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South Asia - Global

2025, Modi reflects on the past decade of Go Mobile and looks ahead to new growth strategies. January 2025 Case Creating Value by Splitting Aster: Can One Minus One Equal Two? By: V.G. Narayanan and Kairavi Dey Aster DM Healthcare... View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

When Organizations Are in Crisis, It's Usually Because the Business is Broken. By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague More Information We blame women for not taking the lead in the workplace. Here's why that's wrong. By: Robin Ely Women and men... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

and Srimayi Mylavarapu January 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Arsenal Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Pinnacle, a leading producer of high-performance adhesive technologies, has experienced rapid growth... View Details

August 2011 (Revised May 2012)
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Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global in 2011

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Phillip Andrews

In 2011, Haier, China's leading appliance manufacturer, had over $20 billion in worldwide sales and had just been named the leading refrigerator manufacturer worldwide. Describes Haier's rise over three decades from a defunct refrigerator factory in China's Qingdao... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Global Strategy; Expansion; Diversification; Emerging Markets; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

Publisher's link: http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=101124706&site=ehost-live&scope=site March 2015 Journal of Financial Intermediation Financial Innovation and Endogenous View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago Set in 2022, this abridged case examines the digital transformation strategy of Davivienda— a leading player in Colombia’s commercial banking sector and one of the companies belonging to Grupo Bolívar, a major... View Details

January 2024
Teaching Note

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A) & (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 724-391 and 724-398. In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between... View Details

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

technology development and entrepreneurship, leading to less initial migration to the United States and greater return migration. More mechanical explanations may also exist—for example, stronger relative View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

leading growth equity investment firm. Previously, he worked at CI Capital Partners and the Boston Consulting Group. Elchahal grew up in Florida and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he... View Details

March 2016
Case

Tenet Healthcare and Conifer Health Solutions

By: Robert F. Higgins and Jeet Guram

This case explores the relationship between Tenet Healthcare, the third largest for-profit hospital chain, and its subsidiary Conifer Health Solutions, a health services company. Conifer's IT programs help healthcare providers with revenue cycle management and... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Health Solutions; Business Subsidiaries; Growth Management; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Texas

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

result, there are meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. Related Themes: Stabilization Policy &... View Details

May 1998 (Revised October 2001)
Case

Taco Bell Inc. (1983-1994)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Dave DeLong

Details the actions of John Martin, newly named CEO, as he leads Taco Bell through a decade of incremental and radical changes. By the end of the case, total system sales within Taco Bell, a Mexican style fast-food restaurant chain and a division of PepsiCo, have grown... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Transformation; Economic Growth; Food; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Mexico

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

digitally literate, right? In actuality, our research highlighted that none of these characteristics matter as much as you might think when it comes to leading digital transformation. In fact, 71 percent of 1,500 executives we surveyed in... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

trap, where ventures trying to sell less developed products tend to persist despite negative market signals, leading to delayed exit. Using a theoretical model, I argue for the distinct nature of market opportunity and product quality,... View Details

22 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Master the One-on-One Meeting

private, conversation with each other about what’s really going on—professionally and personally. This is a routine opportunity for you, as a manager, to assess the parts (your employees) that lead to the productive whole (your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

February 2025
Case

Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A)

By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

When Luca de Meo became CEO of Renault Group in 2020, the 122-year-old French automaker faced financial challenges and the double technological disruption of the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Interpersonal Communication; Forms of Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Alternative Energy; Engineering; Global Strategy; Governance; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Transportation; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; France; Europe; China

March 2024
Case

ixigo

By: Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani

Ixigo is India’s second-largest online travel aggregator (OTA) and the market leader among private train OTAs. It has overcome numerous near-death crises to emerge as a customer-centric, profitable firm. It aspires to become the leading OTA in the next billion Internet... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Profit; Growth and Development; Product Positioning; Travel Industry; India