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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

standards and data. Many governments around the world have begun assigning prices to carbon dioxide emissions, but it’s unclear if they can agree on a common global standard. Without industrywide measures, firms have been taking their own... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

instructions to work with the community. This is an interesting dimension of globalization that calls for further study: multinationals transfer not only their technology, but also their values and social policies. María Marta Llosa,... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

who simultaneously identify with multiple brands they represent to customers, we examine the relationships among identity conflict and enhancement, on the one hand, and objective sales performance, on the other. We find independent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

scandal offers important lessons for all companies, the first being: It’s not OK to look the other way when a leader crosses ethical lines. In the wake of #MeToo, a global campaign against sexual abuse and harassment that started in 2017,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

in global supply chains have engaged in activism that led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether these organizational structures raise labor standards.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

2018 Oxford University Press Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust By: Goldberg, Ray A. Abstract—The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Five Bright Ideas

ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

Gaston Azcarraga's Grupo Posadas acquired the Caesar Park brand of luxury hotels in Brazil and Argentina in 1998, he faced the familiar challenge of bridging cultural and linguistic differences. "We realized that being similar is not the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

Viana also admired their grit. And he recognized the global cachet of quality French products. Here was something different, and maybe more meaningful, than leading a technology company. France’s manufacturing sector was still struggling... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

getting locked in. Governance in Global Information Economy Author:F. Warren McFarlan Periodical:China Journal of Information Systems 1, no. 1 (October 2007): 8-15 Abstract In the early 21st century, IT has become more important than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

Harvard Business School Case 413-096 Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise Novartis, the world's leading health care company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2018
  • Case

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; 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; Education Industry; United States; Canada
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  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

economies across and within activities vary by activity and type of organic expansion; and (4) across-activity internal economies are asymmetric. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-025.pdf Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025 By Faculty View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z A Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Laura Alfaro View Details
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

must pay the cost of the marketplace, not the sellers. Sahlman: Scott, can you give us the short version of your career? Randall: After working at Procter & Gamble in brand management and in consumer packaged goods, I got into... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

firms shifting display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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