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  • December 2018
  • Case

Soybean Production in Argentina: The Duhau Group

By: José B. Alvarez and Mariana Cal
Crop-planning was affected by macroeconomic factors including international disputes, commodity prices, local tax, and agricultural policies, etc. Enrique and Alejandro Duhau, co-owners of the Duhau Group, analyzed these factors, as well as technical and financial... View Details
Keywords: Trade Negotiations; Soybeans; Production; Trading; Agribusiness; Decision Making; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Economics; Macroeconomics; Goods and Commodities; Government and Politics; International Relations; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; South America; Argentina
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  • September 2018 (Revised August 2021)
  • Teaching Note

Blackstone at Age 30 and Blackstone at 35

By: Josh Lerner
This teaching note is meant to guide in the instruction of HBS No. 316-013 "Blackstone at 30" case. It examines the process of institutionalization and scaling in private equity and alternative investments more generally, looking specifically at how Blackstone's size... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Blackstone; Alternative Assets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Growth and Maturation; Public Ownership; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Services Industry
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  • July 1996
  • Case

Trans National Group

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Takia Mahmood
Starting as a classic entrepreneur,Steve Belkin, CEO of Trans National (TN), drives the company through two businesses--one in group travel and another in financial services--before deciding to step back and act as a general manager whose focus and attention is on... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management; Growth Management
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  • 07 Nov 2016
  • News

The CEO as Activist

  • 22 May 2012
  • News

Are You Sleeping With Your Smartphone?

  • 14 Sep 2021
  • News

Pandemic Has Sped Up Pace that Some Work Skills Become Obsolete by 70 Percent, Survey Finds

  • 14 Aug 2019
  • News

Fintech on Main Street: How small businesses are banking on new technology

  • TeachingInterests

Business, Government and the International Economy

By: Dante Roscini
Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details
  • Research Summary

Corporate Restructuring and Business Insolvency: Economic Impact and Best Practices

By: Stuart C. Gilson
Stuart C. Gilson is studying how severe financial distress impacts corporate policies and economic resource allocation. He is also studying how managers can best respond to financial distress in order to preserve and grow value. He is undertaking this research... View Details

    Janice H. Hammond

    Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

    Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation
    • Article

    The Electrification Accelerator: Understanding the Implications of Autonomous Vehicles for Electric Utilities

    By: Jurgen Weiss, Ryan Hledik, Roger Lueken, Tony Lee and Will Gorman
    The intersection of autonomous vehicles, ride sharing and transportation electrification could have significant implications for electric utilities. This paper analyses how the development of shared autonomous electric vehicles may make electrified transportation more... View Details
    Keywords: Electrification; Autonomous Vehicle; Electric Vehicle; Electric Utility; Rate Design; Regulation; Energy; Transportation; Energy Industry; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry
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    • July 2017
    • Article

    Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China

    By: Lily Fang, Josh Lerner and Chaopeng Wu
    Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Privatization; State Ownership; Trademarks; Copyright; Innovation and Invention; China
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    • 23 Jul 2021
    • Blog Post

    Trends in Consumer Products

    A job search in Consumer Products requires thorough research to understand how Covid has affected a company’s business. Most consumer products companies had very uneven business results—some brands saw enormous growth and others saw... View Details
    • 27 Sep 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Selin Sayek
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Efficient Discovery of Heterogeneous Quantile Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments via Anomalous Pattern Detection

    By: Edward McFowland III, Sriram Somanchi and Daniel B. Neill
    In the recent literature on estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, each proposed method makes its own set of restrictive assumptions about the intervention’s effects and which subpopulations to explicitly estimate. Moreover, the majority of the literature provides... View Details
    Keywords: Causal Inference; Program Evaluation; Algorithms; Distributional Average Treatment Effect; Treatment Effect Subset Scan; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
    We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Health Pandemics; Investment; Decision Making; Surveys
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    • 2010
    • Book

    International Differences in Entrepreneurship

    By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
    Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market. As a result,... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply and Industry; Business and Government Relations
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    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

    research, typically developing three publishable papers by the end of the program. Examples of doctoral thesis topics include: Examining how employee non-compete agreements affect entrepreneurship and job mobility; Improving retailers'... View Details
    • 24 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Equalizing Outcomes vs. Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children’s Abilities Depend on Parents’ Resources

    Keywords: by Alexander Gelber & Matthew Weinzierl
    • 11 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

    or normal term for African American Student Union (AASU) Co-Presidents Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021). We talked to the two second-year students about how 2020 affected their term, highlights from their time as... View Details