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- September 2000 (Revised March 2001)
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Old Mutual
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Kirsty O'Neil-Massaro
Designed to explore the demutualization and listing overseas of one of Africa's largest financial institutions, Old Mutual, and the effects that these actions have on South Africa's domestic capital markets. Explores the particular difficulties that arise as a result...
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Keywords:
Financial Institutions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Global Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Capital Markets;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business Education;
Financial Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry;
South Africa
Khanna, Tarun, Krishna G. Palepu, and Kirsty O'Neil-Massaro. "Old Mutual." Harvard Business School Case 701-026, September 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
- Article
Finding the Platform in Your Product: Four Strategies That Can Reveal Hidden Value
By: Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth J. Altman
Five of the 10 most valuable companies in the world today—Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft—derive much of their worth from their multisided platforms (MSPs), which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than...
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Elizabeth J. Altman. "Finding the Platform in Your Product: Four Strategies That Can Reveal Hidden Value." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 4 (July–August 2017): 94–100.
- Research Summary
People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates
Because internet search mechanisms are designed for finding searchable items, we tend to conceptualize the things we seek online in terms of their objective characteristics. For some pursuits, however, this illuminates a mismatch between processes and goals. In online...
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA
(minimum viable product) in a short period of time. Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series RecapAdmissions Staff 25 MAR 2020 The Black Tech Master Series was designed to inspire, engage, and elevate Black tech professionals and aspiring...
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- 07 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Sovereign Debt Portfolios, Bond Risks, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy
- TeachingInterests
Scaling Ventures, HBS Online
This course is for startup founders and senior leaders who have achieved product-market fit and now need to successfully guide their company through cycles of rapid growth and organizational change. Topics include optimal growth rate, recruiting and motivating...
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- June 2014
- Teaching Note
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating internally. This case, set in 2010, presents an overview of the new, more interactive model of employee...
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- 30 Jul 2018
- News
Open offices can lead to closed minds
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Prepare for future professional opportunities and jumpstart your career by gaining an understanding of financial concepts, terms, and principles. Leading with Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
assess potential investment opportunities in private equity, private debt, hedge funds, and real estate. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
It’s Time to Admit That Hybrid Is Not Working
- 04 Aug 2021
- News
Will Remote Workers Get Left Behind in the Hybrid Office?
- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Why We’re So Obsessed With Trust Right Now
- May 2011
- Article
The Wise Leader
By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
In an era of increasing discontinuity, wise leadership has nearly vanished. Many leaders find it difficult to reinvent their corporations rapidly enough to cope with new technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global...
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Keywords:
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Interpersonal Communication;
Experience and Expertise;
Values and Beliefs;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Personal Characteristics;
Power and Influence
Nonaka, Ikujiro, and Hirotaka Takeuchi. "The Wise Leader." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
- July 2012
- Case
Droga5: Launching Jay-Z's Decoded
By: Anita Elberse and Kwame Owusu-Kesse
In 2010, David Droga and Andrew Essex, co-founders of advertising agency Droga5, hope to convince both John Meneilly, manager of hip-hop star Shawn Carter—better known as Jay-Z—and a partner in Carter's company Roc Nation and Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Entertainment;
Advertising Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Kwame Owusu-Kesse. "Droga5: Launching Jay-Z's Decoded." Harvard Business School Case 513-032, July 2012.
- September 16, 2022
- Article
A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties
By: Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members, to test the extent to which weak ties increased job mobility in the world’s largest...
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Rajkumar, Karthik, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Sinan Aral. "A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties." Science 377, no. 6612 (September 16, 2022).
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Curriculum - MBA
selfhood, and free will; human-computer interaction (including AI and deep learning); brain-computer interfaces; the use of neuroscience in the courts; and cognitive enhancement. The course covers topics related to medical care for...
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Himabindu Lakkaraju
Himabindu "Hima" Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Center for Research on... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Business Models--Nature and Benefits
- August 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
Shindigz
By: Frank Cespedes
Shindigz provides party and celebratory items for various occasions and events through its branded online channel, through third-party retail and wholesale channels, and external online marketplaces. The case focuses on pricing challenges facing a venture with an...
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Keywords:
Ecommerce;
Pricing;
Price;
Strategy;
Decision Making;
Brands and Branding;
Distribution Channels;
E-commerce;
Consumer Products Industry
Cespedes, Frank. "Shindigz." Harvard Business School Case 819-010, August 2018. (Revised February 2019.)