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- November 1999 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Mexican Foundation for Rural Development
By: James E. Austin and Gerardo Lozano
The Mexican Foundation for Rural Development (MFRD) is a nonprofit network of 32 rural development centers servicing low-income farm families. Management plans to expand its operation dramatically, forming 10,000 rural cooperatives in ten years. It faces major issues...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Operations;
Cooperative Ownership;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Society;
Strategy;
Mexico
Austin, James E., and Gerardo Lozano. "Mexican Foundation for Rural Development." Harvard Business School Case 300-082, November 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
- December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Bulb 2015: Foundation
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million households. They hoped to capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of customers switching their energy...
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Keywords:
Green Energy;
Start-up;
Launch;
Customer Acquisition;
Customer Churn;
Customer Engagement;
Electricity;
Resources;
Growth Strategy;
B-Corp;
Entrepreneurial Journey;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Start-ups;
Renewable Energy;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Business Model;
Working Capital;
Customers;
Growth and Development Strategy;
United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Bulb 2015: Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 719-440, December 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- Research Summary
FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS STRATEGY
Pankaj Ghemawat is involved in an ongoing stream of research and course development on the foundations of business strategy. Recent work has included the application of game theory to business strategy, as reported in the book Games Businesses Play, and the...
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- December 2023
- Technical Note
Legal Analysis: Foundations
By: Louis Caldera, Matthew Souba and Nien-hê Hsieh
Caldera, Louis, Matthew Souba, and Nien-hê Hsieh. "Legal Analysis: Foundations." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-058, December 2023.
- December 2023
- Background Note
Ethical Analysis: Foundations
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Ethical Analysis: Foundations." Harvard Business School Background Note 324-059, December 2023.
- June 2007
- Case
AARP Foundation (A)
By: Srikant M. Datar, Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Thomas Goodwin
AARP Foundation--a leading non-profit corporation--must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic plan.
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Keywords:
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Strategic Planning;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Welfare;
Business Strategy
Datar, Srikant M., Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein, and Thomas Goodwin. "AARP Foundation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 107-051, June 2007.
- April 2012
- Case
Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation
By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), a government agency, invests in public-private partnerships to stimulate commercialization of Danish scientific research within the country's industry. DNATF established a process for evaluating proposals, making...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Commercialization;
Management Practices and Processes;
Experience and Expertise;
Innovation and Invention;
Public Ownership;
Business and Government Relations;
Technology Industry;
Denmark
Shih, Willy, and Margaret Pierson. "Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 612-091, April 2012.
- December 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Technical Note
Economic Analysis: Foundations
By: Nien-he Hsieh, Brian Trelstad and Matthew Souba
- June 2007
- Supplement
AARP Foundation (B)
By: Srikant M. Datar, Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Thomas Goodwin
Datar, Srikant M., Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein, and Thomas Goodwin. "AARP Foundation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 107-052, June 2007.
- 1998
- Book
Foundations of Organizational Strategy
By: Michael C. Jensen
Jensen, Michael C. Foundations of Organizational Strategy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
- Article
Trust: The Foundation of Leadership
By: Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
The authors contend that if leadership is about empowering others, in your presence and your absence, then trust is the emotional framework that allows that service to be freely exchanged. Based on their experiences advising individuals and organizations, their basic...
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Keywords:
Trustworthiness;
Authenticity;
Empathy;
Trust;
Leadership;
Competency and Skills;
Behavior
Frei, Frances, and Anne Morriss. "Trust: The Foundation of Leadership." Leader to Leader 99 (Winter 2021): 20–25.
- July 2007 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Pamela Yatsko and Ryan Raffaelli
Keywords:
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Change Management;
Emerging Markets;
Construction Industry;
Mexico;
Egypt;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Pamela Yatsko, and Ryan Raffaelli. "CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 308-024, July 2007. (Revised September 2009.)
- April 2004
- Teaching Note
Peninsula Community Foundation (TN)
By: James E. Austin, Jane Wei-Skillern and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note to (9-304-015).
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Keywords:
Financial Services Industry
- 15 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy
Keywords:
by Mihnea Moldoveanu
- October 2013
- Background Note
Multi-Sided Platforms: Foundations and Strategy
By: Andrei Hagiu
This note offers an analysis of four fundamental strategic decisions and associated tradeoffs that set MSPs apart from other types of businesses (e.g. product firms) and that every MSP entrepreneur and investor should carefully consider. In the last section I also...
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Hagiu, Andrei. "Multi-Sided Platforms: Foundations and Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 714-436, October 2013.
- January 2000
- Teaching Note
Mexican Foundation For Rural Development
By: James E. Austin
Teaching Note for (9-300-082).
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Keywords:
Mexico