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  • November 2003 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Enabling Business Strategy with IT at the World Bank

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
World Bank IT provides services (communications, applications, video conferencing, knowledge sharing, distance learning, information sharing, client commerce, crisis management, etc.) on a global basis to the poorest countries in the globe via satellites. This case... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Globalized Economies and Regions; Information Technology; Global Strategy; Business Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • September 2018 (Revised August 2021)
  • Teaching Note

Blackstone at Age 30 and Blackstone at 35

By: Josh Lerner
This teaching note is meant to guide in the instruction of HBS No. 316-013 "Blackstone at 30" case. It examines the process of institutionalization and scaling in private equity and alternative investments more generally, looking specifically at how Blackstone's size... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Blackstone; Alternative Assets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Growth and Maturation; Public Ownership; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Services Industry
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  • 20 Aug 2012
  • News

The Business Ecosystem

    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
    • Case

    Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss

    By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
    Buddy Valastro, celebrity baker and business owner, inherited his father’s bakery—Carlo’s Bake Shop of Hoboken, New Jersey—at the age of seventeen. He had willed the shop to survive and gone on to fame through his television show, “Cake Boss”—the name most people now... View Details
    Keywords: Bakery; Entrepreneur; Scalability; Digital; Systems; Process Improvement; Team Effectiveness; Team Building; COVID-19 Pandemic; Food; Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Crisis Management; Change Management; Leadership; Creativity; Operations; Groups and Teams; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 20 Feb 2019
    • News

    Harvard Business School Online Announces Two New Courses, Leadership Principles and Global Business

    • January 2007
    • Background Note

    Choosing Corporate and Global Scope

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
    Introduces students to the study of corporate strategy, while providing an overview framework for understanding international strategy. Focuses on questions of scope and ownership. Examines both horizontal and vertical integration. Underscores the point that economies... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Investment; Framework; Global Strategy; Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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    • 11 May 2011
    • News

    Multinational manufacturers: Moving back to America

    • 24 Mar 2016
    • News

    The Vanguard Cyborg Takeover

    • November 2007 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Irina Tarsis
    In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), had every reason to be optimistic about the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Leading Change; State Ownership; Diversification; Abu Dhabi
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    • 26 Oct 2020
    • News

    Trump's work visas suspension cost $100B in big companies' market value – study

    • 27 Nov 2021
    • News

    Why the Energy Transition Will Be So Complicated

      New nuclear power must pass the ‘Chindia test’ — this energy source should be built like modern aviation or shipping

      Synopsis

      "We should try to change radiophobia now — if we build new nuclear power plants at the scale required to fulfill global energy needs, there will be occasional failures, just as there are... View Details

      • 04 Nov 2012
      • News

      A Capitalist's Dilemma, Whoever Wins on Tuesday

      • Article

      The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs

      By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
      The debate in economic policymaking about the drivers of innovation and job creation has long centered on manufacturing versus services. The predominant view is that manufacturing drives innovation, wages, and growth, and that services provide less innovation and... View Details
      Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Supply Chain; Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions
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      • 14 Dec 2012
      • News

      Getting down to business

      • January 2009 (Revised January 2011)
      • Background Note

      The Great Moderation, Dead or Alive?

      By: Diego A. Comin
      The Great Moderation is a significant decline in the volatility of fluctuations in most macroeconomic variables that the United States and other developed and developing economies have experienced at least since the mid-1980s. This case describes the basic facts,... View Details
      Keywords: Volatility; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; United States
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      • 18 Jun 2010
      • News

      Caught in a bind over closing tax loopholes

      • 18 Feb 2020
      • News

      Business leaders see U.S. unprepared for economic downturn

      • 20 Jul 2011
      • News

      The Most Innovative Companies Today—And Tomorrow