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- 09 Apr 2019
- News
How Amazon is both friend and foe to small business
- 03 Jun 2015
- Video
Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Hakeem Belo-Osagie, former chairman of Nigeria-based United Bank for Africa, talks about his ability to attract U.S. investors even during a time of military rule in Nigeria.
View Details- July 2020 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Oxygen Esports
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On May 4, 2020, a press release from Boston, Massachusetts, announced the launch of Oxygen Esports (Oxygen), a new organization that hoped to dominate the rising esports scene in New England. Oxygen was created from a merger between Helix eSports (Helix), an owner and... View Details
Keywords: Esports; Sports; Online Technology; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Oxygen Esports." Harvard Business School Case 721-351, July 2020. (Revised May 2021.)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and... View Details
- 29 Jul 2020
- Video
Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, as well as the former CEO of Telkom and FirstRand Group, describes how his accounting firm... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore solutions. Below Professor Myra Hart shares her vision of the program, now View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
asks professor John Quelch. 20. Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India Entrepreneurship in both China and India is rising dramatically and thriving under quite different... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
of traffic, pollution, and greenhouse gases). And third, government logjams: federal governments are stuck and can't take long term action on these problems—stuck in the US or India over politics and stuck View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country preceding and after the genocide.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2014
- News
Thumbs up, down for mobile manicures
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Background Note
Advice to Section Presidents from Section Presidents
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Nitin Nohria and Catherine Rucker
Helps clarify the role of the section president in the HBS MBA program. Provides helpful advice for new section presidents. View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., Nitin Nohria, and Catherine Rucker. "Advice to Section Presidents from Section Presidents." Harvard Business School Background Note 803-197, June 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
- Supplement
Urban Water Partners (B)
By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia
The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get their company through August 2010, but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested... View Details
Keywords: Human Needs; Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Health Industry; Utilities Industry; Dar es Salaam
Ramanna, Karthik, George Serafeim, and Aldo Sesia. "Urban Water Partners (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-029, August 2010. (Revised January 2013.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How to Scale a Startup Marketplace for Used Furniture
- Video
Funke Opeke
Funke Opeke, founder and CEO of MainOne, outlines her visions for broadened services and impact following MainOne's acquisition in 2022 by Equinix, a US-based digital infrastructure company. View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Slack Time and Innovation
- February 2014
- Teaching Note
The Slingshot: Improving Water Access
By: John A. Quelch
Entrepreneur Dean Kamen has inked a multimillion dollar partnership with Coca-Cola (CC) to mass produce and distribute the Slingshot, a low energy device that can convert raw sewage into potable water for poor people and communities in developing economies. View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News