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  • March 2022
  • Supplement

Pakistan Rising: Bazaar's Growth Story (B)

By: Paul A. Gompers and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in January 2022 as Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, co-founders of Bazaar technologies (Bazaar), the Pakistani high growth B2B e-commerce marketplace, are looking over the performance of the newly launched “buy now, play later” feature. The traction looks... View Details
Keywords: B2B; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Pakistan
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  • 29 Mar 2019
  • News

Michael Bloomberg to be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Speaker

  • February 2005
  • Case

L. Londell McMillan (A)

On the plane back to New York City, L. Londell McMillan focused on the music on his headphones, the latest offering from his friend and long-time client, Prince Rogers Nelson--the artist known as "Prince." McMillan and Prince had spent several days contemplating a... View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Music Entertainment; Product Marketing; Music Industry
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  • February 2001 (Revised March 2003)
  • Case

ICICI (A)

By: Bharat N. Anand, Nitin Nohria and John Pegg
ICICI was the first Indian company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. This case is set in 1998, when the company had to decide whether to enter the retail credit segment of the Indian financial market. Although the retail credit sector presents attractive... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Strategic Planning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Growth Management; Markets; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • January 1997 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

OXO International

By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Sylvie Ryckebusch
OXO, a kitchen tools and gadgets company, was started by a businessman who had 30 years of experience in the housewares industry. With his wife and son as founders, he creates a new niche in the gadgets industry for high-end gourmet stores. The company has headquarters... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Supply Chain Management; Production; Design; Ownership; Business Startups; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut
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  • 2016
  • Book

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change

By: Bharat Anand
Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range of businesses around the world, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy
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    Hubert Joly

    Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
    Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

    Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details

    • 2013
    • Book

    Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending

    By: Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton
    If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Spending; Personal Finance
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    • July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    Entrepreneurship for All

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Julia Kelley
    Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a Lowell, Massachusetts–based nonprofit that hosts business accelerators for entrepreneurs in underserved communities. By mid-2017, EforAll has five office locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • December 2007 (Revised December 2008)
    • Case

    China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A)

    By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Xiangdong and Tracy Manty
    With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market and New York Stock Exchange, state-owned enterprise, China Netcom was mandated to meet the listing requirements of these exchanges. From this initial step, China Netcom's Chairman, Zhang Chunjiang, began a program... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; State Ownership; Public Ownership; Financial Markets; Capital Markets; Telecommunications Industry; China
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    • 24 Mar 2013
    • News

    There’s a Reason for Deposit Insurance

    • March 2021 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Ayn Rand: Changing the World

    By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer
    This case traces the life of Ayn Rand from Russia to Hollywood to New York City. The case describes how Rand fled communist Russia and, in reaction to the deprivations she experienced under communism, developed a philosophy idealizing free will and personal... View Details
    Keywords: Writing; Values and Beliefs; Economic Systems; Society; Mission and Purpose; Success; Work-Life Balance; Ethics; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry
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    • 21 Jun 2019
    • News

    When Tech Companies Compete on Their Own Platforms

      Ting Zhang

      Ting Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum.

      Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
      • November 1983 (Revised December 1984)
      • Case

      Frito-Lay, Inc.: Grandma's ""Ready-To-Eat"" Cookies

      Mr. Kenneth Treece, marketing director of Frito-Lay's Grandma's (R) Cookie division has received the final test market figures for the new supermarket line of Grandma's Ready-To-Eat cookies. One set of data, the Kansas City test results, was extremely encouraging;... View Details
      Keywords: Product Launch; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      • 12 Dec 2013
      • HBS Seminar

      William Kerr, Harvard Business School

      • 16 Dec 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: December 16, 2008

      City from its founding in the 17th century through 2008. Focuses on the decisions made by New York City officials, past and present, highlighting... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • October 2019 (Revised February 2021)
      • Case

      Myanmar: Special Economic Zones

      By: Willy Shih and Dawn Lau
      This case examines four Special Economic Zones in Myanmar. While the country's development had been hobbled by a complex history of military rule, ethnic conflict, and international sanctions, as it pursued liberalization it sought avenues to developing its economy.... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Development; Emerging Economies; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Energy Industry; Southeast Asia; Myanmar
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      • November 2017 (Revised September 2020)
      • Case

      Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      In the decade starting in 2000, a new mayor focused on infrastructure and leadership from a foundation investing in arts and culture helped the Miami region transform and attract younger people to a newly vibrant central city and arts district. In 2011, the Knight... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Leadership; Business and Community Relations; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Miami; Florida
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      • October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
      • Case

      The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008

      By: Adi Sunderam, Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson and David Scharfstein
      On the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,... View Details
      Keywords: Bailout; Regulation; Financial Crisis; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Decision Making; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
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