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LatAm Club
- 07 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets
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by Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
- January 2022
- Article
The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the...
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Keywords:
Public Data;
Maps;
Gold;
Microeconomic Behavior;
Economics;
Data and Data Sets;
Private Sector;
Market Entry and Exit;
Mining
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry." Management Science 68, no. 1 (January 2022): 564–582.
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness
- February 2018
- Case
The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)
By: Joseph Fuller, William Kerr, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama
The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a three-county area in rural Mississippi that suffered a steep decline as manufacturing companies faced pressures from automation and overseas competition. Between the mid 1980s and late 1990s, several textile, toy, and tubing...
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Keywords:
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Development Economics;
Change;
Leadership;
Success;
Mississippi
Fuller, Joseph, William Kerr, Manjari Raman, and Donald Maruyama. "The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-089, February 2018.
- October 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Century Bank: Closing Time?
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Bill Kwon
Barry Sloane, second-generation Chairman, President, and CEO of his family’s bank, Century Bank, weighed whether to sell to Eastern Bank. As a small regional bank, Century faced a number of challenging trends, such as digitization and market share decline in the coming...
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Keywords:
Family Office;
Business Exit;
Banking;
Family;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
United States;
Acquisition;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Family Business;
Family and Family Relationships;
Interpersonal Communication;
Decision Making;
Finance;
Banks and Banking;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Emotions;
Banking Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts;
United States
Cohen, Lauren, Grace Headinger, and Bill Kwon. "Century Bank: Closing Time?" Harvard Business School Case 223-040, October 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- Web
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- May 4, 2020
- Article
Your CEO Succession Plan Can't Wait
By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
CEOs tend to be older, putting them at greater risk of COVID-related illness, and adding to the urgency, succession planning has long been a blind spot for most boards. From 2015 to 2016, the authors conducted a global survey to better understand the experiences,...
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Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, Boris Groysberg, and Paul M. Healy. "Your CEO Succession Plan Can't Wait." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 4, 2020).
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
built up a strong retail market share in the U.S., not under the RBS brand, but through a series of acquisitions of regional (not national) banks. RBS is adding value for its shareholders by letting these...
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by John Quelch
- June 2011
- Case
Reed Supermarkets: A New Wave of Competitors
By: John A. Quelch and Carole Carlson
Reed Supermarkets is a high-end supermarket chain with operations in several Midwestern states. Meredith Collins, vice president of marketing, visits stores located in Columbus, Ohio, an important region with the largest market and the greatest impact on revenue...
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Keywords:
Product Positioning;
Marketing Strategy;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Competitive Strategy;
Consumer Behavior;
Brands and Branding;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Ohio
Quelch, John A., and Carole Carlson. "Reed Supermarkets: A New Wave of Competitors." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-296, June 2011.
- 24 Oct 2018
- HBS Seminar
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- November 1983 (Revised December 1984)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: Grandma's ""Ready-To-Eat"" Cookies
Mr. Kenneth Treece, marketing director of Frito-Lay's Grandma's (R) Cookie division has received the final test market figures for the new supermarket line of Grandma's Ready-To-Eat cookies. One set of data, the Kansas City test results, was extremely encouraging;...
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Bonoma, Thomas V. Frito-Lay, Inc.: Grandma's ""Ready-To-Eat"" Cookies. Harvard Business School Case 584-043, November 1983. (Revised December 1984.)
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
Politicians promise to eliminate it, but are unable or unwilling to do so. The role models available for business leadership in the different regions of the world are significant. In America, with its longstanding experience with...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 04 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Club at HBS aims to strengthen the ties between MENA club members and increase awareness about the MENA region on campus. In addition, the club strives to connect MENA members with alumni and to...
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- Profile
March Bishop
social value simultaneously and even symbiotically. HBS has opened my eyes to the whole world of Shared Value and Social Enterprise and in this I have found what looks to be the beginning of a career. I'm excited to pursue economic...
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- Article
Large Banks and Small Firm Lending
By: Vitaly Bord, Victoria Ivashina and Ryan D. Taliaferro
We examine the long-lasting effects of the 2007 real estate price collapse on small business credit supply. Banks affected by the decline in real estate prices systematically contracted their credit to small firms. At the same time, regional and local banks, many of...
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Keywords:
Small Firms;
Credit Supply;
Banking Competition;
Small Business;
Credit;
Financial Crisis;
Banks and Banking;
Competition
Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro. "Large Banks and Small Firm Lending." Journal of Financial Intermediation 48 (October 2021).
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on her how experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped to shape your career in impact...
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- 2017
- Case
Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
In 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas...
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Keywords:
Charter Schools;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Teaching;
Talent Management;
Innovation;
Organization Structure;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Consistency;
Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2017. (Case No. PEL-079.)
- Article
Wealth-Making in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain: Industry v. Commerce and Finance
By: Tom Nicholas
This paper refutes the hypothesis put forward by W.D. Rubinstein that a disproportionately large share of Britain's wealth makers were active in commercial and financial trades in London. We use a data set of businessmen active in nineteenth- and early...
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Keywords:
Trade;
Finance;
Commercialization;
Mathematical Methods;
Wealth and Poverty;
Great Britain;
London
Nicholas, Tom. "Wealth-Making in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain: Industry v. Commerce and Finance." Business History 41, no. 1 (January 1999).
- May 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Supplement
EY China (B): An Emerging Giant
By: Ashish Nanda, Das Narayandas and Lisa Rohrer
The case outlines how regional managing partner (RMP) Albert Ng steered Ernst & Young (EY) China through a period of significant growth from 2009, when it was the smallest of the Big Four firms in China, to 2017, by when it had become the second largest firm. Partners...
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Keywords:
Professional Services;
International Management;
Big Four;
Strategy And Execution;
Emerging Market;
Strategy;
Growth Management;
Leadership;
Global Range;
Emerging Markets;
Competitive Strategy;
Accounting Industry;
China
Nanda, Ashish, Das Narayandas, and Lisa Rohrer. "EY China (B): An Emerging Giant." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-465, May 2018. (Revised July 2018.)