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  • May 2016
  • Case

OPET: Precision Marketing in Uncertain Times

By: Rajiv Lal, Esel Çekin and Eren Kuzucu
During Timucin Guler’s decade at OPET, a prominent fuel distributor in Turkey, he transformed the definition of marketing in the company. Under Guler’s lead, OPET, once a local player in the downstream distribution market, became the second largest fuel distributor in... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Customer Service; Emerging Market; Focusing On Customers; Competition; Turkey; Loyalty Program; Marketing Strategy; Downstream Distribution; Customer Relationship Management; Energy Industry; Turkey
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  • September 2008 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
By 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; New Product Development; Partnerships; Entrepreneurial Management; Venture Capital; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

Keywords: by Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini; Banking; Financial Services
  • 4 Dec 2002
  • Other Presentation

Can Japan Compete? New Findings from the Global Competitiveness Report 2002

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Japan
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    William C. Kirby

    William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; wine
    • 22 Jun 2018
    • News

    Harvard Business School Welcomes Dwyane Wade As Executive Fellow

    • 20 May 2013
    • Op-Ed

    Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

    factors that companies located anywhere can access quickly. Talent is a different story. It is much less mobile. To access talent, companies have to be close to it. The View Details
    Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
    • 25 Nov 2019
    • News

    Harvard Nears Selection of Allston Development Partner

    • 12 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

    Global supply chains took some heat during the COVID-19 pandemic, with consumers waiting months for goods and politicians wringing their hands over trade policy. “Reshoring” is one of the hottest new corporate buzzwords, as many companies... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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    • Mar 2012
    • Article

    Green Rules to Drive Innovation

    Incoherent U.S. energy and climate policies have cast a pall over the entire economy and are putting U.S. companies at a serious global disadvantage. The authors offer 10 prescriptions for reforms, two of which they describe in detail.... View Details
    • 24 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

    visits—boosting in-store traffic by about 10 percent. “Technology companies can play a role in working toward racial equity.” The study, called “The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-Owned Businesses,” also found that... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
    • November 2016 (Revised February 2017)
    • Case

    BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team

    By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and John D. Vaughan
    BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises across the United States by 2016, generating over $300... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Services; Entrepreneurs; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Health Care Industry; Growth Strategy; Organizational Change; Brand Positioning; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurial Management; Franchising; Family-owned Business; Home Health Care; Managing Growth; Management Styles; Organizational Development; Talent Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Business Startups; Family Business; Small Business; Talent and Talent Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Strategy
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    • April 2017
    • Case

    China Hospitals Inc.: The Growth of Private Hospitals in China

    By: Kevin Schulman, Xiao Yu and Ariel Hwang
    This case examines the privatization of hospitals in China. China Hospitals, Inc. has become the largest for-profit hospital company in China, purchasing government owned hospitals in Tier 2 cities. The case profiles CEO Frank Hu. To build his company, he has to... View Details
    Keywords: Privatization; For-Profit Firms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Health Industry; China
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    • November 2015
    • Case

    Rubicon Global

    By: William A. Sahlman and Hunter Ashmore
    The case describes Rubicon Global, a startup that aimed to disrupt the waste management industry. The company started with a bold idea: create a cloud-based, full-service waste management company providing low-cost, highly efficient, and environmentally friendly... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Rubicon; Rubicon Global; Waste Management; Startups; Disruptive Technology; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business Startups; Corporate Finance; Service Industry
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    • April 2018
    • Case

    Happy UAE

    By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang, Karim Sameh and Alpana Thapar
    This case centers on the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national goal of raising the happiness of its residents and visitors through ambitious government initiatives. They combined this bold national goal with an accountability structure (incentive plan) built on Key... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Welfare; Governance; Motivation and Incentives; United Arab Emirates
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    • 19 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Public Image: The U.S. Steel Photography Exhibit at Baker Library

    • 2008
    • Book

    On Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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    • 28 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

    To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 19 Dec 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

    largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from Japanese View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat