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- June 2013
- Supplement
AME Learning Inc. (Video Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for AME Learning, Inc., HBS Case #810065. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Angels; Angel Investors; Growth Planning And Management; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Family-owned Business; Careers; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; Publishing Industry; Education Industry; Canada; United States
Sharpe, Jim. "AME Learning Inc. (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-719, June 2013.
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
Karae Lisle (MBA 1998) has watched firsthand the struggles of homeless, with a close family member living on the streets and in shelters in Florida, on and off, for years. His personal struggles limited the family’s ability to help, so... View Details
- July 2012 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jim Sharpe
Looking back at five years of losses, Rivka Belzer, a newly minted MBA, steps into her family owned business with their mandate to turn it around or close it. In her first six months, she has made a number of changes, with mixed results, but is beginning to show a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Management; Crisis Management; Family Business; Turnarounds; Financial Crisis; Boards Of Directors; Operations Management; Strategy Implementation; Career Planning; Entrepreneurship; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Jim Sharpe. "Lyric Dinner Theater (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-043, July 2012. (Revised May 2024.)
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
Karae Lisle (MBA 1998) has watched firsthand the struggles of the homeless, with a close family member living on the streets and in shelters in Florida, on and off, for years. His personal struggles limited the family’s ability to help,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Alltech
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details
Keywords: Alltech; United States; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animal; Animal Agriculture; Animal Feed; Livestock; Family Business; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Growth; Feed Additives; Feed Supplements; Kentucky; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change Management; Trends; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Intellectual Property; Leadership; Management; Markets; Organizational Culture; Private Ownership; Science; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Research; Sales; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Kentucky; Brazil; China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Alltech." Harvard Business School Case 518-001, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- 20 Jan 2012
- News
What Business Schools Can Learn from the Medical Profession
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
When you call Black Enterprise's corporate offices in Manhattan and ask for Earl G. Graves, you have to specify which one. There's Earl Senior, the chairman, editor, and publisher, who, since founding the magazine in 1970, has turned it into the premier View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
Photography by Robert Schoen Democracy. Family values. The promise of technology. The themes that arise when talking to Demola Gbadegesin are ones that many Americans assume to be their own. But for this native of Nigeria, their potential... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Real Estate
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator: Howard H. Stevenson, HBS Faculty... View Details
- December 1998
- Article
Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France
By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck
A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France
Nicholas, Tom, Elisa Boccaletti, and James Foreman-Peck. "Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France." European Review of Economic History (December 1998).
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
There’s no doubt that applying to business school can be a stressful process. Researching MBA programs, taking the GMAT, writing essays, chasing after recommenders (often while also trying to balance a full time job) can be downright... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
being part of a family business in which the mantle of authority is passed down. In the book, what grabs my heart are the individual people—both the famous as well as those who, as novelist George Eliot... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Serum Institute of India (SII): Racing to Save Lives During a Pandemic
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
The CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII), a $12.8 billion Indian Family business is faced with a risky choice between principles and profit. SII is the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world and Adar Poonawalla, the CEO and son of the founder has to decide how... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Healthcare; COVID-19; Vaccines; Family Business; Ethics; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Fairness; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; India; South Asia
Deshpandé, Rohit, Anjali Raina, and Rachna Chawla. "Serum Institute of India (SII): Racing to Save Lives During a Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 521-028, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
Harvard Business School (HBS) case protagonist Esperanza Perez jogs along the River Walk in San Antonio, Texas, weighing the pros and cons of an MBA. Questions and fears swarm in her mind—concerns of alienating View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering... View Details
- April 2018
- Exercise
Stoy Foods: Role Information for Milan Stoyanovic
By: John Beshears
In this simulation exercise, four family members must negotiate over the future of the family business. Should the business be sold to a strategic buyer, or should the family retain control? If the business is sold, how should the proceeds of the sale be distributed... View Details
Keywords: Succession; Sale Of Business; Understanding Interests; Value Creation; Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Negotiation; Ownership Stake; Perspective; Agreements and Arrangements
Beshears, John. "Stoy Foods: Role Information for Milan Stoyanovic." Harvard Business School Exercise 918-046, April 2018.
- 23 Apr 2024
- Cold Call Podcast