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  • Summer 2014
  • Article

Delegation in Multi‐Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran
This paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Adaptation
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  • 18 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. There, I collaborated with both private and public sector clients across various industries in Africa, focusing on speeding up private sector growth View Details
  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

gain access to workers' compensation data. Because the data were collected at the company level, the researchers limited their analysis to firms with only one plant, where the effects of an inspection on injury rates View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

world. What was next for the family firm and brand leader from northern Italy's Emilia-Romagna region? How would the singularly focused, consensus-driven firm fare in an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1993 (Revised January 1994)
  • Case

Cummins Engine Company, The: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant

By: Robert H. Hayes
Cummins Engine Co. is starting up production of diesel engine crankshafts in its plant in central Mexico. This operation requires much tighter tolerances than any product previously produced at the plant, and the young (recent MBA) manager who is in charge of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Production; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Industrial Products Industry; Mexico; Alabama
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  • Web

In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

PhD Investment Strategies By: Malcolm P. Baker & Samuel G. Hanson Former offerings Investment Strategies and Behavioral and Value Investing Investment Management By: Adi... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

with the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes

By: Christian Kaps and Simone Marinesi
Power systems account for nearly 40% of global emissions. As the world tries to reduce emissions by increasing renewable penetration, storage technologies are playing an increasingly important role in matching variable renewable supply with demand. Batteries have... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Transition; Utilities Industry; Battery Industry
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  • Career Coach

Alejandro Maldonado

of Pennsylvania (magna cum laude) and an MBA from Harvard Business School ('08). Work Experience: Private Equity (H.I.G. Capital, Advent International, founded Appian Education Ventures), Management... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)
  • Web

Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

identify their defining elements, such as size, risk, and liquidity Develop the confidence and ability to assess potential investment opportunities and maximize the value of... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2023
  • News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 13 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

through the red tape of academia to negotiate with an institution’s technology licensing department. Knowing where to look for the most interesting scientific advancements and how to filter for reliable studies isn’t every manager’s... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an emerging industry leader in low-cost investing. As the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 28 Feb 2019
  • News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

firm based in Boston, where he served in a wide range of roles, including managing partner and Executive Committee member. He also served as board director of more than 30... View Details
  • June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee
Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Investment; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; SWOT Analysis; Real Estate Industry; Chile
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  • July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America
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  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

considering getting an MBA and worried about similar issues, I hope you will find this post helpful.  Here were my major concerns:  1. I wasn’t interesting enough I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, then spent... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

All of the most valuable firms in the world today are platforms, starting with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. But platforms do not evolve in predictable ways, and there... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace