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- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by the famous entrepreneur...
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Martha Lagace
- May 2003 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
ZARA: Fast Fashion
Focuses on Inditex, an apparel retailer from Spain, which has set up an extremely quick response system for its ZARA chain. Instead of predicting months before a season starts what women will want to wear, ZARA observes what's selling and what's not and continuously...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Manufacturing Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Spain
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Jose Luis Nueno. "ZARA: Fast Fashion." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 703-416, May 2003. (Revised May 2009.)
- February 2024
- Case
Tony Elumelu Foundation: Democratizing Luck Across Africa
By: Paul A. Gompers and Samir Saxena
Founded in 2010, The Tony Elumelu Foundation is Africa’s leading philanthropy working to support entrepreneurs in Africa with access to seed capital, business management training, mentorship, and access to networks. Through a $100 million commitment but its founder,...
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- February 2020
- Teaching Note
Essential Explorations at MUJI
By: Tomomichi Amano and Das Narayandas
Launched as a private brand in 1980 to counter the increasingly brand-conscious consumer in Japan, MUJI offered beautifully designed, fairly priced, no-frills quality goods. The once modest private label brand with 40 products had expanded significantly by 2019 to more...
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- May 2001 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Submarino.com (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Meredith Collura and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Enables a thorough analysis of Submarino.com, a B2C e-commerce company with a presence in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal. Examines the company's global operations as well as its organizational design and operating and management capabilities. Considers...
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Business Model;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Operations;
Organizational Design;
Strategy;
Internet;
Retail Industry;
Portugal;
Spain;
Mexico;
Argentina;
Brazil
Applegate, Lynda M., Meredith Collura, and Luiz Felipe Monteiro. "Submarino.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-350, May 2001. (Revised January 2010.)
- December 1995 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Maureen Frye at Quaker Steel and Alloy Corporation
By: John J. Gabarro
Maureen Frye, assistant product manager at Quaker Steel and Alloy Corp., is asked to implement an action plan for changing the call pattern of the salesforce. Currently the salesforce is spending too much time on small accounts. Earlier Frye attempted to change their...
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Management Teams;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Culture;
Planning;
Salesforce Management;
Strategy;
Steel Industry
Gabarro, John J. "Maureen Frye at Quaker Steel and Alloy Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 496-024, December 1995. (Revised October 1996.)
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
competitor requires artful activity; so does handling a sudden problem caused by a supplier. An artful manager operates without the safety net of a detailed specification, guiding a team or organization when no one knows exactly where...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
managers may be trying to categorize their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13762 Allocating Marketing Resources Authors:Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Marketing is...
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Martha Lagace
- June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
De Beers at the Millennium
At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being linked to growing inequities and human rights violations. This, in turn, had an impact on De...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Value Creation;
Strategic Planning;
Social Issues;
Luxury;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Africa
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Sonia D. Marciano. "De Beers at the Millennium." Harvard Business School Case 706-518, June 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a...
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Yazan Halwani
industry is not sustainable for artists. There’s a lot of room to change the way artists are funded at the macro-level itself.” HBS has “made me more aware of how my eclectic background can bring value to the world,” he says. “It’s a...
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Mi Zhou
“I like math and love interacting with people,” Mi Zhou says. “Business is a good combination of both.” Working with McKinsey, first in Beijing and then in Frankfurt, allowed Mi “to explore different industries and functions.” Mi’s...
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Conference Gets Back to Basics Aparna Ramanan Ketty Lie 11 Jan 2018 This year, the Social Enterprise Conference (SECON) goes back to basics. The central tension in t... Machine Learning for Social Impact Greg Lipstein 21 Dec 2017 When social sector View Details
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
Spurring innovation: You will learn how to design systems and structures to push people out of their comfort zone, foster creative tension, and drive innovation and entrepreneurial behavior. Building commitment: You will learn how to use systems and structures to build...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for...
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- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
organization and be consistently ranked as one of the clubs people value the most at HBS. With our generous sponsors, we were able to host over 700 registrants for our annual Summit in Klarman Hall, featuring fantastic keynote speeches...
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- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
is economically unviable, and it would require a lot of process innovation to make financial sense and for them to scale it. Despite the potential here, Mr. Acharya doesn’t “see it happening in the next 20 years”. However, regulation outside of India might play a role...
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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
included, seem to be happy with their career path: they are less likely than other employed alumni to be considering changing jobs. Likelihood of Alumni Leaving Their Current Organization They also report higher satisfaction than other...
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