Publications

February 2014 (Revised May 2014)
Case

Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Jaume Ribera

Keywords: Health Care; Provider Organizations; Hospital; Organization Structure; Leadership; Organizations; Health; Health Industry; Europe; Spain

26 Apr 2021

HBS Alumni Club Series: Barcelona

Join for a unique opportunity to hear straight from HBS alumni regarding their MBA experience. The HBS Club of Barcelona will host this virtual event and feature alumni who will share their background and talk about how they cultivated... View Details

13 Dec 2018

Life at HBS Chat in Barcelona

Hear straight from a current HBS student regarding their experience. A current student will host this informal gathering to give their perspective on life at HBS. View Details

09 Jul 2019

Life at HBS Chat in Barcelona

Hear straight from current HBS students and local alumni regarding their experience. Current students and local alumni will host this informal gathering to give their perspective on life at HBS. View Details

06 Mar 2018
HBS Seminar

Kate Barasz, IESE Business School, Barcelona

17 Sep 2014
HBS Seminar

Albert Marcet, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

June 18, 2015
Article

What Makes FC Barcelona Such a Successful Business

By: Andres Hatum and Luciana Silvestri

This article explores how FC Barcelona's identity as "more than a club" fuels the team's impressive performance on the field. We focus on the role of La Masía, the club's youth academy, to explain how a strong sense of organizational identity underlies the team's style... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Identity; Organizational Culture; Performance; Sports Industry; Barcelona

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July 2019
Case

Bjarke Ingels Group

By: Boris Groysberg and Aldo Sesia

Danish-born Bjarke Ingels is regarded as a giant in the field of architecture. He started his firm—the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)—in 2005 in Copenhagen. Fourteen years later, the firm has additional offices in New York City, London, and Barcelona and employs over 500... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Growth Management; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; Urban Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Construction Industry; Service Industry; Real Estate Industry; Denmark; Spain; United Kingdom; United States; New York (city, NY)

Research Summary

Anti-Competitive Financial Contracting

Joint work with Giacinta Cestone, Institut d'Analisi Economica, Barcelona

This paper presents the first model where entry deterrence takes place through financial rather than product-market channels. In standard models of the interaction between product and... View Details

June 2020 (Revised April 2022)
Case

AFC Ajax

By: Anita Elberse

In July 2019, AFC Ajax’s chief executive officer Edwin van der Sar finalized one of the biggest transfers in soccer—that of Matthijs de Ligt, only 19 years old but already one of the sports world’s brightest stars—from AFC Ajax to Italian powerhouse Juventus FC for a... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; Talent and Talent Management; Sports; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Sports Industry; Europe

29 Jun 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Better-reply Dynamics in Deferred Acceptance Games

Keywords: by Guillaume Haeringer & Hanna Halaburda

October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Relevent and LaLiga: Bringing Spanish Soccer to America

By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente

“Barcelona backs out of proposed LaLiga match in Miami.” It is December 2018, and Daniel Sillman, chief executive officer of sports and entertainment company Relevent, is tasked with finding a way forward after a significant setback. Relevent had found success by... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; Football; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; General Management; Marketing; Entertainment; Sports; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Globalization; Strategy; Sports Industry

29 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

“cloak-and-dagger” meeting with his father in Barcelona in 2019. During the 2022 World Cup, Beckham kept in close touch with Messi, player to player, to share that he knew what he was going through on the world stage, and how agonizing... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

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Find a Club - Alumni

HBS Club of Atlanta Co-President Ms. Cartha O'Hare, MBA 1990 Ms. Burunda Prince, MBA 1987 HBS Club of Austin President Ms. Kirsten Billhardt, MBA 2001 HBS Club of Barcelona President Mr. Jose Maria Rigau, MBA 2012 Load More View Details

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NVC Regions - Alumni

Barcelona Denmark France Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Israel Spain Norway Sweden The Netherlands International Countries Argentina Chile Columbia Nigeria Brazil Egypt Lebanon Mexico Peru South Africa Turkey Gulf Cooperation Counsil... View Details

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Events - Business History

Seminars, & Workshops Jun 11 11 Jun 2025 Virtual Seminar Paloma Fernández Pérez (University of Barcelona), "Global Business and Local Welfare: the Transfer of Radium from Multinationals to Hospitals for the Poor in Barcelona in the 1920s"... View Details

April 2004
Teaching Note

The Arts Property and Hotel (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel

Teaching Note to (9-803-009). View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Management; Accommodations Industry; Barcelona

September 2002 (Revised May 2008)
Case

The Arts Property and Hotel

By: Arthur I Segel and Ani M Vartanian

Julio Martinez finds himself as one of the owners of the Arts Hotel Project in Barcelona, Spain. The 455-room hotel is managed by the Ritz Carlton and is in a 44-story tower along Barcelona's beachfront. Julio needs to figure out a strategy to maximize his investment,... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Property; Strategy; Accommodations Industry; Real Estate Industry; Barcelona