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  • January 2015
  • Case

Monte-Carlo Weddings

By: Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
Monte-Carlo Weddings, established by Frank Damgaard in 2005, is the most respectable and exclusive wedding planning business in the South of France. Frank has organized the largest, most expensive and luxurious weddings in Europe, serving celebrities, CEOs, and other... View Details
Keywords: Luxury Brand; Luxury Service; Luxury Consumers; Exceeding Consumer Expectations; Wedding Planner; Destination Wedding; Event Planner; Event Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategy; Monaco; Monte-Carlo; Brand Building; Reputation Management; Word Of Mouth; Customer Satisfaction; Client Acquisition; Diversification; Wealth; Marketing Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Luxury; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; France
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  • June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

AVA.ph: Growing a Filipino E-Commerce Company

By: William R. Kerr and Henry Motte-Munoz
AVA is a three-year old e-commerce company in the Philippines. From its early start mimicking the Gilt Groupe concept of online flash sales, the company has grown into a broader e-commerce platform for local fashion commerce. Oliver Segovia needs to evaluate where AVA... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Philippines
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  • September 2020
  • Teaching Note

Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In the decade starting in 2000, a new mayor focused on infrastructure and leadership from a foundation investing in arts and culture helped the Miami region transform and attract younger people to a newly vibrant central city and arts district. In 2011, the Knight... View Details
Keywords: Change; Leadership; Business and Community Relations; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Miami; Florida
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  • Book Review

Review of Private Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam: Social and Political Functioning of Strategic Groups by Thomas Heberer (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003), translated by Timothy J. Gluckman.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Groups and Teams; China; Viet Nam
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  • 07 Jan 2021
  • Video

We the Possibility: It’s Helping Time

  • December 2010
  • Case

Oral Rehydration Therapy

By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
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  • 19 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Instagram Takeover - Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022)

Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022) is a forward-thinking, aspiring digital beauty marketing leader, and storyteller with an extensive background in chemical engineering and entrepreneurship from Michigan State... View Details
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By: Marlous van Waijenburg

Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

    Archie L. Jones

    Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

      Brian J. Hall

      Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; consulting; consumer products; executive search; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; private equity (LBO funds); restaurant; sports; venture capital industry
      • June 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Global Brand Management of Anheuser Busch InBev's Budweiser

      By: Jill Avery
      Brian Perkins, chief architect of the $6 billion Budweiser brand, was excited about 2018, in which the company would launch Budweiser into several new markets in Africa and Latin America. He was feeling the pressure to finalize a global brand strategy that would define... View Details
      Keywords: Brand Management; Global Brands; Brand Equity; Brand Storytelling; Brand Communication; Brand Positioning; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China; Africa; Latin America
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      • November 2017 (Revised September 2020)
      • Case

      Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      In the decade starting in 2000, a new mayor focused on infrastructure and leadership from a foundation investing in arts and culture helped the Miami region transform and attract younger people to a newly vibrant central city and arts district. In 2011, the Knight... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Leadership; Business and Community Relations; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Miami; Florida
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      • January 2015 (Revised March 2017)
      • Case

      New Urban Mechanics

      By: Mitchell Weiss
      Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect across the... View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Civic Technology; Government Innovation; Civic Innovation; Cities; New Urban Mechanics; Thomas. M. Menino; Chris Osgood; Nigel Jacob; Connected Bits; SeeClickFix; Ben Berkowitz; Eric Carlson; Dave Mitchell; Government Technology; Open Innovation; Open Source Software; Citizens Connect; Commonwealth Connect; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation and Management; Open Source Distribution; Public Administration Industry; Information Technology Industry; Boston
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      • 30 Apr 2020
      • News

      Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis

      • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
      • Case

      Jumia's Path to Profitability

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Gamze Yucaoglu
      The case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company’s path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company... View Details
      Keywords: Retail; Business Models; Business Model; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Africa
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      • August 2006 (Revised October 2020)
      • Case

      Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence

      By: Geoffrey Jones, Prabakar 'PK' Kothandaraman and Kerry Herman
      Describes the role of a leading Indian business leader in the campaign for independence before 1947 and his close relationship with the legendary Mahatma Gandhi. Provides the opportunity to consider the impact of colonialism on shaping Indian entrepreneurship and the... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Business History; Leadership; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; India
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      • 2024
      • Report

      The Economic Benefits of a Public Sector Nano, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (nMSME) Grading Agency: Evidence from Nigeria

      By: Saveshen Pillay, Zaakirah Ismail, Anywhere Sikochi and Charles Odii
      This is a summary of our working paper exploring the possibility of creating a public sector small and medium enterprise (SME) grading system in Emerging Markets. Using research and insights from ongoing work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to... View Details
      Keywords: Credit; Public Sector; Emerging Markets; Small Business; Africa; Nigeria
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      • July 1996
      • Case

      Trans National Group

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Takia Mahmood
      Starting as a classic entrepreneur,Steve Belkin, CEO of Trans National (TN), drives the company through two businesses--one in group travel and another in financial services--before deciding to step back and act as a general manager whose focus and attention is on... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management; Growth Management
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      • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
      • Case

      Jake Becraft and Strand Therapeutics: The Making of an Entrepreneur

      By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks and Ananya Zutshi
      Jake Becraft, a PhD student at MIT disillusioned in pursuit of his dreams of becoming an academic, serendipitously finds himself discussing the potential commercial applications of his work with Tasuku Kitada, his former postdoctoral research mentor. The two decide to... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business or Company Management
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      • 18 Apr 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

      is more about narrowing the option set by providing direction, seekers believe soliciting advice is more about widening the option set by gathering information. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54145 Immigrant View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne