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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Herndon returned to Atlanta to oversee the growth of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company (today the Atlanta Life Financial Group), founded by his father Alonzo. Herndon continued his family's tradition of philanthropy with major financial... View Details
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Getting Started - Alumni

have resources to ensure you are putting your best foot forward. Learn more about LinkedIn Perfect Your Pitch One of the most important tools in your career growth arsenal is the 30-second elevator pitch – a succinct personal narrative... View Details
  • May 2022
  • Case

Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro Pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Aug 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?

Keywords: Re: Regina E. Herzlinger; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

devise a turnaround plan that will return the company to financial health. Any plan must address the company's high cost structure, raise substantial new capital, fix the balance sheet, create a profitable growth strategy, and build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?

Keywords: Health
  • 08 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

top PC game League of Legends, considers its growth strategy as it moves into a new campus in Los Angeles. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-098 Terrapin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005

By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Economic Sectors; Economy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; India
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  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

West Coast headed to eastern ports, with a smaller flow of manufactured goods and agricultural products headed the other way. The canal supercharged the growth of the West Coast (at the expense of Venezuela in oil and the South in timber)... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

a basic understanding of capital markets, portfolio theory, and risk and return. 6-7 hrs Module 1 Private Equity Learn what private equity is and its different segments: growth equity, buyouts, and venture capital. Explore the sources of... View Details
  • December 2022 (Revised September 2024)
  • Case

Sword Health

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Annelena Lobb and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Virgilio “V” Bento, CEO of Sword Health—a startup that provided virtual physical therapy to patients in self-insured firms via AI and sensor technology with supervision by a physical therapist with a doctorate—considered how to increase its U.S. market share. To do so,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 02 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

average, for more than 10 percent of the meteoric growth in inequality in the last 20 years. Wages remain static despite tax cuts Wage data gleaned from their research shows marked differences for those making less than $200,000 and those... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • October 1992 (Revised September 1996)
  • Case

McDonald's Corporation

By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
McDonald's has over many years built an operating strategy based on consistency and quality through a limited product range. Competitive forces have drawn the company into a much wider variety of foods and services in order to maintain growth. Now, new competitors... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Problems and Challenges; Environmental Sustainability; Quality; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Integration; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just the United States seeing a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based examples brought to life by industry-leading experts from companies like Amadeus North America, Udemy for Business, and M33 Growth Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

new recruits. They often even instructed salesmen how to stand while talking with a customer, or how to hand over the pen at "closing." The revolution in selling had consequences beyond individual firms. The growth of systematic... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne