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- May 2021
- Teaching Plan
Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-018. For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Construction;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Housing;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in collaboration with former View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead to higher funding from the World Bank's two main...
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Martha Lagace
- Program
Senior Executive Program—Africa
limited amount of partial scholarship funding may be available for qualified applicants from not-for-profit organizations. Please include a request for funding in your application. Blended Learning and...
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Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
When you attend an HBS Executive Education program, you never know what opportunities the experience may present. In fact, you could even find yourself becoming part of the teaching team. Ask Deb Barnes, Senior Managing Director of View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
no way out of the conundrum—that established companies simply lack the flexibility to explore new territory. Some have suggested that big companies adopt a venture capital model, funding exploratory expeditions but otherwise staying out...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
primarily on its projected impact on customers but also taking into account its fit with the bank's strategy and goals and its funding requirements. In some cases, focus groups were conducted to provide a rough sense of an idea's likely...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from...
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by Carla Tishler
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- Program
Investment Management Workshop
with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Download Brochure Who Should Attend Executives in investment management organizations—including hedge fund firms,...
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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
measurement, mediocre performance often goes unnoticed and unpunished by the philanthropic capital markets, while, ironically, a record of successful achievements can make the next round of grants seem less compelling to potential givers. "The disorderliness and...
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by James E. Aisner
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
School's MBA and doctoral programs. He discusses the findings and implications of his research with HBS Working Knowledge. Ann Cullen: You point out that historically some assets might look riskier than they actually are and some might...
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by Ann Cullen
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
business could work. This was core to getting the funding that we did ($360M in funding as of their latest round).” The Power of the HBS Connection The connection Westphal and...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on her how experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped...
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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension Funds,...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways to...
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Real Estate Management Program
countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Real estate owners, operators, and private real estate developers Lending officers,...
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- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
acquisition and brand-building, products and services that are often free or deeply discounted, and abundant funding provided by exuberant capital markets."The problem," he says, "is that everyone understands the strategy,...
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by Peter Jacobs
- Web
Faculty & Advisors - MBA
Partners, a fund that invests in underrepresented managers. Enke earned her PhD at Columbia University, and MBA at Harvard Business School where she was awarded the Kaplan Fellowship in life sciences. Marc Casper MBA ‘95, Harvard...
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