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- March 2019
- Supplement
KITEA (F): Expanding in Africa
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
he case opens in 2018 after KITEA has recorded two years of double-digit sales growth following IKEA’s entry into the Moroccan market. It then traces the factors that contributed to KITEA’s success and that led Tana Africa Capital Limited to acquire a minority stake in... View Details
Keywords: Retail; KITEA; IKEA; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Entry Strategy; Responding To Entry; Localization; Competitive Interaction; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Success; Expansion; Strategy; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "KITEA (F): Expanding in Africa." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-423, March 2019.
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
debut on the public capital markets. It also has developed the corporate strategy for the country's Urban Development Authority; enabled a $400 million investment in transforming the education View Details
- October 2016
- Case
Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (A)
By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman
The case addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon in 2009-2010. The case highlights the challenges faced by a politician attempting to institute... View Details
Keywords: Market Reform; Political Leadership; Industry Regulation; Regulatory Reforms; Economic Sectors; Private Sector; Public Sector; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Geopolitical Units; Country; Geography; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Business History; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Market Design; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Industry Structures; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; Public Administration Industry; Israel
Margolis, Joshua, Amram Migdal, and Kerry Herman. "Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (A)." Harvard Business School Case 417-017, October 2016.
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Kayode Ogunro
very different models of development," says Kayode. "China is government-led and better organized. But India has greater private sector involvement and is letting go of bureaucracy." Both... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
rules (legal strictures, backed by enforcement). While she begins by discussing the impact of developments such as the printing press and ocean navigation, Spar focuses on the communications technologies of the last two centuries. She... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
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Ben Faw
more private sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors where he worked on global supply chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do... View Details
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Networking
Network module contains 950,000 leaders and decision-makers across 1,600,000 private organizations. This module not available via WRDS. Select Advanced Search to get to the screening template. Select View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
programs and around 5,000 in its executive education programs, INCAE — which opened a Costa Rica campus in 1984 — has sent thousands of graduates into leadership positions in the private sector as well as to... View Details
- May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Urban Us
By: Mitchell Weiss and Phoebe Peronto
Shaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste aimed to invest in what they called "urbantech superheroes." At Urban Us, the seed-stage urban technology-focused venture capital firm the two started in 2012, they looked for startups innovating around the future of cities. By... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Urbantech; Seed Investing; Urban Us; Shaun Abrahamson; Stonly Baptiste; Remix; One Concern; Starcity; SeamlessDocs; Venture Capital; Public Sector; City; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Miami; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
Weiss, Mitchell, and Phoebe Peronto. "Urban Us." Harvard Business School Case 818-115, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
- 09 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Career Choices for the Class of 2017
at 23%, followed closely by private equity/venture capital at 18% and the technology sector at 16%. We also saw a jump in students accepting positions in leadership development... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Profile
Maya Babu
experiences her colleagues bring to their discussions. "There are amazing things going on in the private sector I'd like to learn from," she says. "Going to both the Medical and Business... View Details
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Katie Laidlaw
and career path? HBS introduced me to more industries, jobs, companies, and roles than I thought possible. It helped me understand how private sector frameworks and analysis can be applied successfully in... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
working on as the head of the SBA and what I continue to write about today—access to capital. SBA’s flagship loan programs are made through more than 3,000 banks, where the private sector picks “winners and... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation across the Nonprofit, Private,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
Sacramento, where we worked on arenas and the public sector funded 50 percent of the construction costs. Even at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas it was 50-50.” “We sell to the private placement bond market.... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...
young business leaders in the private sector for high-impact nonprofit board service. How has having an MBA impacted your career? First of all, during school, it allowed me the time to reflect and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
whether directly, as an asset manager/investor, advisor or private individual, or indirectly as an entrepreneur or operator receiving investment capital. The course will also provide important learnings for students looking to work in the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”
has been welcome. “In my admissions essay, I wrote about how wonderful it would be to have an interesting role in the private sector involving human capital – and that’s what I got. HBS has been a great... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
development in Louisiana, a prime vantage point at the intersection of the public and private sectors that allowed him to “envision a future state and bring it to life.” In his... View Details