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Full/downloadable reports include: Global Annual Reports (private equity/venture capital, real estate, hedge funds, private debt, infrastructure, natural resources) Quarterly Reports (private equity/venture capital, real estate,... View Details

04 Nov 2013
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The Real Cost of Bribery

payment, how it was detected, and the way the firm responded to the bribe after it was uncovered. To test the hypothesis, Serafeim evaluated data from the forensic services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which provides global... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Long Distance Relationships: What if my partner can’t join me at HBS?

dreams. Today, Marina works in the Non-profit space in Sao Paulo for a global organization that supports entrepreneurs in developing countries. When it came to me going to school in another country, we worked toward it together. Opt for... View Details

October 2022 (Revised September 2024)
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mPharma: Scaling Access to Affordable Primary Care in Africa

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo

mPharma hopes to scale up to create the largest pan-African healthcare company ever to provide much-needed primary care in retail pharmacies; a reliable, fairly priced supply of drugs; and micro-insurance for drugs. They must prioritize launching a telemedicine... View Details

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Debora L. Spar | About

Debora L. Spar Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society , Unit Head, General Management Unit General Management Contact Phone Bio Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details

20 Apr 2023
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On the Move: Anand Kini (MBA 1997)

this new role? I have been at the company for 16 years and in my new role, I’ll have the opportunity to work with every part of Comcast’s global portfolio to drive growth and innovation. We have world-class teams across our company and I... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

(Journal of Finance, forthcoming). Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to brief the United States Congress on innovation policy, 2020. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2020 Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)... View Details

September 2002 (Revised December 2005)
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DaimlerChrysler Post-Merger Integration (A)

By: Richard F. Meyer, Michael G. Rukstad, Peter J. Coughlan and Stephan A. Jansen

Describes the background, process, and aftermath of the merger between Daimler-Benz of Germany and Chrysler Corp. of America. Describes the economic structure and trends of the world automobile industry at the turn of the century as well as the individual histories and... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Negotiation Process; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; Germany; United States

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16 Dec 2021
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African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

during an MBA, and the opportunities afforded to you post-MBA related to fundraising and deploying capital, are imperative for scaling impact. When you think about affecting change on a national or global level, an MBA is one clear way to... View Details

November 2017
Teaching Note

Amazon.com, 2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-402. On January 28, 2016, Amazon announced record 2015 operating profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Market Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Competition; Internet; Corporate Strategy; Online Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Hardware; Information Technology; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Technology Networks; Technology Platform; Web; Web Sites; Price; Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle

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Bridgette Slater

hub that brings together a mix of diplomats, international tourists, and immigrants from all around the world. It is not uncommon to find varied global cuisine or hear several different languages all while walking down a single street.... View Details

27 May 2015
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Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

which hampered the pod acting as a team, Valentine says. While a hospital may be a natural setting for team scaffolds, Edmondson and Valentine see other applicable sites. Many large, global companies are trying to enable better lateral... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

29 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. Following this experience, I joined Deloitte as a consultant, supporting the public sector and providing pro bono services to global social enterprises through Halcyon and FINCA... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

global electronics company during the entire course of a 25 percent downsizing. Every single one of the stimulants to creativity in the work environment went down significantly. Anticipation of the downsizing was even worse than the... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management

January 2023
Teaching Note

The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details

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June 2022
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Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU

By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta

In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Carbon Emissions; Trade; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Climate Change; Analysis; Strategy; Taxation; Policy; Environmental Regulation; Industry Structures; European Union

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08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-063 Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A) Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2017
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Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

those new hires will end up engaged? If employee engagement can spell the difference between profit and loss in a business, why can’t organizations engage their employees? What do you think? Reference State of the Global Workplace:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

the 1800s, the American economy embarked on a long, slow transition from a system in which most goods and services were produced for household consumption or local sale to an economy in which commodities were produced for a larger regional or even View Details

August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
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Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (A)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in November 2019 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are contemplating what the best fulfillment format and... View Details