in international marketing and business development. He describes this style as an amalgam, built atop a U.S. model that has borrowed freely from others around the world. “With the United View Details