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August 2018
Case

MISHA: Modernizing the World of Shisha

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in 2017 with two of the five co-founders of MISHA telling the company’s CEO Michal Portz that they believe it is time for the global venture to shut down its operations and cease investments. Portz and another co-founder believe MISHA can still... View Details

Keywords: Innovation And Management; Entrepreneurship; Private Sector; For-profit Firms; Business Strategy; Decision; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Business Model; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Market Entry and Exit; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Qatar; United States

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23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

family companies in the Gulf Region was written for a conference organized by the Kennedy School in Doha, Qatar in 1997. The frameworks and approaches I used in this article really helped me get some leverage on understanding the problems... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

required to sell one of its most valuable assets, Finansbank, the eighth largest Turkish bank. There were three potential buyers: Garanti Bank, Turkey's second largest private bank, which was owned by the Spanish bank BBVA; Qatar National... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

and the fast-growth Gulf airlines Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways. Critical questions faced CEO Temel Kotil and his team: How would Turkish Airlines keep growing without jeopardizing profitability? How would it manage the operational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

he flew to Jordan to meet with security officials with the hope of gaining intelligence and influence useful to winning the release of American aid workers being held by ISIS in Syria. A couple of months earlier, a similar trip Bradley took to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

http://hbr.org/product/the-lego-group-envisioning-risks-in-asia-b/an/114048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-003 Qatar: Energy for Development Despite being the richest country in the world on a per capita basis, for analysts View Details