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- February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Koita Foods
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Elie Ofek and Michael Norris
In 2018, Mustafa Koita, Founder and CEO of Dubai-based organic milk company Koita has to decide whether or not to pursue an investment from a potential competitor who is coming into his local market.
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Organic Milk;
Mom Blog;
Entrepreneurship;
Cash Flow;
Food;
Growth Management;
Investment;
Social Marketing;
Ownership Stake;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United Arab Emirates;
Dubai
Applegate, Lynda M., Elie Ofek, and Michael Norris. "Koita Foods." Harvard Business School Case 819-001, February 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- November 2014 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Cravia: Launching High Growth Ventures in the Middle East
By: Lynda Applegate and Michael Norris
Walid Hajj (HBS '95), CEO of Dubai-based restaurant franchising company Cravia considers how best to expand his business in the fast-growing Gulf region. Should he add more American brands, expand to nearby countries, or open more of his current lineup of restaurants?
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurs;
Middle East;
Franchise;
Food Retail Franchising;
Franchise Ownership;
Entrepreneurship;
Emerging Markets;
Expansion;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United Arab Emirates;
Dubai
Applegate, Lynda, and Michael Norris. "Cravia: Launching High Growth Ventures in the Middle East." Harvard Business School Case 315-049, November 2014. (Revised July 2019.)
- Web
Global - Global Activities 2020
continents—assist faculty with research and case writing, strengthen relationships with local alumni and practitioners, facilitate faculty and student immersions abroad, and host MBA admissions and career development events. Silicon Valley Mexico City Sao Paulo Buenos...
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- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
and other strategic projects. He also served as a summer associate at BYU-Idaho and spent 2008–2011 and 2014–2015 at Bain & Company.See press release EMAAR: The Center of Tomorrow, Today “Emaar: The Center of Tomorrow, Today,” a case that explores the View Details
- March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery
By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu
By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the...
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Keywords:
Startup;
Decision;
Financial Strategy;
UAE;
KSA;
MENA;
Cost Accounting;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Transformation;
Cost Management;
Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Logistics;
Service Delivery;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Mathematical Methods;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Transportation Networks;
Middle East;
United Arab Emirates;
Dubai;
Bahrain;
Egypt;
Saudi Arabia;
North Africa
Narayanan, V.G., and Eren Kuzucu. "Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 119-018, March 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- January 2021
- Supplement
Aster DM Healthcare: Budget Exercise
By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein
In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Judgments;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cost vs Benefits;
Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Condition;
Financial Liquidity;
Accounting;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Management;
Crisis Management;
Health Pandemics;
Health Industry;
Asia;
India;
United Arab Emirates;
Dubai
- January 2021
- Case
Aster DM Healthcare: Budgeting for a Crisis
By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein
In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Judgments;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cost vs Benefits;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Health Pandemics;
Health Industry;
Asia;
India;
United Arab Emirates;
Dubai
Narayanan, V.G., and Amy Klopfenstein. "Aster DM Healthcare: Budgeting for a Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 121-001, January 2021.
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan By Francesca Gino On a sunny day a few years ago, my husband, Greg, and I were wandering the streets of the Gold Souk in the old part of Dubai. Both my sister, who was living in View Details
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Re: Francesca Gino
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
in 2011 to the first Antares team assigned to MeraDoctor. Serving as US ambassador for negotiations on a treaty governing international telecommunications, Kramer headed the US delegation to a world conference in Dubai in 2012. Says...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
efforts. After HBS, Embuldeniya spent six years working at McKinsey’s Dubai office; in 2010, he began to consider coming back to Sri Lanka. Seeing his friend put down roots was a draw. “Who I was doing something with was always more...
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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
juncture where Daniel Lamarre (CdS's CEO) is looking for new opportunities for growth. Lamarre is pondering the likelihood of success of Cirque's first resident show in Asia at Tokyo Disney Resort, its entry in the Macao market, and a new partnership with two...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
matching estimations, and regression discontinuity designs. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50067 Harvard Business School Case 315-049 Cravia: An Entrepreneurial Endeavor in Dubai Walid Hajj (HBS '95), CEO...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Kuemmerlein. “And to encourage them to share their personal insights in a welcoming environment.” Crossroads Conference Explores Deglobalization More than 350 alumni, corporate and thought leaders convened in Dubai on March 22, to explore...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-090_9901a957-a740-47b2-abce-4f93070d21fe.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-432 Emirates Airline: Connecting the Unconnected Narrates the story of Emirates, an airline founded in 1985 in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course)
The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Strategy;
Macroeconomics;
State Capitalism;
Political Economy;
Emerging Markets;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Global Strategy;
Economics;
Energy Industry;
Retail Industry;
Mining Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Banking Industry;
China;
Africa;
Dubai;
Pakistan;
India;
Brazil;
Russia;
Cuba;
Argentina
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
in Organization Science, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology (in Arabic). Her current book project, The Messy Middle, is an ethnography of serial migration in Dubai focusing on...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
speaking with a worker at the BulkWhiz warehouse. Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Rashad: I am Amira Rashad. I am founder and CEO of BulkWhiz, an online bulk grocery platform based out of Dubai in the UAE and covering the...
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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Merlin Entertainment or to acquire The Tussauds Group. The acquisition, if successful, would result in the second-largest theme parks and attractions business in the world after Disney. The Tussauds Group was owned by another private equity firm, View Details
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Martha Lagace