Publications

March 2007
Teaching Note

Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

Teaching note to 707515. View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Perspective; Opportunities; Retail Industry; Latvia; Russia; China; Germany; India

September 1995 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

YPF, a recently privatized and restructured Argentine-based oil company now turns its attention to international expansion and faces an opportunity to acquire Maxus, a troubled U.S. oil company. The case discusses whether the company should go ahead with the proposed... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Privatization; Natural Environment; Expansion; United States; Argentina

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

"Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels." Sean Silverthorne: First, what gave you the idea for this study? How did you do the research? Anita Elberse: As with most of my research, the idea emerged after a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

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

March 2007 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Aurolab: Bringing First-World Technology to the Third-World Blind

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Aurolab is the in-house producer of IOLs (required in cataract surgery) for the Aravind Eye Care System, a group of charity hospitals with the largest volume of eye surgery in the world. Aurolab's manufacturing capability and capacity had long exceeded the requirements... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Production; Mission and Purpose; Performance Capacity; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy; India

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Strategy consulting at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York and Paris; research; course development; recruitment and Executive Education at INSEAD and Harvard Business School; European Marketing Director at Timberland and New Balance. View Details

January 2014
Case

Anglo American: Implementing a 'Social Way' for Global Mining

By: Christopher Marquis, David Plumb, Tom Blathwayt and Zoe Yang

The mining giant Anglo American attempts to differentiate itself through its social performance, yet public expectations are still growing. Maintaining a "social license" to operate was increasingly challenging and critical to business success.

The case... View Details

Keywords: Global Mining; Localization; Socioeconomic Issues; Procurement; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain Management; Globalization; Reputation; Emerging Markets; Mining Industry; South Africa

May 1993 (Revised January 1994)
Case

Cummins Engine Company, The: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant

By: Robert H. Hayes

Cummins Engine Co. is starting up production of diesel engine crankshafts in its plant in central Mexico. This operation requires much tighter tolerances than any product previously produced at the plant, and the young (recent MBA) manager who is in charge of the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Production; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Industrial Products Industry; Mexico; Alabama

a marketing coup, Goizueta’s Classic Coke, in 1986, beat out Pepsi to emerge once again as the nation’s best-selling soft drink with 40% of the $38 billion market. Goizueta aggressively expanded Coca-Cola... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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

01 Jun 1997
News

Short Takes

A summary of selected new research by HBS faculty. Diversification Best Bet in Emerging Markets In today's era of global competitiveness, companies in the industrialized world have slimmed down their... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

Customers value some of the most powerful brands in the world primarily for their "cultural value": They provide imaginative resources that people use to build their identities. These are what Harvard Business School professor Douglas Holt terms identity... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

governance violations were effectively cut off from the global capital markets and lost their future access to outside finance. A more reliable system for disclosure could allow far more firms from emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Jun 1999
News

Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

degree but by many other things as well. We try to understand our customers' needs, one customer at a time. We've talked about cutting-edge technology. What about the needs of emerging market countries? The... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6401.html. Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets How can multinationals, entrepreneurs, and investors identify and respond to new challenges and opportunities around the... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

April 2014
Supplement

Interview: Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television

By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen

Contains excerpts from an interview with Man Jit Singh. Singh discusses the results of events covered in the case "Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television," including his decision to begin evaluating employees on values as well as performance.
This short... View Details

Keywords: Performance Appraisals; Leading Change; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Groups and Teams; Change Management; Media and Broadcasting Industry; India

March 2009
Teaching Note

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in India (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [807095]. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Revenue; Valuation; Going Public; Emerging Markets; Investment; Financial Services Industry; India

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
Case

CarPoint in 1999

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Gillian Morris

Updates events in Microsoft CarPoint through the end of 1999, focusing on CarPoint's strategic alliance with Ford and on competitive developments. View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Transportation Networks; Alliances; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Auto Industry