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- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
competitors could only offer three. However, LEGO offers a 30-35 percent margin to retailers, compared to competing brands offering 40-50 percent margins. What if local retailers wanted the higher margins and could care less about turnover? Outsourcing risks. With... View Details
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Mara Group
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group." Harvard Business School Case 114-060, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets, private banking, asset management,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Career Coach
Meredith Hamilton
Meredith [she/her] has served as a mentor and coach to innumerable mid-career staff as well as several CEOs in the social sector. She is committed to creating a safe space for students and alumni to explore questions of professional identity and career progression... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
venture process. The presence of such expertise on the part of lawyers, accountants, and real estate brokers, among others, has substantially lowered the transaction costs associated with forming and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
ex-consultants to seasoned real estate professionals. As far as my day to day goes, I have been fortunate to work with very smart people and take on new learnings. I have worked on projects ranging from... View Details
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The Great Crash Crisis Leadership The... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
25 years of experience in numerous industries, Pritzker founded Vi Senior Living, and cofounded the Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of the board of Microsoft; chairman of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
since HBS, I have been in Asia, residing in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta. Lewis Rutherfurd (MBA 1971) and I were the only two individuals from our class who went to Asia to make a career. I started developing real View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
to New York and it has been extremely rewarding to experience the product first-hand. Another thing I enjoy at Blueground is that I get to collaborate with colleagues from a number of different industries and former roles, from ex-consultants to seasoned View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Co-lead Carol Barnett (MBA 1990), Founder of the Creek School, LLC and director of operations for Medline Industries, LP, says the program signed its first client—a hybrid tech incubator and downtown revitalization real View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
related real estate from Anheuser-Busch for $150 million, they didn’t only buy a baseball team. Just as the Boston Red Sox enjoy (or endure) the attentions of fans across a wide swath of New England, the... View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
management. Meg Garland makes this case when she writes, "Of course it (business management) should be regarded as a profession, but certified and registered? Probably not. Such paper shuffling and submission certainly hasn't elevated every attorney, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
flexibility in this timeframe and might start demanding flexible work as a long-term solution. Doesn’t making employees work remotely save on utility expenditures? Choudhury: If companies allow workers to live anywhere, they might save View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school's gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
different attitude from what most people had. To boost the status of entrepreneurial study, I knew I had to get someone whose credentials, integrity, human qualities, and values were unimpeachable. Howard was known as an extremely smart guy, and he was respected for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
hair salons to real estate agencies have long organized themselves as associations of individuals, with the company itself exerting more or less control over the interaction between service provider and... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
than others. “Every company today needs to think of themselves as a tech company,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Whether you’re in retailing or you’re a law firm or a View Details