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  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2021 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (A)

By: Meg Rithmire and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in November 2019 as Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, co-founders of Iran’s first and leading ride-hailing platform, Snapp, find out about Apple’s and Google’s decisions to remove all Iranian apps from their respective application stores.
The case... View Details
Keywords: Sanctions; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Risk Management; Crisis Management; Transportation Industry; Iran; Middle East
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  • January 2018
  • Supplement

Jumia Nigeria PowerPoint Supplement

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Nigeria; Africa; Ecommerce; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Business Ecosystem; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
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  • January 2018 (Revised March 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A) and (B)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Ecommerce; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
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    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
    • Web

    Hiring Organizations

    S.p.A. Anomaly Capital Management Antelope Anterra Capital Anthos Capital Anthropic Antora Energy Apeiron Labs Apollo Global Management Inc. Apple Inc. Applied Intuition Applied Ventures LLC Aquamarine Capital Ara Partners Arado Arcellx, Inc. Archer Daniels Midland... View Details
    • 20 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 20, 2007

    that the tire grading system was close to becoming a reality. Second, Joan Claybrook, a former Nader consumer interest group lobbyist, had just become head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency within the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7, 2009

    between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • January 23, 2020
    • Article

    Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism: Iran, Russia, and the Unintended Division of the West

    By: Rawi Abdelal and Aurélie Bros
    Sanctions have become the dominant tool of statecraft in the United States and other Western states, especially the European Union, since the end of the Cold War. But the systematic use of this instrument may produce unintended and somewhat paradoxical geopolitical... View Details
    Keywords: Geopolitics; Economic Sanctions; International Relations; United States; Russia; Iran; Europe
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    • 19 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 19, 2008

    Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
    • Case

    Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

    By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
    In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
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    • June 2012
    • Article

    Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
    Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but re-nationalized the main water company in 2006. We study beliefs about the benefits of the privatization of water services amongst low- and middle-income groups immediately after the 2006 nationalization.... View Details
    Keywords: Privatization; Business and Community Relations; Household; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Public Ownership; Utilities Industry; Argentina
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    • 18 Apr 2022
    • HBS Case

    Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

    cases entitled “Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out of the Gun Business.” “Standing on the societal sidelines is increasingly becoming less of an option for companies and business leaders.” Riedel stresses that no two View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

    By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
    Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
    Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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    • October 2024
    • Teaching Plan

    Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble

    By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
    In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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    • Web

    Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    KU Leuven's Documentary on Shared Value KU Leuven , February 11, 2019 See all media mentions Data & External Sites U.S. Cluster Mapping Portal "Mapping a nation of regional clusters" Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing... View Details
    • 03 Feb 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

    • 25 Oct 2010
    • HBS Case

    Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

    eliminated discount coupons, and decorated in a spare style more suited to a hospital than a food retailer. Five years later, Fresh & Easy has not made a dime, and analysts are wondering whether the company should pack up and go home,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • Article

    The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries.

    Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through anti-dumping measures, especially given that both industries face the full force of the global economy? We argue that the patterning of anti-dumping actions... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Trade; Economy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Motivation and Incentives; Marketing Channels; Industry Structures; System Shocks; Price; Restructuring; Interests; Energy Industry; Steel Industry; China
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    • 2012
    • Teaching Note

    ChemChina (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
    ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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