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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
the strategy shifted, and they happened to be on the favored side of that strategy” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her research colleagues call this "unearned status gain," which can cause problems for those... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- April 2024 (Revised February 2025)
- Teaching Note
eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-360.The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the... View Details
- September–October 2024
- Article
Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?
By: John D. Macomber
A family-owned and controlled conglomerate in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, has to decide what titles and authority to give to a daughter who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Power Grid; Family Business; Management Succession; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Côte d'Ivoire
Macomber, John D. "Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?" R2045M. Harvard Business Review (September–October 2024): 156–161.
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization and a PhD in Management from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a... View Details
- 26 Nov 2014
- News
Taking Apple’s Lead, Amazon Considers Getting Physical
- November 2019
- Supplement
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Matthew Preble
This video supplement pairs with “Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5 to 12 minutes. Instructors can use the videos, either in whole or in part, as an additional teaching... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Canada; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Mehta, and Matthew Preble. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 420-704, November 2019.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
specialty grocers. The farm also has a booth at the weekly farmer's market in Charlottesville. "This obviously differs a great deal from my tech career," Whiteside says. "Technology pursues an ever-larger and more integrated View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
also not “vetted.” Thoughtful policies get reviewed, debated, discussed and revised. Instead, the President hurriedly picked a bunch of countries and tried to make a political statement without considering all of the ramifications. This ready, shoot, and then aim View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 22 Mar 2018
- Webinars: Career
How to Prepare for and Transition Back from a Career Break
A career break may be the furthest thing from your mind right now. But looking ahead, there are expected and unexpected reasons why you might take a break from your career. What steps make sense to take now, in order to lay the groundwork for a successful career... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Case 509-048 The case describes the effort of Merck, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, in making available its medicines to the poor. The challenge for the company (or for that matter, any pharmaceutical company) is how to integrate its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Commodities
How do I find data on futures, options, and commodities? General: In Bloomberg hit the yellow CMDTY button (F9). For FactSet go to FactSet Insert menu > Quotes/Prices> Futures. Global Financial Data features commodity... View Details
- Profile
John Clayton
N.C., John says, “I loved growing up in the South, but I’ve always had an itch to see the world.” After moving to the portfolio’s global strategy hub, John worked directly with the World Bank’s vice... View Details
- Profile
Rocio Parra
says. In fact, she completed a couple of high-tech consulting internships while attending Stanford. But her senior project led to a major change in plans. "I was part of a team that conducted marketing View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
what you want to accomplish in the long term, what the goals are in the long term, and then working your way back to what efforts and what strategies you have to implement to get there. We have a long-term goal, not a short-term goal, of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
given its popularity, I’d suggest they combine a newsletter strategy and opinion for more in-depth audio. That would allow them to gain more of the market via the new medium, without the extensive investment... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Akl
careers.” Variety of practical experiences In his FIELD 2 international immersion, Patrick once again went somewhere new to him, China, where he and his colleagues helped a shoe manufacturer prepare its first marketing View Details
- March 1991 (Revised December 1994)
- Case
Marks and Spencer Ltd. (B)
Describes the firm's 1988 expansion into the United States through the acquisition of Brooks Brothers, a specialty up-market men's clothing chain and Kings Super Markets, a high quality New Jersey grocer. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Business Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalization; Retail Industry; United States
Montgomery, Cynthia A. "Marks and Spencer Ltd. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 391-090, March 1991. (Revised December 1994.)
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
The cofounders know that a marketing campaign would help accelerate their efforts, but with a team of six people (all engineers), they want to be thoughtful about how they might handle the influx of interest that a View Details