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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan Mistele, was looking to pivot into high growth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

long-term economic growth and inflation. The Fed can affect long-term rates only to the extent that it can influence those expectations. Long-term conservative investors should not probably be in the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • May 2023
  • Teaching Note

Tesla’s Uncertain Fate as EV Race Accelerates

By: David Collis
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-368. The case describes the strategic position of Tesla in 2021. While the firm has been successful in driving adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) globally and has a huge market share in the segment, it faces an impending tsunami of... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Competition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Adoption; Auto Industry
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  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets with nationalized banks experienced faster credit View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

published field studies of men doing dangerous work, to induce a model of how organizational cultures equip men to "do" and "undo" gender at work. Breakthrough Inventions and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding My Passion in the Startup Space

many possibilities unfold in front of you. I considered startups in the US or in Europe's tech hubs, but ultimately from following Greece's entrepreneurship scene, I found Blueground, a rare exception from the lot. The company is in hyper View Details
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View

Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • July 2001 (Revised December 2001)
  • Case

American Express Interactive

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Follows the protagonist, Sonia Sharpe, as she and her American Express Interactive Team attempt to develop and market an interactive, on-line, corporate travel service in a highly competitive environment. Looks at the possible resources and partnerships a company needs... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Global Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Vertical Integration; Financial Services Industry; Travel Industry
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  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor protections limit the scale of multinational firm activity, increase the reliance on FDI flows, and alter the decision to deploy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

strategy. How should Weltman and CS best proceed? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/modern-family-planning-the-business-of-circle-surrogacy/an/714418-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-044 Kiehl's Since 1851: Pathway to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

market segment had been growing faster than the conventional market overall and was expected to continue. This had caused large conventional manufacturers to enter this space, increasing the level of competition for Hain. Third, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2010
  • Case

Revitalizing Dell

By: Jan W. Rivkin
Dell Inc., with its vaunted Direct Model, defined success in the personal computer industry for more than a decade. Starting in the mid-2000s, however, the company fell on hard times. In 2009, Michael Dell and his management team must figure out why the Direct Model... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Industry Growth; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry
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  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

differences from market to market in what types of customers you attract and retain," Buell says. In one market, the company may be at the top of the service scale and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

people analytics is on a trajectory of significant growth as more organizations see value in using employee data to make better decisions. The trickier question for companies will be how to use the information responsibly View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

  Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

TotalEnergies’ Investment in Hyzon Motors

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and David Lane
In November 2021, Girish Nadkarni, the head of TotalEnergies’ corporate venture capital arm (TEV) was considering whether, and on what terms, to exit an investment in Hyzon Motors, a start-up supplier of hydrogen-powered trucks. TEV had invested $4 million in Hyzon,... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Communication Intention and Meaning; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Design; Standards; Commercialization; Investment Portfolio; Market Transactions; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; New York (city, NY)
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  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

climate risk as an asset owner, measuring climate risk and using metrics in portfolio construction, incorporating physical climate risk into portfolio analysis. The last day turned to financing innovation with a focus on early stage... View Details