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  • July – August 2011
  • Article

Evolve (Again)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Frenzy over social networks and interactive media can produce equally overhyped predictions that everything will change, not to mention money-losing investments in silly ventures. Separating enduring strategic lessons from the hype can help avoid a new crash. Hint: the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships
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It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You! - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering Entertainment / Media... View Details
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

increased during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Diversification gave firms both financing and investment advantages. First, conglomerates became significantly more leveraged relative to comparable focused firms. Second, conglomerates'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

richest and most developed countries maintained very high levels of protection for agricultural products, far higher than before 1913.3 The advent of floating exchange rates permitted a huge explosion in international View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

(iStockphoto/AvigatorPhotographer) Recently there has been talk, but no action, about eliminating some or all of the tariffs on Chinese imports that were instituted by the Trump administration. The debate involves salient arguments on both sides. It is part of a much... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • Web

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering Entertainment / Media... View Details
  • April 1992 (Revised February 1996)
  • Case

CFM International, Inc.

In April 1987 the management team of CFM International, Inc. (CFMI) was considering developing a new jet engine for the Airbus A340. The withdrawal of a competitor's engine had created an unforeseen opportunity for CFMI to re-enter a competition it had apparently lost... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Manufacturing Industry; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

Memme wrote in his article for Medium. “The ability to combine critical thinking skills, an understanding of what it takes to commercialize innovation, and my love of all things entrepreneurial convinced me I had a lot of value to add.... View Details
  • November 2020
  • Supplement

Integrating Beam Suntory (B)

By: David G. Fubini, Rawi Abdelal and David Lane
Supplements (A) case: The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan’s Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 billion... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Communication; Borrowing and Debt; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Retention; Leadership; Supply Chain; Organizational Structure; Ownership; Relationships; Conflict and Resolution; Integration; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; United States; Chicago
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Investor - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) SUMMER Intern with a VC firm and serve as a Rock Summer Fellow. FALL Take EC Courses applicable to VC/Investing: Venture Capital and Private Equity Private Equity View Details
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Statements Accounting for the Future Featured Exercises Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed Predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow Understand key metrics in valuation like time value of money, terminal value,... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks 6-8 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate... View Details
  • December 2010
  • Article

Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Price; Change; Inflation and Deflation; Cost Management; Customers; Practice; Announcements; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • June 2008 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Vignettes on Governance of Private Equity Firms

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Ann Leamon and Eugenia Adofo
In a series of vignettes, Nigella Hardy-Smyth of an international development agency that invests in emerging markets private equity firms must decide how to handle various situations that arise. As a member of the Limited Partner Advisory Board of each of the five... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

National Grid and as founder and president of National Grid Partners, directing $400 million in startups and internal innovations that offer unique approaches to managing supply and demand, increasing ef ciency, improving response during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Entrepreneurial Management and General Management) George Serafeim Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Strategy Execution Dennis Campbell Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) (also listed under View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

to HBS, citing the School's mission to create socially responsible leaders as “a huge pull.” “I knew most of the students would be more interested in private-sector concerns than international ones,” says Dasgupta. “But as future leaders,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • January 2021
  • Article

The Effects of Menu Costs on Retail Performance: Evidence from Adoption of the Electronic Shelf Label Technology

By: Ioannis Stamatopoulos, Achal Bassamboo and Antonio Moreno
We use the adoption of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) by an international grocery retailer in 2015 to identify the effects of physical menu costs (i.e., labor and material costs of price adjustment) on retail performance. We find that the installation of ESLs increased... View Details
Keywords: Retail Operations; Dynamic Pricing; Revenue Management; Operations; Price; Revenue; Management; Retail Industry
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  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in a corporate finance business. Chief executive Alastair Dowes has to decide whether the risk governance process is adequate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne