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  • July 2020
  • Case

Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics

By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Competition; Customers; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Macroeconomics; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Product Design; Product Development; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Issues; Social Marketing; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Venture Capital; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Advertising Industry; Public Relations Industry; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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  • November 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Ava Labs: Navigating the Next Blockchain

By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
John Wu, President of Ava Labs, the primary developer of the Avalanche blockchain, and Emin Gün Sirer, the software company’s Founder and CEO, team up to develop a lending and borrowing protocol that would jumpstart the Decentralized finance (DeFi) economy on... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Decentralized Finance; Alternative Assets; Financial Instruments; Assets; Decisions; Financing and Loans; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara. 08 Nov 2024 Op-Ed How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber Africa faces escalating climate risks that threaten its people and businesses. While governments and View Details
  • June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (A)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six-month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Development Economics; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Strategy; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Dubai
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Leadership for Senior Executives

eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits To lead in an uncertain world, you need to hone your "contextual intelligence" and understand the macro- and micro-level forces influencing your organization's success. This program will... View Details

    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 20 May 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Career Concerns of Banking Analysts

    Keywords: by Joanne Horton, George Serafeim & Shan Wu; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • April 2005 (Revised January 2006)
    • Case

    Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge

    By: Randolph B. Cohen
    In February 2005, Jeffrey Tarrant (HBS '85) and Ted Seides (HBS '99) considered their strategy for Protege Partners, founded in July 2002 as a fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specializing in small hedge funds. Protege's assets under management had grown to $1.1 billion, and... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Growth and Maturation; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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    • November 2012 (Revised November 2013)
    • Case

    Persephone's Pomegranate: Crédit Agricole and Emporiki

    By: Dante Roscini, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Jerome Lenhardt
    In 2006 the French bank Crédit Agricole bought the Greek Emporiki bank, for €2.8 billion, at the peak of a bull market for bank takeovers. Six years, a major financial crisis, and €5.2 billion of losses later, in a context of great uncertainty in the European banking... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Currency; Development Economics; International Finance; International Relations; Banking Industry; Greece
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    • November 2001
    • Supplement

    Interview with Philip Casey at AmeriSteel

    By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingston Hout
    Gerdau Group is a family-controlled Brazilian manufacturer and distributor of long steel products. Philip Casey describes the evolution of the company's strategy, organization, and financial and management issues as the company has grown to be the #2 steel producer in... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution; Production; Organizations; Family Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Brazil
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

    By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric D. Werker
    We test for evidence of corporate misgovernance at the World Bank. Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • August 2020 (Revised November 2022)
    • Case

    George Soros: The Stateless Statesman

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Wendy Ying
    This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after establishing Quantum Fund on the tax haven island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles in 1973 where he was... View Details
    Keywords: Hedge Fund; Philanthropy; Populism; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Hungary; United Kingdom; North and Central America; United States
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    • January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

    By: Robert G. Eccles
    Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
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      Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

      Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

        Josh Lerner

        Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
        • April 2025 (Revised May 2025)
        • Background Note

        Customer Acquisition and the Cash Flow Trap

        By: E. Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
        Startups as well as existing firms recognize the need to invest in order to acquire customers for their new ventures. And as each customer is expected at some point to have generated sufficient gross margins to cover their CAC, management expects that, soon enough, the... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Customers; Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Business or Company Management
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        • Research Summary

        Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success

        Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
        • 2021
        • Chapter

        Towards a Unified Framework for Fair and Stable Graph Representation Learning

        By: Chirag Agarwal, Himabindu Lakkaraju and Marinka Zitnik
        As the representations output by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly employed in real-world applications, it becomes important to ensure that these representations are fair and stable. In this work, we establish a key connection between counterfactual... View Details
        Keywords: Graph Neural Networks; AI and Machine Learning; Prejudice and Bias
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        • 2021
        • Chapter

        Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success

        By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
        Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
        Keywords: Big Data; Fintech; Artificial Intelligence; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Capital; Success; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science
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        • 25 Feb 2016
        • Blog Post

        Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...

        Current Position: Director of Platform (RRE Ventures); formerly, Executive Director of Business Development (Eyeview) Current Location: New York, NY Tell us what you're up to these days. I recently moved into the venture world as Director... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship