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The Revolution Will Be Managed
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Living Agreements for a Risky World
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn emerging markets, contracts must be both flexible and rigid. "Shock absorber" and "safety net" clauses offer firms a living, breathing solution. -
Another Challenge to China's Growth
Global Business Magazine ArticleBelow $10,000 per capita, a country's income can grow even in the absence of good institutions. But at higher income levels, as China will soon discover,... -
Strategy Lessons from Left Field
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleRough schooling helps multinationals from small or developing countries become formidable global competitors. -
How Local Companies Keep Multinationals at Bay
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA substantial number of local companies in emerging markets have managed to hold their own--or better--in the face of competition from global Goliaths.... -
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Nurturing Respect for IP in China
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe best way to foster an appreciation for intellectual property rights in China is to let partner firms experience the benefits of locally generated... -
Expanding in China
Global Business Magazine ArticleBain consultants Ann Chen and Vijay Vishwanath offer three key strategies multinationals can use to expand from China's premium segment into the broader... -
Shakedown (HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleCustomer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo... -
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... -
Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy
Global Business Magazine ArticleAbraham Lincoln would have well understood the challenges facing many modern emerging nations. In Lincoln's America, as in many developing nations today,... -
Traveler's Guide to Gifts and Bribes
Global Business Magazine ArticleWhen abroad, managers often don't know what to do about "requests" for funds or gifts. Walking out on the deal could ruin business relations. Paying up... -
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... -
Innovation's Holy Grail
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAffordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift... -
Dream Deferred: The Story of a High-Tech Entrepreneur in a Low-Tech World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAdesemi, an American start-up in Africa, had been trying for six years to blanket the developing world with desperately needed wireless communications... -
How Digital Technologies Could Boost Tiny Retailers in Developing Countries
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How GE Is Disrupting Itself
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerFor decades, General Electric and other industrial-goods manufacturers based in rich countries grew by developing high-end products at home and distributing... -
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
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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
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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
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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
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The Dos and Don'ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data
Global Business Digital ArticleOvercome data gaps, biased data, and outdated numbers. -
The Countries That Would Profit Most from a Cashless World
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Citibank Hong Kong: Capital Arbitrage in the Emerging Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes how a credit derivative may be used to structure a profitable transaction between a bank and its client. Design and risk management issues are... -
Financing the Mozal Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion... -
IFC Asset Management Company: Mobilizing Capital for Development
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) creative and effective use of the private equity business model as a tool to mobilize... -
Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details Covers President Lula's challenges to reduce "Brazil cost" and grow like other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that... -
Reconstruction of Zambia
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the causes of decline--economic, social, and political--of the Zambian economy since 1974. It takes place at the time of the election of Frederick... -
Mobil in Aceh, Indonesia (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In December 1998, Ron Wilson, chief executive of Mobil Oil Indonesia (MOI), considered how he should respond to allegations made by a group of nongovernmental... -
China's Environmental Challenge
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details China faces enormous environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic and political origins of the environmental crisis... -
Business Corruption in China
Management Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of business corruption in China, placing it in a context that takes into account various political, economic, legal, and cultural... -
Trade Restrictions and Hong Kong's Textiles and Clothing Industry
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Since 1974, the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) had been the systematic means for developed countries to restrict textiles and clothing imports from developing... -
Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (B)
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Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C.A., Russian Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Petrozuata is a proposed $2.5 billion oil-field development project in Venezuela. The case is set in 1997 as the project sponsors, Conoco and PDVSA (Venezuela's... -
American Electric Power: Investing in Forest Conservation
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on an opportunity that American Electric Power (AEP) has to invest, with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), in one of the world's first projects... -
Kellogg and Wilmar International: A Partnership Under Fire
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Kellogg Chief Sustainability Officer Diane Holdorf is facing a campaign by environmental activists who allege that the company's Indonesian supplier Wilmar... -
Off Grid Electric: Strategic Financing for Growth
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Off Grid Electric case focuses on the creation, growth, and financing of the company from 2011 through the middle of 2014. The three cofounders saw... -
Atlas Electrica: International Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details Atlas must decide whether to acquire La Indeca, increasing its Central American presence, or to focus on larger Latin American markets where higher growth... -
Project Finance Glossary
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Description: This glossary contains a list of almost 1,000 definitions for terms commonly used in the field of project finance. -
Mobil in Aceh, Indonesia (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In December 1998, Ron Wilson, chief executive of Mobil Oil Indonesia (MOI), considered how he should respond to allegations made by a group of nongovernmental... -
Global Seeds to Village Farmers: Hearing the Voices at the BoP
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., the hybrid corn company division of Dupont, has engaged with PEACE (People's Action for Creative Education) to serve...
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The Revolution Will Be Managed
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhy some movements succeed and others fail. -
Citibank Hong Kong: Capital Arbitrage in the Emerging Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes how a credit derivative may be used to structure a profitable transaction between a bank and its client. Design and risk management issues are... -
Financing the Mozal Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion... -
IFC Asset Management Company: Mobilizing Capital for Development
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) creative and effective use of the private equity business model as a tool to mobilize... -
Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details Covers President Lula's challenges to reduce "Brazil cost" and grow like other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that... -
Reconstruction of Zambia
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the causes of decline--economic, social, and political--of the Zambian economy since 1974. It takes place at the time of the election of Frederick... -
Mobil in Aceh, Indonesia (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In December 1998, Ron Wilson, chief executive of Mobil Oil Indonesia (MOI), considered how he should respond to allegations made by a group of nongovernmental... -
China's Environmental Challenge
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Business Corruption in China
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Trade Restrictions and Hong Kong's Textiles and Clothing Industry
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Since 1974, the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) had been the systematic means for developed countries to restrict textiles and clothing imports from developing...