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05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

French General and Harvard Business School professor, Georges Doriot, who established the American Research and Development Corporation (ARD) in 1946. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812110-PDF-ENG Bharti Airtel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Urban Water Partners (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia

The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get the company through August 2010 but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested in... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Dar es Salaam; Massachusetts

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14 May 2015
Blog Post

Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students

e-commerce component in China, yet another was focused on exploring opportunities with startups in the consumer health care space. Do you think exposure to entrepreneurship is important for business school... View Details

22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

ways of promoting them. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806172 The STAR Schools Initiative at the San Francisco Unified School District Public View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

implications for those in need of capital, particularly if the source of the capital is your strongest economic competitor. For example, the United States, European Union, and South Africa recently have seen... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

January 2011
Article

Developing Superior Negotiation Case Studies

By: James K. Sebenius

While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have distinctive aspects that merit explicit treatment. This article offers three types of tailored advice for producing cases on... View Details

Keywords: Education; Cases; Negotiation

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07 Jul 2020
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The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

central component of the program is the JD/MBA seminar, which students take in their third or fourth year. In the seminar, students present for an hour on a topic of their choice, drawing on past... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

You Asked for It: Exec Ed Reunions

By popular demand, beginning in the fall, HBS is offering a three-year reunion cycle for Executive Education alumni. From September 25 to September 28, AMP/ISMP graduates will convene for the traditional HBS... View Details

Keywords: reunions; Educational Services; Educational Services

June 2022
Teaching Plan

Lifebank Nigeria

By: Brian Trelstad, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal

The aspiration of addressing maternal deaths in Nigeria, which were mostly caused by blood shortages, led Temie Giwa-Tubosun to found LifeBank in 2015. LifeBank developed an online platform that enabled hospitals to connect and purchase blood from local blood banks and... View Details

Keywords: Systems Design; Social Business; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Health Care; Blood; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Finance; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Africa; Nigeria

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04 Feb 2022
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Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

and sustainability sectors hire a student based on the student’s skillset, particularly transferable skills, and the student’s demonstrated interest in and passion for the field. I have two pieces of advice. First, before starting your... View Details

2024
Dictionary Entry

Jerry R. Green (1946-)

By: Eddie Dekel, John Geanakoplos and Scott Duke Kominers

Jerry Green has a deep and long-standing connection to Harvard University, and in particular with its Economics Department. This paper begins by reviewing his intellectual background, and then turns to exploring how he has influenced scholars through his wide-ranging... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Microeconomics; Theory; History; Game Theory; Decision Choices and Conditions; Education Industry; North America; United States; Cambridge; Massachusetts; Boston

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01 Aug 2016
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Reflecting on the Value of an MBA

You get a lot of good advice at HBS. I’ve kept pretty much every single sheet of paper I’ve received while I’ve been here, trying to retain it for later. One sticks with me now as I head back into the world of work. On the last day of my Venture Capital & Private... View Details

03 Jun 2015
Video

Hakeem Belo-Osagie

Hakeem Belo-Osagie, head of United Bank for Africa,... View Details

11 Sep 2020
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James Mwangi

James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, which has one of the largest customer bases of any bank in Africa, discusses how the Equity Bank model evolved through learning both from Asian companies and from the bank’s own customers. View Details

Helmy Abouleish

Keywords: Agriculture

12 Feb 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel; Education

08 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

listening to their concerns. The response she received at Princeton Review and at PresenceLearning was overwhelmingly positive. Most of the staff at PresenceLearning, as in much of the education sector,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

in EverFi, an educational technology company that offers a range of online educational programming to its K-12 school, university, and corporate clients. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

September 2022
Case

HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential

By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp

Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details