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    Josh Lerner

    Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of entrepreneurial imagination. Pioneering entrepreneurs faced little... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Consumer Goods; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Food; Globalization; Business History; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America
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    • April 2001 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    Vodafone AirTouch's Bid for Mannesmann

    Vodafone's bid for Mannesmann was the largest ever cross-border hostile bid. This case examines the economic, financial, and corporate governance issues in the deal. View Details
    Keywords: Horizontal Integration; International Finance; Valuation; Corporate Governance; Acquisition; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Telecommunications Industry
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    • July 2017 (Revised July 2024)
    • Course Overview Note

    Public Entrepreneurship

    By: Mitchell Weiss
    This course is rooted in the belief that there is a large opportunity for creating value and solving large public problems if there are more inventors and builders inside government and more inventors and builders outside government, building for it. The course was... View Details
    Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations
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    • May 2022
    • Case

    What to Propose?

    By: David G. Fubini
    Two audit and financial services firms, one of which your consulting firm has supported extensively, have merged to create one of the largest audit firms in the world. The audit firm's Executive Team has requested proposals aimed at re-evaluating their internal... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Professional Services; Governance; Presentations; Organizational Structure; Transition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consulting Industry
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    • 25 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

    The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational companies have... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • August 2012
    • Supplement

    Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)

    By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Lobb
    The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery and corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of one of the JV... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Law; Joint Ventures; Business Subsidiaries; Government Legislation; Rail Industry; Nigeria; United States; United Kingdom
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    • December 1998 (Revised March 2001)
    • Case

    Korea Stock Exchange, 1998

    By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and James Chang
    Following a major financial crisis, the South Korean government attempted to revive the Korea Stock Exchange to spur equity investment in Korean companies. This case describes the reforms undertaken so far and the challenges that lay ahead. View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Stocks; Restructuring; Emerging Markets; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; South Korea
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    • 2010
    • Case

    Groupe Ariel, S.A.: Parity Conditions and Cross-Border Valuation: Brief Case.

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and James Quinn
    Groupe Ariel evaluates a proposal from its Mexican subsidiary to purchase and install cost-saving equipment at a manufacturing facility in Monterrey. The improvements will allow the plant to automate recycling and remanufacturing of toner and printer cartridges, an... View Details
    Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Valuation; Business Subsidiaries; Policy; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; International Finance; Problems and Challenges; Production; Currency; Manufacturing Industry; Mexico
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    • 15 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

    Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key provision of the new health care law for fear its requirements... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 16 Mar 2020
    • News

    15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered

    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    more value out of your work. Citation Purchase Related Perlow, Leslie A., Sari Mentser, and Salvatore J. Affinito. "How the Busiest People Find Joy." Harvard Business Review (July–August 2025): 135–139. Case... View Details
    • October 2011
    • Case

    CNBM: Rolling Up China's Cement Industry

    By: Joseph L. Bower and G.A. Donovan
    The Chinese government has charged Song Zhiping with the job of rationalizing China's cement industry. He has acquired 200 plus companies, but the industry is still fractured. Can he succeed? View Details
    Keywords: Industry Growth; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Government and Politics; Construction Industry; Industrial Products Industry; China
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    • 30 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

    officials, government regulators, and tent city activists. But there is one group of citizens with the power to make a difference: business leaders themselves, say Harvard View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 22 Nov 2023
    • Video

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      Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy

      As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has become increasingly digital. But while the effects of digital technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on... View Details
      • 26 Sep 2014
      • News

      Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point?

      • September 2005 (Revised June 2012)
      • Case

      New Songdo City

      By: Arthur I Segel, Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard and Andrew Murphy
      The government of South Korea has chosen John Hynes and Gale International to construct New Songdo City. This is an entirely new city, about the size of Boston, between the new Incheon airport and the capital of Seoul. The proposed city is the government's attempt to... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Urban Development; Construction; Design; Climate Change; South Korea
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      • 12 Oct 2017
      • News

      Technology is revolutionising supply-chain finance

      • October 2024
      • Teaching Plan

      Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble

      By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
      In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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