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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
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleAfter building the oil and gas distribution company UBI Group in her native Ghana and then selling a majority stake to an international investor, Salma... -
What Covid-19 Taught Us About Doing Business During a Crisis
Business ethics Big IdeaTakeaways from a seven-city global survey. -
How Low and Middle-Income Countries Are Innovating to Combat Covid
Global Business Digital ArticleSeven lessons for innovators everywhere. -
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
Global Business Digital ArticleCountries that used to be sources of cheap labor have become lucrative markets. -
How Employers in Poor Countries Are Using Nudges to Help Employees Save Money
Economics ResearchA study of the largest mobile phone company in Afghanistan. -
What 45 Years of Data Tells Us About Globalization's Influence on the Shadow Economy
Global Business Digital ArticleHow openness to trade and participation in IMF programs influence the informal economy. -
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
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleGetting there will take classic business skills. -
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... -
Whiteboard Session: 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets
Global Business VideoThink about consumers' jobs-to-be-done. -
Survey: People's Trust Has Declined in Business, Media, Government, and NGOs
Global Business Digital ArticleNew results from Edelman's annual research on trust. -
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
Global Business Digital ArticleOvercome data gaps, biased data, and outdated numbers. -
The Countries That Would Profit Most from a Cashless World
Economics Digital ArticleIn two charts. -
The Revolution Will Be Managed
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhy some movements succeed and others fail. -
How to Reach Customers in Emerging Markets
Global Business VideoNavi Radjou, innovation and leadership strategist, suggests multinational companies rely on comprehensive networking to ensure successful expansion. -
Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt
Global Business Digital ArticleFour ways leaders from the global South have an edge in today's economy.
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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. -
What Poor Countries Can Teach Rich Ones About Health Care
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleAt first glance, it is hard to imagine how innovations from poor countries could provide much help in solving the cost and quality problems plaguing health-care delivery in rich countries like the United States. While it is easy to understand why a poor man would want what a rich man has, why would a rich […] -
How Market Smarts Can Protect Property Rights
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIntellectual property comprises an ever-increasing fraction of corporate wealth, but what's the good of that if an ever-increasing fraction of the property... -
Rich (and Poor) Keep Getting Richer
Global Business Magazine ArticleEarnings have stagnated for people in the world's middle-wage countries. -
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,... -
New Indian Consumer
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleAccording to the Gallup Organization, consumerism is becoming a way of life in India. -
Globalizing the Rest of the World
Global Business Magazine ArticleAlthough they account for 20% of the world's population and a major share of its natural resources, Latin America and Africa have been left out of the... -
Making the World Safe for Markets
Global Business Magazine ArticleUnleashing free-market democracy in developing countries breeds ethnic hatred and instability--yet that's the very prescription wealthy democracies have... -
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,... -
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... -
Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleGetting there will take classic business skills. -
Inflation + Subsidies: An Explosive Mix
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAs global inflation increases, maintaining food and fuel subsidies will be difficult for developing nations. However, because discontinuing subsidies... -
Capturing the Ricochet Economy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleImmigrants in developed countries who send money to and buy goods for relatives in the developing world are creating a vast new international market. -
How to Reach Customers in Emerging Markets
Global Business VideoNavi Radjou, innovation and leadership strategist, suggests multinational companies rely on comprehensive networking to ensure successful expansion. -
The Founder of UBI Group on Leading a Transition to Renewable Energy in Africa
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleAfter building the oil and gas distribution company UBI Group in her native Ghana and then selling a majority stake to an international investor, Salma... -
How to Win in Emerging Markets: Lessons from Japan
Global Business Magazine ArticleIn the 20th century, Japanese multinationals established themselves as powerhouse exporters in developed markets. Names like Sony, Toyota, and Honda became... -
Inside the Mind of the Chinese Consumer
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past three decades, the torrid pace of GDP growth in China has fascinated companies around the world. Western companies, in particular, have viewed... -
Wealth of African Nations
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite Africa's regional poverty, the continent's gross national income per capita is greater than India's. That represents a huge potential market for... -
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 HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHBR's annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions with the potential for a huge positive...
