Publications

September 2005 (Revised September 2006)
Case

ICICI's Global Expansion

By: Tarun Khanna and Ramana Nanda

Follows the decision by ICICI (one of India's largest banks) to expand internationally in June 2001. View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Global Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; India

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

Durable" (by Howell J. Harris) "Suchard and the Emergence of Traveling Salesmen in Switzerland, 1860-1920" (by Roman Rossfeld) "Managing Door-to-Door Sales of Vacuum Cleaners in Interwar Britain" (by Peter Scott) "Ambassadors of Commerce:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

January 2015 (Revised September 2015)
Supplement

Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen

This case supplements "Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia." Updates readers on Ghislain de Charentenay's first full year as director of Asian Research at Sanford C. Bernstein in Hong Kong and actions taken by the firm in FY2013. View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Talent Management; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Management; Organizational Design; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Hong Kong

October 2008
Teaching Note

Grosvenor Group Limited (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo

Teaching Note for [207064]. View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Market Transactions; Property; Financial Instruments; Assets; Emerging Markets; Real Estate Industry

August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Veracity Worldwide: Evaluating FCPA-Related Risks in West Africa

By: Aldo Musacchio and Sophus A. Reinert

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Emerging Markets; Africa

September 2011
Case

Veracity Worldwide: Evaluating FCPA-Related Risks in West Africa

By: Aldo Musacchio

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Emerging Markets; Africa

February 2020
Supplement

Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (B)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal

The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe... View Details

Keywords: Aluminum Industry; General Management; Cultural Change; Change Management; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Safety; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Bahrain; Middle East

February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
Case

Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (A)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal

The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe... View Details

Keywords: Aluminum; General Management; Cultural Change; Change Management; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Safety; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Bahrain; Middle East

April 2009 (Revised December 2010)
Case

Equity International: The Second Act

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Ben Creo and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The right company? The right co-investor? The right time? McDonald would be investing alongside a Brazilian... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Interests; Brazil

September 2003
Case

Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd.

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

The CFO of this infant nutritional products company must choose among competing financing offers. The interplay of Chinese legal and customs restrictions and venture capitalists' bargaining techniques challenge the CFO to navigate a tricky negotiation and to devise a... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Working Capital; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; China

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

and Palepu's research, however, showed that conglomerate-owned firms in these markets often outperformed comparable stand-alones. “These business groups appear to Wall Street as anachronisms, but in the context in which they operate, they... View Details

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

product's projected launch date next year). Will the Apple Watch reinvent wearables the way the iPhone did smartphones? What do those inside the watch industry think of it? For answers, we turned to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ryan Raffaelli, who... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

December 2010
Article

Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate

By: Rohit Deshpandé

The article discusses the "provenance paradox," wherein consumers are unwilling to buy high-quality products from regions not commonly associated with excellence in certain product categories. Venezuelan chocolate maker Chocolates El Rey does little international... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Emerging Markets; Food and Beverage Industry; Venezuela

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21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

to recruit the best distributors, and to capture market share from weaker, local competitors. Selling the American dream has paid off handsomely. Eight of the ten most valuable brands in the world, according to the Interbrand consultancy,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Kayode Ogunro

UK-based emerging markets private equity firm. "I studied liberal arts at Harvard," Kayode explains, "and I was looking for a way to fill in my professional skills." His love of his alma... View Details

July – August 2010
Article

Vision Statement: Mapping the Social Internet

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Tommy McCall

Fresh data on internet user behaviors around the globe show an East-West divide. View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet

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February 2008 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG)

By: Rajiv Lal and Virginia Fuller

As B.S. Nagesh thumbed through the 2006-2007 Annual Report for Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG), action shots of healthy-looking people dressed in the latest fashions amid the words "Redefining Retail" brought a smile to his face. As managing director of SSG-a Rs 8.9 billion... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; India

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

or high potential markets that are $10 billion in size in any given year." The bigger the company becomes, he pointed out, the more important it is that the company lays out a very deliberate strategy. Yet the disruptive technologies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

October 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Background Note

How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett

What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital medium? Provides an overview of online advertising in mid-2006 and discusses the impact of an increasingly fractured media landscape and its accompanying expanding advertising options. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; News; Media; Emerging Markets; Internet and the Web; Perspective; Disruption; Journalism and News Industry