Publications

August 1993 (Revised November 1994)
Case

Deaver Brown and Cross River, Inc.

Cross River makes and sells an innovative, folding baby stroller to the U.S. market. The company has broken even in its first year, selling mainly to small retailers. CEO Deaver Brown urgently wants to expand distribution to national chains and has secured appointments... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry; United States

Master of Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard University. Areas in which I can support startups: Fundraising and financial management strategies Team formation and motivation strategies Target... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence;#75;#Venture Capital;#64;#Software/App

01 Sep 2005
News

Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

information technology for pedagogy; in teaching entrepreneurial management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held... View Details

December 1992
Supplement

Wal-Mart Ventures into Mexico

By: David B. Yoffie and Jonathan Ginns

Introduces Wal-Mart's initial plans to enter the Mexican retail market. Designed for use with Wal-Mart Stores' Discount Operations. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Globalization; Retail Industry; United States; Mexico

Web

Investment analyst reports: banks included in library research | Baker Library

LSEG Workspace; Bloomberg CapitalCube North America LSEG Workspace Credit Suisse* Global LSEG Workspace Deutsche Bank* Global LSEG Workspace DNB Markets Norway LSEG Workspace... View Details

Profile

Rocio Parra

Why was getting a business education important to you? As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of industries from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to government and consumer packaged goods. Through these experiences, I became interested in View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Dec 1998
News

New Releases

Foundations of Organizational Strategy by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard University Press) Economists have historically concentrated on analyzing markets while glossing over the complexities of organizations... View Details

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

industry, which reached global sales of $1.9 trillion in 2019. Even before the pandemic, roughly 28 percent of global apparel transactions were happening online. At the same time, many brands had closed... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

December 2018
Case

Formula E Championship Racing (A)

By: Robert F. Higgins and James Weber

Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag obtained the rights to develop a new electric car racing series from the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Agag needed to develop the series from scratch—developing a race car and finding teams willing to race,... View Details

Keywords: Electric Car Racing; Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Strategy

06 Apr 2018
News

Trade War or a War of Words?

25 Jul 2014
News

Fostering connections with business leaders in India and South Asia

Anjali Raina (AMP 174, 2008), executive director of the India Research Center (IRC) since 2008, likens the center in Mumbai to an embassy for both HBS and Harvard University. "We bring the best of the region—not just India, but all of South Asia—to Harvard and, in... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Inspiring conversations around the world

Sigal Bussel (MBA 2003) creates artwork intended to engage people around the world in a meaningful dialogue. Her large-scale, thought-provoking works have been displayed from Asia to the Middle East and from the United States to Europe. “There is a need for a... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Making TV Look Like America

Jackie Burgos (MBA 2014) intends to run a TV network to promote programming diversity, making TV more reflective of the world in which we live. “I think I’ve always been the kid who has big dreams; life otherwise wouldn’t be fun,” says Burgos, who is the first member... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

July 2013 (Revised May 2017)
Case

European Integration: Meeting the Competitiveness Challenge

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels

The case discusses the origins and development of the European Integration process from the post-war period up to 2007, focusing particularly on the efforts of the Lisbon-agenda under way since 2000 to enhance Europe's competitiveness. It discusses the different policy... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Development Economics; Global Range; Policy; Failure; European Union; Europe