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    Alison Wood Brooks

    Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How... View Details

    • November 2002 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    TCS: An Entrepreneurial Air-Express Company in Pakistan

    Introduces Khalid Awan, co-founder of TCS, an entrepreneurial air-express company in Pakistan. Awan has succeeded in building a sizeable company despite serious obstacles, including pressure from the public postal system, an environment prone to corruption, and a... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Leasing; Transportation Industry; United Arab Emirates; Pakistan
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      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • January 2014
      • Article

      Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations

      By: J. Brogaard, J. Engelberg and Christopher Parsons
      Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network proximity to an editor influences research productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues... View Details
      Keywords: Networks; Performance Productivity; Education Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry
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      • 04 Jun 2013
      • News

      Can Good Financial Behavior Be Taught In High School?

        Luis M. Viceira

        Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

        Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
        • 09 May 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

        "it's a bigger story," Mikes says over tea recently in her immaculate office. "We believe it's not just risk managers who fight these issues but also human resources managers, accountants, finance professionals, internal auditors,... View Details
        Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
        • June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
        • Teaching Note

        Home Nursing of North Carolina

        By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
        In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details
        Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career
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        • November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
        • Case

        Marcus by Goldman Sachs

        By: Rory McDonald, Samir Junnarkar and David Lane
        Five years on from the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs remained wounded. Revenues at the global investment bank had stagnated below pre-crisis levels, and the firm had yet to rebound from a substantial decline in securities-trading revenues. Marcus by Goldman... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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        • 31 Aug 2020
        • Blog Post

        Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

        Dia&Co as well as their private label business. At Hilma, Nina leverages her expertise launching innovative products in the DTC and retail space, her Harvard MBA, and personal experiences of being raised by two doctors. Nina... View Details
        • 2013
        • Case

        Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
        In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
        Keywords: Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Information Technology; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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        • September 2013
        • Case

        Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

        By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
        In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
        Keywords: United States; Health Care; Health Care Education; Insurance Companies; Disease Management; Technology; Military; Leadership Skills; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Insurance; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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        • March 2011
        • Case

        Valuation of AirThread Connections

        By: Erik Stafford and Joel L. Heilprin
        This case can be used as a capstone valuation exercise for first-year MBA students in an introductory finance course. A senior associate in the business development group at American Cable Communications, one of the largest cable companies in the U.S., must prepare a... View Details
        Keywords: Communication; Present Value; Tax Accounting; Capital Costs; Synergy; Telephony; Wireless Technologies; Communication Technology; Assets; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Cash Flow; Capital Structure; Accounting; Wireless Technology; Communications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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        • 11 Aug 2021
        • Blog Post

        The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

        enterprise. Little did I know just how valuable the HBS network would be — not only for my startup, but for my personal and professional growth. From day 1, I fell in love with the case study method. Although HBS’s faculty is incredible,... View Details
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        Executive Education - Owner/President Management Program

        By: Martin A. Sinozich

        Delivered in three units that span 24 months over three calendar years, the Owner/President Management (OPM) program is a transformative learning experience that boosts leadership skills and the value of participants’ enterprises.  Sinozich teaches the Finance... View Details

        • January 2015 (Revised September 2017)
        • Case

        Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)

        By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Shannon Gombos
        The sustainable investing market was a recent phenomenon in the first decade of the 21st century. However, an increasing number of investors began to integrated Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues in investment decisions. At Barclays Capital, Omar Selim... View Details
        Keywords: Sustainability; ESG; Social Business; Entrepreneurs; Scaling; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Not For Profit; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mentoring; Business Networks; Hybrid Nonprofit Funding; Investing; Investment Management; Asset Management; Values and Beliefs; Religion; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Germany; United Kingdom
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        • 15 Jul 2022
        • News

        Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?

        • 12 Nov 2020
        • News

        The ‘Problematic,’ VC-Threatening Study That Has Split Harvard Professors

        • May 2013
        • Case

        Bridgewater Associates

        By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heidi K. Gardner
        Bridgewater Associates was the world's largest hedge fund with approximately $120 billion in assets under management in mid-2012, and its leaders attribute its record-beating performance to the firm's culture of "radical transparency." The founder, Ray Dalio, was... View Details
        Keywords: Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance; Leadership Style; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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        • July 15, 2022
        • Article

        Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?

        By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
        Does Elon Musk have a strategy? Or is he just out there winging it? Looking at Musk’s many companies, common themes stand out across three areas: what fits into his vision for problems to solve, how he designs an organization as a solution to those problems, and why he... View Details
        Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Vision; Resources; Organization; Platform; Closed Systems; Leadership; Complexity; Organizational Design; Vertical Integration; Problems and Challenges; Success; Auto Industry; Aerospace Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Energy Industry
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