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    Executive Education in the Digital Matrix: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape

    Even as the demand for managerial skills continues to grow, executive education worldwide has entered a period of disruption caused by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication. The current offerings of many executive education program providers... View Details

    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

    By: Josh Lerner
    Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative activity inside the firm and are increasingly used in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research; Problems and Challenges
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    • 2015
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Entrepreneurship Reading: Partnering with Venture Capitalists

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Michael J. Roberts
    This reading takes a deep look at the venture capital (VC) industry in the United States. VCs have a unique perspective on opportunity evaluation, deal structure, new venture support, and exit strategy. Their work at all stages of the entrepreneurial life cycle offers... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship
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    • 2012
    • Chapter

    The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics

    By: Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina
    Using comparative data from six major emerging economies — Brazil, Chile, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan — we examine how ownership networks in those societies responded to a roughly similar “ structural break ” of economic liberalization during the 1990s... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Economies; Ownership; Corporate Governance; Emerging Markets
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    • March 2011 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    If We Ran the World

    By: Hanna Halaburda, Radka Dohnalova and Aldo Sesia
    Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as what the tech world called minimum viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Network Effects
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    • June 2005
    • Case

    Growth and Profitability at Fresenius

    By: Joel Podolny, Vincent Dessain, Monika Stachowiak and Anders Sjoman
    In March 2005, Mark Schneider, CEO of Fresenius, is considering the group's strategic and organizational future. The highly decentralized 7 billion euro German health care group is active in three different business units, with the largest, FMC AG, listed separately... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Diversification; Organizational Structure; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Germany
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    • November 2007
    • Article

    The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship

    By: Sonali K. Shah and Mary Tripsas
    We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Business Model; Commercialization; Adoption; Adaptation; Product; Civil Society or Community
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors: Competition and Geographic Concentration in the Semiconductor Industry

    By: Minyuan Zhao and Juan Alcacer
    Despite the many advantages offered by technology clusters, firms located in them face the risk of losing valuable knowledge to nearby competitors. In this study, we argue that multi-location firms strategically organize their R&D activities to appropriate the value of... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Geographic Location; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Semiconductor Industry
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    • 2007
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

    By: Julie Wulf
    I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Investment; Knowledge Acquisition; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation; Power and Influence
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    • 12 Oct 2022
    • Video

    Mike Luca: The Role Experiments Play in Addressing Discrimination

    • Web

    MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Leadership Fellows Loan Assistance Community A wide variety of clubs and activities serve as major vehicles for supporting students interested in social enterprise. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum Social Entrepreneurship Our... View Details
    • Web

    Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

    ecological, societal, and cultural developments in a harmonious way.” Download Transcript Argentina Arturo Acevedo President, Grupo Arcelor Mittal (Acindar) (Steel and Mining) “It is important to clearly define social responsibility. We have always upheld a very View Details
    • Web

    Ways to Give Today - Alumni

    a nonprofit association that supports the European research, case writing, and course development activities of Harvard Business School faculty. It makes available to the public at large in France and in Europe the intellectual output it... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

    education planning and account aggregation to 25 percent more clients boosted asset and revenue gains by up to 2 percentage points in the following year, as well as the year afterward. Active business development also proves key. Efforts... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
    • 15 Feb 2022
    • Book

    When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

    notice that I am not as sharp as I used to be. Other people receive the social and professional attention I used to receive. I have to decrease my workload and step back from daily activities I once completed with ease. I am no longer... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Web

    Fellowships - Business History

    Business School. The fellowship enables established scholars from around the world whose primary interest is the business and economic history of the United States to spend time in residence at Harvard Business School. The main activities... View Details
    • Web

    Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project

    and questions might be raised and standing ready with follow-up questions to guide the group. Active participation in class is essential to the case method’s success, and the grading metrics reflect its importance. Students quickly learn... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

    This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details

    • April 2023
    • Article

    Control and Fairness: What Determines Elected Local Leaders’ Support for Hosting Refugees in Their Community?

    By: Kristin Fabbe, Eleni Kyrkopoulou, Konstantinos Matakos and Aslı Unan
    When it comes to successful refugee reception, the local level matters. Research overwhelmingly examines host communities’ attitudes, but endorsement from local politicians is equally important to resolving conflicts and facilitating harmonious interaction. Yet the... View Details
    Keywords: Values; Control; Refugee Resettlement; Local Elites; Contact; Fair-share; Conjoint Experiment; Refugees; Attitudes
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    • October 2021 (Revised March 2022)
    • Supplement

    PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion

    By: Ayelet Israeli and Fabrizio Fantini
    PittaRosso, a traditional Italian shoe retailer, is implementing an AI system to provide pricing and promotion recommendations. The system allows them to implement changes that would affect both the top of funnel and bottom of funnel activities for the company: once... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Pricing Decisions; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Promotion; Promotions; Online Marketing; Data-driven Decision-making; Data-driven Management; Retail; Retail Analytics; Price; Advertising Campaigns; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Digital Marketing; Budgets and Budgeting; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Transformation; Decision Making; Retail Industry; Italy
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