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- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and second year, supporting student founders in the development of their social impact startup. During the summer of...
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Ramana Nanda
Ramana Nanda is Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Academic Lead of the Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. His research examines financing frictions facing new ventures, with an aim to help entrepreneurs with fundraising and... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Global Business Club
The Global Business Club is a student-run organization at the Harvard Business School. We provide services to support students interested in growing their global intelligence, exchanging ideas about global issues and learning from...
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All Industries
- August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Diageo and Mey Icki: Turkish Delight or Turkish Hangover?
By: Dante Roscini and Gamze Yucaoglu
In September 2013, two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned about new...
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Foreign Direct Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Government Legislation;
Taxation;
Valuation;
Business and Government Relations;
Government and Politics;
Risk Management;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Middle East;
Turkey
Roscini, Dante, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Diageo and Mey Icki: Turkish Delight or Turkish Hangover?" Harvard Business School Case 717-005, August 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- Web
Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
Entrepreneurship Initiative The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is a vital resource to HBS students and a champion for entrepreneurship at HBS. Health Care Initiative...
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- December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
Lit Motors
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden
In mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an efficient electric 2-wheeled...
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Keywords:
Lean Startup;
Prototyping;
Electric Vehicle;
Urban Vehicle;
Customer Tests;
Gyroscope;
Entrepreneurs;
Development Stage Enterprises;
Creativity;
Disruptive Technologies;
Consumer Surveys;
Market Segmentation;
Manufacturing Costs;
Entrepreneurship;
Auto Industry;
United States;
California
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alex Godden. "Lit Motors." Harvard Business School Case 813-079, December 2012. (Revised November 2014.)
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Bangladesh’s Garment Factories Still Aren’t Safe
- 19 May 2021
- Blog Post
Instagram Takeover - Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022)
Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022) is a forward-thinking, aspiring digital beauty marketing leader, and storyteller with an extensive background in chemical engineering and View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 30 Sep 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Building a Global Brand: Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate
Building a Global Brand: Why you arent buying Venezuelan chocolate
The next wave of global challengers will be firms from emergent market countries like Brazil, China, and India. Who are these companies and what are the barriers they are trying to overcome?
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- December 1999 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (B)
By: Michael L. Tushman, Wendy Smith and Daniel Radov
Focuses on Pierre Urech's efforts to change the division structure at Ciba-Geigy to facilitate the marketing of the new product. Details the relationships Urech cultivates and the strategy he pursues as "product champion." Also describes the restructuring of the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Research and Development;
Marketing Strategy;
Goods and Commodities;
Product Development;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Switzerland
Tushman, Michael L., Wendy Smith, and Daniel Radov. "Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (B)." Harvard Business School Case 400-023, December 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
- January 2009
- Article
From Regional Star to Global Leader
By: Nitin Nohria
Yang Jianguo was recently promoted from country manager for China to global head of product development at a staid French perfume maker. He was chosen for his technical smarts and his knowledge of emerging markets—a critical avenue for growth, given that sales in the...
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Keywords:
Communication Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Leadership Development;
Management Teams;
Emerging Markets;
Product Development;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
China;
Paris
Nohria, Nitin. "From Regional Star to Global Leader." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009).
- November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Bolsa de Valores de Guayaquil (BVG): Reaching Worldwide Investors Through the Internet
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre, Dusya Vera and Karen Barone
The Guayaquil Stock Exchange developed a Web site to provide information about the market in Ecuador. Though the system provided some dynamic information for potential investors and allowed for some transactions to occur via the Internet, it had not at the time of the...
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Keywords:
Stocks;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Internet;
Technology Industry;
Ecuador
Applegate, Lynda M., Ramiro Montealegre, Dusya Vera, and Karen Barone. "Bolsa de Valores de Guayaquil (BVG): Reaching Worldwide Investors Through the Internet." Harvard Business School Case 399-070, November 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 20 Aug 2010
- News
Global diversification: Anathema a decade ago, now a great strategy
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
But, frustrated Gen Xers and Millennials need not give up—their time will come, and they need to prepare now. “We desperately need this generation to learn how to manage diverse people, and manage through our crises.” In the new book True...
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by Lane Lambert
- March 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Actis & CDC: A New Partnership
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
The senior managing partner of Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, must decide whether to go into the market to raise money. Actis was spun out of CDC, a 50-year-old division of the U.K.'s Department for International Development, and is...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Partners and Partnerships;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Actis & CDC: A New Partnership." Harvard Business School Case 805-122, March 2005. (Revised December 2005.)
- December 2006 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
METRO Cash & Carry
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane
Analyzes the globalization of Metro Case & Carry, a German wholesaler, which has flourished in many foreign markets but struggled to gain traction in India. Considers Metro's experience in Russia and China to put the company's challenges in India in comparative...
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Keywords:
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Emerging Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
China;
India;
Russia;
Germany
Khanna, Tarun, Krishna G. Palepu, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and David Lane. "METRO Cash & Carry." Harvard Business School Case 707-505, December 2006. (Revised January 2009.)
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men View Details
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 07 Oct 2010
- News
HBS Professor To Lead South Asia Initiative
Thomas R. Eisenmann
Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details
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advertising;
broadcasting;
communications;
computer;
e-commerce industry;
electronic publishing;
electronics;
entertainment;
fiber optics;
high technology;
home video games;
information technology industry;
infrastructure industry;
internet;
journalism;
media;
motion pictures;
music;
publishing industry;
semiconductor;
software;
telecommunications;
television;
video games