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  • 04 Jan 2013
  • News

B-school curriculum is now covering legal, ethical issues too

  • 09 Feb 2018
  • News

Were retail jobs always low wage, with few benefits?

  • May 2021
  • Article

Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns

By: Josh Lerner, Sergey Chernenko and Yao Zeng
The past decade saw the rise of both “founder-friendly” venture financings and non-traditional investors, frequently with liquidity constraints. Using detailed contract data, we study open-end mutual funds investing in private venture-backed firms. We posit an... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Governance
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  • November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base

By: William W. George
Since the 1970s, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region (MSP) had outpaced the nation in job creation and income per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Employment; Organizations; Transformation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
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  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Video

Hiroshi Mikitani - Making A Difference

    Archie L. Jones

    Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

    • September 2018
    • Case

    ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction

    By: Frank V. Cespedes, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
    ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and provides oil field services in Argentina. In 2016, an industry-wide unforeseen oil and gas demand slump drove ProdEng’s average service rates down by more than 37%, with EBITDA margins falling from 50% to 24% in the... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Marketing; Price; Strategy; Latin America; Argentina
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      Ashish Nanda

      Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
      • August 2022 (Revised May 2025)
      • Case

      Fresh Food Generation

      By: Brian Trelstad, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
      This case highlights one of five BIPOC entrepreneurs in the Boston area as part of the HBS Impact Investment Fund. In fall 2021, a team of HBS students reviewed the financial statements of Fresh Food Generation (FFG), a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based food service... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Investment; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Race; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston
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      • 16 Aug 2019
      • Video

      Unleashing courage in tomorrow’s leaders

      • 2004
      • Other Teaching and Training Material

      Great Negotiator 2002: Lakhdar Brahimi

      By: James K. Sebenius and Kristin Schneeman

      The Program on Negotiation honored Ambassador Brahimi in events on October 2, 2002. These began with an in-depth faculty-moderated discussion with a group of students, faculty, and guests at Harvard Business School. On the evening of the 2nd, Ambassador Brahimi... View Details

      Keywords: Negotiation; Learning; Strategy; Afghanistan
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        David B. Yoffie

        Professor David B. Yoffie is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his... View Details

        Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games

          Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

          For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, American companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in... View Details

          • October 2006
          • Background Note

          China's Financial Markets: 2006

          By: F. Warren McFarlan, Li Jin and Tracy Manty
          Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China, evaluating the up-to-date performance of key components of the markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy. View Details
          Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Global Strategy; Markets; Competition; China
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          • 18 Jan 2012
          • Research & Ideas

          Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

          rise in hybrid models is important for social entrepreneurs, Battilana says, because traditionally there has been a tendency to divide the business world into black and white:... View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

            N. Louis Shipley

            Lou Shipley is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Lou is a three-time technology CEO, most recently at Black Duck Software.

            Lou teaches four sales courses at HBS. He specializes in tech entrepreneurship,... View Details

            • January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
            • Case

            Envision Group

            By: Gunnar Trumbull, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
            Based in China, Envision was one of the world’s leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the company’s global operations and supply chain by 2022 and 2028 respectively. As part of its... View Details
            Keywords: Green Technology; Climate Change; Emerging Markets; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Renewable Energy; Energy Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Green Technology Industry; Battery Industry; China; United States; Japan; United Kingdom; France
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              Suraj Srinivasan

              Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

              Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
              • 12 Aug 2002
              • Op-Ed

              Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

              amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This... View Details
              Keywords: by George C. Lodge
              • May 2025
              • Case

              From oneworld to a New World? LATAM’s High-Stakes Alliance Dilemma

              By: Juan Alcacer and Valentina Tarzijan
              As global alliances evolve and regulatory barriers mount, LATAM Airlines must reassess the strategic logic of partnerships. In 2019, Delta Air Lines proposed a $1.9 billion investment and deeper cooperation via a Joint Business Agreement, prompting LATAM to evaluate... View Details
              Keywords: Aviation; Airlines; Transportation; Latin America; North America
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