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August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
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The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais

The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details

Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia

January 2022
Case

Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen

By: Dennis Yao and Alpana Thapar

In January 2020, Paddy Padmanathan, president and CEO of ACWA Power, was reflecting on the company’s sixteen-year record of success and thinking about its future growth plans. Founded in 2004, ACWA Power was a Saudi Arabian developer, owner, and operator of power and... View Details

Keywords: Green Hydrogen; Energy; Climate Change; Supply Chain; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Green Technology; Projects; Alliances; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East; North Africa

February 2024
Case

Tabby: Winning Consumers' Digital Wallets

By: Eva Ascarza and Fares Khrais

Hosam Arab (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of Tabby, a Saudi-based fintech startup, raised its Series D funding round in October 2023, four years after its inception, valuing it as a regional unicorn. Tabby's core product, a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) service, allowed... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Risk Management; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia

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Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

Download Transcript Saudi Arabia Muhammad Alagil Jarir Marketing (Electronics; office supplies; books; diversified) “We just want to keep developing a good reputation. We want to have exciting time. We want... View Details

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Fatima Albassam

In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to... View Details

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Executive Education - Global

something that was just words into a tangible belief deep inside me." Abdulrahman Alkanhal Vice President The Royal Court of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia "I was in... View Details

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Loujaine AlMoallim

business's factory for the first time. Growing up in a different city in Saudi Arabia meant that I hadn't had many opportunities to witness the inner workings of our family's business. But that day was... View Details

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern 09 Sep 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition by Michael E. Porter 24 Jan 2012 Global Competitiveness Forum “Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness: Implications for View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

foreign arbitration awards. "It's very important to watch how fast Saudi Arabia moves toward WTO membership. It will have a great deal to do with the political stability of the country, its dealing with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Tarun Khanna

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Lisbon (2017) The Automotive Cluster in Portugal (2007) Romania Romania Apparel Cluster (2010) Russia The Moscow Financial Services Cluster (2012) Moscow Transportation (2006) Saudi Arabia View Details

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Request the Data - Leadership

Mexico Monaco Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Ireland Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Paraguay Peru Phillippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi View Details

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National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Luxembourg Macedonia Monaco Netherlands Nordic Region Norway Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Middle East & North Africa Bahrain Egypt Israel Jordan... View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

College Dublin (Dublin) Italy LIUC - Carlo Cattaneo University (Castellanza) Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza) Japan Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo) Kazakhstan Kazakh-British Technical University (Almaty) Kenya Strathmore Business School (Nairobi) Kingdom... View Details

August 2023
Case

Floward

By: Krishna Palepu and Namrata Arora

In 2022, Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani, CEO and co-founder of Floward, an online flower and gifting company established in Kuwait in 2017, contemplated the firm's growth trajectory. Floward, an e-commerce enterprise that offered fresh-cut flowers sourced directly from... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Information Technology Industry; Middle East; North Africa; Saudi Arabia; Kuwait; United Arab Emirates; Jordan