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My current research focuses on the role of AI in shaping organizational knowledge production, learning, and innovation processes. I run field experiments to study early-stage idea generation and evaluation in entrepreneurial context. View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital-Backed Startups
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
Leading strategic changes in a large family-owned business
Vinita Bajoria (GMP 10, 2011 AMP 183, 2012), senior vice president of Titagarh Wagons Ltd. In India, talks about how her studies at HBS helped her make strategic changes within her family-owned company. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
entrepreneurs. “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” Gbadegesin and two Nigerian classmates, all of whom were officers in the HBS View Details
- August 2019
- Case
The United States and Russia: Gas Rivals in Europe?
By: Rawi Abdelal, Galit Goldstein and Paul Apostolicas
Though the shale revolution transformed the U.S. into the largest producer of petroleum products, it was unclear how much success American exporters would find selling liquefied natural gas on the European energy market. Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian energy... View Details
Keywords: Gas Pipelines; Natural Gas; LNG; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Behavior; Energy Markets; Entrepreneurial Financing; Entrepreneurial Risk; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Entrepreneurial Selling; Energy; Energy Sources; Entrepreneurship; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Price; Energy Industry; Russia; United States; Europe; European Union
Abdelal, Rawi, Galit Goldstein, and Paul Apostolicas. "The United States and Russia: Gas Rivals in Europe?" Harvard Business School Case 720-006, August 2019.
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo’s (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details
- Article
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
By: Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente and Vincent Pons
Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because... View Details
Devoto, Florencia, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente, and Vincent Pons. "Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 4 (November 2012): 68–99.
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
chair of my section at HBS. I grew up with two working parents. My dad is a civil servant and my mom is an entrepreneur and small business owner. One of her businesses is a vegetable oil production business that is still operating 20 years later. Seeing the hustling... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Karen Mills on Bolstering Small Businesses in the U.S.
- December 2000 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Promise (A): Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan
Describes Promise, the third-largest consumer finance company in Japan. Promise was created in 1963 by an entrepreneur and has grown rapidly, especially in the 1990s when commercial banks struggled. Promise's core business consists of providing unsecured loans of up to... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; Japan
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "Promise (A): Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan." Harvard Business School Case 801-188, December 2000. (Revised April 2006.)
- 23 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World
our way to Shad, we struck up a conversation about recruiting as most RCs do around that time of year. Dan knew that I was trans because I had done a MyTake earlier in the semester on National Coming Out Day, organized by the PRIDE Club.... View Details
- March 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Case
Terrapin Laboratory
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Joseph B. Fuller
Describes the formation and rapid growth of a drug testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. The associated teaching materials provide students the opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategy; Market Entry; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Expansion; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Joseph B. Fuller. "Terrapin Laboratory." Harvard Business School Case 315-098, March 2015. (Revised September 2016.)
- September 1992
- Case
Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market
First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Financial Markets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Wealth; Business Cycles; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market." Harvard Business School Case 293-036, September 1992.
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
helped pay for scholarships and faculty salaries. But when protestors in the 1980s challenged the board to end investments in companies operating in South View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Yo takes Twitter by storm, gets $1M in funding
- July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Gamze Yucaoglu and Fares Khrais
The case opens in 2020 as Michael Lahyani, founder and CEO of Property Finder, Dubai’s leading online real estate classifieds portal, contemplates the company’s five-year growth strategy.
Since its founding in 2005 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Property... View Details
Keywords: General Business; Real Estate; Entrepreneurship; Property; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Online Technology; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Turkey
Palepu, Krishna G., Gamze Yucaoglu, and Fares Khrais. "Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region." Harvard Business School Case 321-009, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- March 2010 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management
By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only health care in Zambia, but to NGO and public sector workers who are both motivated... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, and Natalie Kindred. "Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management." Harvard Business School Case 910-030, March 2010. (Revised February 2014.) (Request a courtesy copy.)