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- 29 Oct 2019
- Video
Leonor Melo de Velasco
Leonor Melo, who founded the Mundo Mujer Foundation (Women’s World Foundation) in Colombia in 1985, describes how a devastating earthquake in the city of Popayán led her to leave her career as a dentist, and... View Details
- August 2000 (Revised December 2001)
- Background Note
Emerging Networked Business Models: Lessons from the Field
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Provides an overview of the networked models that are revolutionizing market industries and the organizations that compete and do business within them. Teaching Purpose: To introduce students and executives to emerging networked models and to provide a foundation for... View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., and Meredith Collura. "Emerging Networked Business Models: Lessons from the Field ." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-172, August 2000. (Revised December 2001.)
- April 1996
- Case
Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group
Examines two dilemmas often faced by an operations consultant. First, the dual responsibility to both client and consulting firm. Second, the management of the often competing pressure to deliver immediate results, at the same time laying the foundation for long-term... View Details
Upton, David M., and Christine Steinman. "Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group." Harvard Business School Case 696-096, April 1996.
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Shamlu Dudeja
Shamlu Dudeja, founder of Malika’s Kantha Collection and Chair of SHE Foundation based in Kolkata, India describes how the revival of the kantha craft in Bengal, India, has improved the lives of artisans,... View Details
- January 2000
- Article
Maxmin Expected Utility through Statewise Combinations
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. The key axioms are stated using statewise combinations as in Gul (1992). View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Peter Klibanoff, and Emre Ozdenoren. "Maxmin Expected Utility through Statewise Combinations." Economics Letters 66, no. 1 (January 2000): 49–54.
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Dr. Silvia Gold
Dr. Silvia Gold, President of the Mundo Sano Foundation and co-founder of Grupo Insud, outlines her company’s experience with prior public health crises such as the H1N1 outbreak, which allowed them to rapidly license and start producing materials for the AstraZeneca... View Details
- 03 May 2021
- News
The Best Buy Turnaround: Purpose-Driven Leadership with Hubert Joly
Kathleen L. McGinn
Kathleen L. McGinn
Professor Kathleen L. McGinn, Baker Foundation Professor and Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration (emeritus) at Harvard Business School, has served in various leadership roles at HBS, including Research... View Details
Sophus A. Reinert
Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details
Laura Alfaro
Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Continue the revolt that CEOs launched
- June 19, 2023
- Article
Should You Start a Generative AI Company?
Many entrepreneurs are considering starting companies that leverage the latest generative AI technology, but they must ask themselves whether they have what it takes to compete on increasingly commoditized foundational models, or whether they should instead... View Details
De Freitas, Julian. "Should You Start a Generative AI Company?" Harvard Business Review (website) (June 19, 2023).
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Güler Sabancı
Güler Sabancı, CEO of one of Turkey’s largest family-owned business groups, Sabancı Holding, discusses the values of her group towards social responsibility. She talks about how the Sabanci Foundation was... View Details
- 8 Mar 2005
- Other Presentation
Armenian Competitiveness: Towards a Strategy for Economic Development
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2004-05 (World Economic Forum, 2004); "Clusters and the New Competitive... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Armenian Competitiveness: Towards a Strategy for Economic Development." Armenia 2020 Summit, Cambridge, MA, United States, March 8, 2005.
- 07 Feb 2019
- HBS Seminar
Chuck Eesley, Stanford University
- July 2017 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Sampark Foundation: Transforming Primary Education in India
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Shweta Bagai
Founders Vineet and Anupama Nayar had rapidly scaled their foundation to reach 3 million primary school children (grades 1 to 3) in two states with math and English programs. Their goal was to reach 10 million children by 2025 and completely spend down the $100 million... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Management; K-12 Education; Frugal Innovation; Government Partnership; Impact; Developing Countries; Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Outcome or Result; India
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Shweta Bagai. "Sampark Foundation: Transforming Primary Education in India." Harvard Business School Case 518-006, July 2017. (Revised September 2017.)
- 21 Jan 2021
- Video
M. V. Subbiah
MV Subbiah, the Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Group, a large Indian business conglomerate, discusses the group’s AMM Foundation and its community initiatives that focuses primarily on small towns and villages. This includes the creation of four schools, the... View Details