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- May 2014 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Health City Cayman Islands
By: Tarun Khanna and Budhaditya Gupta
Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care delivery model worldwide, Dr. Shetty, Chairman of... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Emerging Economies; Innovation; India; Institutions; Pricing; Replication; Strategy; Narayana Health; Ascension; Health City Cayman Islands; Dr. Devi Shetty; International Business; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Disruptive Innovation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Adaptation; Adoption; India; Cayman Islands
Khanna, Tarun, and Budhaditya Gupta. "Health City Cayman Islands." Harvard Business School Case 714-510, May 2014. (Revised March 2016.)
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (D): Developing New Leadership
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Traditional establishment leadership of Miami is increasingly challenged by a rising millennial generation that is more diverse and brings more innovative and entrepreneurial “outside-the-building” approaches, including impatience for change. Leadership succession is... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
powerful. Despite numerous advances in the Indian economy, reduced birth rates, higher levels of female education, and other promising signals (this year saw the highest-ever number of women elected to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
ultimately an investment in a better world,” says Hess, “one led by alumni who build more effective, sustainable institutions and organizations and inspire hope and opportunity in communities around the world.” Hess understands the importance View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
that actions of leaders most often explain no more than 10 percent of performance. Such things as a company's operating environment, the economy in general, or its long-run... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- March 2008 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
China in Africa: The Case of Sudan
This case examines the relation between China's demand for resources and political risk. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Sudan; China
Abrami, Regina M., and Eunice Ajambo. "China in Africa: The Case of Sudan." Harvard Business School Case 308-060, March 2008. (Revised July 2010.)
- 2015
- Book
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
By: Shane Greenstein
In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details
Greenstein, Shane. How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network. Princeton University Press, 2015.
- March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon." Harvard Business School Case 222-078, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender identity in dual-career couples with Jennifer Berdahl of the University of Toronto. McGinn is involved in three related projects: The first, with HBS colleague Mukti Khaire, studies self-employed... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Dante Roscini
Over the past decade, I have taught the course Business, Government and the International Economy, part of the required curriculum in the MBA program and the course Managing International Trade and Investment, part of the elective curriculum for second-year MBAs. View Details
- February 2005 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever's Project Shakti--Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Rohithari Rajan
With liberalization of India's economy and the opening up of markets to foreign multinationals such as Procter & Gamble, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever--Hindustan Lever Ltd. (HLL)--was under pressure to grow revenues and profits. HLL had a long and stellar record of... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Market Entry and Exit; Business Subsidiaries; Revenue; Profit; Market Participation; Programs; Rural Scope; Poverty; Multinational Firms and Management; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; India
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Rohithari Rajan. "Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever's Project Shakti--Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer." Harvard Business School Case 505-056, February 2005. (Revised June 2007.)
- Web
Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
industrial lines.” 7 In the 1930s, many believed the failing U.S. economy threatened the private enterprise system itself, and as the Great Depression wore on a sense of obligation arose among business... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of the world's population... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Early Childhood Education; Government and Politics; Wealth and Poverty; China; India; Russia; Brazil
Chaudhary, Latika, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan. "Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-083, February 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket
By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,... View Details
Keywords: Self-interest; Economist; Moral Philosophers; Regulation; Capture; Organization Design; Economy Theory; Organization Theory; Management Theory; Commitment; Controls; Governance; Customers; Conflict of Interests; Business or Company Management; Competition; Organizational Design; Business Education; Agency Theory; Economics; Theory; Boundaries
Simons, Robert. "Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-045, October 2015. (Revised January 2019.)
- April 2012
- Article
Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in... View Details
Keywords: Perspective; Growth and Development; Middle School Education; Developing Countries and Economies; Data and Data Sets; Geographic Location; Public Administration Industry; Brazil; Russia; India; China
Chaudhary, Latika, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan. "Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China." Explorations in Economic History 49, no. 2 (April 2012): 221–240.
- 09 Jun 2021
- News
The Next Frontier of Sustainable Investing: Measuring Impact
- Article
Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation
By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Vivek Tandon
Schumpeter's conjecture that large monopolistic firms were the key source of innovation in modern industrial economies has been the underpinning for much work on the topic of innovation. In this review paper we consciously move beyond the Schumpeterian tradition of... View Details
Ahuja, Gautam, Curba Morris Lampert, and Vivek Tandon. "Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation." Academy of Management Annals 2 (2008): 1–98.