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  • October 2019 (Revised November 2019)
  • Case

C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
Synthetic biology start-up C16 Biosciences wants to solve a big problem: replace palm oil, a major contributor to deforestation and climate change, with a lab-grown substitute. CEO Shara Ticku has ambitious plans to supply her lab-grown palm oil to food manufacturers,... View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Environmental Sustainability; Social Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Product Positioning; Venture Capital; Strategy; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
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  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be losing ground. Sean Silverthorne: Among the retailers you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

seeing its real importance. It didn't help that economists also thought that selling was unimportant in influencing markets and that door-to-door selling declined in the United States in the final decades of the 20th century. But scholars... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
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Investment management: industry resources

& Poor’s NetAdvantage- Capital Markets Industry Survey IBISWorld- Portfolio Management, Securities Brokering Company Overviews Create lists of competitors, potential employers, and people based on industry, geography, size,... View Details
  • 18 Dec 2014
  • Blog Post

Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap

moderated by HBS Professor Kristin Mugford. Mr. Toy spoke in detail about his vast turnaround experiences and when asked about current trends stated, “Currently the market is doing pretty well, so there’s not as much restructuring needed.... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

  Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Timothy C. Draper | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. Tim credits the idea to his case study education at HBS. He talked about... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2021
  • News

Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs

on the country overall. “And we really understood why companies weren't scaling, and why they weren't growing, and why people were actually having trouble even starting businesses. So we provide a suite of services to any company that we start, anything from business... View Details
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REITs (real estate investment trusts)

REITs, and publicly-traded real estate companies. S&P NetAdvantage: S&P's REIT Industry Survey provides a good overview of real estate investment trusts. Also available under Markets > Industry Survey in View Details
  • Web

Alternatives to Bloomberg | Baker Library

limits, you can check out these alternatives: Capital IQ : Company and markets data. Excel plug-in available LSEG Workspace : Company and markets data. Excel plug-in available... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

High Honors

launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Europe and Africa because property rights are more difficult to enforce there. —Walter Kuemmerle The first difference is the development of capital markets and the transparency of these markets. In countries... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Oct 2018
  • News

Advancing Opportunities for Others

was actually spent in capital markets. I love, love, love my capital markets job. And I'd go back to capital View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 12 Nov 2014
  • Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

stronger, more durable system, private capital would take the "first loss" in the event of a housing market downturn. After a multiyear transition period, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should wind... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate
  • November 1997 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

Interactive Minds (A)

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Christina L. Darwall
The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet are recounted. Raises the question of what the nature of this opportunity is, how well-positioned the protagonists... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Consulting Industry
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  • November 2011
  • Teaching Note

Comfort Class Transport: Does Customer Service Need an Overhaul? (Brief Case)

By: Michael J. Roberts and Paul E. Morrison
Teaching Note for Product #4377. View Details
Keywords: Capacity Utilization; Supply ＆ Demand; Operations Management; Customer Service; Management; Demand and Consumers; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Supply and Industry; Capital
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Human Capital Organizational Behavior Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Shai Bernstein Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) Entrepreneurial Management, Finance Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Candace Bertotti The Arts of Communication General Management Spring 2025 Q4 1.5... View Details
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HBS Course: Real Estate Private Equity - Research Resources

commercial real estate sectors, 275+ markets, and 3,000+ submarkets. Includes market transactions and performance trends.  Real Capital Analytics (RCA) Search over $40 trillion in commercial... View Details
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Africa: research, news, analysis

Where can I find country, company, industry/market, and news about Africa? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries.  To begin, enter industry... View Details