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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

the world. While seeking, she aligned her professional choices with a larger mission rather than following a linear path. While currently a Partner at CrossBoundary , a mission-driven investment firm focused on underserved markets, her... View Details

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

How "sleepy" or "awake" are you when it comes to your stock portfolio? If you're like most people, you probably don't spend a great deal of time monitoring your investments. So when another company uses stock to acquire a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, explains that during this period, “the growth of big business was the central trend of the American economy.” 35 By the dawn of World War I, America’s journey from an agrarian society to a leading... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

language, is now my biggest challenge. —Krizia Li (MBA 2012) Back to top Multiple Lenses on “Optical Distortion Inc.” A small firm is ready to introduce a new product—contact lenses for chickens—and now an entry strategy must be planned.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

November 2012
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CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision

By: Willy Shih, Margaret P. Pierson and Dawn Lau

This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research interests... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Startup Operations Christina Wallace Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Venture Capital Journey Jeffrey Bussgang Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Finance)... View Details

05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior By: Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese Abstract—The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

governance (ESG) information in China, Denmark, Malaysia, and South Africa using differences-in-differences estimation with propensity score matched samples. We find that relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

firms share their technology with each other. The rapid growth of open source software over the course of this decade has been highlighted in numerous press accounts. The multibillion dollar initial public... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

boutiques? (Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs at first, in spite of all the advance publicity.) Is it better to partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

information exchange. Growth can also come by leveraging existing capabilities to enter completely new businesses. Alibaba started Taoboa, where buyers and sellers exchanged goods. However, to solve the trust problem between buyers and... View Details

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

February 2024
Case

Chime Solutions

By: Shai Bernstein, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, Raymond Kluender and Mel Martin

Just two years after launching its 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact firm... View Details

Keywords: Working Capital; Service Operations; Recruitment; Performance; Change Management; Retention; Financial Institutions; Employee Relationship Management; Talent and Talent Management; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Communications Industry; Service Industry; United States

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01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

CURRENT READING Inside: A Public and Private Life, by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. A member of McKinsey for almost half a century, Ron Daniel led the management consultancy from 1976 to 1988. While maintaining the firm's traditional values, he guided its View Details

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

technology firms such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, and HP, as well as by Japanese multinationals such as Sony, Canon, and Fujitsu. Chinese patenting in the U.S. is small but growing rapidly and world-leading for drone technology. Patenting... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

spent much of his post-HBS career in energy finance, corporate finance, and public and private equity investment. In 2001, he cofounded ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
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Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth W. Legris

Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment, and sustainability. A former environmental... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Values; Development Stage Enterprises; Innovation; Management By Objective; Experimentation; Emerging Technologies; Mission and Purpose; Management Style; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry; New Hampshire

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May 2008 (Revised June 2009)
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House of Tata: Acquiring a Global Footprint

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Richard Bullock

Chronicles the globalization of the Tata Group, one of India's largest business groups. Since 2000, many Tata Group operating companies have aggressively built international businesses, particularly through overseas acquisitions. After describing the globalization... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; India; United States

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