fromHarvard Business Review
4 hours agoThe Hidden Cost of Rushing into Emerging Markets
Emerging markets are increasingly important for multinational companies (MNCs), but entering these markets can be a difficult and costly experience. As interest in emerging markets grows, so too has research into their unique challenges and opportunities. A critical, yet overlooked, problem is that companies often take an overly optimistic view of how quickly success can be achieved in these complex, unfamiliar environments-a phenomenon we call the temporal optimism trap.
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