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  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History

By: Teresa da Silva Lopes, Mark Casson and Geoffrey Jones
This article engages in a methodological experiment by using historical evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Internalization; Multinational Strategy; Business History; Organization And Management Theory; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Organizations; Theory; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • June 2016
  • Case

Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Having built Publicis Groupe through acquisitions maintained as separate brands, CEO Maurice Lévy wanted to transform the advertising and marketing firm to an integrated digital-ready enterprise to address industry changes. In early 2016, following a reorganization, he... View Details
Keywords: Managing Change; Transformations; Digital; Millennials; Change; Innovation; Acquisitions; Merger; Culture; Advertising Agency; Reorganization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Change Management; Restructuring; Management Succession; Marketing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Innovation and Invention; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry
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Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth

By: Luc Laeven, Ross Levine and Stelios Michalopoulos
Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian model in which entrepreneurs earn profits by inventing better goods, and profit-maximizing financiers arise to screen entrepreneurs. The model has two... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Economic Growth
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  • 03 Jul 2025
  • News

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2025-2026 Blavatnik Fellows

    How to Negotiate with VCs

    VC-entrepreneur partnership agreements often contain flaws that become highly damaging as the parties come up against issues of power, trust, and much more. Yet many of the flaws are systematic and predictable—and hence preventable. The author, a longtime consultant... View Details

    • Other Article

    My Favorite Slide: The Entrepreneurial Gap Applied to Health Care

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robert Simons
    Value-based health care increases physicians’ accountability for patient outcomes. Many have resisted, claiming that patient outcomes are influenced by many forces outside their control, such as patient’s compliance with post-acute and rehab care. The difference... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives
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    • November 2016 (Revised November 2016)
    • Case

    Radial Analytics Probes Post-Acute Care

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Olivia Hull
    Thaddeus Fulford-Jones and Eric Weiss, founders of healthcare technology startup Radial Analytics, have been busy developing a software program designed to save hospitals money and improve patient outcomes by producing customized care plans for patients leaving the... View Details
    Keywords: Electronic Medical Records; Electronic Health Records; Data Science; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Cambridge; Massachusetts
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    • August 2013
    • Case

    Desi Shack: Location Choice in the Big Apple

    By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
    Desi Shack is a “fast casual” restaurant, started by two HBS alumni, that serves Indian and Pakistani cuisine in midtown Manhattan. The founders are looking to expand into a second location and also plan to hire a COO, and there is very little room for error in the... View Details
    Keywords: Restaurant; New York City; Location Choice; Entrepreneurship; Food; Geographic Location; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • September 1999
    • Case

    Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Sarah S. Khetani
    Texan entrepreneur Trisha Wilson has founded an interior design firm and watched it grow into one of the most successful firms in the hospitality design services industry. After 20 years of building a company that is truly a reflection of her own personality, Wilson... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Innovation and Management; Management; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Service Industry; Texas
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    • May 1992
    • Case

    Sunday River Ski Resort

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Martha Epstein
    Sunday River is a ski area in Bethel, ME which has been run by entrepreneur Les Otten since 1980. The year before Otten purchased the area, it posted a loss of $235,000 on revenues of $541,000. Under Otten's leadership, however, Sunday River posted year after year of... View Details
    Keywords: Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Entrepreneurship; Success; Transformation; Tourism Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Maine
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    • 18 Mar 2009
    • News

    How to Innovate in a Downturn

    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    When Losing Money Is Strategic—and When It Isn’t

    • 09 Jul 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Brand Building

    Keywords: Re: Scott Duke Kominers; Technology
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Immigrant Entrepreneurship: New Estimates and a Research Agenda

    By: Saheel Chodavadia, Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Louis Maiden
    Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic... View Details
    Keywords: Immigrant Employment; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Demographics; Innovation and Invention
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    • 2020
    • Article

    Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
    We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this share exceeds 40% in some states. Immigrant-owned firms tend to create fewer jobs than native-owned... View Details
    Keywords: Job Creation; Employee Benefits; Owner Demographics; Exports; Outsourcing; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Ownership; Demographics; Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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    • December 2005 (Revised May 2007)
    • Case

    Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell

    By: Robert F. Higgins, Richard G. Hamermesh and Ingrid Vargas
    Describes the start up of Viacord, a Boston-based medical services firm founded by Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA) in 1993. Told from Fisher's perspective, the entrepreneur details the conceptualization and launch of the business and the many obstacles and expenses faced in... View Details
    Keywords: Managerial Roles; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Service Industry; Health Industry; Boston
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    • February 2005 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Haier's U.S. Refrigerator Strategy

    By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Thomas M. Hout and Jordan I. Siegel
    Haier, the first Chinese consumer durable brand in the United States, succeeded in the compact refrigerator, freezer, and air conditioner markets and then built a U.S. factory to enter the full-size market. Issues include the value of a local entrepreneur to the Asian... View Details
    Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; China; United States
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    • March 1999 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    Georgian Glass and Mineral Water

    Georgian Glass and Mineral Water (GGMW), was created in 1995 by a Georgian entrepreneur and Western investors in Georgia (former Soviet Union) to bottle and market the famous mineral water from the Borjomi valley. At the height of the Soviet Union's power, Borjomi was... View Details
    Keywords: Privatization; Emerging Markets; Financing and Loans; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 26 Nov 2017
    • News

    ‘Entrepreneurs here think technology can solve everything’