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October 2019
Exercise

Business Model Exercise: Purpose and Overview

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton

April 2011
Course Overview Note

The Energy Business and Geopolitics: Overview

By: Noel Maurer

Keywords: Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; International Relations; Energy Industry

November 2018
Supplement

Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones

Teaching Interest

Creating Value in Business and Government

By: W. Carl Kester

This full-credit course is open only to students in the HBS-HKS Joint Degree Program, and is a required course for all joint degree students in the fall semester of their third year. Its purpose is to integrate on the one hand, the perspectives and analytic tools... View Details

2003
Casebook

Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements: Text and Cases

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Paul M. Healy and Victor L. Bernard

Keywords: Theory; Valuation; Finance; Reports; Cases; Information

March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Healthcare and Harvard Business School Alumni in 2008

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cara Sterling

This case chronicles the role that Harvard Business School alumni play in the healthcare industry. Overall data on alumni is given, and the industry is broken into seven areas in which the careers of twenty-five alumni are highlighted. View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Executive Education; Personal Development and Career; Practice; Health Industry

Educators

2016
Working Paper

Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle

By: David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajsek

Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions.... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Credit; Macroeconomics

2019
Book

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details

July 1994 (Revised December 1994)
Case

CIGNA Corporation, Inc.: Managing and Institutionalizing Business Reengineering

Provides a longitudinal view of business reengineering at CIGNA Corp., a leading provider of insurance and related financial services throughout the United States and the world. CIGNA has been practicing business reengineering since 1989, completing over 20 projects.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Business Processes; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry

Educators

2012
Article

Organization Design for Business Ecosystems

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Business Ecosystems; Distributed Innovation; Problem Solving; Property Rights; Organization Design; Networks; Integration; Competition; Organizational Design; Innovation and Management

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24 Nov 2009
Working Paper Summaries

From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Joan Enric Ricart

20 Apr 2021
Working Paper Summaries

The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

Keywords: by Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen

2001
Book

Internet Business Models: Text and Cases

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Keywords: Business Model; Internet

November 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Teaching Note

Bonnier: Digitalizing the Media Business (TN)

By: Lynda Applegate, Daniel Nylen, Jonny Holmstrom and Kalle Lyytinen

Keywords: Media And Publishing; Media; Publishing Industry

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

Think of Harvard Business School's recently launched the Digital Initiative (D/I) as a giant laboratory, where leading scholars and practitioners convene to research, teach, View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

21 Sep 2020
Working Paper Summaries

The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

Keywords: by Alexander Bartik, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton, and Adi Sunderam

09 Mar 2021
Cold Call Podcast

A Family Business at a Crossroads: Scaling and Succession

Keywords: Re: Christina R. Wing; Real Estate

January–March 2025
Article

Transitioning from Responsible and Reactive to Deeply Responsible and Proactive International Business

By: Geoffrey G. Jones, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Pavida Pananond, Rob van Tulder, Noemi Sinkovics and Rudolf R. Sinkovics

This article aims to explore the role of multinational enterprises in addressing grand societal challenges, emphasizing the need for integrating environmental and social aspects into business models. It offers an analysis of how principles and values can guide engaged... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Model; Multinational Firms and Management