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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste differences in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)
In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details
- November 2002 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
TCS: An Entrepreneurial Air-Express Company in Pakistan
Introduces Khalid Awan, co-founder of TCS, an entrepreneurial air-express company in Pakistan. Awan has succeeded in building a sizeable company despite serious obstacles, including pressure from the public postal system, an environment prone to corruption, and a...
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Family Business;
Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Leasing;
Transportation Industry;
United Arab Emirates;
Pakistan
Kuemmerle, Walter, and Zahid Ahmed. "TCS: An Entrepreneurial Air-Express Company in Pakistan." Harvard Business School Case 803-027, November 2002. (Revised April 2004.)
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-030.pdf Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract The early development of...
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Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Book
Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky
Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock,...
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Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Housing;
Renting or Rental;
Problems and Challenges;
United States
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Eric S. Belsky, eds. Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities. Brookings Institution Press, 2008.
- February 2023
- Case
Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)
By: Jorge Tamayo and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago
In 2020, Alejandro Simón, CEO of Sancor Seguros Group, a nearly 75-year-old cooperative that had become Argentina’s insurance leader, had to decide about the Group’s digital transformation strategy. The Group’s values and history needed to be considered during the...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Digital Transformation;
Organizational Culture;
Cooperative Ownership;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Adaptation;
Technology Adoption;
Insurance Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Argentina
Tamayo, Jorge, and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago. "Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-422, February 2023.
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
and internal capital markets. We find that firms with more concentrated ownership are less diversified and have more efficient internal capital markets. Our findings provide direct evidence in support of...
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Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Stock ownership: who
How do I find who owns a particular stock, currently or historically? For a current list of owners use BamSec. Enter company name or ticker search box. From the profile page choose Institutional Owners. For current and historical View Details
- Web
Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
ownership are more likely to be culturally inconsistent. Leveraging local public sentiment towards social movements as an instrument, I show that organizational culture inconsistency has a negative effect on firm value and profitability....
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- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and...
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by Francesca Gino
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Family Fellowship The Brennan Family Fellowship was established through the generosity of William T. Brennan (MBA 2010) in honor of his 5th Reunion. Brennan is a senior vice president at Brown Brothers Harriman. He is currently a co-manager of a View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
A Taste For Obscurity: An Individual-Level Examination of 'Long Tail' Consumption
By: Anita Elberse
Because online retailers are often able to provide products in a more cost-efficient manner than bricks-and-mortar stores, online channels are characterized by a vast assortment of products. Proponents of the "long tail" principle recently argued that the demand for...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
Mclean concentrated on his trucking business, and by the early 1950s, with 1,776 trucks and thirty-seven transport terminals along the eastern seaboard, he had built his operation into the largest trucking fleet in the South and the...
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- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
[2]. However, this lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for electric heat pumps is not standard across the U.S.– we will cover an overview of electric heat pumps and main drivers that will likely impact U.S. adoption patterns. The...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
As described in the first article in this series, the "Three-circle" family business system is composed of three overlapping subsystems: those employed in the business, the shareholders, and members of the family that has a controlling View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
emerged: how to preserve the firm’s growth strategy and shift firm ownership while also rewarding its diverse workforce for its investment in the team’s culture, write Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Luis M. Viceira, Senior...
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Louis Wells on foreign investment in emerging markets - helped pave today’s global research path. Supported by eight Global Research Centers that facilitate our contact with global companies and the collection of international data, key investigations View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
work in strategy, for example, don't know much about my findings in competitiveness. This book lays out the range of my work in an accessible way and shows the connections. Q: You first presented your thinking on the importance of clusters (defined as "geographic...
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Re: Michael E. Porter