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- 21 Aug 2012
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Apple Reaches Record U.S. Market Value on IPhone Optimism
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A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series View Details
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Business Model Shift
Winning companies owe their success to a business model that effectively creates and captures value. When organizations link a business model to new technologies to meet an emerging View Details
- February 2023 (Revised February 2024)
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Doing Business in Helsinki, Finland
By: Martin A. Sinozich, Lena Duchene, Tonia Labruyere and Daniela Beyersdorfer
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Finland. It highlights Finland's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Strategy;
Research and Development;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Crisis Management;
Culture;
Environmental Sustainability;
International Relations;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Finland;
Europe
Sinozich, Martin A., Lena Duchene, Tonia Labruyere, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Doing Business in Helsinki, Finland." Harvard Business School Case 323-079, February 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- July 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Qihoo
By: Feng Zhu
Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software product, and quickly dominated the market in China after its unusual move of giving its product away for free in 2009....
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- 08 Aug 2017
- News
Changing Business Digitally
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Department stores: Mad rush for market share
- 30 Nov 2016
- News
Chatting w/Christine Exley about the pet market - Part 2
- December 2014
- Article
The Real Product Market Impact of Mergers
By: Albert Sheen
I document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to the competition. These...
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Sheen, Albert. "The Real Product Market Impact of Mergers." Journal of Finance 69, no. 6 (December 2014).
- 30 Nov 2016
- News
Chatting w/Christine Exley about the pet market - Part 1
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Does the Law and Finance Hypothesis Pass the Test of History?
By: Aldo Musacchio and John D. Turner
For the body of work known as the law and finance literature, the development of
financial markets and the concentration of ownership across countries is to a large
extent the consequence of the legal system nations created or inherited decades or
hundreds of years...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Business History;
Financial Markets;
Financial History;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Law;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
United Kingdom;
Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo, and John D. Turner. "Does the Law and Finance Hypothesis Pass the Test of History?" Special Issue on Law and Finance: A Business History Perspective. Business History 55, no. 4 (June 2013): 524–542.
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
We prefer to think of babies as cuddly bundles of joy, but they are also products at the center of a multibillion-dollar market in adoptions and scientific conception, a market that few people acknowledge...
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- 24 Sep 2014
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The business of being Beyoncé
- June 2011
- Case
Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market
By: Luis Viceira, Elena Corsi and Ruth Dittrich
An advisory company has to decide how to sell their client's hedge fund holdings in the secondary market, and thinks about their future. Shelley Capital was a a European advisory company operating in the hedge fund secondary market, a market that boosted in 2008 with...
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Keywords:
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Investment Funds;
Marketing Strategy;
Financial Crisis;
Sales;
Leadership Development;
Financial Markets;
Crisis Management;
Business Processes;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Financial Services Industry;
Service Industry;
Europe
Viceira, Luis, Elena Corsi, and Ruth Dittrich. "Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market." Harvard Business School Case 211-112, June 2011.
- March 2014
- Case
Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
Considers the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by Pola of Japan in 2011. The case opens two years later in July 2013 when Sam McKay, the chief executive officer, on a visit...
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Keywords:
Australia;
China;
Environmental Strategies;
Green Business;
Marketing;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
China;
Australia;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science." Harvard Business School Case 314-087, March 2014.
- 06 Aug 2014
- News
Constant challenges, no certainties for new CEOs at Market Basket
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Fellowships - Business History
can be a viable and thriving field of research and teaching in a business school, by offering great electives, unique research and pedagogical efforts such as the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) Project,...
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- June 2020
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Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model
By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt
Prior research advances several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how...
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Keywords:
Search;
Legitimacy;
Organizational Innovation;
Organizational Learning;
Mechanisms And Processes;
Institutional Entrepreneurship;
Qualitative Methods;
Business Model Design;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Emerging Markets;
Adaptation;
Competition;
Strategy
McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen Eisenhardt. "Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model." Administrative Science Quarterly 65, no. 2 (June 2020): 483–523.
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the...
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Doing Business in Africa
By: John D. Macomber
This course introduces frameworks and models for smart and focused investing and operations across sectors, nations, industries, and time frames in Africa. Students will learn tools and skills to help navigate the business landscape of Africa in terms of selection... View Details
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Africa