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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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  • June 2014
  • Teaching Note

AVA.ph: Growing a Filipino E-Commerce Company

By: William Kerr and Penelope Rossano
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  • Web

Education Startup Connects Filipino students to Colleges and Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Video

Hive Health Co-Grand Prize Winner 2021 New Venture Competition Student Business Track

  • May 2004 (Revised October 2004)
  • Case

Globe Telecom

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Ingrid Vargas
The Ayala Group, one of the oldest and largest Filipino business groups, partnered with Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) to launch a telecom venture following industry deregulation in the Philippines. The partners must decide whether to continue the venture in... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Development Economics; Partners and Partnerships; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Telecommunications Industry; Singapore; Philippines
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  • August 2000
  • Case

Manila Water Company (A)

By: Michael Beer and Elizabeth Weldon
On February 3, 1997, the east zone of the Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) was taken over by the Manila Water Co. (MWC), a newly created joint venture between the Ayala Corp., a large Filipino conglomerate; Bechtel Enterprises, Inc., an American... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Horizontal Integration; Privatization; Problems and Challenges; Utilities Industry
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  • October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Sprout Solutions

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management platforms in the Philippines, guided by the mission to "impact the life of every Filipino by improving... View Details
Keywords: Software; Startup; Technology Ventures; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Venture Capital; Philippines
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  • 2015
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Frank Jerome LaNasa and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice 2013 AL Fellow, 2014 Senior AL Fellow
Two years after the formation of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), a national affiliation of four independent Asian American civil rights groups, Paul Lee, who... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Skills; Asian; Asian Americans; Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Civil Rights; Asian Law Caucus; Asian Pacific American Legal Center; Asian American Institute; Asian American Justice Center; Immigration Issues; Immigration Reform; Affirmative Action; Coalition; Asian American Activism; Japanese; Chinese; Korean; Indian; Pakistani; Hmong; Cambodian; Laotians; Filipino; Vietnamese; Pacific Islanders; Ethnic Group; Model Minority; Anti-asian Prejudice; Pan-asian; Discrimination; Immigrants; Immigration Acts; Alien Land Laws; Sei Fujii; Naturalize; Interracial; Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965; Refugees; War; Warfare; Vincent Chin; Bigotry; Chinatown; Boston; Social Impact; Asian American Lawyers Association; National Asian Pacific Bar Association; Asian Community Development Corporation; Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence; Southeast Asia; Mee Moua; Change Management; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias; Rights; Immigration; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Society; North and Central America
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  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

embedded with a fintech solution. Hive Health Camille Ang (MBA/MPA-ID 2022) Jiawen Tang (MBA 2023/MPA-ID 2021) Business Track Co-Winner A B2B2C digital health insurer providing simplified, affordable, & and quality healthcare to Filipino... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • News

Warrior Spirit

not violence.” Back at Singapore Indoor Stadium, the evening is well under way, with the crowd enjoying a mix of boxing, flying kicks, and jiu-jitsu in a lightweight matchup between Filipino Rocky “The Outlaw” Batolbatol and Australian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

bucket. To distinguish, I found myself having to consistently un-explain and re-explain certain elements of my life that stemmed clearly from my Filipino heritage and that were different — why I always had spare tamarind soup packets in... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

care, state-of-the-art facilities, and skilled doctors are available in many parts of the world, including in developing countries. Auxiliary health-care providers such as nurses go where care is needed. Filipino nurses provide an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • Web

Henry Motte-Muñoz Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Education Startup Connects Filipino students to Colleges and Careers Henry Motte-Muñoz... View Details
  • Web

Caterpillar Tractor Co. - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Outfit, International Harvester Co. , 1931. Subjects range from a Caterpillar demonstration in Italy for Mussolini to men hauling enormous logs out of northwestern forests to Filipino workers plowing rice fields. The collection documents... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption

Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) is cofounder of Bantay, an NGO that educates Filipinos about their rights to good government services and gives them tools to obtain these services without paying bribes. “The people who are corrupt, you know... View Details
  • 05 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

(MBA 2022) "You're not Asian. You're a Filipino." I was told. The distinct Filipino values and commonly shared values in Asia formed my awareness. However, living in the U.S. and exposing myself to how others viewed my background has made... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

majoring in economics and international relations, and shortly thereafter met her future husband, Ron Marcelo (MBA '98), at a Filipino student conference he had organized at Yale. The subsequent birth of their son, Ryan (now seven), did... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • Profile

Sheila Marcelo

Filipino students and met Ron Marcelo, a student at Yale. The pair married and had a son, Ryan, while both remained in college. When the young family moved to Boston, Marcelo deferred her admission to Harvard Law School in order to gain... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

Marcelo, who learned math alongside her older brothers. “They did not have certain expectations just because I was a girl,” she recalls. As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Marcelo attended a cross-college function for Filipino... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young