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  • March 1993 (Revised June 1995)
  • Case

Singapore TradeNet: The Tale Continues

By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Boon-Siong Neo
Continues the story of Singapore Network Services Pte. Ltd. (SNS), which was created to initiate and manage the creation of value-added networks for trade and other aspects of commerce in the island nation of Singapore. SNS built on its TradeNet experience to develop... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Profit Sharing; Partners and Partnerships; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Web Services Industry; Singapore
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    Jeremy S. Friedman

    Jeremy S. Friedman is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit and taught the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum over the past six years. Currently, he is teaching Business and... View Details

      Edward McFowland III

      Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.

      Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details

      • November 1997 (Revised February 1998)
      • Case

      WESCO Distribution, Inc.

      By: Das Narayandas
      In 1996, WESCO, a national distributor of electrical equipment and supplies, charted out a growth of 6 to 8 percent in sales, and 12 to 16 percent in profitability over the next five years. The centerpiece of this growth strategy is the National Accounts (NA) program... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution; Sales; Balance and Stability; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry
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      • Research Summary

      Macroeconomic management

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor
      Richard H. K. Vietor has been studying how national governments foster economic development and compete in a globalized economy. He has been researching these activities in ten countries, publishing the results first in 2007, in a book entitled How Countries... View Details
      • November 2024
      • Supplement

      AlphaGo (B): Birth of a New Intelligence

      By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
      This case, the second in a three-part series, explores DeepMind's evolution from developing game-specific AI to more generalized learning systems. Following AlphaGo's 2017 victory over the Go world champion, DeepMind introduced two revolutionary systems that eliminated... View Details
      Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology Industry; United States; Russia; China
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      • 03 May 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

      Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan
      • 28 May 2008
      • News

      Harvard Professor Michael Porter Honored by U.S. Department of Commerce

        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
        • November 2017
        • Teaching Note

        Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

        By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
        Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473. In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and... View Details
        Keywords: Facebook; Fake News; Mark Zuckerberg; Donald Trump; Algorithms; Social Networking; Social Networks; Partisanship; Social Media; App Development; Instagram; WhatsApp; Smartphone; Silicon Valley; Office Space; Digital Strategy; Democracy; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Controversy; Tencent; Agility; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Messaging; Monetization Strategy; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; California; Sunnyvale; Russia
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        • December 2017 (Revised January 2019)
        • Case

        In the Eye of a Geopolitical Storm: South Korea's Lotte Group, China and the U.S. THAAD Missile Defense System (A)

        By: Andy Zelleke and Brian Tilley
        By late 2016 and early 2017, Lotte Group, a South Korean chaebol (large family-controlled business group) had become embroiled not only in the domestic political turmoil surrounding President Park Geun-hye, but also—uncomfortably—in a four-country geopolitical storm. ... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Politics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; National Security; International Relations; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Leadership; South Korea; China; Japan
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        • June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
        • Case

        Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

        By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
        In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details
        Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America
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        • January 2016 (Revised October 2016)
        • Case

        Saudi Aramco and Corporate Venture Capital

        By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
        Saudi Aramco launched an internal venture capital arm in 2011, which promptly became the world's largest investor in energy related startups. In choosing to proceed, the company's New Business Development unit (NPD) wrestled with a number of challenges. How should the... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia
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        • January 2018 (Revised January 2021)
        • Case

        Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer

        By: John Macomber, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
        Colombia conceived its 4G (Fourth Generation) Road Program to try to attract $17 billion from the private sector for investment in toll roads. The nation had also created the National Infrastructure Agency of Colombia (ANI) to oversee multiple investments, and the... View Details
        Keywords: Private Public Partnerships; Infrastructure; Projects; Finance; Emerging Markets; Colombia
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          Scott Duke Kominers

          Scott Duke Kominers is a Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit; as well as a Faculty Affiliate of the View Details

          • May 1999 (Revised July 1999)
          • Background Note

          Global Friction Among Information Infrastructures

          By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis
          Examines the conflicts in international communications that result from changing technologies and divergent country policies toward developing infrastructures. Examines a number of different national information infrastructures (NIIs). Points of friction, such as... View Details
          Keywords: Conflict Management; Infrastructure; Communication Technology; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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          • 01 Jan 2008
          • News

          Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development, U.S. Department of Commerce

          • November 2012
          • Case

          CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision

          By: Willy Shih, Margaret P. Pierson and Dawn Lau
          This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research interests... View Details
          Keywords: R＆D; Basic Research; Government-funded Research; Public Goods; Extractive Industries; Metals; Metals Processing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Technology Adoption; Technology Platform; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Oceania; Australia
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            Francesca Gino

            Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “View Details

            Keywords: electronics; entertainment; fashion; manufacturing; motorcycles; pharmaceuticals
            • Research Summary

            Land in China's Political Economy

            By: Meg Rithmire

            Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform

            Published October 2015

            China since the 1980s has been the scene of unprecedented efforts at urban construction and growth, even in the absence of privatization... View Details