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    Peter Tufano

    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games
    • March 2009 (Revised October 2010)
    • Case

    Tokyo AFM

    By: Francois Brochet
    This case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economics; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Japan
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    • 01 May 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    • 04 Feb 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

    grown." These persistent problems seem to demand new models and new ways of thinking to crack them, and in that spirit Wei-Skillern and her HBS colleagues James E. Austin,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
      • May 1997
      • Case

      Center for Women & Enterprise: Looking for a Director of Development with "The Scrappiness Factor"

      By: Thomas J. Kosnik and Natalie Zakarian
      Andrea Silbert is founder of the Center for Women & Enterprise, a nonprofit with a mission to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. She must select a new senior sales executive, decide how to share... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship
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      • January 1996 (Revised March 2000)
      • Case

      R.R. Donnelley & Sons: The Digital Division

      By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March
      In June 1995, Barbara Schetter, VP and general manager of R.R. Donnelley's Digital Division, is struggling to gain acceptance from other groups and divisions at the printing giant. The Digital Division employs radically new technology--digital printing presses and... View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Model; Business Plan; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Technology Adoption; Value Creation
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      • 06 Jun 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

      For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne

        Stuart C. Gilson

        Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

        Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services
        • 21 Jul 2021
        • News

        The Case for Scheduling Everything

        • November 2023
        • Case

        Axie Infinity: Video Game Meets Blockchain

        By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
        The narrative unfolds from the perspective of Sky Mavis's leadership team, facing a high-stakes, rapidly evolving digital frontier. They navigate the exhilarating yet tumultuous journey of Axie Infinity, balancing innovation with sustainability. It explores the game's... View Details
        Keywords: Blockchain; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Currency; Innovation and Management; Business Strategy; Video Game Industry
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        • 2013
        • Working Paper

        If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?

        By: Diego A. Comin and Marti Mestieri Ferrer
        We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted. Using data from the last two centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor... View Details
        Keywords: Income Characteristics; Technology Adoption; Globalization
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        • 22 Mar 2016
        • First Look

        March 22, 2016

        forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • December 2010
        • Article

        Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

        By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
        We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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          How the Internet Became Commercial

          In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details

          • 10 Dec 2015
          • News

          Can Google Street View Images Predict Household Income?

          • 2024
          • Working Paper

          Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

          By: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang
          Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic growth of... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Economic Growth; China
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          • 15 Oct 2015
          • News

          Bonding with Infrastructure

          • February 2003 (Revised June 2003)
          • Case

          Interface's Evergreen Services Agreement

          In an attempt to reduce its ecological footprint, Interface Americas, a leading manufacturer of commercial carpet tile, has launched the Evergreen Services Agreement (ESA)--a lease agreement that provides would-be carpet purchasers with comprehensive floor-covering... View Details
          Keywords: Business Model; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Consumer Products Industry; Houston
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          • 01 Dec 2015
          • Research & Ideas

          What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

          commercial activities? And if so, how? Addressing this question is crucial at a time like now, when an increasing number of organizations engage in hybrid organizing.” Battilana pursues that big question in a new paper, Harnessing... View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel