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    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
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    Michele Chambliss

    hiring/interviewing/performance management process in the West Coast office of a global management consultancy. She attributes a mid-career stint in strategic software sales for significantly honing her listening skills. Her current work in preparing start-up leaders... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship
    • June 2012 (Revised December 2017)
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    Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Espen Storli
    Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys the historical growth of commodity trading, especially in metals, from the late nineteenth century, and its evolving... View Details
    Keywords: Commodity Market; Natural Resources; Metals and Minerals; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Mining Industry; Africa; Europe; Middle East; North and Central America; Israel; South Africa; Iran
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      Shawn A. Cole

      Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise... View Details

      Keywords: banking; financial services; microfinance
      • 28 Jul 2008
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      Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

      markets. In the third part of their study, they investigated how 53 chains that don't franchise manage operations across multiple markets. They found evidence that chains serving more diverse markets decentralize their operations by employing fewer View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
      • November 2008 (Revised March 2009)
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      South Pole Carbon Asset Management-Going for Gold?

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Jost Hamschmidt and Mikell Hyman
      In late 2008, Christoph Sutter, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset Management, reflects on his firm's early success at originating carbon credits in developing nations and selling them to governments and firms that seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Non-Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy
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      • June 2014
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      Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal

      By: Nancy F. Koehn, Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth Legris

      Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal analyzes the turnaround and reconstruction of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how... View Details

      Keywords: Howard Schultz; Starbucks; Transformation; Turnaround; Change; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Leadership; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia; South America; Middle East; Latin America
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      • June 2007 (Revised August 2007)
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      Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business Transformation

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Edward Watson and Mara Vatz
      Describes how Royal DSM NV, an $8 billion dollar global corporation, leveraged information technology to enable a major corporate portfolio transformation between 2000 and 2006. View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology
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      Curriculum | MBA

      Joint Course SPRING TERM Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) Harvard Business School The Entrepreneurial Manager Harvard Business School FIELD Immersion Harvard Business School Finance II Harvard Business School Leadership and View Details
      • June 2016 (Revised November 2021)
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      chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' Big Opportunity

      By: Rory McDonald, Derek van Bever and Efosa Ojomo
      In 2013, a team led by Gopalan Sunderraman, vice president of corporate development at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.—one of the companies owned by Godrej Group, a large Indian conglomerate—was preparing to launch an innovative low-cost refrigerator. Developed expressly... View Details
      Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India
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      • November 1991 (Revised April 1994)
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      Nucleon, Inc.

      By: Gary P. Pisano
      Nucleon is a small biotechnology company whose first potential product is about to enter clinical testing. Before Nucleon can begin clinical trials, however, its management must decide how and where to manufacture the product. Three options are being contemplated: 1)... View Details
      Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Entrepreneurship; Health Testing and Trials; Rights; Product Development; Production; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry
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      • April 2007 (Revised March 2008)
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      Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
      Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described "medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC,... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; South Africa
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      • 17 Feb 2016
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      The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs

      Keywords: Re: Nancy F. Koehn
      • July 2001 (Revised December 2001)
      • Case

      American Express Interactive

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Follows the protagonist, Sonia Sharpe, as she and her American Express Interactive Team attempt to develop and market an interactive, on-line, corporate travel service in a highly competitive environment. Looks at the possible resources and partnerships a company needs... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Global Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Vertical Integration; Financial Services Industry; Travel Industry
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        Ranjay Gulati

        Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
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        By: William C. Kirby
        A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese... View Details
        Keywords: China; Internationalization; Educational Policy And Politics; Infrastructure; Government And Business; The Revival Of Family Business In China; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Agribusiness; Education; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Auto Industry; Education Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

          James L. Heskett

          James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

          • December 2006 (Revised March 2010)
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          Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

          By: Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
          Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, founders of Microsoft and Apple respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business History; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry
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          Faculty & Advisors | MBA

          executives. Sooah has a joint-degree MBA | MPP from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, where she worked with startup founders at the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and built her health & life sciences tech... View Details
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          Strategy - Doctoral

          relationship between non-market experience and the use and outcome of patent strategies by pharmaceutical firms; the antecedents and consequences of corporate strategy decision-making, specifically focusing on divestitures and governance;... View Details