Publications

Clubs

Management Consulting Club

Keywords: Consulting

Video

Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe

Gloria Serobe, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of WIPHOLD, outlines the founding vision for the Black women-owned investment company in 1994, as opportunities in business remained largely unavailable to women in South Africa despite having recently become... View Details

31 Oct 2019
Video

Binod Chaudhary

Binod Chaudhary, the prominent Nepalese entrepreneur, describes how under his leadership his diversified group has moved into new businesses, and how seizing these opportunities has influenced the trajectory of... View Details

04 Feb 2020
Video

Savannah Maziya

Savannah Maziya, the founder of South Africa-based Bunengi Holdings, explains how the post-Apartheid government of South Africa opened up many opportunities for entrepreneurship to previously excluded groups, including women, and how these policies can provide a model... View Details

March 1997 (Revised October 2017)
Case

Hospital Equipment Corporation

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Rory McDonald

Hospital Equipment Corp. is a very successful maker of hospital beds. Due to outstanding performance in new product development, it grew to dominate its primary market and is searching for other opportunities to grow through new product development. It discovers that... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Opportunities; Business Processes; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Markets; Problems and Challenges; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

01–04 Jun 2023
Reunions

2023 - Spring HBS Staff - Reunions

We look forward to welcoming you back for your reunion! This is a special opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make valuable new connections; enhance your career and life with the latest thinking on critical topics; and feel reinvigorated, inspired, and... View Details

February 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Case

Doing Business in São Paulo, Brazil

By: Hise O. Gibson, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo

The case uses the example of a large investment made by French retail group Carrefour in Brazil to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the country. It gives readers an overview of Brazil’s economic transformation since its colonial years until... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; Brazil; Latin America

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with Flatiron School to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What career View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

senior R&D leaders as they work through the challenges of effectively leveraging emerging digital and data opportunities in the context of complex pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations. David completed medical training at MGH and... View Details

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Forest L. Reinhardt

Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; beverage; biotechnology; chemical; energy; federal government; food; food processing; forest products; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; paper; petroleum; tourism; transportation

October 2023 (Revised December 2023)
Case

Compound: Lending on the Blockchain

By: Marco Di Maggio, George Gonzalez and Richard Dulude

This case critically examines Compound, an innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. Focusing on Compound’s blockchain-based borrowing and lending protocol, the case explores its automated, intermediary-free system using Ethereum smart contracts. This system... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Disruptive Innovation; Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation

August 2001
Case

Chrysalis Capital: Venture Capital in an Emerging Market

Examines the founding and early development of an Indian venture capital firm. Focuses on the opportunity in the Indian high-technology sector, how the founders have adapted the U.S. venture capital model to an emerging market context, and the organizational challenges... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Technology Industry; India

12 Oct 2015
News

How to Make Networking at Conferences Feel Less Icky

09 Sep 2021
News

Remote Work Made Life Easier for Employees with Disabilities. Advocates Say the Option Should Stay

Clubs

Real Estate Club

Keywords: Real Estate

June 2018
Teaching Note

ALAC International

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

ALAC International (ALAC) was awarded the U.S. distributorship of di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) which provided ALAC an opportunity to increase its sales and profits. But the opportunity required a significant additional investment in working capital. The DINP, shipped... View Details

Keywords: Working Capital; Financing and Loans; Growth Management