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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
explains. At GE, students worked on developing a plan for shifting from large-scale energy generation projects to smaller-scale ones to take advantage of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources. The NASA project challenged students to figure out ways for View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
care, security, and more). These are valid reasons. But there are workarounds that work. At Harvard Business School, my research looks at ways that the private sector can finance and deliver public infrastructure. For the last three... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
"It appears that some career histories mattered more than others in helping to get the biotechnology firms founded and to move from private to public status," Higgins writes. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
potential. Research output will include papers in economics, finance, and computer science, and new case studies, data, and white papers. DIGITAL RESKILLING LAB As companies think about preparing their workforce for the digital age, Raffaella Sadun and Jorge Tamayo... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
programs offered by organizations like the COMMIT Foundation (full disclosure: I volunteer with COMMIT) and many private sector companies through which you can get exposed to those companies and jobs. Read as many books as you can; I... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) - Course Catalog
costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures, Financial Management of Smaller View Details
- Profile
John Clayton
engaging external partners within the international development community. Despite the high-quality exposure, John felt a need “for something different, less bureaucratic” and turned toward the MBA “as a platform to transition into the View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Letters Abstract Strategic orientation studies often provide 'best practice prescriptions' for firms in a given context-matching orientations to environmental conditions. While this perspective has value, empirical results are equivocal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
companies have been financed during previous downturns in the venture capital market. Entrepreneurs should not necessarily abandon all hope. Venture capitalists still have many, many billions to invest, so well crafted business plans can get funded. Moreover, new View Details
- March 2019
- Supplement
KITEA (B): Getting Ready to Face IKEA
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2015, when IKEA is about to open its first store in Morocco. It then chronicles the efforts of KITEA CEO Amine Benkirane and his son Othman between 2013 and 2015 to prepare KITEA for IKEA’s entry. After incurring losses for the first time in... View Details
Keywords: Retail; KITEA; IKEA; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Entry Strategy; Responding To Entry; Localization; Competitive Interaction; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Retail Industry; Morocco; Africa; North Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "KITEA (B): Getting Ready to Face IKEA." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-421, March 2019.
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company and leader in fragrance. He began his career at The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
Beck to try her hand in private equity. She joined a private equity firm and quickly had an epiphany. In this new role, she felt too far removed from the strategy and... View Details
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
details a Global Leadership Roundtable event focused on the appropriate and feasible role that private firms can play in addressing persistently high levels of economic inequality in Latin America.... View Details
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
corporate strategy, ranging from conglomerates and private equity firms to tightly related corporate entities and startups. It demonstrates that the same "better off" and "ownership" tests apply to every... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
commercial real estate prior to 1990. Since then, almost every major Wall Street firm has become active in real estate private equity. “Morgan Stanley alone has gone from zero dollars under management to... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
technologies could be used to create a captive one-to-one relationship between firms and consumers, so that customers could literally be viewed as assets. We should start to realize that things are not that simple. Ultimately, a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne