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  • March 2019 (Revised March 2023)
  • Case

Accion's Fintech Strategy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Tricia Gregg
Accion, an NGO, had been a pioneer in microfinance since its entry into that sector in the early 1970s. Its investments in Banco Compartamos paid off, when the microfinance bank went IPO in 2007, leaving an influx of $138 million for Accion. Under a new CEO, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Financial Inclusion; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Non-Governmental Organizations; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Business Growth and Maturation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Industry Growth
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  • Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Entrenched Power Explain how power hierarchies develop and perpetuate themselves and understand and apply organizational and cultural strategies for overcoming the impact of stereotypes. Highlights What Are Power Hierarchies? View Details
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Wei-Skillern noticed that each unit of Mass Audubon operated quite independently. A new CEO tried to align the units better on a day-to-day basis by instituting a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

planet is finite, companies have the capacity to continue and create institutions that fulfill obligations to constituencies for many years, so the focus of corporations should be on the very long run rather than simply on the short run.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • October 2014
  • Case

McKinsey & Company, 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2012, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) was the world's premier management consultancy, providing advice to CEO's and top executives of leading companies around the globe. Many consulting firms were bigger but few could match the reputation McKinsey had built over more... View Details
Keywords: Consulting Firms; McKinsey; Strategy; Consulting Industry; North America
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network

By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose — Understanding the Nobel Prize as a 'true' heritage brand in a networked situation and its management challenges, especially regarding identity and reputation.

Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details
Keywords: Nobel Prize; Heritage Brand; Brand Network; Networked Brand; Brand Within A Network; Brand Orientation; Brand Stewardship; Corporate Brand Identity; Reputation; Networks; Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding
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    Trust

    Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
    • 13 Apr 2021
    • Book

    How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

    Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 04 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Meet the HBS Tech Club

    weaknesses, and priorities. Industries come and go in popularity and will morph in unexpected ways; it’s hard for any institution to provide you the knowledge or skills that will outlast these changes. This school aims to help you... View Details
    • 10 Dec 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Vulnerable Banks

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Banking; Financial Services
    • 18 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry

    Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Motion Pictures & Video
    • 13 Jan 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Private Equity and Industry Performance

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen & Per Strömberg
    • Research Summary

    A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

    • Web

    Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

    social media companies, or your employer or educational institution if you are enrolled in our Services through or in connection with an organizational agreement. HOW WE MAY USE YOUR INFORMATION We may use your personal data: To deliver,... View Details
    • 17 Dec 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Medical Tourism

    handful of medical institutes that are really first-rate, and the doctors they produce are extremely well trained. When my colleagues and I began to research this case, some other countries had already stolen a march on India—Singapore,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • 08 Nov 2021
    • News

    New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

    Research Office; its work will be conducted in coordination with the new HBS Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), to be led by Professor Debora Spar, Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society. “The role... View Details
    • 18 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

    institutions gathered and disseminated knowledge about the country’s biodiversity, an effort that, with government support, led to the creation of national reserves and parks. As with Malaysia, Costa Rica’s relative political stability,... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • May 2020 (Revised March 2022)
    • Case

    The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)

    By: Alberto Cavallo and Christian Godwin
    In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions on travel, work, and social gatherings. A large share of the global population was under lockdowns and... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Finance; Central Banking; Financial Markets; International Finance; Globalization; Government and Politics; Health Pandemics; Decision Making; Macroeconomics; Employment; Crisis Management; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Air Transportation Industry; Banking Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Employment Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Shipping Industry; Tourism Industry; Travel Industry; Asia; China; Europe; Latin America; Africa; United States
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    • 15 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

    that this might work less well in continental Europe.) Try to be concrete rather than abstract about economy-wide benefits of globalization. Findings such as those from the McKinsey Global Institute that for every dollar the United States... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 24 Jun 2021
    • Blog Post

    Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

    company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of job quality which... View Details