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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours
Strategy & Execution Book29.95View Details China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and... -
Americana (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details A completely unexpected telephone call comes from the Jamaican Prime Minister. The government's position provides an interesting look into government-business... -
Changing Face of the Indian Television Industry: 2006
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Television in India has been around for just over four decades. For the first 17 years, transmission was restricted to black and white, and sales figures... -
Korea: On the Back of a Tiger, Portuguese Version
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Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
Global Business Book38.00View Details The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right? Not according to Krishna Palepu and Tarun Khanna.... -
Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute... -
Zotter Chocolate: Creating a Market in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the process of Austrian chocolate producer Zotter Chocolate entering the Chinese market. There are several things that make this company... -
Liberia
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details From 1989 to 2003 civil war raged in Liberia, causing GDP per capita to drop an unprecedented 90% from peak to trough. The roots of Liberia's conflict... -
Movirtu's Cloud Phone Service: Funding a Base-of-the-Pyramid Venture
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Who are the right investors for a for-profit company targeting the world's poor? Before this start-up spends hundreds of hours pursuing venture capital... -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (A), Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Describes the mission, vision, and strategy of a team of entrepreneurs headed by a charismatic heart surgeon who founded a heart hospital in Bangalore,... -
Delta Blues: U.S.-Vietnam Catfish Trade Dispute (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Examines the growing tensions between strategies of national development and the rules of international business. At issue is how increasing globalization... -
China's Renminbi: "Our Currency, Your Problem"?
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The Chinese currency, the renminbi, has been a subject of controversy between China and its trade partners (especially the US), which accuse China of... -
Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details In 2018, Thailand's Bank of Ayudhya (known as Krungsri), was considering whether to participate in the first issue of a new financial instrument from... -
Foreign Direct Investment in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Discusses the role of foreign direct investment in China as a major driver for the high growth observed in the country since 1978. -
Haier in India: Building Presence in a Mass Market Beyond China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details For Chinese corporation Haier Inc, the biggest seller of major appliances in the world, entering India as an emerging market multinational is like having... -
Potato Value Chain - A Tale of Two Farmers in Okara
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case presents comprehensive information about the potato value chain in the overall context of vegetable value chains in Pakistan. A detailed description... -
Peoplepower, Inc.: The Republic of the Philippines
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2006, the Philippines faces a difficult choice. Japan has offered the country a trade agreement that includes access to the Japanese labor market for... -
Business Model Innovation at TutorVista: Personalization and Global Resource Leverage
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details How do you convince American parents living in the Midwest to hire tutors from India? How do you convince them to hire a tutor that they and their children... -
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested... -
Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property, Japanese Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Top officials at Pfizer are assessing their strategy for improving protection of Pfizer's patents around the world. The outcome of the Uruguay Round of...
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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours
Strategy & Execution Book29.95View Details China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and... -
The Dos and Don'ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data
Global Business Digital ArticleOvercome data gaps, biased data, and outdated numbers. -
What Poor Countries Can Teach Rich Ones About Health Care
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleAt first glance, it is hard to imagine how innovations from poor countries could provide much help in solving the cost and quality problems plaguing health-care delivery in rich countries like the United States. While it is easy to understand why a poor man would want what a rich man has, why would a rich […] -
Americana (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details A completely unexpected telephone call comes from the Jamaican Prime Minister. The government's position provides an interesting look into government-business... -
Changing Face of the Indian Television Industry: 2006
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Television in India has been around for just over four decades. For the first 17 years, transmission was restricted to black and white, and sales figures... -
Korea: On the Back of a Tiger, Portuguese Version
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How to Support Your Iranian Colleagues
Social and global issues First PersonShow support and solidarity. -
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
Global Business Book38.00View Details The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right? Not according to Krishna Palepu and Tarun Khanna.... -
Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute... -
Zotter Chocolate: Creating a Market in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the process of Austrian chocolate producer Zotter Chocolate entering the Chinese market. There are several things that make this company...