Publications

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

elsewhere. There is still only one overall survey of Indian business history. As Indian companies such as Tata become global giants, we need to understand where they came from. Latin America represents a mixed picture, with pockets View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November 2014 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Cravia: Launching High Growth Ventures in the Middle East

By: Lynda Applegate and Michael Norris

Walid Hajj (HBS '95), CEO of Dubai-based restaurant franchising company Cravia considers how best to expand his business in the fast-growing Gulf region. Should he add more American brands, expand to nearby countries, or open more of his current lineup of restaurants? View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurs; Middle East; Franchise; Food Retail Franchising; Franchise Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; United Arab Emirates; Dubai

01 Mar 2024
News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

Mexico, among other countries, have seen an increase in their share of American imports. Alfaro compares China’s situation to that of Japan 60 years ago. In the 1960s and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Web

A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

to produce polarized materials, Land was counting on a new initiative to reenergize and propel the company’s growth in peacetime. 8 Land conceived of instant photography in 1943. While on vacation with his family in Santa Fe, New View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

gender, race, and national boundary. This is a new phenomenon, inconceivable in Carnegie's day. Capital, in the words of a former President of Mexico, has no heart. But it does... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

Management Agency to evacuate certain hospitals in New Orleans because they were private. Many large retailing organizations with facilities on the Gulf Coast made extensive preparations in advance of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

8:30 AM – 6:45 PM +04, 13 Dec 2024
Virtual Programming

AI Elevate: From Readiness to Exponential Growth

Join top AI experts including HBS faculty, business leaders, researchers, and government officials for AI Elevate: From Readiness to Exponential Growth, a one-day conference organized by the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard and the Harvard Business School Club... View Details

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

Xerox's accumulated knowledge in this area into a marketable product. Xerox's accumulated knowledge—as well as XTV's aggressive funding of the firm during the Gulf War period, when the willingness View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

extraordinary measures on behalf of their airline. For example, in the wake of the Gulf War and rising jet fuel prices, Southwest's Dallas employees initiated a "Fuel from... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

01 Oct 1996
News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

three-day versions of it are now being held at management schools in Mexico, Canada, and Switzerland, with the participation of HBS interest group members. In 1995, unit member... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

March 2017 (Revised February 2018)
Case

Tequila Patrón

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Carlos Castellanos Rodríguez, Silvia Cacho-Elizondo, Samantha Rullán and Fernanda Miguel

Tequila Patrón was one of the most successful tequila marketers in the United States. Patrón needed to grow, and in Mexico, the second largest market for tequila, the brand was perceived as American. What portfolio and branding strategy would best serve Patrón to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Growth and Development Strategy; Mexico

June 2007
Case

Wal-Mart Mexico: Managing Multiple Formats

By: Rajiv Lal, Mark Rennella and David Lane

"On February 1, 2007, Wal-Mart Mexico (Walmex) CEO Eduardo Solorzano was preparing for a well deserved, two-week vacation on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Things were going well. Wal-Mart Mexico, which consisted principally of six different retail formats, had been... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry; Mexico