Poland - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2010
Background Note

Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro

By: Diego A. Comin, Dante Roscini and Elisa Farri

This note briefly reviews the financial crisis in central Europe in late 2008, and summarizes how four central European countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia—have coped with the economic downturn. View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia

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01 Dec 2020
News

Karmic Kickstart

monastery. We have also taken a few mini-sabbaticals to range further afield, helping to expand a nonprofit peace organization in Cambodia, sailing around the world twice as professors with 500 college students on the Semester at Sea program, and accepting Fulbright... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

December 1997
Case

Intercontinental Breweries (Abridged)

By: Thomas R. Piper

A senior executive of a U.S. multinational is attempting to develop a set of financial, operating, and ownership arrangements that will be acceptable to the management and employees of a major Polish company and to the Ministry of Privatization. The arrangements must... View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Food and Beverage Industry; Poland; United States

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01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts

three years' service in Poland and Russia as a top-level advisor to those countries' market-oriented reformers. Sachs's methods are often called “shock treatment,” but Djelic begs to differ. “It's not shock treatment,” he declares. “It's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

YouTube views. By contrast, Nestlé's self-explanatory "From Maine Water Springs to You: The Journey of Poland Springs Water" has barely cracked 500 views. So why did one water commercial sparkle on YouTube, while the other fizzled? The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
Case

Finberg: Corporate Venture Capital in Türkiye

By: Paul A. Gompers and Namrata Arora

In December 2021, Murat Özyeğin, Chairman of Fiba Holding, along with Ömer Mert and İhsan Elgin, engaged in discussions about the future of United Payment, a fintech company in which Finberg, a subsidiary of Fibabanka, held a 20% stake. Finberg, established in 2018 as... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Venture Capital; Technology; Return On Investment; Venture Capital; Investment; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Competition; Valuation; Acquisition; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; Banking Industry; Middle East; North Africa; Turkey; Ukraine; Romania; Poland

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24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

informational advantage over their followers. (It is more difficult to make loyalty systems effective for smaller followers in the market, because they tend to have fewer customers and therefore an informational disadvantage.) Tesco's loyalty system in View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

before 1938. Rubinstein is widely considered the single most important female entrepreneur in the United States in the 20th century. She was born in Poland but immigrated to Australia where she started a cosmetics company. She... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

Warsaw, Poland Admission by Proxy I want to share an inspiring counterpoint to the grim events we are all enduring these days. Upon my discharge from the Navy in January 1946, my new wife and I bought and refurbished a used house trailer... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

May 2013
Supplement

Studio Moderna—A Venture in Eastern Europe

By: Jim Sharpe

This is the Spreadsheet Supplement for Studio Moderna—A Venture in Eastern Europe (HBS Case #808110). Includes Exhibit 3a, Exhibit 3b, Exhibit 5, and Exhibit 6. View Details