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  • September 2005 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Agora SA

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Vincent Dessain and Monika Stachowiak
Tells the story of Agora, the largest media company in Poland, describing its corporate strategy of diversification since its founding in 1989 by entrepreneurial journalists closely linked to the anti-communist movement Solidarity. Describes in detail Gazeta Wyborcza,... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Competition; Media; Corporate Strategy; Emerging Markets; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany; Poland
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  • 22 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement that followed, institutions across the country, including Harvard Business School (HBS), examined themselves with a critical eye. In the subsequent... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement that followed, institutions across the country, including Harvard Business School (HBS), examined themselves with a critical eye. In the subsequent... View Details
  • September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
  • Case

Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program

By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand
Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details
Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico
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  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

women involved, the result will be a world with less war. Shivangi Goel Harvard MD/MBA Student, Class of 2022 At the start of the pandemic all medical schools across the country pulled medical students out of the hospitals. I chose to... View Details

    Nancy F. Koehn

    Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

    Keywords: beauty products; clothing; consumer products; entertainment; fashion; marketing industry; retailing; health care; advertising; media
    • September 2006 (Revised December 2007)
    • Case

    Go Red For Women: Raising Heart Health Awareness

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
    In 2003, the $654 million American Heart Association (AHA) approached Cone, Inc. (a brand and communications agency) to develop a corporate sponsorship strategy that would raise $75 million over three years. Within 12 months, the AHA launched the highly successful Go... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Marketing Communications; Social Marketing; Nonprofit Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • 21 Nov 2018
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Square's Hidden History

    environs. I played impromptu tour guide and pointed out four of my favorite historic sites around the Square – many of which HBS students pass by each day:   Anderson Memorial Bridge  Hundreds of HBS View Details
    • August 2014 (Revised August 2015)
    • Supplement

    Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)

    By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
    Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
    Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
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    • 04 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

    Here are a few ways MBAs can support the movement for Black lives: Donate to and fundraise for racial justice nonprofits. Support local Black-led organizing groups and/or invest in national organizations like View Details
    • May 2016 (Revised March 2020)
    • Teaching Note

    Cyberdyne: A Leap to the Future

    By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
    Cyberdyne Inc. was a Japanese technology venture founded in 2004 by scientist Yoshiyuki Sankai to commercialize a hybrid assistive limb (HAL). HAL was a robotic exoskeleton system for people who had difficulty walking due to nervous system disabilities resulting from... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Decisions; Product Launch; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 2018
    • Book

    Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World

    By: Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier
    In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained... View Details
    Keywords: History; Research; Global Range
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    • 07 Dec 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 7

    (Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in the credit market with an innovative offering. This case provides students with an opportunity to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Feb 2023
    • Blog Post

    The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

    Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are courses that offer a great opportunity for students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore new topics. These are no-fee, no-credit courses over winter break open to both... View Details
    • 28 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 28

    initiative targeting a younger, ethnically diverse, and urban-based market. The program was called "The Fiesta Movement," and with it came the handing over of a large part of the marketing campaign to active young social media enthusiasts across America. The... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

    particularly the French, who authored the most important rules promoting the free movement of capital. The United States has been at the center of global finance, but in a very ad hoc way, Abdelal says. In this interview about his... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • September 2022 (Revised August 2023)
    • Case

    Audrey Tang: Using Technology to Strengthen Democracy in Taiwan

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    Since the early days of the internet, Taiwan had a vibrant community of civic hackers and open-source programmers who engaged with social issues. Audrey Tang was one of them. She spearheaded the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan, where protestors peacefully... View Details
    Keywords: Democracy; Internet; Web Technology; Digital Transformation; Digital Platform; COVID; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Taiwan; China; Asia
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

    By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin E. Roth
    In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast,... View Details
    Keywords: Law; Education; Employment; Selection and Staffing; Marketplace Matching
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