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  • 13 Oct 2004
  • Other Presentation

Global Competitiveness Report 2004-05: Sweden’s Business Competitiveness

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porte'’s books and articles, in articular, "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2004-05 (World Economic Forum, 2004); "Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Sweden
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  • Teaching Interest

Launching New Ventures—Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners (Executive Education)

By: William R. Kerr
Starting up a new venture amid rapid change is fraught with challenges. Whether you are starting a new business, launching a new business line, or building an entrepreneurial culture within a small-to-midsize company, this program provides a new perspective and core... View Details
  • Web

Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

More about what you earn Syllabus 3 Modules, 20-25 Hours Download full syllabus 8 hrs Module 1 The Business Case for Action Understand the business case for change and how to analyze and assess industry... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners

contacted the 705 alumni who took part in the Business Plan Contest between 1997 and 2004. The survey’s 269 respondents reported starting 254 enterprises, with nearly 200 businesses still up and running and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

will leverage my knowledge of the country and my network with business, government, non-profits, and development agencies to deliver a unique experience for students who not only what to learn more about climate related issues but also... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003

By: Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work examining the effects of having the government as a minority shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Ownership Stake; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Brazil
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  • August 1993
  • Case

USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region

By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell
USAA proposes to develop a new set of processes for its property and casualty division. The case focuses on processes used in automobile claims. View Details
Keywords: Business Processes; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • February 2002 (Revised August 2002)
  • Case

Inhale Therapeutics: Executing and Growing the Business Model

Inhale is about to bring a novel technology to market that uses inhalation to administer drugs that formerly required injection. Inhale must now decide which way to evolve its business model. This will determine the future direction of growth for the company. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Technological Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 2020
  • Chapter

Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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  • 28 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

Jiyoon Han (MBA 2021) is getting a taste of what it’s like to be a case protagonist—learning how to pivot while measuring unforeseen challenges against new opportunities. When news broke in March about how COVID-19 would affect the Harvard View Details
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

homeownership fund. He said, “I intend to use my time at HBS to turn my vision for community-centered urban development into an actionable, scalable business model.” Lee Martin (MBA 2026)Lee began a... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2012
  • News

Shaping a Business and a Community

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
  • 23 Apr 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Florenta Teodoridis, USC Marshall School of Business

  • October 23, 2013
  • Article

Banyan Family Business Advisors On The Keys to Long-Term Resilience

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Family businesses have been found to excel in resilience during economic downturns compared to publicly-traded ones. This is attributed to their focus on resilience over performance. Key qualities of resilient family firms include managing low debt, practicing... View Details
Keywords: Performance Consistency; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Family Ownership; Family Business; Values and Beliefs; Business Strategy
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  • 27 Apr 2009
  • News

Past Business Plan Contest Winners Pave the Way for 2009 Participants

  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Development Scientist II at The Clorox Company. Jessica Chamoun (MBA 2022, Section D), Summer Internship: Business Development Intern at Malta Inc. Malta’s electro-thermal... View Details
  • 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)

and development are when I witnessed the debilitating impact of Nigeria’s flailing macroeconomic outlook on once thriving businesses in 2016. Subsequent macro events made it increasingly clear that I needed... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we empower business leaders to make an impact... View Details
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence

By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Conglomerates; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Organizations; Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom
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  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

in September, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, by one of my colleagues, Rakesh Khurana, may help explain it. Khurana traces the development of business schools from their early days in a small number of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett