Publications

15 Nov 2016
News

Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

attend HBS. Earning her MBA, she says, will enable her “to look at myself and my home country from a very different perspective.” In the first-year Required Curriculum, she found Business, Government, and the International Economy to be... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Investing in Innovation

and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the public that business is a force for good and is fundamental to societal progress by creating jobs,... View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

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Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog

Educational objectives This course aims to give students a mastery of all aspects of competitive advantage to make them more effective at diagnosing and developing great strategy. The course examines the role and structure of competitive... View Details

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract— Traditional innovation models... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Ameel Somani

you use all of them to shape your own." Those individuals stand out for the breadth of their experiences. "You have peers who have worked in emerging economies and can provide invaluable context on what it's really like."... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research

new level,” said Dean Kim B. Clark. HBS professor John A. Quelch, senior associate dean for International Development, noted that the gift “sends a clear message to our faculty — that it is imperative that we continue to study the world View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 1997 (Revised October 2002)
Case

The Exxel Group: September 1995

By: Josh Lerner, Alex Hoye and Gonzalo Pacanins

The Exxel Group, a private equity group based in Buenos Aires, is considering a buyout of Argencard, Mastercard's exclusive licensee in Argentina. To complete the deal, however, it will need to raise additional financing from U.S. investors. Both the valuation and the... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Problems and Challenges; Valuation; United States; Buenos Aires

March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
Case

Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)

By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim

In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal policy. As the world's largest copper producer, Chile was benefiting from the rise in copper prices, which had more than tripled since 2003. Copper revenues translated into... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Metals and Minerals; Investment Funds; Policy; State Ownership; Wealth; Chile

09 May 2022
News

Green House

prove that the Passive House model could be implemented within a variety of architectural styles, opening the door to wider adoption in many different settings. Harper, who spent the first 20 years of her career in finance, launched Birchwood Sustainable View Details

Profile

Jaime Mendez

group, you arrange music," Jaime says. "At Goldman Sachs, I played a director's role by training new analysts." Although his Goldman Sachs experience "was great," Jaime felt he was developing too narrow a skill... View Details

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 researchers including Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Jun 2015
News

India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia

Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the fastest-growing major economy within two years, HBS’s presence in this dynamic... View Details

January 2025
Case

PayJoy: Financing for the Next Billion

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

PayJoy, an impact-driven financial technology company founded in 2015, provides smartphone financing and other financial products to customers who lack access to traditional credit products. As of early 2025, PayJoy had issued $2.5 billion in loans to 13 million... View Details