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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
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Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century

By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron

This case examines the role of Jardine Matheson, a trading company founded by two Scottish merchants, in the opium trade between India and China during the nineteenth century. The two Opium Wars fought between Western powers and China, which sought to stop opium... View Details

Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Trade; Social and Collaborative Networks; China; United Kingdom

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25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

about people's choices of informal, though work-related, interactions. Even so, that doesn't preclude executives from doing some things that will positively affect those interactions and the often task-crucial informal networks that grow... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

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Porter Prize India - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and focuses on studying the competitiveness of nations, regions, and cities. 2016 Porter Prize India Winners of the 2016 Porter Prize India include: Times Network Yes Bank Operation Asha Adani Wilmar Abbott India Godrej Consumer Products... View Details

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Casson, The World’s First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain . New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 314. Fifth Report of the Select Committee of 1844 , p. 6 in Casson,... View Details

30 Oct 2019
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How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on Building Trust Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People What do you think of this research? Share your insights... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Jul 2003
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Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

gets done and what doesn't can make you the hero. You do the deed no one else wants to do, and you focus your efforts toward producing the results you've decided are most meaningful." Create Alliances "Senior managers should develop View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

South Africa; and M-PESA, an initiative launched by the mobile network operator Safaricom (in conjunction with Vodafone) to offer a new type of financial service to the poor residents of Kenya. Ultimately, the more successful of the two,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

reachable only through disruptive computer calculation and inaccessible to engineers' "creativity". Thomas Baudin, MBA 1997, CEO & Founder Region: Europe Globalcare The firm’s mission is to advance international healthcare mobility. It is building a trusted View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

and practices out of the network of those that have been found to be associated with professions. We use these traits and practices both to set forth our own notion of the essence of professionalism and to enable us to compare management... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Student Activities - Health Care

MBA Experience Student Activities At HBS, there are more than 200 health care-related events annually for students to engage in health care activities, network with alumni who work in the sector, and delve more deeply into various health... View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
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Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin

In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details

Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai

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David Chan

A typical five-year old on a Saturday morning would likely be watching the Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. Not me. I could be found watching The Weather Channel. I was enamored by the weather. I grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, and... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

community in your field as soon as you can. Clubs are a great way to do this, but even informal coffee chats I had with classmates led to deep connections in my field later on. Although I only took one formal course in my field, I was still able to build a robust View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of Management Conference Proceedings, 2014). Ethan S. Bernstein : Winner of the 2014 INGRoup Outstanding Conference Paper Award from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research for "Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

MBA just graduating or an experienced manager, the most critical global attribute is open-mindedness. Now, creating this integrated network of specialized operations does increase the coordination needs. So when we wrote about... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

30 Mar 2018
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What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

contributed to the rapid growth of the network. The addition of each user increased the value of the network to everyone: users, the developers of apps made available to users, and advertisers utilizing user information. Although users... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

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