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  • 01 Jan 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules

Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen & Reining Petacchi
  • September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose

By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Malini Sen
Bühler Group, a Swiss multinational processing technology provider, started by selling machines for processing grains and later transitioned into selling food processing solutions. A family-owned business in the fifth generation, Bühler’s high-end milling, grinding,... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Machinery and Machining; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Innovation Leadership; Switzerland
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  • April 2012
  • Article

Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It

By: Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal
Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Local Range; Retail Industry
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  • February 2010
  • Case

Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Logistics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trade; Equity; Corporate Finance; United States; Europe
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  • 14 Sep 2021
  • HBS Seminar

Dashun Wang, Northwestern

    Waze Connected Citizens Program

    Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data in exchange for data on anticipated road closures, re-routing, etc.... View Details
    • 31 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

    total cost of care for this patient segment. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-089 Maersk: Betting on Blockchain In March 2018, international shipping giant Maersk is... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

    power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much emphasis on View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Investor - Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) SUMMER Intern with a VC firm and serve as a Rock Summer Fellow. FALL Take EC Courses applicable to VC/Investing: Venture Capital and Private Equity Private Equity Finance Financial Management of Small Firms... View Details
    • 02 Jun 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

    "prevailing conditions" and Ahmed Issa mentioned "external and internal factors" as influences on possible responses. Perhaps the most interesting responses were to the questions themselves. Gopal Padinjaruveetil... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 22 Nov 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

    wives, believing such campaigns would not be cost effective. As Wosinska put the problem: "How does a pharma talk to barbers?" In the end, first-year sales beat internal estimates, thanks to pent-up demand. Propecia is now a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical
    • Web

    The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
    • 03 Jul 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    What Are the Limits of Transparency?

    technology services company, has been one of the most outspoken advocates of increased transparency. He says all HCL's financial information is on the company's internal Web. "We are completely open," he had been quoted as... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 08 Mar 2022
    • Blog Post

    Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

    2022) Halperin, a student in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, is the co-president of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Women’s Student Association, social chair of the MS/MBA program, and the international representative of... View Details
    • 15 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Remembering Alfred Chandler

    and view this page again, you will be able to play this video.   Jeffrey Fear Jeffrey Fear has been an associate professor at Harvard Business School since 2001 in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. Chandler's... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

    for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was evident in the strong performance... View Details
    • 04 Jun 2018
    • Blog Post

    Reapplying to HBS

    introduced a line of products in a new geography, and launched a new product development process in the company’s highest growth business unit. Surely, my perspective—both what I might contribute and the learnings I’d now internalize in... View Details
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    Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
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    Bridgette Slater

    accomplishments, but I admire her humility and generous spirit most of all. What’s the best thing about your hometown? Growing up in Washington D.C., I always enjoyed how culturally diverse and international it felt. As the home of so... View Details
    • 15 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Learning from My Success and From Others’ Failure: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

    Keywords: by KC Diwas, Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino; Health