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- November 2007 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Irina Tarsis
In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), had every reason to be optimistic about the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Leading Change; State Ownership; Diversification; Abu Dhabi
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Irina Tarsis. "Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi." Harvard Business School Case 708-033, November 2007. (Revised March 2011.)
- 10 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing
- September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!
By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
Shih, Willy. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!" Harvard Business School Case 612-017, September 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 20 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Markets," looks at a wide range of practices, legal and illegal, from dwarf tossing to slavery to California's ban on the human consumption of horse meat, and asks how... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
The following excerpt is taken from the "Lessons of Restructuring" section of Gilson's introduction to Creating Value through Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
yourself paying more attention to the prices of everything you buy? You are not alone. Consumers everywhere are more price aware. People who've been indifferent to price increases for years are suddenly... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Second, and more seriously, common descriptions of one’s BATNA as the “best outside option, independent of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 2020
- Chapter
Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective
By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones
This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India
Hunter, Janet, and G. Jones. "Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective." Chap. 10 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and G. Jones, 224–245. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
and our way of life. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: Serving in combat showed me the extremes of the human experience; life and death in constant flux;... View Details
- Web
Research - Global
Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu Political speech by firms is increasingly common around the world. This... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
adversaries as well as with colleagues within your organization? In this Q&A, James Sebenius and David Lax, authors of 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2018
- Working Paper
Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence
Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Product Marketing; Quality
Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca. "Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-045, October 2018. (Revised December 2018. Forthcoming in Management Science.)
- 16 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience
experience balances with the all too common FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) that is quite palpable on campus. While traditionally in society extroverts have received the bulk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
common to success in all three of these areas—leadership, strategy, and negotiation—it’s the need for a high degree of empathy,” he says. “If you... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
Think of famous brands you know: Hallmark cards and Coca-Cola soft drinks, for example. What do these products have in common for consumers? An emotional meaning that taps into thoughts and feelings related... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
have a one in four chance of having thalassemia major which, in the most life-threatening cases, requires frequent blood transfusions. The trait was known to be more View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
First-Year Required Curriculum (RC) During the first year at Harvard Business School, all students pursue the same course of study: the Required... View Details