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07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Harvard MBA students visit the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town, May 1, 2017 (Photo credit: Caroline Elkins) Recently, a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School was overheard gushing to a friend about a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2021
News

The Fire This Time: What's Happening in the World of Distress

27 Oct 2015
News

How Yelp plans to clean up one of the restaurant industry’s most dangerous flaws

January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
Case

BP Amoco (A): Policy Statement on the Use of Project Finance

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

Following the BP/Amoco merger in December 1998, CFO David Watson asked Bill Young to recommend when and under what circumstances the firm should use external project finance instead of internal corporate funds to finance new capital investments. As part of this... View Details

Keywords: Project Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Capital Budgeting

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10 May 2013
News

Ann Moore, former chairman and CEO of Time Inc., to Address HBS Students on Class Day 2013

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Beyond the M-form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal

Keywords: Management; Theory; Business Ventures

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Swedish Entrepreneurs in Manufacturing Firms and Their Sources of Information

By: D. A. Leonard

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures; Information; Manufacturing Industry; Sweden

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30 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie

students take away a sense of the major forces that will determine the business and economic future of the African continent. I hope the gain a sense View Details

2011
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The Impact of Horizontal Mergers and Acquisitions in Price Competition Models

The question of what impact mergers and acquisitions have on key equilibrium performance measures is fundamental to our understanding of competitive dynamics in an oligopolistic industry. We address these questions in the context of price competition models with... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost; Price; Profit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Competition

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Please Note Location of Nearest Exit: Exit Barriers and Planning

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Business Exit or Shutdown; Market Entry and Exit

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26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility decisions View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library

Harvard University. TC 172-2-13 Field Work The field work apprenticeship program ran from 1937 until women entered the Harvard Business School MBA program in the early 1960s. "The field work provided the students with immediate practice... View Details

May 2017
Case

Promontory, Inc.

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amy Handlin

Promontory, Inc. is a small, privately owned firm in the promotional products (specialty advertising) industry. After starting the firm two years ago with the intention of pursuing a high-quality/high-price strategy, the CEO is seeking methods of increasing sales... View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Business Model; Sales; Advertising Industry

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November–December 2016
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The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

By: Yongwook Paik and Feng Zhu

Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this paper, we argue that such “institution-seeking” behavior may not be confined to the pursuit of... View Details

Keywords: Patent Wars; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement; Institutions; Patent Thicket; Smartphone; Patents; Corporate Strategy; Mobile Technology

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