Expansion - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

Abstract—We tested whether engaging in expansive (vs. contractive) "power poses" before a stressful job interview-preparatory power posing-would enhance performance during the interview. Participants adopted high-power (i.e.,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

founder believes crowd-funding can become a pillar for development, but U.S. regulatory hurdles and resources constraints are substantial. The company is considering targeting non-diaspora investors, introducing new products like insurance or banking, and related View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

middle of a $1 billion capital expansion in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. After reporting lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

agricultural subsidies and tariffs, or instead to pursue regional trade agreements in South and Central America. Rousseff also pledged active government involvement in the economy, described in the case as "Brazilian capitalism," but it was unclear whether... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

108-006 In November 2006, Symon Bridle, the newly appointed chief operating officer of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, was thinking about a number of organizational issues that presented challenges to Shangri-La's rapid expansion strategy.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

organizational mission and the relevance of Miami, as well as branding, funding, and focus. The invitation had come in the midst of a major expansion effort by Endeavor into new emerging markets and threatened to disrupt those efforts and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

market expertise and focus his business expansion in developing countries? If so, where should he concentrate his efforts—India, Brazil, China, or other countries? Or should he instead focus on expanding into developed markets through... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2021
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Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details

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March 2024
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Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan

Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore

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25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

introducing retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service-level criteria, and forecasting in single and multiproduct settings. The owner of a single-location paper and paper products store considers the implications of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

use their data in profitable ways. Q: What other research are you working on? A: My most recent research focused on the international expansion of retailers. In our study, we tried to show that U.S. retailers have more difficulty... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

effect of the policy reforms on the entry of startups versus facility expansions by existing firms. We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved allocative efficiency across... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

horizontal expansion into new alternative asset products and services, both organically and through acquisition. These included businesses in private equity, real estate, funds of hedge funds, alternative credit, opportunistic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

expansion in terms of audiences and acquisitions of art from regions of the world previously underrepresented in its collection. The partnership also helps to expand the network of museum partners and potential donors. A critical element... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

nontraditional expansion strategy of entering the developed markets of Europe and the United States as a niche player before venturing into Middle Eastern and neighboring Asian markets. Looking ahead to the next decade, Haier CEO Zhang... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
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New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

their portfolios, causing their prices to fall, while in expansions they may be more willing to hold stocks, causing their prices to rise. Thus stocks appear to be riskier at short horizons than they do at long horizons. Q: Do you mean... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

October 2018 (Revised April 2019)
Teaching Note

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble

Teaching Note for HBS No. 418-011. View Details

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21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

could develop new capabilities to sustain its growth miracle and entry into new technologies, expansion into B2B businesses, and internationalization. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717500-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

the East and the Pacific Northwest. However, the recent expansion in ethanol production is changing the pattern of grain flow along with stimulating the local farm economy. SDWG's management and producer board must decide how to continue... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?

First Look: November 25, 2008

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

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February 9, 2016

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New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

December 6, 2016

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