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Madhav Chavan & Rukmini Banerji
Dr. Madhav Chavan, Co-Founder and President of Pratham Education Foundation, describes his views on the opportunities for technology in education, giving the example of PraDigi – a digital initiative that provides tablets pre-loaded with educational content to children... View Details
Vikram Gandhi
Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details
Keywords: financial services
- May 2021
- Case
Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham
By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman and Olivia Hull
Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) Chief Innovation Officer Christopher Coburn had overseen a period of exciting transformation and growth in healthcare innovation at MGB. In November 2019, the health system was the largest recipient of National Institutes of Health... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion; Innovation; Invention; Gender; Business Startups; Investment Funds; Private Equity; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Research; Research and Development; Diversification; Technology; Health Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, and Olivia Hull. "Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham." Harvard Business School Case 921-006, May 2021.
- August 2001
- Case
Chrysalis Capital: Venture Capital in an Emerging Market
Examines the founding and early development of an Indian venture capital firm. Focuses on the opportunity in the Indian high-technology sector, how the founders have adapted the U.S. venture capital model to an emerging market context, and the organizational challenges... View Details
Kennedy, Robert E. "Chrysalis Capital: Venture Capital in an Emerging Market." Harvard Business School Case 702-005, August 2001.
Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with Flatiron School to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- June 1990 (Revised January 1993)
- Case
Dynatronics, Inc. (Abridged)
By: Thomas R. Piper
Provides an opportunity to evaluate an investment in a new product line in strategic, competitive, organizational, and economic terms. The economic analysis involves an estimation of the relevant cash flows and discounting them at an appropriate hurdle rate. View Details
Piper, Thomas R. "Dynatronics, Inc. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 290-064, June 1990. (Revised January 1993.)
- May 1982 (Revised May 1985)
- Case
Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard
By: Michael Beer and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Provides an overview of all the human resource policies and practices applied by Hewlett-Packard. As such, it is an opportunity to analyze Hewlett-Packard's practices in all four policy areas; stakeholder influence, flows, rewards, and work systems. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Working Conditions; Policy
Beer, Michael, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard." Harvard Business School Case 482-125, May 1982. (Revised May 1985.)
- 03 Jul 2025
- News
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2025-2026 Blavatnik Fellows
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an unpleasant fallout effect,the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Get First Year Students Excited About Your Company
Company Presentations are a great way to connect with students, to promote opportunities within your organization and to introduce your recruiting structure. According to students, the best presentations include senior level executive... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Recurrent concerns over debt sustainability in emerging and developed nations have prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-134, June 2016. (Also NBER Working Paper w23370. Revised January 2019.)
- February 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Doing Business in Seoul, South Korea
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Seoul, South Korea. It highlights South Korea's economic development in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Strategy; Management; Social Enterprise; Technology Industry; Consulting Industry; South Korea; United States
Fleiss, Sara, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Bonnie Yining Cao, and Dawn H. Lau. "Doing Business in Seoul, South Korea." Harvard Business School Case 323-091, February 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- August 2000
- Case
AMVESCAP in 1999
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kathleen E. E Danoher
Deals with the problems faced by a major mutual fund company as it attempts to respond to the threats and opportunities posed by the explosion of the Internet and the changing landscape of retail financial services. View Details
Keywords: Trends; Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Alignment; Internet; Financial Services Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Kathleen E. E Danoher. "AMVESCAP in 1999." Harvard Business School Case 701-016, August 2000.
- 05 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about SVMP
The HBS Summer Venture in Management Program, an immersive, weeklong experience for rising college seniors, was developed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. During their time on campus, SVMPers gain business... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
HBS is an incubator of ideas. Students come to campus for two years to collaborate, innovate, and dream big. There are many entrepreneurial opportunities and resources available for budding startups and... View Details
- November 2021
- Case
LKQ-Stahlgruber
By: Guhan Subramanian and Caeden Brynie
Through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions, LKQ Corp. became the leading aftermarket auto parts distributor in the U.S. by the early 2000s. Beginning in 2012, the company began similarly consolidating the European marketplace. However, by 2017, the... View Details
Subramanian, Guhan, and Caeden Brynie. "LKQ-Stahlgruber." Harvard Business School Case 922-028, November 2021.