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Preferential Treatment: The New Face of Protectionism?
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Third-World Families at Work: Child Labor or Child Care?
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Accelerating Digital Integration in Africa
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Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets
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Serving the World's Poor, Profitably
Global Business Magazine ArticleBy stimulating commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, multinationals could radically improve the lives of billions of people... -
Why Focused Strategies May Be Wrong for Emerging Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleCore competencies and focus are now the mantras of corporate strategists in Western economies. But while managers in the West have dismantled many conglomerates... -
The Dos and Don'ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data
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Novartis's Great Leap of Trust: Daniel Vasella on China as an Emerging Scientific Power
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Reality Check at the Bottom of the Pyramid
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Bottom-Up Economics
Global Business Magazine ArticleIqbal Quadir, the founder of Bangladesh's GrameenPhone, discusses the failure of foreign aid to rescue moribund third-world economies and the need to... -
How Companies in Emerging Markets Break Out
Global Business VideoKrishna Palepu, Harvard Business School dean, explains how multinationals and local companies can win in emerging markets. -
Microcapitalism and the Megacorporation
Global Business Magazine ArticleMore than 100 miles from Bangalore, India, there's a rural area called Kuppam where one in three citizens is illiterate, more than half of the households... -
Negotiating with Third World Governments
Global Business Magazine ArticlePoor communication can cause the breakdown of negotiations with foreign governments, and the multinational manager who deals with developing countries... -
Whiteboard Session: 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets
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Mapping Frontier Economies
Global Business Magazine ArticleGlobal players in search of double-digit growth are running out of opportunities. Emerging-market giants such as Brazil, Russia, and China are experiencing... -
Local Memoirs of a Global Manager
Global Business Magazine Article"Think global, act local" goes the saying. But Gurcharan Das, who helped build Vicks Vaporub into what is now one of Procter & Gamble's most successful... -
From Complacency to Competitiveness: An Interview with Vitro's Ernesto Martens
Global Business Magazine ArticleCompanies searching for a way to navigate the changes in Mexico would do well to study Vitro, Sociedad Anonima, an 84-year-old Mexican company with roughly... -
Cutting the Cost of HIV
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleBy approaching HIV infection among Russian and Botswanan miners as a financial problem, a Deloitte consultant and a mine executive created programs that... -
New World Disorder
Global Business Magazine ArticleOn January 1, 1995, representatives from 76 countries signed the World Trade Organization (WTO) charter, which for years had been part of a temporary... -
The World's Next Great Manufacturing Center
Global Business Magazine ArticleAccording to data from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, privately owned Chinese companies are making more than 150 investments a year in Africa's manufacturing...
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How Digital Technologies Could Boost Tiny Retailers in Developing Countries
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How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain
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Accelerating Digital Integration in Africa
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Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer: Biggest Threat to World Is Rogue Actors – From Putin to Musk
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Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business
Social and global issues Digital ArticleMutually beneficial partnerships can both drive profit and alleviate poverty. -
The Founder of UBI Group on Leading a Transition to Renewable Energy in Africa
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What Covid-19 Taught Us About Doing Business During a Crisis
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How Low and Middle-Income Countries Are Innovating to Combat Covid
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Research: How Technology Could Promote Growth in 6 African Countries
Developing countries Digital ArticleA framework for understanding economic potential in the region. -
The Next Era of Globalization Will Be Shaped by Customers, Technology, and Value Chains
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How Employers in Poor Countries Are Using Nudges to Help Employees Save Money
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What 45 Years of Data Tells Us About Globalization's Influence on the Shadow Economy
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Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMore than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little... -
Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries
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The World's Next Great Manufacturing Center
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Whiteboard Session: 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets
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Survey: People's Trust Has Declined in Business, Media, Government, and NGOs
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Mapping Frontier Economies
Global Business Magazine ArticleGlobal players in search of double-digit growth are running out of opportunities. Emerging-market giants such as Brazil, Russia, and China are experiencing... -
The Dos and Don'ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data
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The Countries That Would Profit Most from a Cashless World
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Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability
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Repsol and YPF (C): Recovering Value
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Concept Note: The Global Health Supply Chain
Leadership & Managing People Case StudyThis concept note provides students, providers, and managers with an introduction to the concepts related to global health supply chain management using... -
Doing Business in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case uses the example of a large investment made by French retail group Carrefour in Brazil to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business... -
CARE Kenya: Making Social Enterprise Sustainable
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GoSports: Developing Sports Talent to Create Role Models
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case GoSports: Developing Sports Talent to Create Role Models describes the evolution of an Indian not-for-profit organization GoSports, whose mission... -
Concept Note: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Leadership & Managing People Case StudyThis concept note explains the history, management, structure, financing, and strategy of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria-a public-private... -
HIV in Thailand: The 100% Condom Program
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Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe... -
A Note on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Developing Economies
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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya
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City Mart: Creating an Ecosystem and Corporate Synergies in The Myanmar Market; A Blueprint For Expanding in Frontier Economies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details It is February 2017, and Ronald Lee is project director of City Properties, a sister company of Myanmar-based City Mart Holdings Limited (CMHL). CMHL... -
Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of... -
Cementing the Bottom of the Pyramid: A New Direction at CEMEX?
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case details cement, ready-mix, and concrete giant CEMEX's consideration of a set of strategies designed to grow the Mexican market from the bottom... -
EOS International: Scaling Financially Sustainable Impact Through Technologies in Nicaragua and Beyond
Management Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2008, EOS was a US-based nonprofit dedicated to using technology to improve livelihood in rural Nicaragua. Over the last ten years, EOS had... -
Otis Elevator Co.: China Joint Venture (E2)
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Sembcorp Utilities: Powering Sustainable Growth in Emerging Markets
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Sembcorp Industries, a Singapore conglomerate with assets of over S$22 billion, was undergoing a change in leadership. Tang Kin Fei retired as group president... -
Inequality and Globalization
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Inequality represented a major issue at the dawn of the 21st century. By many measures, inequality had increased over the previous several decades, within... -
Akin Ongor's Journey
Leadership & Managing People Case Study15.05View Details A retired bank CEO, one of Turkey's most admired leaders, wants to start a leadership institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean...
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Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability
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Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability, Teaching Note
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Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Book Chapter8.95View Details This chapter examines how local entrepreneurs in China and India are building successful enterprises in very different ways, comparing the rise of one... -
Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa, Teaching Note
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Repsol and YPF (C): Recovering Value
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case P90. Back in 1999, the Spanish oil company Repsol purchased 98 percent of the Argentine oil company YPF's shares for more than $15... -
Concept Note: The Global Health Supply Chain
Leadership & Managing People Case StudyThis concept note provides students, providers, and managers with an introduction to the concepts related to global health supply chain management using... -
Doing Business in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case uses the example of a large investment made by French retail group Carrefour in Brazil to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business... -
CARE Kenya: Making Social Enterprise Sustainable
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details CARE's Rural Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Promotion project is a new, market-driven approach to development in Kenya. Although the project has been... -
GoSports: Developing Sports Talent to Create Role Models
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case GoSports: Developing Sports Talent to Create Role Models describes the evolution of an Indian not-for-profit organization GoSports, whose mission... -
Habitat for Humanity--Egypt Distributed by Harvard Business School
Organizational Development Digital ArticleHabitat for Humanity Egypt's promotional video describes its mission and accomplishments in an effort to raise funds.