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- April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane
In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details
Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan
Abdelal, Rawi E., and David Lane. "Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China." Harvard Business School Case 706-012, April 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
- Web
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and opportunities that leaders and organizations face in moving from organization-level to system-level (transformative) impact. Co-hosted two convenings on impact investing and transformative impact. 2016 Launched new "Alumni for Impact" View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which firms refuse to join the syndicate of any firm that deviates from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- September 1995
- Case
Richina Capital Partners Limited
By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
Richard Yan and Suzanne Foels raise a $52.5 million fund to invest in Chinese companies in concert with major multinational companies. They face all the challenges of starting a business from scratch in addition to the challenges of operating in a cross-cultural... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Business Strategy; Expansion; Investment Return; China
Sahlman, William A., and Jason Green. "Richina Capital Partners Limited." Harvard Business School Case 396-059, September 1995.
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
better off establishing an upfront, de jure standard to lessen the competitive effects of a network market. However, if a firm is able to enter the market first, by choosing a proprietary/incompatible technology, it can use a "divide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
breakthrough in alarm clock design since the snooze button until entrepreneur Gauri Nanda created Clocky. Her runaway hit has been the inspiration for several cases written by Professor Elie Ofek. Should I Crowdsource My Solutions? View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
Recommended by Strategy consultant Vivek Ravishanker (MBA 2012) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Knight on the idea that became Nike: “That morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
Silicon Valley a natural fit. It’s a path that worked quite nicely for Thomas, who eventually rose to vice president of marketing at SuccessFactors, a software firm focused on employee performance and View Details
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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
catalyzing solutions around them. If you read the front page of the newspaper any day, it's increasingly obvious that social and environmental externalities cannot be separated from the business and market opportunities that create them,... View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
was to supplement the customer-facing front-end in the developed markets, with a lower-cost back-end in an emerging market. That is, TCL was trying to buy a sales and marketing structure and a set of brands. Much like Tata is with Corus.... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
and Roger L. Martin (MBA 1981) (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors explain what strategy is for, why it's necessary, and how to get it done. And they use P&G's very successful turnaround (doubling its sales, quadrupling its... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Commission. Why health care needs an SEC equivalent For more than eight decades, the SEC has brought transparency to the financial system, policing the market to ensure robust disclosure that complies with Generally Accepted Accounting... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
the slot-specific priorities framework and can be found by a cumulative offer mechanism that is strategy proof and respects unambiguous improvements in priority. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50637... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2009
- Supplement
Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)
By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
[Continuation of "A" and "B" cases.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses – and realizing the $180 million of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Financial Institutions; Business Processes; Risk Management; Strategy; Market Transactions; Assets; System; Saving; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)
Taliaferro, Ryan D., Clayton S. Rose, and David Lane. "Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-028, October 2009.
- September 2002 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean
In Egypt, Genzyme's humanitarian commitment to treat all sufferers of the rare Gaucher disease worldwide first confronts its commercial imperative to recoup the huge investment required to bring the drug Cerezyme to market. Here Tomye Tierney must decide how to balance... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Investment; Emerging Markets; Negotiation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Sales; Commercialization; Expansion; Value Creation
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Andrew N. McLean. "Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 303-048, September 2002. (Revised August 2003.)
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Preaching with a Choir
volunteer experience as a musician with my background in consumer package goods marketing and my Harvard MBA training. “What we were looking to do is to take the Cadillac brand that is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, re-energize it,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
classmates for two years built poise, which is incredibly important when you’re constantly in front of customers, retailers, investors, or even the Sharks! Wiegele: “We also took a digital marketing strategy... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Working PapersDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers Authors:John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 1998 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
PlanetAll
PlanetAll is a Web-based contact manager that automatically updates users' contact information. In early 1998, the young company must decide whether to compete with large Web sites and become a destination site or to become an enabling technology for other contact... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Business Startups; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Michelle Toth, and Carrie Ardito. "PlanetAll." Harvard Business School Case 898-105, March 1998. (Revised February 2001.)
- May 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
Keywords: Latin America; Brazil; Mexico; Argentina; Colombia; Chile; Impact Investing; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Ownership; Social Enterprise; Business Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Latin America; Brazil; Mexico; Argentina; Colombia; Chile; Guatemala; Central America