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- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is expected to attract the attention of 3.2 billion people worldwide. During one month, 32 teams will vie for the trophy of best football (a.k.a. soccer) team in the world. With 64 matches and assuming... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
In the summer of 2020, Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) was looking for an internship where he would have the opportunity to work closely with a startup founder. He considered Boston based startups originally and then broadened his scope to look at startups in View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
deep knowledge of the challenges facing communities and society.” To date, some eleven organizations from Boston to Brazil have indicated they would be interested in hiring Service Leadership Fellows. This enthusiastic response suggests... View Details
- May 2022
- Case
Grupo Big Exit: Options for Advent and Walmart
By: Victoria Ivashina, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
After conducting an impressive turnaround in Walmart’s subsidiary in Brazil, Private Equity firm Advent International has to decide how to exit this investment: through an IPO or selling the business to Carrefour. View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, Ruth Costas, and Pedro Levindo. "Grupo Big Exit: Options for Advent and Walmart." Harvard Business School Case 222-086, May 2022.
- January 2016
- Case
Die Mannschaft: How Germany Won the 2014 FIFA World Cup
By: Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, Arjun Thomke, Kerry Herman and Michael Norris
After years of ups and downs, Germany won its fourth World Cup Championship in 2014. This case examines the national team's recent history and the changes they made to set themselves up for success. View Details
Keywords: Football; Soccer; ＂World Cup,＂ Germany; Germany; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Success; Sports; Sports Industry; Germany; Brazil
Groysberg, Boris, Sascha L. Schmidt, Arjun Thomke, Kerry Herman, and Michael Norris. "Die Mannschaft: How Germany Won the 2014 FIFA World Cup." Harvard Business School Case 416-025, January 2016.
- December 2019
- Supplement
Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Mariana Cal
Unilever is making strides to integrate the operations of Mãe Terra—one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods—into its own structures, after acquiring the company in 2017. Mãe Terra’s CEO, Alexandre Borges, must decide whether to implement his original... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; Sustainability; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil; Latin America
Paine, Lynn S., Ruth Costas, and Mariana Cal. "Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-069, December 2019.
- December 2019 (Revised June 2025)
- Case
Mãe Terra and Unilever (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Priscilla Zogbi
The case concerns the sale of Mãe Terra, one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods, to the consumer goods giant Unilever in 2017. Working with Unilever management, Mãe Terra’s CEO Alexandre Borges must determine whether and how to keep Mãe Terra's B... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Brand Management; Sustainability; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil; Latin America
Paine, Lynn S., Ruth Costas, and Priscilla Zogbi. "Mãe Terra and Unilever (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-075, December 2019. (Revised June 2025.)
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
Courtesy Tom Ferguson “Climate change is really water change,” says Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014). From the deadly floods that deluged western Europe in the summer of 2021, to the once-in-a-century drought conditions that have ravaged Brazil... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
COPPEAD/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, who spoke for the Brazilian group, suggested plugging into the extensive network of Harvard and HBS alumni. "There are about 600 Harvard alumni in Brazil who could be a useful resource for case writing,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
Leonardo Letelier (photo by Paula Giolito) Leonardo Letelier (MBA 2002) was looking for purpose in his career when he launched SITAWI Finance for Good in Brazil in the mid-2000s. The nonprofit, an early participant in what is now called... View Details
- August 2010
- Teaching Note
Petrobras in Ecuador (TN) (A), (B) and (C)
By: Aldo Musacchio and Lena G. Goldberg
Teaching Note for 309107. View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Learning Processes in Environmental Policy Making and Implementation
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation. Rather than viewing policy learning as a rational and technocratic process, the emphasis here is on the political and institutional contexts within which... View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
Learning in Environmental Policymaking and Implementation
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation. Rather than viewing policy learning as a rational and technocratic process, the emphasis here is on the political and institutional contexts within which... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Power and Influence; South Africa; Brazil
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Learning in Environmental Policymaking and Implementation." In Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies: An Instrument for Good Governance, edited by Kulsum Ahmed and Ernesto Sanchez-Triana. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2008. (Was HBS Working Paper 08-071.)
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
overt discrimination against the residual non-Muslim population. A second distinctive feature of the business history of the Republic of Turkey has been the very small role of foreign-owned business, which stands in contrast to the experience of countries such as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
London, and Tokyo, but in the emerging markets of India, China, and Brazil as well. "I think many companies are realizing that their track record of going outside their home country isn't great, because, to be completely honest, not... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major corporations in Mexico and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Chao Zeng
communications skills. Finally, HBS is a platform for being more global, not only through classes, but in after-class activities like the Asia Business Conference or going to Brazil in FIELD to do a consulting project. By doing business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
the places they used to be. In Brazil and India, for example, even though there may be a lot of poverty, there's a decently functioning democracy and enough wealth such that it's mostly being left to those countries to deal with their own... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid... View Details