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  • 25 Jun 2020
  • News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

addressed topics such as financing small and medium businesses during the pandemic, managing through crisis, and understanding the new normal. On... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Enterprise Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development By: Alfaro, Laura, and Jasmina Chauvin Abstract—Research has sought to understand how foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Covering the Issues

MBA Program, one small but important sign, the piece declared, that the PC had "come of age." Over the past decade, the magazine has covered the School's frequent technology conferences, campus upgrades, curriculum adaptations (such as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons
  • Web

Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

menopause support helpful from their employer (62%) and health insurance carriers (73%). Yet, most U.S. workplaces – unlike their British counterparts – do not offer benefits specifically geared towards menopause. This is exactly the gap... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

I was born and raised in a small town in eastern India, called Jamshedpur (also known as Tatanagar). The city is named after Jamshedji Tata, who, in 1907, founded what would later become the Tata group of... View Details
  • April 2017
  • Article

The Effectiveness of U.S. Energy Efficiency Building Labels

By: Omar Isaac Asensio and Magali A Delmas
Information programs are promising strategies to encourage investments in energy efficiency in commercial buildings. However, the realized effectiveness of these programs has not yet been estimated on a large scale. Here we take advantage of a large sample of monthly... View Details
Keywords: Energy Conservation; Green Building; Energy Policy
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  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

sexual experiences by 59%. We conduct a “placebo test” and show that for non-sensitive placebo items, the veiled methodology produces effects that are small in magnitude and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

ChemChina (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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  • July 2001 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Centra Software

By: John A. Deighton and Laetitia Pouliquen
Centra is a pioneer in software eLearning. It is debating how to modify its go-to-market strategy, adding telesales to improve sales force productivity. At the same time, its market is evolving, and management thinks it may be about to "cross the chasm" in Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Learning; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Salesforce Management; Conflict Management; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry
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  • November 2018 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Peak Investment Capital

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Kobbina Awuah (MBA 2014) became intrigued with the possibility of adapting Entrepreneurship through Acquisition in Ghana, where he grew up and where his family still lived. While he knew he could work for a multi-national enterprise located in Ghana, he was confident... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Africa; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Ghana
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  • July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

The Robin Hood Army

By: Susanna Gallani
In 2014, Neel Ghose and a handful of friends spent one evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The... View Details
Keywords: Volunteer-based Organization; Food Redistribution; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Human Needs; Expansion; Global Range; Growth and Development
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  • 08 Jun 2023
  • News

Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

alum Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) presented the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award to conservation power couple Paul J. Zofnass (MBA 1973), founder of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and his... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

inflection point today, and we must seize the opportunities before us that are central to our mission. Let me give you an example. In the coming years, the leaders of major enterprises will need a truly... View Details
  • November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Wallbox

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Max Hancock
Enric Asunción co-founded Wallbox, a private EV charger company, in Spain in 2015. As CEO, Asunción transformed the company from a small start-up, focused on the European market, to a multimillion-dollar enterprise with offices on three continents. In 2021, a private... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Going Public; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Entrepreneurial Finance; Spain; United States; United Kingdom
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  • February 2011
  • Case

oDesk: Changing How the World Works

By: Boris Groysberg, David A. Thomas and Jennifer M. Tydlaska
It is 2010, and Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk, is contemplating the next steps for his organization. Founded in 2004 in California, oDesk operates an online marketplace which matches Employers with Contractors. oDesk provides fact-based information on Contractors, including... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Corporate Strategy; Internet and the Web; Consulting Industry
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

1936-1937. The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography: Body By the 1920s, with the rise of national magazines and improved technical reproduction of photographs, photography increasingly became the... View Details
  • 2012
  • Case

ChemChina

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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  • Web

I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too - MBA

birthday, and I was enjoying the liberty that came with growing up on a farm on the outskirts of a small mining community in Ohio: riding my all-terrain vehicle (ATV) through muddy fields View Details
  • TeachingInterests

Field Course: Social Innovation Lab

This course provides students an opportunity to address a social enterprise topic with the discipline of business tools and techniques. Students will work in teams, choosing among three types of projects: a) developing a business plan for your own social enterprise;... View Details

  • Web

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2) - MBA

am, and to help pave the way for those who come after. I come from a small village in the highlands of Peru, and I moved to the US at the age of 18. Starting a new life from... View Details