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- October 2017 (Revised September 2018)
- Supplement
Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Namrata Arora
This follow up case study explores the ramifications of Jumia's decision to move from a retail-led to a markplace business model for its e-commerce platform. The case visits the company's successes as well as its many failures when adopting this vendor-led strategy. ... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Business Ecosystem; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Namrata Arora. "Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-432, October 2017. (Revised September 2018.)
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Harvard Business School
Proposals Influencing the HBS Curriculum 21 A. Leroy Willis, “Return to Harvard: To Build Upon a Legacy,” a speech commemorating 25 years of services to America by HBS Black... View Details
- 10 Apr 2015
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General Electric looks to get out of the banking business
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Harvard Business School
Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core... View Details
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Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core... View Details
- 2010
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Business Groups in Historical Perspectives
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Management Skills; Emerging Markets; Alliances; Groups and Teams; Competitive Advantage; Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups in Historical Perspectives." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management. Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Memo to CEOs: The Five Half-Truths of Business
By: Robert Simons, Henry Mintzberg and Kunal Basu
Simons, Robert, Henry Mintzberg, and Kunal Basu. "Memo to CEOs: The Five Half-Truths of Business." Fast Company, no. 59 (June 2002): 117–121.
- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
In March 2023, Garry Cooper, cofounder and CEO of Chicago-based Rheaply, needed to demonstrate that Rheaply’s expanded vision could translate into building cash flows and metrics needed to raise a Series B and turn the business into a model for financial and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurial Finance; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business." Harvard Business School Case 724-351, October 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- December 1999 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
International Business Machines Corporation (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
Perform financial ratio analysis to identify changes in IBM's business mix and profitability. Teaching purpose: Ratio analysis. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Capital Structure; Performance Efficiency; Business Earnings; Business Model; Private Sector; Commercialization; Computer Industry; Accounting Industry
Hawkins, David F. "International Business Machines Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 100-032, December 1999. (Revised April 2002.)
- 02 May 2021
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Avoid Post-lockdown Business Communication Blunders
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Business of Sports
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- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
elsewhere that regulation can provide the legitimacy and order that nascent industries need in order to grow. Are there any calls for regulation from within the baby business itself? In the early days of a... View Details
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Political Economy of Business Development
In an ongoing research stream, Professor Fabbe is studying the political economy of business development in fragile societies. Her newest project in this research stream explores the opportunities for complementarities and joint ventures between Syrian and Turkish... View Details
- 09 Nov 2020
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Best Business Books 2020: Strategy
- 08 Aug 2014
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Former SBA Chief Mills: Lending to Small Businesses Still Sluggish
- 2009
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Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How: How (Not) to Complain
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "How (Not) to Complain." Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How (blog). September 17, 2009. https://hbr.org/2009/09/how-not-to-complain.
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Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the first African American to serve on the Board. He also sat on the boards of leading corporations in America, the Harvard Board of Overseers, and the Board of Trustees for Tuskegee University,... View Details
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African American students, business executives, and HBS alumni. Participants over the years have spoken on topics of leadership, finance, and community. Today, the mission of AASU continues to uphold the... View Details
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the founders of the African-American Student Union (AASU) and the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Business School. Her collection includes interviews, audiovisual materials, papers, and other... View Details