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  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

ChemChina (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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  • 30 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

conversation going and show that the asker has paid attention to what their partner has said” The first two studies in the paper examined more than 600 online chat participants tasked with getting to know... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 18 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

What is an IFC?

partners in a relatively short timeframe. However, the IFC had more of a cohort experience in that all of the teams, although working with different clients, had significant overlap in the problems we were working on.  For example, my... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

substantially when the managers and lawyers work as partners both to craft the objectives and to devise the means of accomplishing them. Fifth, every firm should have a general... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • December 2020
  • Case

XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives

By: Marco Di Maggio, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
XP, an investment platform, was on the verge of defining whether to do an IPO or selling off a majority stake to Itaú Unibanco, Brazil´s largest financial conglomerate. Under the leadership of Guilherme Benchimol, XP´s co-founder and CEO, XP had risen to become the... View Details
Keywords: Financing Decisions; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Latin America; Brazil
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  • 05 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

at HBS. I was excited to be returning to Twitter to work full time, yet I also had an itch to try my hand at working at a startup. After two and a half years at Twitter working on our Strategic Finance team supporting our Sports, Media,... View Details
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

corporate participants, including Merck, AT&T, Bank of America, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, and Walmart. Harvard Business School partnered with the group to help with research View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

has enormous influence on the American social fabric. Knowing who likes you changes the game McFowland and his fellow researchers partnered with a large North American dating platform, dubbed monCherie.com,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Web

Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

son Philip joined the firm as a partner in 1885 and directed Lehman Brothers from 1901 to 1925. While Lehman Brothers increased its number of employees, until the 1920s only male members of the Lehman family... View Details
  • Research Summary

Customer-Centricity as a Vehicle for Organic Growth

By: Ranjay Gulati
This body of work examines the mechanics of how firms grow profitably in commoditizing markets. Underlying the "customer-centricity" that many firms embrace today is a factor that will determine their success with this effort: enabling collaboration across... View Details
  • Web

HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Landscape Lynn Schenk, Director, Business and Environment Initiative Rahul Shendure (MBA 2001) Sidney McLaurin, Material Impact Monica Varman (MBA 2016), G2 Venture Partners Entrepreneurial Sales Lou Shipley... View Details

    Arthur I Segel

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    Keywords: federal government; real estate
    • 07 Jul 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    4+2 = Sustained Business Success

    its connections with people at all levels of the company. Inspire management to hone its capacity to spot opportunities and problems early. Appoint a board of directors whose members have a substantial stake in the company's success.... View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
    • August 2019
    • Case

    The Allstate Corporation, 2019

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In July 2019, Allstate, the United States’ number-three property and casualty (P/C) insurer, released its second-quarter earnings, which reported first-half revenues of $22.1 billion, up 11.4% year-over-year. Shareholders cheered the top-line growth, but P/C premiums... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Insurance; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry; North America
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    • Profile

    Soltan Bryce

    Resident Tutors at Harvard College, and Nina serves as the Partner Rep for Soltan’s section. Soltan was part of the team behind the 2019 Health Care Conference. “The strength of the health care network at... View Details
    • 2012
    • Case

    ChemChina

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
    ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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    Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    beyond the Fellowship year; others participate in the program over multiple years or pursue other channels of MBA recruiting to meet their ongoing talent needs. Apply for a Leadership Fellow Partners & Fellows Organizations View Details
    • Profile

    Thomaz Galvao

    Thomaz joined Teach for Brazil (Ensina Brasil) where he was responsible for managing alumni and partnership strategies. Starting his startup now With a scholarship from the Lemann Foundation, Thomaz was able... View Details
    • Web

    Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program - Entrepreneurship

    Partner Photon Venture Partners Alex Jiang Alpha Startup Fund Beijing, China Michael Kaplan Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer MKaps LLC Mickey Konson CEO Quantum Financial... View Details
    • 05 Oct 2020
    • Book

    Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

    hesitation, she opted for the higher-paying position in a new city, figuring it would be an adventure with her partner of eight years and lead to more exciting work opportunities down the road. It’s a choice... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman