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- October 2023
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Making Progress at Progress Software (A)
By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of...
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- December 2002 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (A): A Global Merger
By: Ashish Nanda
French IT consulting giant Cap Gemini is poised to purchase the consulting arm of Ernst & Young, a U.S.-based Big 5 accounting firm. In doing so, many differences need to be resolved, including negotiating with Ernst & Young entities all over the world as well as...
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Negotiation;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
France
Nanda, Ashish, Bertrand Moingeon, Lisa Haueisen Rohrer, and Guillaume Soenen. "Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (A): A Global Merger." Harvard Business School Case 903-056, December 2002. (Revised February 2005.)
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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment
and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the financial sector...
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Video: Inspirational Women in Business - MBA
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- November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change
By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar and Julia Comeau
In 2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe. Northvolt, which succeeded in...
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Batteries;
Climate Change;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Green Technology;
Mission and Purpose;
Goals and Objectives;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Green Technology Industry;
Battery Industry;
Sweden;
Europe
Serafeim, George, Debora L. Spar, and Julia Comeau. "Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change." Harvard Business School Case 323-042, November 2022. (Revised March 2024.)
- May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden...
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COVID-19 Pandemic;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Leadership;
Digital Platforms;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Value Creation;
Decision Making;
Goals and Objectives;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Travel Industry;
Travel Industry;
Travel Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Allison Ciechanover. "Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test." Harvard Business School Case 221-050, May 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?
By: Juan Alcácer and Alpana Thapar
This case illustrates the challenges that retailers face when they aggressively pursue geographical growth by expanding both their physical store network and their online presence. It features Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) Retail, a franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the...
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Stores;
Ecommerce;
Strategy;
Expansion;
Geographic Location;
Decision Making;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Transformation;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
Middle East
Alcácer, Juan, and Alpana Thapar. "Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?" Harvard Business School Case 720-482, June 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
an entrepreneur, investor and inventor who has been working with sustainable housing and renewable energy since 2007. She is the immediate past CEO of BrainHeart Energy, the largest geothermal group in Sweden. She’s also an inventor who holds several patents on...
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Margie Kelley
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PRIDE at HBS - MBA
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- February 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Doing Business in Istanbul, Turkey
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Namrata Arora and Umut Arslan
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Turkey. It highlights Turkey's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Technological Innovation;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Economic Growth;
Financial Crisis;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
Turkey
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Namrata Arora, and Umut Arslan. "Doing Business in Istanbul, Turkey." Harvard Business School Case 323-081, February 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
billion in venture capital money, an all-time record and 35% more than the previous year. The opportunities to bring new technological breakthroughs to the sector are massive, whether it be in robotics, remote sensing, biological products...
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- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
As entrepreneurial rocket companies come closer to shooting the first space tourist into the void, perhaps even this year, another reality is dawning: The business of space is no different than new industries everywhere else. It’s tough...
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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
performance goals. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-013 ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers No abstract available. Purchase this case:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022
and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC (second-year) MBA student body, we have over 20 mothers on campus. Read More>>> FROM HBS TO CUTTING-EDGE TECH Growing up I always wanted to be an engineer, more specifically a roboticist....
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- 08 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS
digital innovation compelling - especially if you think about the democratization of access that digital technology enables. It also meant I needed a serious boost in my digital literacy, so I ended up taking CS50 for MBAs during my...
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Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS - MBA
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. money fund...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2015 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Flipkart (A): Transitioning to a Marketplace Model
By: Das Narayandas, Sunil Gupta and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2015, Sachin and Binny Bansal, co-founders of India’s largest e-commerce company, are wondering if it is time to move from a hybrid model to a full marketplace. While Amazon runs a hybrid model, Alibaba operates a marketplace. In addition, Flipkart has been losing...
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Marketplaces;
Online Retail;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
India
Narayandas, Das, Sunil Gupta, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Flipkart (A): Transitioning to a Marketplace Model." Harvard Business School Case 516-017, November 2015. (Revised April 2018.)
- March 2008 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Aaron Smith, David Chen and Brian Feinstein
As Facebook topped one billion monthly users in October 2012, the online social network continued to face questions about how best to monetize its surging traffic. The company could invest further in new advertising products, which represented the majority of the...
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Space Report Online | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
activity, space defense and topics in the space ecosystem as well as data on space investment, space workforce, space infrastructure, space products and innovation. Go To Database Access Access method HBS Intranet Authorized Baker Visitors Related Resources Public...
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