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- 19 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Vienna (1 PM)
Join current HBS student, Aron Sass, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with... View Details
- 13 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Johannesburg (1 PM)
Join current HBS student, Wabantu Hlophe, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in London (12 PM)
Join current HBS student, Adi Ranjan, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic... View Details
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Military Ties, New Ventures, and Political Risk Management in Emerging Economies
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
New ventures in emerging economies face a number of challenges such as political instability, corruption, and uncertain property rights that can severely hinder their ability to grow and survive, yet little is known about how startups can mitigate such risk. Using data... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?
Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact center startup to a group of angel investors visiting for the first time. The task has given him cause for some soul searching: has it been worth it to battle the impoverished infrastructure and... View Details
Isenberg, Daniel J. "KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?" Harvard Business School Case 809-114, January 2009. (Revised June 2009.)
- 1995
- Article
Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence
By: S. C. Gilson and M. R. Vetsuypens
Gilson, S. C., and M. R. Vetsuypens. "Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence." Corporate Practice Commentator 37 (1995): 339–361.
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Have you heard the one about the minister and the stockbroker waiting in line at the Pearly Gates? St. Peter smiles and says to the stockbroker, "My son, take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Then he... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- March–April 2017
- Article
Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources
Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources." Organization Science 28, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 339–354.
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked on TPG’s impact assessment team, Y Analytics, focused on energy, agriculture, food, and industrial deals. I learned to think deeply about measuring the impact of mission-driven... View Details
- 2022
- Book
A Political Economy of Justice
By: Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson and Joshua Simons
Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people... View Details
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Social Justice; Capitalism; Business And Society; Economy; Society; Fairness; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
Allen, Danielle, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson, and Joshua Simons, eds. A Political Economy of Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Lawrence S. Kramer (MBA '74), who spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner, was himself in the news last January. Kramer's financial information... View Details
- December 2017 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
Amazon Buys Whole Foods
By: José B. Alvarez, David Lane and Joni Coughlin
The June 2017 news that e-commerce giant Amazon was paying $13.7 billion for organic supermarket chain Whole Foods precipitated a broad sell-off in the shares of grocery retailers and suppliers. Behind the precipitous declines lay recognition that Amazon’s bold move... View Details
Keywords: Amazon; Whole Foods; Grocery; Grocery Delivery; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Business Models; Food Value Chain; Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Operations; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Alvarez, José B., David Lane, and Joni Coughlin. "Amazon Buys Whole Foods." Harvard Business School Case 518-056, December 2017. (Revised May 2018.)
- 27 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Omaha (9 AM)
Join current HBS student, William Wang, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! View Details
- 21 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Lima (6 PM)
Join current HBS student, Edgard Mejico, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! View Details
- 05 Jan 2024
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Taipei (3:30 PM)
Join current HBS student, Jerry Lin, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! View Details
- 27 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Lima (8 PM)
Join current HBS student, David Nunez Rishmawi, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! View Details
- October 2012 (Revised February 2014)
- Teaching Note
Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A) and (B)
By: Juan Alcácer
The case is used in Harvard Business School's (HBS) elective course "Competing Globally" as the first case in the third module (see "Competing Globally: Course Note for Instructors," HBS No. 713-422). As the first case in the module, it introduces the framework to... View Details