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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

uncertainty. Global ventures, or “born globals”, are enterprises that become distributed across multiple countries very early in their life cycle. For these businesses, globalization is a core component of their business model rather than... View Details

March 1993 (Revised April 1995)
Case

IBM After-Sales Service

By: Janice H. Hammond

IBM has established a service delivery system to provide service and maintenance parts for its installed base of computers. The case outlines the competitive pressures IBM faces from alternative providers of maintenance services (e.g. other OEMs, third-party... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Logistics; Operations; Distribution; Customer Focus and Relationships; Competitive Strategy; Computer Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky asset’s return View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

Aid Afghanistan for Education and a for-profit company, Boumi, that manufactures and distributes products for the home such as curtains, cushion covers, tea cozies, coasters, bedclothes, and bathroom accessories. The mission of Boumi is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

philanthropy?'" Grossman says. Drawing on theexpertise of HBS faculty in finance; negotiation, organizations andmarkets; and entrepreneurship, Grossman will examine how the terms andconditions of the distribution of capital have an... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

schedule. (In 2018, S’well distributed bottles to every public high school student in New York City, where the company is headquartered, displacing as many as 54 million single-use plastic bottles in one fell swoop. The company also... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 May 2019
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Case Study: Building the Base

2013 with one product: a shelf-stable chocolate milkshake so tasty that children might not realize nutritious whole foods like vegetables had been snuck in there too. Within two years, Sneakz’s distribution had grown to more than 1,000... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 May 2019
News

Broken Link

upgrades—has been ongoing since 2015. One key strategy has been to advocate at the state level to increase funding for broadband and to partner with state governors (49 so far) for the distribution channels and credibility they needed to... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2017
News

The Shape of Things to Come

business have become more widely distributed in the world, our students have more interest in finding out, for example, what the internet business looks like in China. And it’s important to remember that the case discussion is not the... View Details

Keywords: HBX; CORe; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Sridevi Raghavan

poor in India. Walking from Harvard Square on a bitterly cold winter morning, I watched a young man distributing leaflets to sign a petition for energy conservation. I learned then that when the passion is strong, no task is too small, no... View Details

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Use of Electronic Resources | Baker Library

projects. However, please follow these guidelines: Use only insignificant portions of reports, articles, and other documents for distribution to company employees or anyone else (do not share entire documents, reports, or datasets with... View Details

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2.6 Sample Disciplinary Violations | MBA

way giving or receiving unpermitted aid on any exercise or exam, including distribution or use of notes by students without the explicit intention of having the notes serve as the basis for their own small group discussion Using... View Details

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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows | Annual Report 2024

Statement of Activity & Cash Flows All figures shown in millions of dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30. Revenues 2024 2023 2022 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 150 $ 152 $ 137 Executive Education Tuition 245 224 174 Harvard Business School Online 70 68 70 Publishing 304... View Details

02 Dec 2017
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A Leveraged Investment

Omar, Hesham (OPM 37, 2008), Adlina (OPM 46, 2015), and Adam Hafez Hesham Hafez, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Austria, launched the Paper Distribution International Group in Dubai while in his 30s, and within a decade he had grown... View Details

22 Jan 2020
News

What It Takes

distribution business, and when steel prices generally go down, this company will start selling everything in their inventory at a loss, and the company will go bankrupt. So the way I chose to resolve this problem, like a complete... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)

Facebook are all in the entertainment space. Alibaba Pictures doesn’t replicate a traditional Hollywood studio. We want to use the data and resources Alibaba has gathered in our e-commerce and internet ecosystem to create, market, and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2006
News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

centrally, frozen, and distributed to multiple locations, thereby allowing quality control, reduced cost, and consistency. Most importantly, customers have an emotional attachment to their favorite desserts — they come back for more, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Jun 2003
News

HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report

represents about 7.5 percent of Harvard’s overall endowment. Over 93 percent of the HBS endowment is restricted for purposes specified by donors. The University distributes approximately 4 to 5 percent of the market value of the endowment... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2010
Case

Oral Rehydration Therapy

By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi

This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details