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  • November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
  • Case

Commercial Capital SA (B)

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Laure Mougeot Stroock
Keywords: Agribusiness; Privatization; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Greece; Romania
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  • November 2000 (Revised January 2001)
  • Case

Commercial Capital SA (A)

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Laure Mougeot Stroock
Keywords: Agribusiness; Privatization; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Greece; Romania
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  • December 2010 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
This case traces the origins and evolution of the European Central Bank, with attention to its 2010 decision concerning the purchase of Greek sovereign debt. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Central Banking; Financial Management; Sovereign Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Europe; Greece
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  • September 2008 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

BMW's Project Switch (A): Importers vs. National Sales Companies

By: Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
BMW is faced with potential channel conflicts across several EU country markets. The case highlights BMW's approach to redesigning its channel in Greece. The case provides details on both headquarter and country head perspective on BMW's channel strategy. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Conflict and Resolution; Auto Industry; European Union; Greece
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  • 02 Jun 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

the form of a stock buyback.) The US government and other borrowers are beneficiaries of this phenomenon, at least for the moment. My favorite barber, an immigrant from Greece with a love for his adopted country that more than matches his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

investment. Along with opportunities come risks. The 1972 Games in Munich will be remembered not for the prowess of athletes on the field, but for the terrorist attacks on Israeli athletes. Greece embarrassed itself in Athens in 2004 with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

career from business to academia. More importantly, however, Ted paved the way for HBS to connect, learn, and, in its own distinctive manner, contribute to the development of understanding and peace between the two superpowers. Charalambos Vlachoutsicos (MBA ’54)... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

few months ago, has since been openly considered by many. It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences. The crisis has already had a profound political impact, sweeping aside leaders in no fewer than five member countries of the European Union (EU), two of... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
  • 05 May 2023
  • News

Fail Better

meeting was over, I promise you, I had ditched that watch. I have no idea where that watch is anymore. That just shows you you can't perpetrate, right? You gotta keep it real. JH: Antonis Samaras (MBA 1976) served as Prime Minister of View Details
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

long hours, most folks are being forced to do that with minimal compensation." Patrick Coomans placed some blame on "the weak job protection employees have in the US." Sid Mehta, who reminded us that Greece has the longest... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

Holland, Switzerland, Russia, Romania, and Ukraine. It was founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin in 1987 and in April 2006, the National Bank of Greece (NBG) offered to buy part of the bank. Students can consider which factors contributed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2023
  • Supplement

Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry; Sweden; Europe; Singapore; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East; Athens; Greece
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book examines the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

Harvard Business Review If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow By: Serafeim, George Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

S&P and its rivals, Fitch, and Moody's. Recently, these agencies have faced considerable criticism over their sovereign ratings—in Europe, for example, over their downgrades of Greece and several other economies. They are accused of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

political road to fiscal crisis; the economics of that crisis and efforts to recover from it; the danger the crisis posed to the euro; cooperation and conflict among European states, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund to try to help View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2023
  • News

Balancing Acts

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think... View Details
Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family
  • Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

boys and men. For Raymond McGuire , acts of courage include pursuing a career in investment banking at a time when there were no role models who looked like him, and quitting his job to run for mayor of New York City. As the prime minister of View Details
  • 08 Mar 2013
  • News

The Accidental Innovator

mention for 30 seconds that Greece might have to do an austerity program, and they’ll repeat it 100 times over the next week. Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Thales to Ochkam. He pays particular attention to the church and how the purpose of medieval philosophy was radically different from that of ancient Greece and Rome. At medieval universities philosophy was a prerequisite to studies in... View Details