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  • June 2022
  • Teaching Plan

Lifebank Nigeria

By: Brian Trelstad, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
The aspiration of addressing maternal deaths in Nigeria, which were mostly caused by blood shortages, led Temie Giwa-Tubosun to found LifeBank in 2015. LifeBank developed an online platform that enabled hospitals to connect and purchase blood from local blood banks and... View Details
Keywords: Systems Design; Social Business; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Health Care; Blood; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Finance; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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  • Summer 2021
  • Article

The Origin and Development of Firm Management

By: Michela Giorcelli
This paper examines the historical origin and diffusion of management practices. Despite their centrality in the modern world, the concepts of ‘management’ developed fairly recently. Only with the Industrial Revolution, due to the increased firm size, owners needed a... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Kaizen; Management; Management Practices and Processes; History; Performance Productivity; Technology
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  • February 2021
  • Case

Drizly: Managing Supply and Demand through Disruption

By: Kris Ferreira
It was April 6th, 2020, and the management team at Drizly—an online alcohol marketplace where consumers could browse and purchase alcohol from local liquor retail stores via Drizly’s app for immediate home delivery—were thrilled to see record-breaking sales from the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Demand and Consumers; Growth and Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Goals and Objectives; Supply Chain Management
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  • December 2016 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago

By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris
In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for actions they took during the Global... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development; Career Journey; Leadership Development; Career; Leadership; Government and Politics; Personal Development and Career; Public Administration Industry; United States; Chicago
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  • March 2016
  • Article

Trade Credit and Taxes

By: Mihir Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns encourage the use of trade credit to reallocate capital from firms facing low tax rates to those facing high... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Trade; Credit; Capital
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    NGOs and Organizational Change

    The organizational dynamics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly complex as they have evolved from small local groups into sophisticated multinational organizations with global networks. Alnoor... View Details

    • 27 Sep 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

    • 17 Nov 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Network Effects in Countries’ Adoption of IFRS

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Ewa Sletten
    • January 2025
    • Supplement

    Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (B)

    By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
    The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
    Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Dam; Stakeholder Analysis; Environmental Negotiation; Negotiation; Chile
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Getting Schooled: The Role of Universities in Attracting Immigrant Entrepreneurs

    By: Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul A. Gompers, George Hu and Kaushik Vasudevan
    Immigrant founders of venture capital-backed companies have been critical to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We document the channels through which immigrant founders find their way to the United States and how those channels have changed over time. Immigrants have been... View Details
    Keywords: Immigrants; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem; Higher Education; Immigration; Entrepreneurship
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    • March 2020 (Revised June 2022)
    • Case

    GreenLight Fund

    By: Brian Trelstad, Julia Kelley and Mel Martin
    As Tara Noland, the Executive Director (ED) of GreenLight Cincinnati, reflected on her first few years on the job. Noland had delivered on what she had been hired to do in the city: work with leading philanthropists and nonprofit executives to use data and evidence to... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Venture Philanthropy; Replication; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Social Issues; Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Cincinnati
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    • Article

    Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support

    By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan
    We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Analysis
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    • May 2016
    • Case

    OPET: Precision Marketing in Uncertain Times

    By: Rajiv Lal, Esel Çekin and Eren Kuzucu
    During Timucin Guler’s decade at OPET, a prominent fuel distributor in Turkey, he transformed the definition of marketing in the company. Under Guler’s lead, OPET, once a local player in the downstream distribution market, became the second largest fuel distributor in... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Customer Service; Emerging Market; Focusing On Customers; Competition; Turkey; Loyalty Program; Marketing Strategy; Downstream Distribution; Customer Relationship Management; Energy Industry; Turkey
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net

    By: Gareth Olds
    This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 created a five-year “waiting period” for legal... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing; Immigration
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    • June 2012 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    I Paid a Bribe (Dot) Com

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Rachna Tahilyani
    Anti-corruption web platform "ipaidabribe.com" leverages the transparency and anonymity of the Internet to encourage private citizens in India who have been the victims of corruption to self-report details of bribes paid, including the bribe amount, the name of the... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Service Industry; India
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    • December 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Codevasf

    By: David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Natalie Kindred
    With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Resource Allocation; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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    • July 2003
    • Case

    De La Salle Academy

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and David Ager
    Brother Brian Carty, headmaster and founder of De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York City, is scheduled to meet with the school's board of directors to discuss how the... View Details
    Keywords: Middle School Education; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Design; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry
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    • January 2025
    • Case

    Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (A)

    By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
    The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
    Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Dam; Stakeholder Analysis; Environmental Negotiation; Negotiation; Energy Generation; Construction; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Energy Industry; Chile
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    • 30 Sep 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?

    Keywords: by Joanne Horton, George Serafeim & Ioanna Serafeim
    • 17 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 17, 2008

      Working PapersExplaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints Authors:Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi Abstract We use a micro dataset that collects information across individuals,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace