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- February 2010
- Case
Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners
By: Julie M. Wulf and Scott Waggoner
The managing directors of Berkshire Partners, a mid-sized private equity firm, address strategic and organizational challenges in response to turbulent market conditions, rapid firm growth, and the transition of leadership from its founding partners to the next...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Management Teams;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Boston
Wulf, Julie M., and Scott Waggoner. "Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners." Harvard Business School Case 710-414, February 2010.
Luis M. Viceira
Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details
- April 2018
- Case
Hawk Electronics, Inc.
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and John J. Lafkas
Hawk Electronics ("Hawk") presents the problems that a company can encounter when its divisions have distinct strategies, especially when one division has been favored at another's expense. It also highlights how such problems can reflect cognitive biases, which...
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Hamermesh, Richard G., and John J. Lafkas. "Hawk Electronics, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-521, April 2018.
- August 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences
By: Jill Avery and Rayan Nahas
Camera IQ, a camera marketing software company that empowered brands to create and launch augmented reality experiences (AREs) across social platforms, had just raised an additional $5 million to fund further product development and expand its marketing and sales...
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Keywords:
Brand Management;
Virtual Reality;
Augmented Reality;
B2B;
Technology Platform;
Marketing;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Digital Marketing;
Internet and the Web;
Growth Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Social Media;
E-commerce;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Advertising Industry;
United States
Avery, Jill, and Rayan Nahas. "Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences." Harvard Business School Case 522-002, August 2021. (Revised March 2022.)
- March 2017 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Ant Financial (A)
By: Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, Anthony K. Woo and Nancy Hua Dai
Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech “Unicorn.” The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals such as mobile and online payment (Alipay), money market fund (Yu’e Bao), wealth management (Ant Fortune),...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Finance;
Opportunities;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry
Zhu, Feng, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, Anthony K. Woo, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Ant Financial (A)." Harvard Business School Case 617-060, March 2017. (Revised March 2019.)
- October 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Lauren Sarah Margulies
Primedic is a Mexican start-up that aims to deliver affordable primary and preventative healthcare to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding and the business model has yet to gain traction....
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Health Care and Treatment;
Social Enterprise;
Health Industry;
Mexico
Hamermesh, Richard G., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Lauren Sarah Margulies. "PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 811-040, October 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
- November 2023
- Case
Nourishing Communities: Brighter Bites Approach to Childhood Nutrition
By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
In September 2023, Brighter Bites, a Houston-based non-profit that distributed fresh produce and nutrition education in underserved communities across 11 cities and 5 states, grappled with identifying the best path forward for continued growth. Brighter Bites proved...
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Keywords:
Nutrition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Logistics;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Human Needs;
Poverty;
Houston
Bell, David E., Forest Reinhardt, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Nourishing Communities: Brighter Bites Approach to Childhood Nutrition." Harvard Business School Case 724-007, November 2023.
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1524857 Morality Rebooted: Exploring Simple Fixes to Our Moral Bugs By: Zhang, Ting, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract—Ethics research developed partly in response to calls from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Social Innovation at Salesforce.com
By: Christopher Marquis, Marley C. Kornreich and Bobbi Thomason
Salesforce.com recently implemented an innovative social enterprise business model whereby the Salesforce.com Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Leading Change;
Problems and Challenges
Marquis, Christopher, Marley C. Kornreich, and Bobbi Thomason. "Social Innovation at Salesforce.com." Harvard Business School Case 412-049, August 2011. (Revised July 2014.)
- September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Blenheim Chalcot
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In April 2019, Manoj Badale and Charles Mindenhall, co-founders of Blenheim Chalcot, were contemplating how they might go about developing their portfolio. Since founding the company as an internet consultancy called netdecisions in 1998, Badale and Mindenhall had...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
United Kingdom;
United States;
India
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Blenheim Chalcot." Harvard Business School Case 720-381, September 2019. (Revised June 2021.)
- Profile
Katie Laidlaw
hope to one day be the leader of a large, nonprofit funding agency that addresses social inequity and supports social enterprise. Upon graduation, my career vision still holds true. At HBS, I gained tactical skills and valuable...
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Consulting
W. Carl Kester
Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details
- September 26, 2024
- Article
A Better Way to Measure Social Impact
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Constance Spitzer
All impact investors report the financial returns from their funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created. But investors do not supply metrics about their impacts on...
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Constance Spitzer. "A Better Way to Measure Social Impact." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 26, 2024).
- February 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Collab Capital
Founded in 2020 by Jewel Burks Solomon and her partners, Barry Givens and Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital was a new investment firm built on two pillars: first, it would identify and support ventures founded by Black entrepreneurs, a group underrepresented in...
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Keywords:
Black Entrepreneurs;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Race;
Business Startups;
Financial Services Industry;
Atlanta
Rigol, Natalia, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Mitchell Weiss. "Collab Capital." Harvard Business School Case 821-067, February 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
d.light
By: Michael Chu, Krishna G. Palepu and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
Kenyan off-grid-solar pioneer d.light can power entire homes in rural Africa but must now decide how to fund the growth of its asset-heavy business model. Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2006 to transform lives through solar solutions enabling access to...
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Keywords:
Alternative Energy;
Business Model;
Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Expansion;
Financial Strategy;
Renewable Energy;
Strategy;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Energy Industry;
Africa;
Kenya;
India
Chu, Michael, Krishna G. Palepu, and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha. "d.light." Harvard Business School Case 321-069, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- January 2016 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
From Preparatory Academy to National Flagship: The Evolution of Tsinghua University
By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby
Tsinghua University is one of the most prominent universities in China, and, increasingly, in the world. Its evolution to this position reflects the major developments in Chinese history—outward looking internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, creative survival in the...
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Keywords:
University Administration;
University Curriculum;
University Faculty;
World-class Universities;
Higher Education;
History;
Governance;
Education Industry;
China;
Beijing
Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "From Preparatory Academy to National Flagship: The Evolution of Tsinghua University." Harvard Business School Case 316-141, January 2016. (Revised August 2019.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model
By: Juliane Begenau
This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and Miller. I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital...
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Keywords:
Capital Requirement;
Bank Regulation;
Demand For Safe Assets;
Business Cycles;
Bank Lending;
Risk Management;
Financial Liquidity;
Financing and Loans;
Capital;
Banks and Banking
Begenau, Juliane. "Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model." Working Paper. (Revised September 2016.)
- August 1997 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
GMIMCo Venture Capital: September 1996
By: Josh Lerner, Peter Wendell and Catherine M. Conneely
Kathryn Stokel must choose between three venture capital groups (if any) in which to invest the pension fund of General Motors Corp. Each has distinct strengths and weaknesses.
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The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of...
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