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    Leonard A. Schlesinger

    Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

    • September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
    • Supplement

    Keroche (E): Considering Additional Capacity

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
    This case describes Keroche’s growth after entering the beer business in 2008. Although the company was operating at full capacity and not able to fulfill all of its orders, Tabitha Karanja had set a goal of growing Keroche’s share of the Kenyan beer market from... View Details
    Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Beverages; Beer; Beer Market; Premium Beer; Manufacturing; Production; Production Capacity; Capacity; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financing and Loans; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • August 2020 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    PayPal: The Next Chapter

    By: Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Annelena Lobb
    Can a social purpose and stakeholder capitalism confer a powerful competitive advantage in the age of COVID-19? For PayPal, the answer is yes. After spinning off from eBay in a 2015 IPO, the company declared its purpose as "democratizing financial services" by ensuring... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Finance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Entrepreneurship; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
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    • 20 Apr 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Misgovernance at the World Bank

    development projects around the globe. The study, by Harvard Law School student Ashwin Kaja and HBS professor Eric Werker, is detailed in the working paper "Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank" [PDF]. Theirs is the first... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • June 2012
    • Article

    Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications

    By: Evan P. Apfelbaum, Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers
    We examine the pervasive endorsement of racial colorblindness-the belief that racial group membership should not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Strategy; Law; Practice; Race; Research; Social Issues; Diversity
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    • June 2014
    • Supplement

    Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Jordan Ramirez

    By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
    The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • Teaching Interest

    MBA Elective Curriculum Personal Selling and Sales Force Management

    Personal selling is the primary (and sometimes the only) form of marketing activity for many firms, especially in a business-to-business context. The course focuses on the tactical component of managing a salesforce and on the strategic element of linking sales... View Details

    • July 1991 (Revised December 1993)
    • Case

    Grupo Industrial Alfa, S.A.--1982

    The rapid depreciation of the peso in 1982 precipitated a crisis at Grupo Alfa, Mexico's largest private company. The company's peso cash flow was insufficient to service its large dollar-denominated debt. Students are asked to formulate a plan for restructuring Alfa's... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Restructuring; Negotiation Participants; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Mexico
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    • March 1992 (Revised June 1995)
    • Case

    Introduction of FM Radio (A): Finally, A ""Staticless"" Radio

    Describes the evolution of radio technology and business from the initial days of wireless telegraphy to the advent, growth, and establishment of amplitude-modulated (AM) radio manufacturing and broadcasting. Begins and ends with a description of a decision the Radio... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Product Design; Product Development; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    • 07 Mar 2008
    • News

    Art of retaining professionals

    • 02 Jun 2017
    • News

    Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance

    • 07 Mar 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Petra Moser, NYU Stern School of Business

    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment

    By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
    Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent decades have precipitated an explosion of cross-border flows in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Cost; Transportation; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location
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    • 25 Jan 2016
    • News

    Problem-based learning and the case method

    • 11 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

    Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
    • October 2014
    • Case

    CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass

    By: Lena G. Goldberg, Paul Healy and Nancy Hua Dai
    In 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges of rapid growth and expansion in a changing regulatory environment. CreditEase needs to develop technology to... View Details
    Keywords: P2P Lending; HNW Products And Services; Business Growth; Business Start-ups; Government Regulation; Change Management; Credit; Microcredit; Banking; Innovation And Management; Developing Countries And Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Law; Financing and Loans; Change; China
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    • Fall, 2024
    • Article

    Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls

    By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
    We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

    By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
    We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Industry Structures; Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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    • January 2009 (Revised October 2009)
    • Case

    GLOBALGAP: Food Safety and Private Standards

    By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
    In response to new laws governing liability and several food safety scares in the 1990s, European retailers drove the creation of a universal production standard based on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe
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    • October 2006 (Revised October 2006)
    • Case

    DLA Piper: Becoming a Global Firm

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak
    Focuses on DLA Piper, a global law firm resulting from the merger of the combined U.S. firm Piper Rudnick Gray Cary and the British firm DLA. At the time of the merger, the firms had similar strategies for the future and approaches to clients. While figuring out some... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Leadership; Alignment; Expansion; Legal Services Industry; United States
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