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Climate Adaptation
By: John D. Macomber
It's clear that challenges like wildfires, river flooding, extreme heat, and storm surge are increasing. How will homeowners, businesses, instituations, goverments, and all of society decide what and whom to protect and what and whom to not protect? What is the timing?...
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- November 2011
- Compilation
VCPE Strategy Vignettes: 2012
By: Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
This compilation of five vignettes depicts common challenges confronting venture capital and leveraged buyout groups. They range from when to deviate from a strategy and how to manage an inept but well-connected executive to equity splits among founders and whether to...
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Keywords:
Strategy
Lerner, Josh, Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa Strope. "VCPE Strategy Vignettes: 2012." Harvard Business School Compilation 812-073, November 2011.
- September 1998 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Power Across Latin America: Endesa de Chile
Endesa, a privatized Chilean electricity generator, has made significant investments in the privatization of Argentina's electricity sector and is now contemplating an even larger privatization opportunity in Peru. In deciding how much to bid in Peru, Endesa must...
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Keywords:
Expansion;
Energy Generation;
Privatization;
Government and Politics;
Utilities Industry;
Peru;
Chile
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Patricio del Sol. "Power Across Latin America: Endesa de Chile." Harvard Business School Case 799-015, September 1998. (Revised July 2009.)
- 11 Jan 2011
- News
Clean Energy Sector Hit by Financing Crunch
- 20 Oct 2021
- News
Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making
- 07 Aug 2011
- News
Rating Cut of U.S. Debt Echoes the Nervousness of Global Markets
- 04 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis
- 05 May 2015
- News
Economist: The Internet of Things will deliver surge of productivity
- 27 Feb 2011
- News
Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps
- 17 Jun 2019
- News
‘How Perfect Do I Need to Be?’
Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation
Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage...
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- July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century
By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron
This case examines the role of Jardine Matheson, a trading company founded by two Scottish merchants, in the opium trade between India and China during the nineteenth century. The two Opium Wars fought between Western powers and China, which sought to stop opium...
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History;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Ethnicity;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Groups and Teams;
Trade;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
China;
United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, Elisabeth Koll, and Alexis Gendron. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Case 805-010, July 2004. (Revised October 2018.)
Jill J. Avery
Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details
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consumer products;
arts;
advertising;
automobiles;
retailing;
fashion;
hotels & motels;
food;
beverage
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
The Trap Of Marginal Thinking In the late 1990s, Blockbuster dominated the movie rental industry in the United States. It had stores all over the country, a significant size advantage, and what appeared to be a stranglehold on the market. Blockbuster had made huge...
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- 20 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
Srikant M. Datar
Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details
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