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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
fast-food formula for the local market. Teaching a ‘Lean Start-Up’ Strategy Most start-ups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong product before realizing too late what the right product should have been, says... View Details
- January 1999
- Case
Prague Post, The
By: Paul A. Gompers
Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Competition; Financial Crisis; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Czech Republic
Gompers, Paul A. "Prague Post, The ." Harvard Business School Case 299-033, January 1999.
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming pasture—was the foundation of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
offices in 18 countries. The firm's main product, ISI Emerging Markets, is a continually evolving resource of information covering emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contracting with local information providers - from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
learning how to use health-care services as effectively as possible, we wanted to find ways to make prevention work and see how local government could support health." For the U.K., where health care is nationalized, this View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract— Traditional innovation models... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
will continue. "The financial functions of the system, whether providing for retirement or transactions, still have to be performed. This is a global and growing business, and it's one that can have very significant impact on View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
in the world, way more important than Intel. In any recession, consumers focus closer to home. They become more local and less global in outlook. So these are times of opportunity for the thousands of conservatively run community banks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Jensen Donates Grant
impact on corporate finance, corporate governance, and law and economics, announced in January that he will donate the $200,000 cash grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard Business School, and the Simon Graduate School... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
confronting challenges in the Third World. Meet Richard America (MBA ’63), who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development and economic justice. Web Extra “A National System of Income... View Details
- 2010
- Report
Nordic Globalization Barometer 2010
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2010 Nordic Globalization Barometer, the third in this series, is again designed to serve as input to the discussions of the five Nordic Prime Ministers (representing Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) at the Nordic Globalization Forum. In its first... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Competition; Research and Development; Policy; Financial Crisis; Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; China
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Nordic Globalization Barometer 2010." Report Series, Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, 2010.
- Web
IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024 - View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
from the firm’s Cranford headquarters, allowing its eight-person team to provide fast, personal service. The company also takes an “engineering approach” to services, investing in skilled technicians rather than relying on less costly View Details
- February 2005
- Case
Mahindra & Mahindra: Creating Scorpio
By: Tarun Khanna, Rajiv Lal and Merlina Manocaran
Details the emergence of a private sector automobile manufacturer in India that has created globally competitive and cheap versions of an SUV commonly available worldwide. Asks us to think about the parent corporation's next steps in leveraging this success. In... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Commercialization; Expansion; Auto Industry; India
Khanna, Tarun, Rajiv Lal, and Merlina Manocaran. "Mahindra & Mahindra: Creating Scorpio." Harvard Business School Case 705-478, February 2005.
- November 1999 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Financing the Mozal Project
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Fuaad Qureshi
It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique, known as the Mozal project. Four factors make the investment controversial: it... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Projects; Financial Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Developing Countries and Economies; Metals and Minerals; Financial Strategy; Government and Politics; International Finance; Infrastructure; Mozambique
Esty, Benjamin C., and Fuaad Qureshi. "Financing the Mozal Project." Harvard Business School Case 200-005, November 1999. (Revised April 2003.)
- May 2022
- Supplement
Third Point in 2020: Growth Is Where the Value Is? (B)
By: Robin Greenwood and Denise Han
In early May 2020, Daniel Loeb’s team at Third Point was evaluating a potential growth opportunity in the Walt Disney Company and whether investor activism might play a role. Battered by the effects of COVID-19, the company’s stock had initially tumbled to $86 and then... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Equity; Disney; Value; Economics; Finance; Investment; Strategy; Management; Investment Activism; Investment Return; Growth and Development; North America
Greenwood, Robin, and Denise Han. "Third Point in 2020: Growth Is Where the Value Is? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-030, May 2022.
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
brittle page from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection provide a slow-motion close-up of a 50-plus-year span when American business expanded from small, local exchanges within a day’s horseback ride to transactions spanning multiple states and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
and economic institutions are able to coordinate private decisions on stable and productive paths. Where institutional development is weak - as seems to be the case in much of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
(MBA ’93), the Women’s Initiative aims to help alumnae in three ways: by providing career development and education opportunities, by enhancing networking, and by organizing volunteer programs that aid the View Details