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16 Apr 2020
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OnRamp is Runner-up in 2020 New Venture Competition Student Business Track

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

champions" Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can View Details

January 2025
Case

PayJoy: Financing for the Next Billion

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

PayJoy, an impact-driven financial technology company founded in 2015, provides smartphone financing and other financial products to customers who lack access to traditional credit products. As of early 2025, PayJoy had issued $2.5 billion in loans to 13 million... View Details

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03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

context of organizations. In total, however, this month’s comments provide little hope for change of the kind that will enable the leadership industry to become more effective in fostering enlightened leadership around the world. This... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
Case

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (A)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in November 2019 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are contemplating what the best fulfillment format and... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Grocery; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Turkey

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Unique Value Proposition - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

value propositions based on needs appeal to a mix of customers who might defy traditional segmentation. Instead of belonging to a clear demographic category, the company’s customers will be defined by the common need or set of needs they share at a given time. What... View Details

June 2002 (Revised October 2002)
Background Note

Argentina: Data Supplement, 1990-2002

By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel

Provides basic macroeconomic data for Argentina for the period 1990 through 2002. Covers the period from the adoption of Argentina's currency board to its ultimate demise and beyond. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Argentina

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November 1997 (Revised February 1998)
Case

Finansol

By: James E. Austin, Roberto Gutierrez, Marc Labie and Enrique Ogliastri

Finansol, created to provide loans to micro-entrepreneurs, encountered considerable difficulties after rapidly growing to become the biggest micro-enterprise lender in Colombia. Major restructuring was required to rescue it. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Microfinance; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry

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November 1989 (Revised August 1994)
Supplement

Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (C)

Provides students the opportunity to track industry evolution over time, to explore the role that signaling may play in such evolution, and to construct and validate industry scenarios. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Supply and Industry; Chemical Industry

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14 Oct 2016
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EverlyWell Wins 2nd Place in 2016 Alumni New Venture Competition

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

and financial technology, the digital health ecosystem is in its nascent stages and has been waiting for a catalyst to seed the system. This National Health Protection Scheme is expected to provide just this impetus for widespread... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2010
Book

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

By: Geoffrey Jones

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms that have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Industry Growth; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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May 2019
Teaching Note

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

By: William R. Kerr and Jordan Bach-Lombardo

Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-042. It provides a detailed lesson plan for the case study discussion, including assignment questions and sample board and slide plans. View Details

Keywords: Walmart; Omnichannel; Strategy; Transformation

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January 2010 (Revised August 2012)
Background Note

Note on Telemedicine

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jillian Copeland

This note provides background in all the modalities of telemedicine. It accompanies the cases "Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative" (A) and (B), HBS Nos. 302-005 and 309-064. View Details

Keywords: Interactive Communication; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry

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July 2004
Tool

Developmental Network Questionnaire (CW)

By: Monica C. Higgins, John Galvin and Denis Saulnier

Solicits information about the network of people who provided career developmental assistance for respondents and presents information about the structure and diversity of the developmental network. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Social and Collaborative Networks

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