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- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
challenged efforts to transition to a “greener” economy, and this site provided a stark example of energy transformation in process. The Crossbridge Energy refinery was acquired from Royal Dutch Shell by American private equity (PE) firm... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
for further expansion at the scale needed to significantly displace coal capacity, however, is constrained by tight regulation of private and foreign investment in the industry. Tata Power, and other private and foreign firms are standing... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
of particular products such as fabric swatches or small sheets of wallpaper. A corps of traveling salesmen, known as “drummers,” circulated trade catalogs to potential customers along with product samples. 14 Trade catalogs were also... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
in the report Restarting Under Uncertainty. “We learned how firms are approaching tremendous uncertainty. This crisis has created an opportunity for many companies to renew their commitment to customers, suppliers, and employees. Others... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
the London event, while Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi moderated for the Singapore event. The conversation addressed questions like, “Can a system designed to generate profit really make a difference against the massive social and environmental problems that we face?... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
the difficulty and high cost of bankruptcy. "Bankruptcy lawyers charge anywhere from $200 to $350 an hour, and I want to tell you that even for a small company, those hours can easily mount up to $20,000 or $30,000 a month," he noted. "I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a... View Details
- September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Cesaro e Associati
By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal
This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Small Business; Change; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Family and Family Relationships; Consulting Industry; Europe; Italy
Wing, Christina R., and Amram Migdal. "Cesaro e Associati." Harvard Business School Case 623-021, September 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
infertility: eggs, sperm, and wombs. Sometimes, these components are sold along with IVF treatment—when a couple purchases eggs, for example, they are subsequently used for an IVF procedure—but they are often provided by individual brokers. Then there are the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
crises and of the response of western and central Europe to their gas dependence-I find that firms are driving these political outcomes; those firms are motivated by profits but employ sociological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
"domestic" (i.e., carbon-regulated) firms and "foreign" (i.e., unregulated) firms, where domestic firms have the option to offshore production and the number of foreign entrants is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
on the career front. As an RC, our initial professional priority is to secure that coveted summer internship offer. There are some firms willing to hire only American residents or international students who already have an authorized work... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
since then I’ve been trying to understand the economic gaps in the United States. Why are large groups of people systemically financially underprivileged?” One answer, Davis soon discovered, is a lack of access to real estate. Davis, now the CEO of real estate... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
It's been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with science-based firms presenting unique... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM Inc. (now part of CSC), a... View Details