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  • January 2009
  • Background Note

Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity

By: Elisabeth Koll
Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Networks; China
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    The Truth About Open Offices

    It’s never been easier for workers to collaborate—or so it seems. Open, flexible, activity-based spaces are displacing cubicles, making people more visible. Messaging is displacing phone calls, making people more accessible. Enterprise social media tools are displacing... View Details
    • 05 Jul 2023
    • HBS Case

    What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

    Organizations rarely reinvent themselves in a perfectly straight line. More often than not, reinvention is like riding a roller-coaster, with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. This is true even at the best organizations, despite leaders who may be able to... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Program

    Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

    potential threats, identifying and responding to novel risk events, and protecting enterprise value. By improving your ability to organize, manage, and govern the risk management function, you will be better prepared to protect your... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Performance Measurement and Accountability in the Social Sector

    Professor Ebrahim's research examines the pressures for accountability facing social sector organizations, and their implications for organizational performance. How can nonprofits and social enterprises measure performance in order to achieve better results? This... View Details
    • September–October 2024
    • Article

    Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed

    By: Bharat Anand and David J. Collis
    Enterprises that own multiple businesses often have a flawed approach to strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them.
    Strategies for adding value to a corporation’s businesses fall on a... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Management Systems
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    • 2007
    • Book

    Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

    By: Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard and Howard Stevenson

    "Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector provides an excellent overview of the many tools available to... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Society
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    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    posing numerous questions around its responsible use. In this session, participants will look at how enterprises have embraced generative AI, will take a deep dive into its impact and key use cases across industries, and will examine how... View Details
    • 29 Oct 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can a Coffee Shop in Utah Help Solve Underemployment for People with Disabilities?

    Keywords: Re: Richard S. Ruback
    • November 2005 (Revised August 2007)
    • Case

    ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mary L. Shelman
    In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent operating companies into a focused, value-added firm and was beginning to think about his successor. ConAgra had become the second largest food company and No.... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Leading Change; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Brands and Branding; Food; Agribusiness; Product Marketing; Management Teams; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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    • 30 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

    energy and ideas our students bring to these challenges, and that we as a faculty help them develop the skills and capabilities needed to practice this kind of leadership." So even as the market system has created threats to its own sustainability, it can also reward... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • Program

    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

    enterprises Brand managers, promoters, investors, and others who are active in the entertainment industry Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive... View Details
    Keywords: Media & Entertainment; Media & Entertainment
    • Web

    Programs & Events - Alumni

    Connection Discover how top HR executives can play a more strategic role and contribute more value as a member of a company’s senior leadership team. Dec 31 TBD Executive Education HBS Campus Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise... View Details
    • 22 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22, 2008

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207091 China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-027 With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market and New York Stock Exchange, state-owned View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2012
    • Teaching Note

    Zhejiang Semir Garment Co., Ltd. (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jie Jiao and Yuren Fang
    With the rapid growth of China's economy and China's increasing integration into the global economy in the past two decades, China's leisure clothing and garment enterprises achieved a rapid rise and became an important competitive force confronting the foreign brands... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Management Controls; China; China
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    • January 2016 (Revised July 2017)
    • Case

    HourlyNerd

    By: Jill Avery and Joseph Fuller
    HourlyNerd, a two-sided marketplace platform for matching freelance consultants with small companies looking for help, struggles to define a growth plan for the future. The company, started as a class project in HBS' FIELD 3 course, is assessing three growth paths:... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Lean Startup; Two Sided Markets; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Consulting Industry; United States
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    • 18 Nov 2013
    • Video

    Investing in Change

    • Teaching Interest

    Risk Management for Corporate Leaders

    By: Robert Simons
    As companies adapt to the aftershocks of the global recession, senior executives and boards are discovering that risk management has never been more important. The financial crisis revealed that risk management structures break down just when... View Details
    • Program

    Families in Business

    Summary Family enterprises must strive for growth amidst fierce competition, an evolving marketplace, and demanding customers. But family enterprises also face a unique set of challenges and opportunities.... View Details
    • 2012
    • Case

    Zhejiang Semir Garment Co., Ltd.

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jie Jiao and Yuren Fang
    With the rapid growth of China's economy and China's increasing integration into the global economy in the past two decades, China's leisure clothing and garment enterprises achieved a rapid rise and became an important competitive force confronting the foreign brands... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Management Controls; China; China
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