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Herbert J. Siegel
Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
requirement to know where you are on the playing field. Different firms can come at the business in very different ways. For Accel, historically we have specialized. Over time, those specializations continue to become more granular. At... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
research, cases, and a variety of courses, beginning with The Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all first-year students. The unit’s work hasn’t gone unnoticed. The U.S. Association for Small Business and... View Details
- September 2019
- Supplement
Keroche (B): Considering Entry into the Kenyan Beer Market
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case discusses the situation of the Kenyan alcoholic drinks producer Keroche in July 2004, when co-founder Tabitha Karanja was debating whether to enter the Kenyan beer market. Doing so would mean direct competition with the multinational EABL in an industry and... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Drinks; Alcoholic Beverages; Beverages; Drinks; Wine Industry; Wine; Fortified Wine; Viena; Beer; Beer Market; Manufacturing; Production Capacity; Capacity; Growth; Regulated; Unregulated; Informal; Informal Market; Regulation; Illicit; Illegal; Substandard; Dangerous; Shutdown; Factory; Safe; Affordable; Low-income Consumers; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Production; Investment; Safety; Quality; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (B): Considering Entry into the Kenyan Beer Market." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-391, September 2019.
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Additional Harvard Funding | MBA
Additional Harvard Funding We complement our need-based Harvard Business School (HBS) Scholarships with a small number of other awards for students with specific backgrounds and interests. The majority of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, leverages years of research to help companies, and their leaders, address the challenges of virtual work. With well over half of Americans indicating a preference for... View Details
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Thomas Grenier
In case after case, HBS students are challenged to make and defend crucial business decisions. In the summer of 2008, Thomas Grenier and his fellow climber had to make an even more urgent choice: whether to respect the signs of incoming... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Winning Bid
of Ghana) and American mother fostered a strong commitment to service and community through their shared vocation as pastors. He majored in business at Taylor University, a small Christian school in Upland,... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
rural communities in the American West, in places not unlike the small coal town in Utah where Riley grew up. He knows that his business model to provide cheaper green energy will hurt the job prospects in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
rewarded with a new line of business that created revenues in excess of $200 million over the next several years. HP backed out of its efforts after two years with multimillion-dollar losses and a considerable amount of bad press. How did... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
During Year 2, students split their time between SEAS and HBS, enrolling in electives at each school. As a cohort, they also take the Designing Technology Ventures course during the fall term, and, during the January and spring terms, complete the Capstone course, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
of $249 a year. In addition, eBaker recently added links to business Web sites recommended by HBS librarians as well as links to internal HBS resources and research guides. Available to alumni since 1999, eBaker attracted a relatively... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
been doing financial seminars for fourteen years," Klein, president of NF Communications, Inc., told Business Wire (March 22, 1999), "and I have never been able to find a good source of humor and jokes for my speeches." Klein's new book... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
In an innovative complement to the case method of instruction, the entire Class of 2013 spent the 15-week Winter Term practicing what they were learning from their required courses as they worked in small teams to build viable... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
Max De Pree
De Pree grew the small family-owned business into the second largest furniture maker in the world. Under De Pree’s leadership, Herman Miller had the unique distinction of being named to three Fortune Top 10... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study... View Details