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  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

industries that can be anybody, anywhere. While some observers have dismissed the phenomenon as exclusive to "a few crazy Internet companies in California," the reality is this: the value of corporate incumbency these days is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

the finance industry has been that "they should move from Wall Street to Seventh Avenue and be with the rest of the fashion industry." "We're never going back to the slow and lazy times," he said. From Winner To Loser... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

and balance sheet, capital is a must. You can’t help others if you (or your company) are not in a good place. That’s why flight attendants tell you to first put on your oxygen mask before trying to help others. As you build the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

so the plants have quickly returned to their original CO2 emissions. Other dual-fuel power plants will do the same flip quickly unless there is a carbon cost in place or a high capital cost associated with meeting smoke stack air quality... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • March 2017
  • Supplement

Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Yannick Saleman
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • 13 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • Web

Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

consult to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and device companies, health information technology, venture capital and private equity). Educational Objectives This course will... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 22 Nov 2024
  • News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley

    Samuel P. Colt

    Colt organized United States Rubber into a vertically integrated business with a centralized administration. Colt also diversified United States Rubber to include non-footwear items, such as tires, which were a booming market at the time of his tenure. Colt grew United... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
    • May 1993 (Revised June 2004)
    • Case

    PepsiCo Bottling in Mexico

    By: Kenneth A. Froot
    This case describes Pepsico's program to restructure its Mexican bottling network. It wants to work with existing bottlers and find an organizational arrangement that will allow the bottlers to grow and change with the Mexican soft drink industry. View Details
    Keywords: Bottling; Mergers and Acquisitions; Joint Ventures; Multinational Firms and Management; International Finance; Valuation; Programs; Organizational Design; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico
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    • 01 Jun 2006
    • News

    Surviving Success

    material was there,” says Wasserman. “An added plus was the issue of how involved Lew should be in the search for his replacement.” After an extensive search process, the company offered the position of CEO to Dick Williams, an industry... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 01 Mar 2010
    • News

    Alumni Books

    The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management masters share the wisdom they... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • 04 Nov 2020
    • News

    The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

    connected me because of her venture capital position to a startup role. And it was a hard left in terms of my career direction, but actually my HBS sectionmates convinced me to take the interview and I... View Details
    • fall 1991
    • Article

    Beefing-up Operations in Service Firms

    By: R. H. Hayes and R. B. Chase
    Keywords: Operations; Business Ventures; Service Industry
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    • 28 Jul 2015
    • Blog Post

    Nairobi Love: Heading Home

    openness to technology adoption (e.g., M-KOPA)?  I believe that the private sector will generate the majority of capital for our future growth, but how can it work together with the public sector to ensure that growth generates... View Details
    • 05 Apr 2016
    • Blog Post

    Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

    how to spend your summers. Amongst the current JD/MBA’s, I think we had someone on almost every continent and in almost every major industry last summer.  My personal goal with my summer internships was to complement what I had learned in... View Details
    • February 2008
    • Case

    SPECIALISTERNE: Sense & Details

    Three-quarters of Specialisterne's expert software testing staff are diagnosed with some form of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Usually a handicap, ASD conveys talents especially suited to software testing and other highly repetitive tasks that require very high... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Health Disorders; Employees; Performance Evaluation; Quality; Software; Information Technology Industry
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    • May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
    • Case

    Vermeer Technologies (C): Negotiating the Future

    By: Ashish Nanda
    The success of the Vermeer software offering suddenly transforms the start-up into a sought after company. After arduous negotiations, Vermeer management is faced with the choice of continuing as an independent company or being acquired by Microsoft or Netscape. View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Applications and Software; Decision Making; Acquisition; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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    • Profile

    Anthony Tan

    breakthrough idea came from an HBS classmate, an Indonesian friend who needled Tan about the dreadful state of the taxi business in Malaysia. “He said: `Your great grandfather was a taxi driver, your grandfather started the Japanese automotive View Details