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- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
and then engaging in trade for everything else. In his now-famous example, Ricardo imagined that Portugal was more productive than England in making both wine and cloth. Specifically, he assumed the Portuguese could produce, over a year,... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- February 2010 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Living PlanIT
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, Susan Thyne and Tiona Zuzul
Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software and technology backgrounds of its founders, Steve Lewis and Malcolm Hutchinson, and is in vivid contrast to other... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; City; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Urban Development; Construction Industry; Green Technology Industry; Real Estate Industry; Portugal
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, Susan Thyne, and Tiona Zuzul. "Living PlanIT." Harvard Business School Case 410-081, February 2010. (Revised November 2013.)
- 17 Apr 2002
- Other Presentation
Portuguese Competitiveness
Presentation on the new challenges for Portuguese competitiveness, Lisbon, Portugal. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Portuguese Competitiveness." Novos Desafios da Competitividade, Lisbon, Portugal, April 17, 2002.
- April 2018
- Teaching Note
Portugal: Can Socialism Survive?
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-024. View Details
Keywords: Portugal
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
European Union: The Road to Lisbon (TN)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Diane Choi
Teaching Note for 711032. View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
During her time at HBS, Catarina Fernandes (MBA 2012, PhD 2019) and her husband Alberto Fernandes (MBA 2012) became parents to Vicente, 3, and Francisca, 4, who helped their mother accept her Doctoral Program diploma in May 2019. (photo by Mary Knox Miller) During her... View Details
- Web
Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
Portugal (2021); Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); Imperial War Museums, London, UK (2020); K20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019); OCA, São Paulo, Brazil (2018);... View Details
- June 2022
- Case
Worten Portugal: Becoming a Digital Marketplace
By: Antonio Moreno, Pedro Amorim and Tonia Labruyere
With Amazon's entry into Portugal, Miguel Mota Freitas, CEO of Portuguese electronics chain Worten, is reflecting on their strategy of building a competitive marketplace. View Details
Keywords: Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry; Portugal; Spain
Moreno, Antonio, Pedro Amorim, and Tonia Labruyere. "Worten Portugal: Becoming a Digital Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 622-062, June 2022.
- Profile
Constanza Oliveira e Sousa
issues I didn’t know anything about—that’s when I first thought about getting an MBA. Why the MBA? My country, Portugal, is in big trouble—in Europe, it’s second from the bottom from Greece. The best thing I can do for Portugal is create... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
unelected, "technocratic" national emergency governments. If after Greece, Portugal and Ireland, Italy were to fall into the debt spiral, it might be the domino piece that could bring down the entire European Monetary Union... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- Web
Harvard Business School
Committee. AASU supported the activities of the Pan–African Liberation Committee (PALC), organized by Harvard students, in demanding the University support the Angolan struggle for independence from Portugal by divesting its stock in Gulf... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
a spring holiday to somewhere enjoyable — such as Barcelona, Hawaii, the Bahamas, France, or Portugal — when our families come along. We're going to Vancouver next spring.” Sharif noted that Jim Ashton (MBA '72), one of the first to bring... View Details
- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Farfetch: Digital Transformation for Luxury Brands
By: Jill Avery and Sunil Gupta
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-051. Farfetch, a global luxury technology platform and digital marketplace had been surfing the wave of digital transformation in the luxury fashion industry since 2008. While the company’s stock price and market valuation had... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
like other Marwari, were traders who after World War I transitioned into manufacturing, including sugar manufacturing and steel rolling. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/807028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-024 Portugal: Can Socialism... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
the course of sometimes as little as two weeks. It was extraordinary to realize that they could do that. A group of pharmacies in Portugal became medical providers within a month. A barbecue chain in Texas saw business entirely collapse... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
concluded that there was no need to translate cases, since translations often bring more trouble than they are worth: translations into Portuguese, for example, might be more appropriate for people in Portugal than for Brazilians. Others... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
launched the Robin Hood Army while working for a company called Zomato, India’s largest food-delivery app. His job was to set up Zomato in international markets, live in the countries for six to nine months at a time, and establish local partnerships. It was in View Details
- May 2001 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Submarino.com (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Meredith Collura and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Enables a thorough analysis of Submarino.com, a B2C e-commerce company with a presence in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal. Examines the company's global operations as well as its organizational design and operating and management capabilities. Considers... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Globalized Firms and Management; Operations; Organizational Design; Strategy; Internet; Retail Industry; Portugal; Spain; Mexico; Argentina; Brazil
Applegate, Lynda M., Meredith Collura, and Luiz Felipe Monteiro. "Submarino.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-350, May 2001. (Revised January 2010.)
- May 2003 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Submarino.com (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Skills; Growth Management; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry; Brazil; Argentina; Mexico; Spain; Portugal
Applegate, Lynda M., and Luiz Felipe Monteiro. "Submarino.com (B)." Harvard Business School Case 803-012, May 2003. (Revised May 2004.)
- October 2024
- Case
Sacoor Brothers: From Co-Family CEOs to No Family CEOs?
By: Lauren Cohen, David Ager and Alpana Thapar
Sacoor Brothers, a luxury clothing retail company, was founded in 1989 in Lisbon, Portugal, by four brothers—Malik, Salim, Rahimo, and Moez. After establishing a strong presence in Portugal, the brothers were drawn to the rapidly growing retail markets in the Middle... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Geographic Mobility; Family Office; Professionalization; Institutional Development; Second-generation; Third-generation; Family Business; Private Equity; Investment; Governance; Transition; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Market Entry and Exit; Family and Family Relationships; Expansion; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Portugal; Jordan; Dubai
Cohen, Lauren, David Ager, and Alpana Thapar. "Sacoor Brothers: From Co-Family CEOs to No Family CEOs?" Harvard Business School Case 225-008, October 2024.