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  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in business generally and venture... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof that the color of one’s skin could no longer hold people back from achieving important leadership roles in the United States. Not true, says Harvard Business School senior lecturer Anthony J. Mayo.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Research Summary

Savings among microentrepreneurs

Poverty is often characterized not only by low average income, but also by highly variable income and expenditures, and by a lack of access to insurance services that can help smooth consumption. While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from... View Details

    Frank Nagle

    Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

    • 12 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

    chains will have on US businesses and consumers, with worrying signs that it could result in higher costs and prices, say Alfaro and her coauthor... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 18 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

    Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
    Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities

      Sophus A. Reinert

      Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

      Keywords: banking; defense; education industry; fashion; food; manufacturing; wine

        Julian De Freitas

        Julian De Freitas is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit, and Director of the Ethical Intelligence Lab, at Harvard Business School. He earned his PhD in psychology from Harvard, masters from Oxford, and BA from Yale. He teaches... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; automotive; consumer products; e-commerce industry; insurance industry; marketing industry; nonprofit industry; software; transportation; video games

          Joseph Pacelli

          Joseph Pacelli is the Gerald Schuster Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting and Management Unit. He currently teaches Business Analysis and Valuation (BAV) in the MBA elective curriculum.

          Professor Pacelli’s research covers topics... View Details

          • December 2011 (Revised July 2013)
          • Background Note

          Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup

          By: Thomas Eisenmann, Eric Ries and Sarah Dillard
          Firms that follow a hypothesis-driven approach to evaluating entrepreneurial opportunity are called "lean startups." Entrepreneurs in these startups translate their vision into falsifiable business model hypotheses, then test the hypotheses using a series of "minimum... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups
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            Rafael M. Di Tella

            I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I... View Details

            Keywords: broadcasting; state government

              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
              • 15 Jul 2013
              • Research & Ideas

              Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

              conference and survey from Harvard's business and medical schools may prove particularly timely. Delivered by the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, which was formed last year... View Details
              Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

                Ta-Wei Huang

                Ta-Wei (David) Huang is a PhD candidate in Quantitative Marketing at Harvard Business School. His research integrates causal inference and machine learning to address methodological challenges and unintended consequences in targeting, personalization, and online... View Details

                  Christina R. Wing

                  Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

                  • January 2008
                  • Article

                  The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy

                  By: Michael E. Porter
                  This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first... View Details
                  Keywords: Profit; Five Forces Framework; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy
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                    Yiwei Li

                    Yiwei Li is a Doctoral student of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He concentrates on managerial accounting research, with interest in topics like incentive scheme and management control system. He pursues the goal  of applying research output into... View Details

                      Lauren H. Cohen

                      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

                      Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government

                        Christian Kaps

                        Christian Kaps is an Assistant Professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at Harvard Business School. Kaps' research focuses on emerging topics in renewable electricity generation and storage - notably how new... View Details

                        • September 2018
                        • Case

                        Advent International: Kroton Investment

                        By: Victoria Ivashina, Ruth Kostas and Priscilla Zogbi
                        Keywords: Private Equity; Acquisition; IPO; Valuation; Education; Distance Learning; Turnaround; Growth; Exit; PE; Buyer; Middle-class; Low Income; K-12; Entrepreneur; Family Business; University; College; Consolidation; Fragmentation; Penetration; Value; Shares; Control; Negotiation; Equity; Transaction; Board; Majority; Minority; Post-secondary; Leverage; Campus; Deal; Shareholder; Tag Along; Brazil; Latin America
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