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- 19 Dec 2013
- Blog Post
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
would do with my free time. By the second month, I found myself wondering where my free time went. In between my roles in the Entrepreneurship Club, TechMedia Club, Harbus...
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Technology
- Career Coach
Judy Shen-Filerman
Judy (HBS '94) has a passion for helping students shape their career vision, improve their storytelling and be effective communicators in US corporate culture. Judy’s coaching firm specializes in developing...
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- 15 Oct 2013
- News
Fourteen Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Join Harvard Business School
- December 2002 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Gates Foundation and Small High Schools, The
By: Stig Leschly
Covers the evolution of the Gates Foundation's multibillion dollar effort to influence reform in the U.S. public education system since 1999, particularly the foundation's recent decision to invest heavily in the breakup of existing urban high schools and the creation...
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Keywords:
Secondary Education;
Urban Development;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Education Industry
Leschly, Stig. "Gates Foundation and Small High Schools, The." Harvard Business School Case 803-110, December 2002. (Revised March 2003.)
- February 2023
- Case
Enstitute
By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kumba Sennaar and Sarah Mehta
Shaila Ittycheria (MBA ’10) founded the nonprofit organization Enstitute, in 2012 in New York City. Determined to challenge the status quo within higher education, Shaila and her cofounder sought to expand opportunities for talented young people by placing them in...
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Operations;
Business Startups;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Education Industry;
Employment Industry;
United States
Hyde, Lindsay N., Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kumba Sennaar, and Sarah Mehta. "Enstitute." Harvard Business School Case 823-008, February 2023.
- 04 May 2015
- News
At pitch contests, much ventured and little gained
- Article
Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary...
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development." Econometrica 81, no. 1 (January 2013): 113–152.
- August 2016
- Simulation
BDP Pharmaceuticals
By: Kevin Schulman, Emma Rasiel and Suresh Balu
Susan Durham has just been hired as the Chief Financial Officer of Blue Devil Pharmaceuticals (BDP). Her charge is to understand the optimal pathway for the development of a novel molecule, BDP-1, to understand the cost of drug development, the market opportunity, and...
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- July 2016
- Case
Blue D Pharmaceuticals
By: Kevin Schulman, Emma Rasiel and Suresh Balu
Susan Durham has just been hired as the Chief Financial Officer of Blue Devil Pharmaceuticals (BDP). Her charge is to understand the optimal pathway for the development of a novel molecule, BDP-1, to understand the cost of drug development, the market opportunity, and...
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- Video
Reuel J. Khoza
Reuel J. Khoza, Chairman of South Africa's Dzana Investments and Discovery Bank, describes the obstacles he faced to establish his management consultancy firm in the context of apartheid.
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- 15 Jul 2022
- News
The Right Step: Q+A With Rakoh Founder Raphael Kohlberg (MBA 2018)
- 27 Dec 2019
- News
The Rise of Fertility Startups
- September 2012 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Aqua Bounty
By: Lucy White and Stephen Burn-Murdoch
Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using probability trees and real option techniques. Company is based in Massachusetts and lists in London on AIM. Products are genetically-modified fast-growing salmon for fish farmers and disease-prevention drugs and...
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Keywords:
IPO;
Valuation;
Real Options;
Decision Tree;
Biotech;
Genetically Modified;
Salmon;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
North and Central America;
Europe;
South America
White, Lucy, and Stephen Burn-Murdoch. "Aqua Bounty." Harvard Business School Case 213-047, September 2012. (Revised January 2014.)
- December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar
By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and David Lane
Late in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of...
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Keywords:
Shared Value;
India;
Kenya;
Vietnam;
Novartis;
Arogya Parivar;
Social Business;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Viet Nam;
Kenya;
India
Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, and David Lane. "Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar." Harvard Business School Case 715-411, December 2014. (Revised October 2017.)
- 31 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences
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by Eric D. Werker
- Video
Nicky Newton-King
Nicky Newton-King, former CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, reflects on South Africa’s social and political environment during her university studies at Stellenbosch University in the mid-1980’s.
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- September 1991
- Case
Paul Olsen (A)
Paul Olsen, a doctoral management student, is considering forming a limited partnership to open a restaurant in a renovated downtown mall in Pittsburgh. He must assess the opportunity, find investors for the anticipated $250,000 start-up costs, and create a workable...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship
Bhide, Amar. "Paul Olsen (A)." Harvard Business School Case 392-011, September 1991.
- December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing
By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a...
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Keywords:
Business Conglomerates;
International Finance;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Markets;
Taxation;
Business Subsidiaries;
Valuation;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Health Industry;
Europe;
United States
Desai, Mihir A., Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing." Harvard Business School Case 205-056, December 2004. (Revised April 2006.)