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- January–February 2019
- Article
Cracking Frontier Markets
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon
Executive Summary:
With emerging-market giants such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great... View Details
With emerging-market giants such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great... View Details
Keywords:
Emerging Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Innovation and Invention;
Development Economics
Christensen, Clayton M., Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon. "Cracking Frontier Markets." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 1 (January–February 2019): 90–101.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of globalization, View Details
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Re: Michael E. Porter
- 17 Sep 2014
- News
2014′s Most & Least Fair State Tax Systems
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
Bad For Business?
- 04 Apr 2016
- News
Businesses Pledge Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Italian bank takes cheese as collateral for loans
- May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with strong local competition and a difficult market. It remained unclear how Alcatel would be able to recover growth in the Chinese market. Initiatives were...
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Keywords:
Currency Exchange Rate;
International Relations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Research and Development;
Competitive Strategy;
Horizontal Integration;
Communications Industry;
China;
France;
United States
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition." Harvard Business School Case 706-036, May 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- February 1997 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
3M: Negotiating Air Pollution Credits (A)
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Thomas Dretler
A proposed trade of air pollution emission credits between 3M (now Imation) and Procter and Gamble is described. Though such trading is encouraged under federal environmental laws, 3M had adopted a company-wide policy against such deals. Procter and Gamble needs the...
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Keywords:
Conflict of Interests;
Negotiation Types;
Pollutants;
Negotiation Participants;
Laws and Statutes;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
United States
Wheeler, Michael A., and Thomas Dretler. "3M: Negotiating Air Pollution Credits (A)." Harvard Business School Case 897-134, February 1997. (Revised May 1998.)
- October 2013 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up? (A)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Ryan Lee
Southwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has partnered with the local school system to staff a factory with at-risk high school students. The positive impact on student outcomes has been remarkable, and the factory makes a profit for the company. Now...
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Keywords:
Partners and Partnerships;
Production;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Manufacturing Industry;
Education Industry
Rivkin, Jan W., and Ryan Lee. "Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-434, October 2013. (Revised November 2015.)
- 31 Mar 2016
- News
A Map for Economic Renewal Begins in Maine
- December 2016
- Background Note
Cross-sector Collaborations for Shared Prosperity
By: Jan Rivkin
In cities and towns across America, leaders in local governments, businesses, nonprofits, educational institutions, faith-based organizations, labor unions, and other organizations are coming together in new ways to help their communities prosper. Why are such...
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Rivkin, Jan. "Cross-sector Collaborations for Shared Prosperity." Harvard Business School Background Note 717-433, December 2016.
- June 2010
- Case
Managing the Client Portfolio
By: Nitin Nohria and Ashish Nanda
The German country managing partner of a global law firm must decide how to respond to a corporate mandate to restructure its client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative...
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Keywords:
Attorney and Client Relationships;
Management Style;
Corporate Governance;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Headquarters;
Conflict and Resolution
Nohria, Nitin, and Ashish Nanda. "Managing the Client Portfolio." Harvard Business School Case 410-139, June 2010.
- January 2007 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
To JV or Not To JV? That Is the Question (for XTech in China)
By: Daniel J. Isenberg and Paul W. Marshall
XTech, a leading manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO Reinhold Hesse is debating several options: establishing a joint venture,...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurs;
Entrepreneurship;
Search;
Global Ventures;
Succession;
Acquisitions;
Private Equity;
Negotiation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Expansion;
Joint Ventures;
Management Succession;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Global Strategy;
Acquisition;
Manufacturing Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
China;
United States
Isenberg, Daniel J., and Paul W. Marshall. "To JV or Not To JV? That Is the Question (for XTech in China)." Harvard Business School Case 807-118, January 2007. (Revised July 2013.)
Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details
- June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems
By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located...
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Keywords:
Change;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Change Management;
Education;
Learning;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Geography;
Geographic Scope;
Global Range;
Local Range;
Geopolitical Units;
Country;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Information Technology;
Information Management;
Innovation and Invention;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Knowledge;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Social Enterprise;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Social Psychology;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Society;
Social Issues;
Welfare;
Strategy;
Cooperation;
Adaptation;
Public Administration Industry;
North and Central America
Nagle, Frank, Elizabeth J. Altman, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 722-363, June 2022. (Revised August 2023.)
- November 2013 (Revised December 2013)
- Case
Endeavor: Miami Heats Up
By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda, David Lane and Lisa Mazzanti
Endeavor Global was a nonprofit that for 15 years had worked to nurture entrepreneurship in emerging markets by selecting local high-impact entrepreneurs for mentoring and aid in scaling up their businesses from committed local business leaders. In summer 2012,...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Entrepreneurs;
Scaling;
Emerging Market Entrepreneurship;
Not For Profit;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Mentoring;
Business Networks;
Hybrid Nonprofit Funding;
Mission and Purpose;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Emerging Markets;
Problems and Challenges;
Finance;
Miami
Sahlman, William A., Ramana Nanda, David Lane, and Lisa Mazzanti. "Endeavor: Miami Heats Up." Harvard Business School Case 814-043, November 2013. (Revised December 2013.)
- March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Reading Energy
Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Business and Community Relations;
Business Plan;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Contracts;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Government and Politics;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business Strategy;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Illinois
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Reading Energy." Harvard Business School Case 794-102, March 1994. (Revised October 1994.)
- June 2013 (Revised January 2016)
- Case
Château Margaux: Launching the Third Wine
By: Elie Ofek and Eric E. Vogt
Château Margaux, one of only five prestigious estates in the Bordeaux Medoc wine region to have been classified as a "first-growth", is facing a host of strategic decisions in early 2013. Up until this point the estate had been selling two red wines, a first wine whose...
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Keywords:
New Product Launch;
Marketing Plan;
Brand Management;
Go To Market Strategy;
Channels Of Distribution;
Wine Industry;
Marketing Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Product Launch;
Brands and Branding;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
France
Ofek, Elie, and Eric E. Vogt. "Château Margaux: Launching the Third Wine." Harvard Business School Case 513-107, June 2013. (Revised January 2016.)