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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

as an adjunct professor at Bentley University in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. His higher education career has focused on innovating and maximizing the value proposition of public higher education in serving students and communities.... View Details
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Creation at Medtronic Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to the Architect Model Creating Value as an Organization Organizational Design Levers: The Conditions Organizational Design Levers: The... View Details
  • May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
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Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Digital Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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  • January 2008
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Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

McComb Brian Trelstad Gerald Chertavian Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems John Dionne Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Sara Fleiss Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: View Details
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Diversity on Boards - Alumni

https://www.exed.hbs.edu/women-boards-succeeding-corporate-director/ Preparing to Be a Corporate Director https://www.exed.hbs.edu/preparing-corporate-director/ Making Corporate Boards More Effective: https://www.exed.hbs.edu/making-corporate-boards-more-effective/... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

should be focused on the creation of strategic advantage through extending competitive scope, partnerships (customers and other parties), the changing of the rules of competition, and the provision of new IT-based services to extend the... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network ICIC Initiative for a Competitive... View Details
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Ahmed Alimi

Advisory Services, FBN Capital, and Helios Investment Partners. "At Helios," Ahmed says, "I had a unique opportunity to work on deals as well as support value creation efforts at our portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
  • July 2022 (Revised September 2022)
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Birla Carbon Egypt: Building Soft Power in a Foreign Country

By: Jeremy Friedman and Malini Sen
Birla Carbon, a flagship business of the nearly $60-billion global conglomerate and India-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is one of the world's top manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black. The largest among its 16 manufacturing plants is Birla... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Family Business; Disruption; Transformation; Diversity; Trade; Energy; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Civil Society or Community; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Industrial Products Industry; Rubber Industry; Egypt; Africa; India; Asia; Atlanta; United States
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  • September 2024
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Eat App: Building and Monetizing an End-to-End Dining Experience Solution

By: Elie Ofek and Ahmed Dahawy
Founded in 2015 in Bahrain, Eat App was an up-and-coming player in the global restaurant management software business. In early 2024, having shifted to a product-led growth strategy, the company’s co-founders faced a host of decisions that could greatly impact their... View Details
Keywords: Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Negotiation Deal; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Profit; Revenue; Applications and Software; Product; Food and Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; Bahrain; United Arab Emirates; Abu Dhabi; Dubai
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 11 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The High Risks of Short-Term Management

    profits (or worse, the short-term benefits come at the expense of long-term value creation). This phenomenon does not come out of the blue, but is attributable to fundamental frictions in capital markets related to the uncertainty of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 15 Nov 2018
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    Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

    JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • March 2022
    • Supplement

    Pakistan Rising: Bazaar's Growth Story (B)

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in January 2022 as Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, co-founders of Bazaar technologies (Bazaar), the Pakistani high growth B2B e-commerce marketplace, are looking over the performance of the newly launched “buy now, play later” feature. The traction looks... View Details
    Keywords: B2B; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Pakistan
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    • 02 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 2, 2009

      Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Jun 2022
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    The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

    How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 29 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

    current career plans in any way? This summer, I interned at CDC Group, the oldest impact investor in Africa and South Asia, and at EquaLife Capital, an East African investment fund. I found the role of value View Details
    • December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
    • Case

    Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever

    By: James E. Austin and James Quinn
    In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Value Creation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 09 Jan 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    When Benchmarks Don’t Work

    cost reduction. Few companies, however, attempt to seek competitive advantage by lowering the cost of any of these standard processes. No matter what, these tasks must be done cheaply, reliably, and in a timely fashion. The opportunity for View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service