Developing countries

Affordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift...

The best way to foster an appreciation for intellectual property rights in China is to let partner firms experience the benefits of locally generated...

If your company operates in a developing country, AIDS is your business. Although Africa has received the most attention, AIDS is also spreading swiftly...

The truly important challenges managers face are caused by the success of management itself. Management has transformed the economic and social fabric...

Iqbal Quadir, the founder of Bangladesh's GrameenPhone, discusses the failure of foreign aid to rescue moribund third-world economies and the need to...

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

How a health care provider addresses the risks that come with globalization

Getting there will take classic business skills.

A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D. student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted […]

Singapore is the most future-oriented country in the world, new research from Thunderbird business school reveals, whereas Russia is the least. Yet people...

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....

HBR's annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions with the potential for a huge positive...

Financial experts in the West suggest that diversified business groups--or affiliated companies under one parent--in emerging markets should break up....

Core competencies and focus are now the mantras of corporate strategists in Western economies. But while managers in the West have dismantled many conglomerates...

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Mutually beneficial partnerships can both drive profit and alleviate poverty.

For years, many Nigerian families complained about the cost of laundry detergents. Two companies, Unilever and PZ, dominated the market. They sold their...

Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing...

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

Unleashing free-market democracy in developing countries breeds ethnic hatred and instability--yet that's the very prescription wealthy democracies have...

Is "Fair Trade" really fair? This case examines the concept, history, and logistics of the Fair Trade movement, specifically for coffee. Fair Trade began...

The notable success of insurance products for low-income clients of its microfinance network leads Opportunity International to launch the first global...

The International Monetary Fund was dismissed as almost irrelevant to the global economy, but during the 2008 financial crisis, it returned to center...

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...

This technical note, which presents an overview of the global water and food supply problem at the turn of the 21st century, is a good starting point...

Case Supplement for Case RSM103

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...

Supplements the (A) case.

In 2011 Khalil and Adil Sattar are considering growth opportunities for K&N's, their family business that is the market leader for processed chicken and...

Grupo Garantia was a spectacularly successful conglomerate group in Brazil. Observers commonly called its founder The Midas King - all he touched seemingly...

Supplements the (A) case.

Between 1985 and 1990, the global economy witnessed an unprecedented surge in flows of foreign direct investment (FDI). This sudden increase called back...

In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved...

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

In 1950 it looked highly doubtful that Indian democracy would hold -- typical family income was $6 a month, only about 15 percent of the population was...

The case traces the evolution of the Tata group, one of the largest and highly respected Indian business houses, from its 19th century founding and early...

Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products,...

Affordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift...

Is "Fair Trade" really fair? This case examines the concept, history, and logistics of the Fair Trade movement, specifically for coffee. Fair Trade began...

The notable success of insurance products for low-income clients of its microfinance network leads Opportunity International to launch the first global...

The International Monetary Fund was dismissed as almost irrelevant to the global economy, but during the 2008 financial crisis, it returned to center...

There is growing recognition that hybrid organizations can play a critical role in tackling intractable global sustainable development challenges. At...

The best way to foster an appreciation for intellectual property rights in China is to let partner firms experience the benefits of locally generated...

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...

If your company operates in a developing country, AIDS is your business. Although Africa has received the most attention, AIDS is also spreading swiftly...

This technical note, which presents an overview of the global water and food supply problem at the turn of the 21st century, is a good starting point...