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Forest L. Reinhardt
Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.
Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details
- 31 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
If the past two decades have demonstrated technology’s potential, one of the challenges of the next ten years will be defining its boundaries. How can new technologies benefit people and societies in equitable ways? How can companies --...
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- March 2017 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs
By: Geoffrey Jones, Rachael Comunale and Kate Lazaroff-Puck
This case examines the career of the Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky was one of a small group of business tycoons that became fabulously rich after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, as the new Russian government, advised by prominent...
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Keywords:
Business & Government Relations;
Government and Politics;
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Privatization;
Soviet Union;
Russia
Jones, Geoffrey, Rachael Comunale, and Kate Lazaroff-Puck. "Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs." Harvard Business School Case 317-005, March 2017. (Revised December 2019.)
- Web
Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard productivity analysis, specifically omission and attribution issues, and, if so, whether...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2018 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Lynn Schenk
This case focuses on the 10-year journey of one of the world's largest global financial institutions developing a sustainability strategy and integrating it across all of its business units. The case provides a deep dive into the challenges and successes of trying to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Sustainability;
Green Bonds;
ESG;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Business Units;
Integration;
Financial Institutions
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Lynn Schenk. "Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 318-103, March 2018. (Revised April 2018.)
- September 2003 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Direvo Biotech AG
Describes the financing and growth decisions facing Direvo, a young German biotech firm with a customer/partner that wants to become an investor. Also discusses the business model for Direvo's directed evolution technology, with applications in both industrial enzymes...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Decisions;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Value;
Business Startups;
Biotechnology Industry;
Germany
Roberts, Michael J., Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Direvo Biotech AG." Harvard Business School Case 804-017, September 2003. (Revised March 2007.)
- February 2008 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Sealed Air China
By: Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty
With a 10-year history of doing business in China, Sealed Air was now betting on the country to help propel its growth as a global company. The company identified China as one of the initial investments in the company's Global Manufacturing Strategy that aimed to...
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Keywords:
Investment Return;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Production;
Manufacturing Industry;
Shanghai
Abrami, Regina, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Sealed Air China." Harvard Business School Case 308-051, February 2008. (Revised December 2011.)
- Article
Surviving Radical Technological Change through Dynamic Capability: Evidence from the Typesetter Industry
Recent work in the field of management has focused on "dynamic capability," the ability of a firm to develop new capabilities in response to shifts in its external environment, as a significant source of competitive advantage. This paper enhances our understanding of...
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Keywords:
Management;
Technology;
History;
Competition;
Competency and Skills;
Investment;
Technological Innovation;
Business Ventures;
Geographic Location;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Competitive Advantage;
Change
Tripsas, M. "Surviving Radical Technological Change through Dynamic Capability: Evidence from the Typesetter Industry." Industrial and Corporate Change 6, no. 2 (March 1997): 341–377.
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China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization
By: Kristen Looney and Meg Rithmire
Contemporary discussions of urbanization and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.”...
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Looney, Kristen, and Meg Rithmire. "China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization." Current History 116, no. 791 (September 2017): 203–209.
- March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case describes how a senior vice president of engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application...
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Keywords:
Independent Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Product Design;
Groups and Teams;
Creativity;
Motivation and Incentives;
Competitive Strategy;
Technology Industry;
United States
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-110, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- March 2003 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement
Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in international trade agreements. The U.S.-Cambodia Textile Trade Agreement was the first agreement of its kind to link...
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Keywords:
Trade;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Rights;
Working Conditions;
Globalization;
Consumer Products Industry;
Cambodia;
United States
Abrami, Regina M. "Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement." Harvard Business School Case 703-034, March 2003. (Revised September 2004.)
- January 2018
- Case
Viacom: Democratization of Data Science
By: Shane Greenstein and Christine Snively
In two short years, Viacom’s Data Science & Advanced Analytics team built a web platform called Science Central that allowed employees from Viacom’s 20+ cable networks to access television audience insights through three data science apps. In the past, employees would...
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Keywords:
Data Science;
Big Data;
Digital Platforms;
Analytics and Data Science;
Expansion;
Strategic Planning
Greenstein, Shane, and Christine Snively. "Viacom: Democratization of Data Science." Harvard Business School Case 618-016, January 2018.
- March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
Aledade
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Samyukta Mullangi and Nicholas Samonas
To truly supercharge growth, should Aledade take a step back and focus on product development?
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- 29 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)
are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? This summer, I am serving as an Advisor on the Special Operations Team in the View Details
- July 2020
- Teaching Note
Shindigz
By: Frank Cespedes
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 819-010. Shindigz sells party and celebratory items through its branded direct online channel, third-party retail and wholesale channels, and online marketplaces. Shindigz has for decades successfully executed a premium-priced branded...
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- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
elements that I found most valuable were the encouragement to explore beyond my comfort zone and try new things, the network to connect with professionals in almost every industry in the world and the emotional support to endure such a...
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- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
companies would be better off making mentoring mandatory for all new workers since that would yield much higher productivity and performance gains, the researchers say. "You have to make the program apply to...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 2017
- Working Paper
International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The...
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Keywords:
Multinational Firms and Management;
Developing Countries and Economies;
History;
Emerging Markets;
Problems and Challenges
Jones, Geoffrey. "International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-020, September 2017.