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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
we transport petroleum products and dry bulk commodities all over the world. This year, Lloyd's gave us an award as best ship operator in the Middle East and on the Indian subcontinent. "I am proud to say... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown River Yangtze, is deep in the... View Details
- April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Positioning; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Denmark; United States; Europe; China; India; Middle East; North Africa
Badaracco, Joseph L., Tom Quinn, and John Schultz. "Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs." Harvard Business School Case 324-114, April 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
inability of countries to sustain human life in geographies like India, Pakistan, the Sahel, the Middle East and Central America. She notes predictions that without decisive actions, by 2070, 30% of land... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
India, and other countries in Asia and the Middle East will no doubt continue to have very competitive manufacturing capability. Europe and America will have to continue to invest in manufacturing innovation... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
think a lot about things like resources and strategy,” he observes. “Even if you’re in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, you can begin to understand the foundations of business success.” At HBS, Skelly met professor James Austin, who... View Details
- 06 Jan 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments
Keywords: by James Sebenius & Laurence A. Green
- April 2021
- Case
Glovo: Expanding Quick Commerce
By: Antonio Moreno and James Barnett
In March 2021, delivery app CEO Oscar Pierre and his team consider strategies to grow Glovo’s quick commerce delivery service and to approach their expansion in Kenya. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Food; Global Strategy; Operations; Strategy; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Web Services Industry; Africa; Kenya; Nairobi; Europe; Spain; Barcelona; Middle East; Central America; South America
Moreno, Antonio, and James Barnett. "Glovo: Expanding Quick Commerce." Harvard Business School Case 621-094, April 2021.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711026-PDF-ENG Energy Security in Europe (B): The Southern Corridor Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Supplement 711-033 Nabucco natural gas pipeline, initiated by a group of European energy companies,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points out, the choices of these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
equal opportunity, awareness, and exposure for January students who want to run for club positions. Another highlight this year has been approving and welcoming three new clubs into the HBS fold - the Middle View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
in the other direction. What are Morocco’s major differences with the United States? As with most Arab nations, many people are not happy with the situation in Iraq and the Middle East peace process.... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
yourselves. About the Authors Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Gamze D. Yucaoglu is the assistant director of the School's Middle View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
mid-2014 due to a mix of factors, including excess supply from the U.S., Russia, and the Middle East and slowing demand from China. Moreover, critics of ExxonMobil’s accounting noted that competitors, such... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet... View Details