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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
The Robin Hood Army
By: Susanna Gallani
In 2014, Neel Ghose and a handful of friends spent one evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The...
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Volunteer-based Organization;
Food Redistribution;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Food;
Human Needs;
Expansion;
Global Range;
Growth and Development
Gallani, Susanna. "The Robin Hood Army." Harvard Business School Case 119-007, July 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
With many of today's entrepreneurs starting ventures simultaneously in several countries, it is critical for the global businessperson to understand the financial and business environments in different countries and to accurately assess...
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by Staff
- 29 May 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism
research project exploring the views of global business leaders and HBS faculty on what might threaten the world's economic progress. The spread of market capitalism around the world over the past 100 years...
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Re: Joseph L. Bower
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded...
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by Martha Lagace
- February 2017
- Case
Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data
By: William R. Kerr, Gamze Yucaoglu and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2016, Nevzat Aydin, co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti, the Turkish online food-ordering company, was looking over the company's quarterly results and projections for the upcoming year with his management team. It had been almost a year and a half since Aydin...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurial Ventures;
Turkey;
Big Data;
Customer Focused Organization;
Service Management;
Continuous Improvement;
Data Analysis;
Internet;
Growth Strategy;
Technological Change;
Information Systems;
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Emerging Markets;
Service Operations;
Competitive Advantage;
Performance Improvement;
Internet and the Web;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology;
Value Creation;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Turkey
Kerr, William R., Gamze Yucaoglu, and Eren Kuzucu. "Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data." Harvard Business School Case 817-095, February 2017.
- June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum...
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update." Harvard Business School Background Note 210-061, June 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness
By: Frank Nagle
This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government...
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Keywords:
Social Value;
Competitiveness;
Government Administration;
Information Technology;
Acquisition;
Policy;
Value
Nagle, Frank. "Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-103, March 2019.
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
Russia are ahead of it. The European Union will also suffer from these tariffs; they will poison the global trade climate and may represent the first warning shot in a potential global trade war. As always,...
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- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
far-from-frontier countries shows that a 10 percent increase in the savings rate over the previous 10 years leads to an increase in the average growth rate over the next 10 years of 1.3 percent. We asked...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
global marketplace, it is imperative for multinational organizations to have clear language strategies. Neeley has coauthored a September Harvard Business Review article with HBS Professor of Management Practice Robert Steven Kaplan on...
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Re: Tsedal Neeley
- April 2022
- Case
Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash
In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Organizational Culture;
Business Strategy;
Change;
Change Management;
Money;
Cash;
Credit;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Central Banking;
Financial Instruments;
Credit Cards;
Financial Markets;
Globalization;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Information Technology;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
New York (state, US)
Gupta, Sunil, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley, and Emily Tedards. "Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash." Harvard Business School Case 522-001, April 2022.
- July – August 2011
- Article
The Paradox of Samsung's Rise
By: Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee
Twenty years ago, few people would have predicted that Samsung could transform itself from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would...
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Organizational Design;
Research and Development;
Marketing;
Business Processes;
Brands and Branding;
System;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Transformation;
Cost;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Production;
Quality;
China;
India;
Turkey
Khanna, Tarun, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee. "The Paradox of Samsung's Rise." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2011): 142–147.
- 01 Aug 2023
- What Do You Think?
As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?
educational system.” For example, in politics, citizens support ideas associated with what academics call “high-acceptance, low-quality goals,” as in: “All citizens are entitled to health care.” Acceptance...
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by James Heskett
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
What do leaders this year and the next need to be doing differently than last year, and last decade, and last century? The rapidly changing business world means dramatic changes are afoot in time-worn notions about leadership, according...
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by Martha Lagace
- Teaching Interest
FIELD Foundations
FIELD Foundations is a course for first-year MBA students in the Required Curriculum. As a complement to case method courses that students take in the first year of the MBA program, FIELD Foundations offers hands-on leadership practice and immersive team... View Details
- September 2010
- Case
Quanta Research Institute: Rainforest or Hothouse?
By: Willy C. Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Ho Howard Yu
Barry Lam, the CEO and founder of Quanta Computer (the largest notebook computer manufacturer worldwide), has recognized for many years that he had to transform the company to decrease its dependence on producing commodity hardware for other global brands and move the...
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Change Management;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Research and Development;
Computer Industry;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Ho Howard Yu. "Quanta Research Institute: Rainforest or Hothouse?" Harvard Business School Case 611-024, September 2010.
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
In September 2008, Lehman Brothers went under—the largest bankruptcy in American history. But that was just the beginning of the story. What followed was the Great Recession, a gargantuan financial crisis that affected the entire world economy. Five View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters
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by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker