Publications

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

17 Apr 2002
Other Presentation

Portuguese Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter

Presentation on the new challenges for Portuguese competitiveness, Lisbon, Portugal. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Portugal

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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

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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

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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

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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

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

Keywords: Brand Management; Retailing; Two Sided Markets; SaaS; Online Marketing; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Luxury; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Digital Marketing; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; London; United Kingdom; Portugal

April 2018
Teaching Note

Portugal: Can Socialism Survive?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

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

Keywords: Currency; Financial Crisis; Problems and Challenges; Performance Effectiveness; Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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