Developing countries

Four ways leaders from the global South have an edge in today's economy.

Customer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo...

Though many multinationals see little business potential in serving the poorest people in developing countries, two innovative mobile phone companies...

As free trade agreements become more popular, they present global executives with thorny strategic and operational decisions.

Entrepreneurs can play a central role in finding solutions to the world's toughest social problems. The failure rate for start-ups, however, is high....

Immigrants in developed countries who send money to and buy goods for relatives in the developing world are creating a vast new international market.

HBR's editors searched for the best new ideas related to the practice of management and came up with a collection that is as diverse as it is provocative....

The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with...

Too much of this vast market’s potential is unrealized.

A study of the largest mobile phone company in Afghanistan.

The authors warn that any company considering a move to Mexico must manage both the old risks of a developing country and the new uncertainties of an...

Customer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo...

By stimulating commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, multinationals could radically improve the lives of billions of people...

"This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development....

On February 16, 2012, Barclays of U.K. launched Pingit, a service that lets people send and receive money using a smartphone. But this isn’t the first big innovation in mobile banking. These innovations are already happening in developing countries. Poor countries are jumping ahead of rich ones by building a 21st century infrastructure (because they […]

Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School professor, explains how multinationals can thrive in emerging markets.

Mutually beneficial partnerships can both drive profit and alleviate poverty.

Conventional wisdom says that companies from the periphery of the global market can't compete against established global giants from Europe, Japan, and...

While Western companies struggle with mergers and acquisitions, emerging giants like Indian aluminum producer Hindalco are using M&A as their main globalization...

Adesemi, an American start-up in Africa, had been trying for six years to blanket the developing world with desperately needed wireless communications...

This technical note prepares students to use and analyze economic models of long-run growth. The technical note is particularly useful in introduction...

Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe...

In June 1991, India was in the midst of a currency and balance of payments crisis the likes the country had not seen since independence in 1947. The country's...

The year 2006 marked the beginning of 2b Design, a social business, established in Lebanon, and specialized in creating handmade furniture and decorative...

In the year 2000, only 2% of women in India used menstrual hygiene products. Almost a quarter-billion relied on cloth rags and many rural women were banished...

In 1997 Nestlé committed to a strategic vision of becoming the leading nutrition, health and wellness (NHW) company in the world. Over the next 13 years,...

In 2011, Fonterra, the world's largest processor and exporter of dairy products, needed to reposition its business to take advantage of rising demand...

The Caspian region may become one of the world's next major energy producers. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-all former Soviet republics--hold...

This note analyzes disputes over intellectual property enforcement and agricultural trade barriers at the center of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization...

Set in the year 2004, when Rwanda commemorated the 10th anniversary of a genocide that had claimed the lives of over 10% of its population. Focuses on...

M-Pesa, a mobile money transfer service launched in 2007 in Kenya by telecommunications company Safaricom, allowed people to send money via mobile messaging...

Located in the highlands of Peru, the Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators....

The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international trade from the period after World War II to developments...

Fola Adeola, the CEO of Nigeria's Guaranty Trust Bank and one of its founders in 1991, is considering what should be done to maintain the bank's original...

Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned...

This case reviews the changes in national policy and the subsequent interventions used to reduce the incidence of malaria in Zambia from 2005 to 2010....

Background note for product CB0028.

Describes a mine operated by Bougainville Copper Ltd. in Papua New Guinea and the pressures negotiating the mineral contract between PNG and Bougainville...

This technical note prepares students to use and analyze economic models of long-run growth. The technical note is particularly useful in introduction...

Teaching Note for [807113].

Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe...

In June 1991, India was in the midst of a currency and balance of payments crisis the likes the country had not seen since independence in 1947. The country's...

Four ways leaders from the global South have an edge in today's economy.

The year 2006 marked the beginning of 2b Design, a social business, established in Lebanon, and specialized in creating handmade furniture and decorative...

Customer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo...

Though many multinationals see little business potential in serving the poorest people in developing countries, two innovative mobile phone companies...

In the year 2000, only 2% of women in India used menstrual hygiene products. Almost a quarter-billion relied on cloth rags and many rural women were banished...