Publications

March 2007
Teaching Note

Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (TN)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Teaching note to 706442. View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Projects; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Price; Economics; Financial Services Industry; Los Angeles

Blog

Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

for her fourth appearance in the program as a guest lecturer. This type of teaching partnership was initiated when Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter invited past participants of some healthcare-focused programs to come back to the... View Details

Web

Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

applied to many ongoing initiatives, including a partnership Henry led with Airbnb that will provide standby housing for local residents in the event of a natural disaster. To encourage deeper community engagement, Henry has led a number... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

senior management is especially necessary, Coote said, in managing the partnerships that now often result from changed business models and corporate restructurings. Senior management should be active participants in the process to ensure... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2023
News

Case Study: Power Nappy

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

05 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium

space right now. While most climate solutions at scale will require a public-private partnership in the end, there is so much innovation and progress that businesses are uniquely positioned to bring, from spearheading voluntary corporate... View Details

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

Leadership in the Age of Climate Change that HBS has been organizing around the country in partnership with alumni clubs to understand how climate change is shaping the future of business,” says Jennifer Nash, Director of BEI, who... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Case Study: The Credit Bureau

typically willing to add you to their options, but this requires a lot of tech to integrate upfront. D2C is expensive, but partnerships or even referral codes to brokers could really lower your CAC. B2B2C feels like nirvana, and companies... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

06 Sep 2016
News

The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards

challenge (or as we might more aptly call it, the opportunity) becomes how many to add to the board, not which one. There is a logic to this. It is not easy for women to rise through the corporate or partnership or government or academic... View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

Kraft has made bold bets that have paid off, including what he sees as his all-time best: pursuing his future wife Myra even though she was on a date with someone else at the time. Their legendary 48-year partnership was a source of... View Details

September 2009
Case

One South: Investing in Emerging Markets (A)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin Seth Ginsburgh

A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in Chennai, India. The case provides the reader with a detailed investment memorandum from the local Indian operating partner, and the reader must... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Chennai; United States

November 2001 (Revised January 2002)
Case

OSI Group

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan

Discusses the challenges facing a global food service supplier and the company's ability to partner with major customers, such as McDonald's. View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Food; Globalization; Service Delivery; Partners and Partnerships; Service Operations; Customers

October 1982 (Revised September 1988)
Case

Steven B. Belkin

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Richard O. von Werssowetz

Steven Belkin, 26 years old and 2 1/2 years out of HBS, has decided to leave a group travel company he has run for the last year to start his own similar business. In the course of several months he has written a business plan, attracted several partners and employees,... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Decisions; Equity; Investment; Personal Finance; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Failure; Partners and Partnerships

January 2006 (Revised May 2006)
Case

Akin Ongor's Journey

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

A retired bank CEO, one of Turkey's most admired leaders, wants to start a leadership institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Startups; Environmental Sustainability; Retirement; Education Industry; Turkey; United States

July 2000 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Catalyst Medical Solutions

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Naomi Atkins

Faced with a drop in the NASDAQ, four eHealth entrepreneurs must decide between two distribution strategies for their new company's technology. The team, comprised of three full-time resident physicians and an MBA, has developed software to enable electronic... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Distribution; Strategy; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Partners and Partnerships; Borrowing and Debt; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry