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      • May 2020
      • Case

      M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation

      By: Krishna Palepu and Allison M. Ciechanover
      M-Lab’s founding goals were to infuse an innovation mindset into Mitsubishi Corporation; to catalyze new business opportunities; and to enable a dialogue between Japanese business and Silicon Valley. M-Lab housed representatives from each of Mitsubishi Corporation’s...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Disruption; Transformation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Japan; United States
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      Palepu, Krishna, and Allison M. Ciechanover. "M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 120-061, May 2020.
      • December 2019 (Revised March 2021)
      • Case

      Carroll Family Farms

      By: Forest Reinhardt, Christian Godwin and James Weber
      The Carroll Family, U.S. pig and grain farmers, needed to decide what to plant, whether to purchase land, emphasize pigs or grain, or other investments.

      Seven family members across three generations owned and operated Carroll Family Farms (CFF). In...  View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Operations; Strategy; Family Business; Asset Management; Globalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Brazil; China
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      Reinhardt, Forest, Christian Godwin, and James Weber. "Carroll Family Farms." Harvard Business School Case 720-005, December 2019. (Revised March 2021.)
      • February 2019 (Revised October 2019)
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      Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)

      By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull
      In April 2003, entrepreneur and MBA student Christy Jones was planning a new venture to help women preserve their fertility. Her company, Extend Fertility, would commercialize a technique known as egg freezing, in which a woman’s eggs were extracted and stored at low...  View Details
      Keywords: Assisted Reproduction; Entrepreneur; Health And Wellness; Fertility; Infertility; Women's Health; Creating Markets; Egg Freezing; Fertility Clinic; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Marketing Strategy
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      Spar, Debora L., and Olivia Hull. "Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 719-019, February 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
      • January 2019 (Revised December 2020)
      • Case

      Angola Starts Now

      By: Jeremy Friedman and Sophus A. Reinert
      After five centuries of colonialism, four decades of civil war, an extended experiment with Marxism-Leninism, and nearly four decades of rule by a single man, José Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola finally has a chance to realize its enormous economic potential. A country...  View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Government and Politics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Issues; Angola
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      Friedman, Jeremy, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Angola Starts Now." Harvard Business School Case 719-007, January 2019. (Revised December 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility

      By: Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini
      We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 using a shift-share design. We find that natives living in cities that received more immigrants were more likely to marry, have kids, and...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Demography; Urban Scope; Household; Employment; History; Outcome or Result; United States
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      Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini. "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-004, July 2018. (Revised November 2020. Winner of European Economic Association Young Economist Award, 2018. IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) Discussion Paper Series, No. 11467, April 2018)
      • December 2017 (Revised December 2018)
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      OCP Group

      By: Kristin Fabbe, Forest Reinhardt, Natalie Kindred and Alpana Thapar
      This case explores the strategy of OCP Group, the 95% state-owned Moroccan firm charged with managing the North African country’s vast reserves of phosphate. Phosphate was one of the most vital macronutrients for plant health, along with nitrogen and potassium, and...  View Details
      Keywords: OCP; OCP Group; Casablanca; Chemicals; Operations; Transformation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Chemical Industry; Morocco
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      Fabbe, Kristin, Forest Reinhardt, Natalie Kindred, and Alpana Thapar. "OCP Group." Harvard Business School Case 718-002, December 2017. (Revised December 2018.)
      • 2015
      • Chapter

      How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein and Ryan Raffaelli
      How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this chapter argues that well-defined institutionalized purpose, values, and principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens the...  View Details
      Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Field Research; Intrinsic Motivation; Organizational Identity; Ecosystem; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Research; Management Systems; Change
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli. "How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities." Chap. 2 in The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities, edited by David J. Teece and Sohvi Leih. Oxford University Press, 2015. Electronic.
      • April 2015
      • Teaching Note

      Yara International: Africa Strategy

      By: Michael Porter and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo
      Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural...  View Details
      Keywords: Shared Value; Tanzania; Agriculture Reform; Africa; Tanzania
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      Porter, Michael, and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo. "Yara International: Africa Strategy." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 715-461, April 2015.
      • February 2015
      • Article

      The Great Recession, Insurance Mandates, and the Use of In Vitro Fertilization Services in the United States

      By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan, Robert S. Huckman and Mark D. Hornstein
      Objective: To investigate the relationship between economic activities, insurance mandates, and the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the United States.

      Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic...  View Details
      Keywords: Macroeconomics; Recessions; Medical Care; In Vitro Fertilization; Health Industry; United States
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      Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, Robert S. Huckman, and Mark D. Hornstein. "The Great Recession, Insurance Mandates, and the Use of In Vitro Fertilization Services in the United States." Fertility and Sterility 103, no. 2 (February 2015): 448–454.
      • December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
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      Yara International: Africa Strategy

      By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Kerry Herman
      Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural...  View Details
      Keywords: Shared Value; Tanzania; Agriculture Reform; Value Creation; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Tanzania
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      Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo, and Kerry Herman. "Yara International: Africa Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 715-402, December 2014. (Revised January 2018.)
      • September 2014
      • Case

      OvaScience

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas, Toby Stuart and Noah Fisher
      In early April 2012, Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equit's first promising fertility treatment, AUGMENT (Autologous Germ-line Mitochondrial Energy Transfer), had the potential to...  View Details
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, Tom Nicholas, Toby Stuart, and Noah Fisher. "OvaScience." Harvard Business School Case 815-058, September 2014.
      • December 2013 (Revised April 2014)
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      Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

      By: Ray Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Djordjija Petkoski
      By 2013, the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had long suffered from war, political instability, and dilapidated infrastructure. A country with 75 million inhabitants and the second lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2011, the DRC's...  View Details
      Keywords: National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA); Developing Agriculture; World Bank; Poverty Reduction; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Small-scale Farmers; Agricultural Business Parks; Agriculture Reform; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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      Goldberg, Ray, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Djordjija Petkoski. "Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Harvard Business School Case 914-401, December 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
      • December 2013
      • Case

      Yara International

      By: Forest Reinhardt and James Weber
      This case examines world fertilizer markets from the perspective of a large Norwegian producer. The global fertilizer industry is critical to food production and to food security, and hence is the object of numerous forms of government intervention. The case analyzes...  View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Regulation; Strategy; Business-government Relations; International Trade; International Strategy; Agribusiness; Food; Growth and Development; Government and Politics
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      Reinhardt, Forest, and James Weber. "Yara International." Harvard Business School Case 714-002, December 2013.
      • 2013
      • Book

      Teaming to Innovate

      By: Amy C. Edmondson
      Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture
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      Edmondson, Amy C. Teaming to Innovate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2013.
      • November 2011
      • Article

      KFC's Radical Approach to China

      By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
      Global companies face a crucial question when they enter emerging markets: how far should they go to localize their offerings? Typically they try to sell core products or services pretty much as they've been sold in Europe or the United States, with headquarters...  View Details
      Keywords: Food; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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      Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "KFC's Radical Approach to China." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011).
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      Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism

      By: Shoshana Zuboff
      Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a...  View Details
      Keywords: Value Creation; Economic Systems; Transformation
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      Zuboff, Shoshana. "Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2010): 45–55.
      • January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
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      Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research

      By: Robert L. Simons, Kathryn Rosenberg and Natalie Kindred
      This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock Anderson, who co-founded Sydney IVF in 1986, developed novel...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Genetics; Commercialization; Health Industry; Australia
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      Simons, Robert L., Kathryn Rosenberg, and Natalie Kindred. "Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research." Harvard Business School Case 109-017, January 2009. (Revised February 2009.)
      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Entrepreneurship and the History of Globalization

      By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
      In this article, we build on the recent efforts of scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research...  View Details
      Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; Resource Allocation; Research; Entrepreneurship; Cognition and Thinking; Growth and Development Strategy
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      Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Entrepreneurship and the History of Globalization." In The Act of Accumulation. Essays in Honor of Gyorgy Kover, edited by J. Klement, K. Halmos, A. Pogany, and B. Tomka. Budapest: Századvég Kiadó, 2009.
      • December 2008 (Revised January 2011)
      • Case

      Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change

      By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mary Louise Shelman
      Arcadia Biosciences is an entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China; India; California
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      Daemmrich, Arthur A., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Mary Louise Shelman. "Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change." Harvard Business School Case 709-019, December 2008. (Revised January 2011.)
      • July 2008 (Revised August 2008)
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      In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement

      By: Michael E. Porter, Saquib Rahim and Benjamin Chung-Shi Tsai
      As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of health outcomes, a critical quality measure. In-vitro fertilization clinics have been required to report their patient's health outcomes since 1995. The protagonist of the case, Dr....  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
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      Porter, Michael E., Saquib Rahim, and Benjamin Chung-Shi Tsai. "In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement." Harvard Business School Case 709-403, July 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
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