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- April 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Exporting Livability: Investing in New Urban Centers
By: John D. Macomber and Essie Alamsyah
Can Singapore urban design, policy continuity, and system of laws be exported outside of Singapore to accelerate the effective development of new urban agglomerations? Nina Yang, CEO of Sustainable Urban Development at Ascendas-Singbridge, a large real estate company...
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Keywords:
Urban Development;
Projects;
Design;
City;
Business and Government Relations;
Expansion;
Real Estate Industry;
China;
Singapore
Macomber, John D., and Essie Alamsyah. "Exporting Livability: Investing in New Urban Centers." Harvard Business School Case 219-072, April 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Technology is revolutionising supply-chain finance
- Research Summary
Conceptualizing and measuring environmental sustainability
This research involves developing clarity around the murky construct of environmental sustainability, and improving techniques to measure corporate environmental performance. My prior research in this domain includes View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace
- March 2018
- Module Note
Module Note for Instructors: Responsibilities to Society
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
This note outlines a framework to help managers discern and deliver on their responsibilities to society that has been taught in the “Responsibilities to Society” module in Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA), a semester-long, first-year required course for...
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Module Note for Instructors: Responsibilities to Society." Harvard Business School Module Note 318-125, March 2018.
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207091 China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-027 With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
covenant forged at the onset of the Industrial Age, the Silent Generation, born between 1928 and 1945, typically had the benefit of guaranteed...
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by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 16 Mar 2020
- News
15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered
- April 2019
- Technical Note
A Note on Boards in VC-Backed Ventures
What is the value of a Board, and why does a company need one? The note documents the formal role of a Board of Directors as going beyond simply acting as legal representation of corporate ownership. Moreover, this role changes as the company moves through different...
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Keywords:
Founders;
Business Startup;
Board;
Board Of Directors;
Business Startups;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship
Ghosh, Shikhar, Ramana Nanda, Suraj Srinivasan, and Terrence Shu. "A Note on Boards in VC-Backed Ventures." Harvard Business School Technical Note 819-128, April 2019.
- Web
Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship
Sullivan GameChanger Media, Inc. MBA 2006 Marcel H. Telles 3G Capital Management OPM 10 David W. Thompson Orbital Sciences Corporation MBA 1981 Thomas J. Tierney The Bridgespan Group MBA 1980 Jean Tripier...
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- 21 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students
families, so they were forced to choose between not putting food on the table and getting their families or others sick. It felt unfair that these large corporations were getting away with being this...
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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South...
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by Martha Lagace
- November 2009
- Case
An Entrepreneur's Journey: Simi Nwogugu
By: John A. Davis and Shirley Spence
This multimedia case follows Simi Nwogugu's life from childhood in Lagos, Nigeria to Mount Holyoke and Wall Street, back to Lagos to found a chapter of Junior Achievement, through marriage and HBS to motherhood and disenchantment with opportunities for mothers in the...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Work-Life Balance;
Customization and Personalization;
Business Ventures;
Nigeria;
United States
Davis, John A., and Shirley Spence. "An Entrepreneur's Journey: Simi Nwogugu." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 810-701, November 2009.
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
[Image: iStockphoto/Elijah-Lovkoff] How can companies connect with customers and employees better? Share your insights below. Book Excerpt Bringing the Purpose Question to Work By Hubert Joly “What drives you?” is not a question that gets...
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- July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues....
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Human Resources;
Private Equity;
Brazil;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Operation Management;
General Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Growth and Development;
Leadership;
Operations;
Problems and Challenges;
Transportation;
Human Capital;
Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Brazil
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters." Harvard Business School Case 419-007, July 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- July 2024
- Case
Gates Ventures: Making Alzheimer's a Forgotten Past
By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks, Shardule Shah and Calvin Marambo
After a personal journey and interest in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) by Bill Gates, Gates Ventures set out to find the best way to accelerate innovation in the field of AD. In partnership with the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, Gates Ventures created the...
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Tadikonda, Satish, William Marks, Shardule Shah, and Calvin Marambo. "Gates Ventures: Making Alzheimer's a Forgotten Past." Harvard Business School Case 824-075, July 2024.
- December 1985 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Metromedia Broadcasting Corp.
Describes the market for high-yield, or "junk," bonds and includes summaries of academic research on the risk/return characteristics of high-yield securities. Describes the role of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the primary and secondary markets for high-yield debt....
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Mason, Scott P. "Metromedia Broadcasting Corp." Harvard Business School Case 286-044, December 1985. (Revised August 1994.)
- January 2009 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT'
By: Willy Shih
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is executing a strategy that leverages the desires of municipalities in China to build clusters of high technology companies. By partnering with those cities to build new semiconductor fabs that SMIC would...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Industry Clusters;
Infrastructure;
State Ownership;
Business and Community Relations;
Semiconductor Industry;
China
Shih, Willy. "Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT'." Harvard Business School Case 609-062, January 2009. (Revised October 2012.)
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Africa - Global
around the world, including Nairobi and three other cities in Africa (Kigali, Accra, and Morocco), requiring students to build on and apply learnings from their first-year courses into real-world business problems. During View Details