partnerships - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
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Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang

In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details

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Educators

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

steel and cement being “hard-to-decarbonize” materials that are inherently reliant on carbon. Therefore, progress on this goal will likely require partnership with upstream suppliers to improve tracking and heightened ability to absorb... View Details

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Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

described below and play a central role in bringing the individual actions together to form a coherent and compelling strategy. And they will be crucial in forming and supporting partnerships with outside organizations and... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

Success in Social Enterprise," ending August 1. This two-year study was the second carried out by SEKN since it was founded in 2001 as a research partnership between HBS and leading business schools in Latin America and Spain. SEKN's... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

Darza Digitally native, vertically integrated e-commerce fashion brand that provides the best online shopping fashion experience for customers in the Middle East and North Africa. OnRamp A customer partnership platform helping B2B SaaS... View Details

29 Nov 2023
News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Oftentimes an organization might be engaged in a partnership at one point or another, or be a member of an umbrella organization ... but it's not really a network approach... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

of September 2021, administration of the initiatives and activities associated with the REP has been transferred to the team within the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion under the leadership of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Terrill L. Drake and in... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

problems are Embraer's partnerships trying to overcome?" As a company, conference participants said, Embraer had made a number of smart moves. Its human resources strategy was rejuvenated for flexibility, so people were motivated to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

through several approaches. First, we plan to bring back in-person traditions and institute new events; we recently hosted our second Taco Tuesday of the semester and it was wonderful to see new and old LASO members all together! Second, we will continue our View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

“Women are well represented in the banking and government sectors in Egypt,” says Enan. But there are still gaps, which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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Harvard Business School

Partnership into a sustainable and influential social enterprise. She also served as a consultant to such corporations as Abt Associates, Contract Research Corporation, and Urban Systems Research and Engineering. Wiley is currently a... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

restorative power of Dlodlo’s unconventionally mission-driven and community-centered approach to redevelopment. “Working with Nadine has been a blessing,” says Donnell Nance, a Union Square homeowner and officer in the Southwest View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

in the mid-1990s had one of the highest crime rates in the country, a significant drug problem, and a failing school. Local real estate developer and philanthropist Tom Cousins, who became the founder of Purpose Built Communities, led the effort to revitalize East Lake... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

underscore the importance of understanding where open source is most used and could be vulnerable to attack. The report, ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software, was prepared by the Laboratory for Innovation Science at... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

structure, because the typical partnership and corporation of this era is a dead structure, a stupid structure." At Divine Interventures, said Filipowski, companies are brought together in an "econet," functioning as... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

January 2002 (Revised January 2003)
Case

Finova Group, Inc. (A), The

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan

Finova Group, a $14 billion commercial finance company, filed for Chapter 11 in early March 2001, in what was one of the largest U.S. bankruptcy filings of all time and the largest corporate bond default since the Great Depression. While in Chapter 11, Finova became... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Price; Crisis Management; Bids and Bidding; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; United States