Publications

October 2024
Case

Allurion: Competing in the Age of GLP-1

By: Satish Tadikonda, Rajiv Lal, David Lane and Sarah Sasso

Shantanu Gaur had built Allurion into a formidable business internationally, providing obesity patients with a less invasive option long before GLP-1 drugs became the latest craze. Selling Allurion's medical device across 60+ countries, he awaited FDA approval to bring... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; United States; United Kingdom; France; India; Brazil; Middle East

01 Sep 2005
News

Have Ideas, Will Travel

With a growing body of knowledge supported by its global research centers, the School last May conducted its first research symposium abroad, hosting an all-day event in Rio de Janeiro for a select group of 45 Latin American business leaders and academics. “We wanted... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
Supplement

Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer

The (B) case tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI. View Details

May 2025 (Revised June 2025)
Background Note

Social Enterprise in Latin America

By: Brian L. Trelstad and Karina Souza

This research note provides an overview of the social enterprise ecosystem in Latin America, exploring current dynamics across key markets, including country-specific insights on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Central America. In a region characterized... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

incorrectly. Sorry for being picky on a seemingly minor point, and I promise not to take on American pronunciation of a host of words! James Sinclair (MBA ’82) São Paulo, Brazil Dean McArthur Praised I did not have the privilege of being... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

overcome, and when a door closes another one often opens. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chairman, Walt Disney Studios Bottoming out in Brazil Five of the six businesses I’ve helped build over 32 years since HBS have been successful, with one... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

the general pattern described in the previous section, where we analyzed how some organizations made use of cross-sector collaborations for risk management purposes. The second case in this sub-group is that of Natura, a leading cosmetic company in View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

01 Feb 2017
News

New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Professor Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Two decades ago, HBS launched the Global Initiative to strengthen the School's engagement with businesses and business leaders around the world and to deepen the faculty's... View Details

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

Making Dental Care Accessible to All in Brazil No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316149-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-062 HBS in 2016 The case explores opportunities and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

American woman and she said, "I wanted this job to be yours so badly, and you're obviously smart. You're well spoken, but you lacked executive presence." And I sulked about it for a while. I internalized it. And when Sodexo called again, they invited me to come to Sao... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2017
Book

The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States

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December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
Case

Alltech

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Angels for Start-Ups

The newly formed HBS Angels Alumni Association lost no time in identifying a group of start-ups to receive its mentoring assistance — the twelve regional finalists for this year’s Alumni New Venture Contest. The Angels include HBS and Harvard alumni interested in... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

2013
Working Paper

NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Vadim Kogan

"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as much..." wrote Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. "NBC... View Details

Keywords: Success; Profit; Sports; Failure; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Vancouver; Beijing; London; Brazil; Russia