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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
succeed at if we have a real partnership between the Coalition, the international community, and the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people went from a life in a police state, in a controlled, highly structured society, to no social and political... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
International Profit Associates
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Monica Mullick
Describes the work environment, systems, and processes that allow International Profit Associates (IPA) to follow a systematic four-step approach to providing advisory service to small business owners. View Details
Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Monica Mullick. "International Profit Associates." Harvard Business School Case 801-397, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
“A place to grow personally and professionally.” - Yolanda Anton
friend of her friends, always willing to have a good chat? All these people are me, and without their mix one cannot understand my presence at HBS. I started my career as an engineer in technical positions, calculating structures or... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
status—on new venture growth. I propose that new firms can acquire legitimacy by mimicking the structures and ceremonial activities of established firms in their industry and status by affiliating with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
The Program for Global Leadership assembles senior executives from organizations worldwide who participate and interact in a unique, multi-phased educational process. The program's unusual structure helps them to gain fresh insight about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
A self-discovery journey
is the endless list of resources that are available for everything. The career search is not an exception. A very structured process starts with the slow self-discovery of what matters most to you. A set of apparently odd exercises steers... View Details
- 13 Nov 2014
- Blog Post
Finance Conference Recap
inevitable cycles of the industry as well as his optimism in the ability of financial institutions to adapt to the deluge of regulatory changes seen since the financial crisis. His discussion was followed by a selection of panels, which... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
Microsoft and Cisco, Nolan said the mature business model of a hierarchical organizational structure with a "make-and-sell" strategy can't be adapted to the virtual, information-enabled world of dot-coms. There, the real-time speed,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107061 Understanding Industry Structure Harvard Business School Note 707-493 Examines the structural determinants... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
interests were to be minimized. Bill Bain conceptualized his firm to serve one company per industry to ensure a focused, client-centric approach. Most firms established an unwavering culture where growth was an outcome, not the objective,... View Details
- December 2000 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Promise (A): Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan
Describes Promise, the third-largest consumer finance company in Japan. Promise was created in 1963 by an entrepreneur and has grown rapidly, especially in the 1990s when commercial banks struggled. Promise's core business consists of providing unsecured loans of up to... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; Japan
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "Promise (A): Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan." Harvard Business School Case 801-188, December 2000. (Revised April 2006.)
- August 1999
- Background Note
Note on Property Types
By: William J. Poorvu and Daniel J. Rudd
Commercial real estate in the United States can be divided into five distinct property types: apartment, office, hotel, industrial, and retail. This note presents the important characteristics of each of these five property types and highlights the "value drivers" for... View Details
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
structures on which their economic performance rested and the policy options available to them. Representative cases include the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Goodbye IMF conditions, hello Chinese capital: Zambia’s copper View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
open competition. If you were to divide up the Japanese government's energies between repairing ailing industries and spurring on new ones, how would you do that? Not to be too provocative here, but I would say that this is the wrong way... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
industry norms and culture. For instance, entrepreneurs often promote flat, non-hierarchical structures in the firms they start. However, if customers are used to dealing with titular "Vice... View Details
- March 1991 (Revised April 1995)
- Teaching Note
Pepsi-Cola Fountain Beverage Division: Marketing Organization, Teaching Note
By: Frank V. Cespedes
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details