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- February 2014 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Go Beyond Investing
By: Lynda Applegate, Vincent Dessain, Emilie Billaud and Daniela Beyersdorfer
In 2013, Brigitte Baumann, founder of the Pan-European angel investing provider Go Beyond Investing, reflected on the evolution of her venture and the way forward. Her company, which offered deal flow and training to novice and experienced angel investors and ran...
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Equity;
Investment;
Business or Company Management;
Growth Management;
Leadership;
Financial Services Industry;
Europe;
Switzerland
Applegate, Lynda, Vincent Dessain, Emilie Billaud, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Go Beyond Investing." Harvard Business School Case 814-046, February 2014. (Revised April 2015.)
- Web
Spangler Center | About
became NationsBank (now known as Bank of America). From 1986 to 1997, he served as president of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, making significant contributions to the growth and development of public education...
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- August 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer (2005)
By: Ranjay Gulati and Lucia Menzer Marshall
Peter Roberts, CEO of Jones, Lang, LaSalle (JLL) Americas division, has been charged with expanding the company's presence in its core geographic markets while simultaneously growing its corporate account business. Roberts and his task force have narrowed their options...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Business Strategy;
Real Estate Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, and Lucia Menzer Marshall. "Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer (2005)." Harvard Business School Case 410-007, August 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
The 1950s onwards saw the beginning of the reconstruction of a new global economy. Between 1950 and 1973 the annual real GDP growth of developed market economies averaged around 5 percent. This growth was...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- August 2020 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services
By: Michael Chu, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
Nubank, a wholly-digital solution created to disrupt Brazilian banking, with 6 million clients and a $4 billion valuation after five years, must decide whether to expand to Mexico. The company was founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Colombian-born David Vélez to seize what...
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Keywords:
Fintech;
Financial Inclusion;
Digital Banking;
Credit Cards;
Banks and Banking;
Disruption;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
South America;
Brazil;
North America;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, Carla Larangeira, and Pedro Levindo. "Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services." Harvard Business School Case 321-068, August 2020. (Revised August 2023.)
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Broad Group, had developed a series of innovative products aimed at solving China's environmental problems. Broad Group's products, services, and management were guided by values that prioritized morals, responsibility, environmental...
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Sean Silverthorne
- May 2008
- Supplement
Finansbank 2006 (CW)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
How do financial policy requirements and benefits of 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 way of a...
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- February 2004
- Case
The Making of Verizon
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Ryan Raffaelli
Through a series of mergers, Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon chairman and CEO, successfully shared the co-CEO title twice while building the largest telecom company in the United States. The strong and complementary cultures of the companies that Seidenberg and a key group of...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Change Management;
Transition;
Leading Change;
Organizational Culture;
Risk Management;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Douglas A Raymond, and Ryan Raffaelli. "The Making of Verizon." Harvard Business School Case 303-131, February 2004.
- 05 Dec 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing
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Re: Mark N. Roberge
- 2017
- Article
Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories of Change Recipients in Global Organizations
By: B. S. Reiche, T. B. Neeley and N. Overmeyer
Research rarely addresses how change recipients respond to radical change across affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions over time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With...
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Keywords:
Change;
Spoken Communication;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Behavior;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Reiche, B. S., T. B. Neeley, and N. Overmeyer. "Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories of Change Recipients in Global Organizations." Academy of Management Proceedings (2017). (Proceedings of the 77th Annual Meeting (2017), edited by Guclu Atinc. Online ISSN: 2151-6561.)
- September 2010
- Case
Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid
By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV
With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,...
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Keywords:
Fairness;
For-Profit Firms;
Renting or Rental;
Financial Crisis;
Demand and Consumers;
Social Enterprise;
Income;
Goods and Commodities;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Chu, Michael, and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV. "Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid." Harvard Business School Case 311-047, September 2010.
- July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Beohemija's Duel
By: Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
Vladimir Joksic, Director of Marketing for Serbia's Beohemija, along with his marketing team has managed to grow Duel, the firm's soap powder offering from single digits to almost 40% of the Serbian market in just a few short years. He has used innovative and...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls. In 1970, he was elected a View Details
- August 2021
- Case
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
By: Ranjay Gulati, Aseem Shukla and Reva Nohria
When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman knew firsthand how taxing it could be to manage such an unrelenting disease. Livongo set out to empower people...
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Keywords:
Healthcare Industry;
Scaling;
Telehealth;
Health Care and Treatment;
Small Business;
Internet and the Web;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Opportunities;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Health Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, Aseem Shukla, and Reva Nohria. "Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 422-017, August 2021.
- Web
About Us - HBS Working Knowledge
About Us Linking Policy About Us What We Do Since 1999, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners, thought-leaders, and academics....
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
showed that 72 percent of Gen Zers were considering leaving their jobs in 2023, while a January 2023 study by management consultancy Oliver Wyman found that 70 percent of those who described themselves as “loyal” to their employers were...
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- November 2003 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Atlas Electrica: International Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter and Arturo Condo
Atlas must decide whether to acquire La Indeca, increasing its Central American presence, or to focus on larger Latin American markets where higher growth is possible. In the year 2000, Jorge Rodriguez was in charge of Atlas Electrica, the largest home appliance firm...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Markets;
Partners and Partnerships;
Competition;
Expansion;
Latin America;
Central America
Porter, Michael E., and Arturo Condo. "Atlas Electrica: International Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 704-435, November 2003. (Revised May 2008.)
- Web
Skydeck - Alumni
entrepreneur Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) on how to look before you leap Love and Money Insights from the dating world with professional matchmaker Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) Soldier On Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021), a Marine Corps veteran, on View Details
- November 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Rio Tinto and Mining in Mongolia: The Oyu Tolgoi Deposit
By: Eric Werker, Battushig Batbold, Kelsey Kennedy, Zanna McComish, Shaloo Savla and Nicole Shomair
In 2013, Rio Tinto was expected to begin commercial shipments from Oyu Tolgoi, a copper and gold mine in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Oyu Tolgoi was one of the last great unmined deposits in the world, and, once operations were in full swing, was expected to constitute...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Investment;
Business and Government Relations;
Mining;
Mining Industry;
Mongolia
Werker, Eric, Battushig Batbold, Kelsey Kennedy, Zanna McComish, Shaloo Savla, and Nicole Shomair. "Rio Tinto and Mining in Mongolia: The Oyu Tolgoi Deposit." Harvard Business School Case 714-018, November 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
- Profile
Yaoxin Ding
clean tech.” Learning that leads to getting more out of life While serving as a product manager at Fiat, Yaoxin worked closely with colleagues in finance and marketing. “The biggest growth I had as a PM was...
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