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- November 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
The Globalization of Manchester City Football Group
By: Maria P. Roche, Tiona Zuzul, Exequiel Hernandez and Amy Klopfenstein
This case describes the efforts of City Football Group (CFG) to purchase Esporte Clube Bahia (Bahia), a Brazilian professional soccer club. CFG’s strategy was to acquire under-performing clubs worldwide, invest money in high-profile players, and improve the teams’...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Business Conglomerates;
Geography;
Geographic Location;
Geographic Scope;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Organizations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Sports;
Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Sports Industry;
Europe;
United Kingdom;
England;
South America;
Brazil
Roche, Maria P., Tiona Zuzul, Exequiel Hernandez, and Amy Klopfenstein. "The Globalization of Manchester City Football Group." Harvard Business School Case 723-391, November 2022. (Revised February 2024.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details
Keywords:
Competitiveness;
Clusters;
Economic Policy;
European Union;
Competition;
Industry Clusters;
Policy;
Economic Growth;
European Union
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy." WWW for Europe Working Paper Series, No. 84, February 2015.
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
Having uncovered the scope of discrimination taking place against Black guests and hosts on Airbnb, researcher Michael Luca and his colleagues put together a toolkit to aid managers in recognizing and mitigating discrimination on online...
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- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
occur at the farm level. The remaining emissions come from operations, logistics, packaging and retail and consumer use. On Scope 1 and 2 emissions, Arla explained how they plan to secure 100% green electricity, maximize operational and...
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- TeachingInterests
Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)
The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details
- 2018
- Chapter
Work and Well-being: A Global Perspective
By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, and Council Members: A. Blankson, A. Clark, C. Cooper, H. James, C. Krekel, J. Lim, P. Litchfield, J. Moss, M. I. Norton, M. Rojas, G. Ward and A.V. Whillans
Work and employment play a central role in most people’s lives. In OECD countries, for example, people spend around a third of their waking hours engaged in paid work. We not only spend considerable amounts of our time at work, employment and workplace quality also...
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De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, and Council Members: A. Blankson, A. Clark, C. Cooper, H. James, C. Krekel, J. Lim, P. Litchfield, J. Moss, M. I. Norton, M. Rojas, G. Ward, and A.V. Whillans. "Work and Well-being: A Global Perspective." Chap. 5 in Global Happiness Policy Report, edited by Global Council for Happiness and Wellbeing, 74–127. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network, 2018. Electronic.
- Web
The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
installed Influence: Medium 701970s19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 801980s19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and scope CAD/CAM...
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- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
that the taxes they endorsed started out small in scope and size but have multiplied by a factor of eight as a share of our economy, have we gone off course? After all, when an income tax was introduced in 1862 to fund the Civil War, it...
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
applications present opportunities for job creation by broadening the scope and scale of a company's product portfolio. Conversely, internal-facing applications are more likely to affect knowledge workers' jobs. "AUTOMATING THESE TASKS...
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- Web
Git and GitHub - Research Computing Services
control systems are used to track changes in text documents (HTML pages, text files, Markdown documents, etc) and binary files (MS Office files, images, etc), though the changes in these types of files are tracked less efficiently (and is beyond the View Details
- July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
The Robin Hood Army
By: Susanna Gallani
In 2014, Neel Ghose and a handful of friends spent one evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The...
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Keywords:
Volunteer-based Organization;
Food Redistribution;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Food;
Human Needs;
Expansion;
Global Range;
Growth and Development
Gallani, Susanna. "The Robin Hood Army." Harvard Business School Case 119-007, July 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- Web
Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
+1.617.495.6226. Application Review: To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type...
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- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
but have proliferated in recent years. Goods covered by patent pools totaled at least $100 billion in the United States in 2000, while multiple standard-setting bodies today cover virtually every high-technology product. Moreover, the View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
requires greater access to education, health care, and employment resources; at the same time, you might be trying to influence public policy on issues that affect the homeless. That involves a whole set of interrelated activities that are broad in scope. As you widen...
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by Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
additional medical services like dental or long-term care, and patient cost sharing. How much health care is a right? Establishing a basic plan would require policymakers to wrestle with complex questions about access and cost. Defining the View Details
- Web
Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
for a period of time consistent with achieving the desired social impact.] People: Size and scope of team, including information on full-time employees, advisors, and partnerships. [We will evaluate whether the team has the relevant...
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- Profile
Phillip Jones
went outside the military, I could increase the scope of my service.” Phillip recognized that the general shape of his ambitions crossed multiple sectors. “The future,” he says, “requires leadership from both the private and the public...
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- Web
Data Privacy Statement (MENA) - Global
may also receive data from direct communications with the individuals. The Center stores personal data in accordance with the Law and processes such data, for the purposes explained herein, within the scope of the legitimate interests of...
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- June 1996 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
McKinsey & Co.: Managing Knowledge and Learning
Describes the development of McKinsey & Co. as a worldwide management consulting firm from 1926 to 1996. In particular, it focuses on the way in which McKinsey has developed structures, systems, processes, and practices to help it develop, transfer, and disseminate...
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Keywords:
Management;
Managerial Roles;
Management Practices and Processes;
Competitive Advantage;
Global Range;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Business Processes;
Consulting Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "McKinsey & Co.: Managing Knowledge and Learning." Harvard Business School Case 396-357, June 1996. (Revised January 2000.)