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- March 2021
- Article
On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
By: Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito
We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate loans from 2003 to 2013 to estimate...
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Keywords:
Credit Supply Shocks;
Bank Lending Channel;
Input-output Linkages;
Output;
Mechanisms;
Trade Credits;
Price Effects;
Economics;
Credit;
System Shocks;
Employment;
Investment;
spain
Alfaro, Laura, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito. "On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks." Journal of Financial Economics 139, no. 3 (March 2021): 895–921.
- November 2020
- Case
Holaluz: Taking on the Spanish Energy Market
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, Elena Corsi and Emer Moloney
In 2020, the three cofounders of Holaluz, a newcomer to Spain’s electricity retail market, are preparing to launch a new offering: installing and managing solar panels on households' roofs at no extra cost for the consumer, who would still benefit from the energy...
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Keywords:
Electricity;
Solar Power;
Subscription Business;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Delivery;
Business Model;
Product Launch;
Marketing;
Energy Industry;
spain
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, Elena Corsi, and Emer Moloney. "Holaluz: Taking on the Spanish Energy Market." Harvard Business School Case 521-045, November 2020.
- November 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
The Roca Brothers: Innovation in Gastronomy
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Chef Joan Roca, sommelier Josep Roca and pastry chef Jordi Roca were three brothers based in Girona, Spain whose complementary skills, collective ability, and relentless drive for innovation had brought worldwide fame and awards to their restaurant, El Celler de Can...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Uncovering Inequalities in Time-Use and Well-Being during COVID-19: A Multi-Country Investigation
By: Laura M. Giurge, Ayse Yemiscigil, Joseph Sherlock and Ashley V. Whillans
The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to alter how people spend their time, with possible downstream consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, and Spain (n = 30,018) and following a preregistered...
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Keywords:
Time-use;
Subjective Well-being;
Covid-19;
Health Pandemics;
Work-life Balance;
Gender;
Equality And Inequality
Giurge, Laura M., Ayse Yemiscigil, Joseph Sherlock, and Ashley V. Whillans. "Uncovering Inequalities in Time-Use and Well-Being during COVID-19: A Multi-Country Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-037, September 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Loan Types and the Bank Lending Channel
By: Victoria Ivashina, Luc Laeven and Enrique Moral-Benito
Using credit registry data for Spain and Peru, we document that four main types of commercial credit—asset-based loans, cash flow loans, trade finance and leasing—are easily identifiable and represent the bulk of corporate credit. We show that credit growth dynamics...
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Keywords:
Bank Credit;
Loan Types;
Bank Lending Channel;
Credit Registry;
Banks And Banking;
Credit;
Financing And Loans
Ivashina, Victoria, Luc Laeven, and Enrique Moral-Benito. "Loan Types and the Bank Lending Channel." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27056, April 2020.
- September 2019
- Case
Gap, Inc., 2019
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2000, The Gap, Inc. (Gap) was the world’s largest player in specialty fashion retailing, and companies such as Inditex of Spain, H&M of Sweden, and Fast Retailing of Japan were less than a quarter of Gap’s size. But after two decades of growth, Gap’s progress...
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Keywords:
Strategic Change;
Fashion;
Multinational;
Brands;
Competition;
Multinational Firms And Management;
Performance Improvement;
Management Teams;
Brands And Branding;
Change Management;
Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Apparel And Accessories Industry;
Sweden;
spain;
United States
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Gap, Inc., 2019." Harvard Business School Case 720-377, September 2019.
- August 16, 2019
- Article
I Walked across Spain. Here's What I Learned.
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "I Walked across Spain. Here's What I Learned." Washington Post (August 16, 2019).
- July 2019
- Case
Bjarke Ingels Group
By: Boris Groysberg and Aldo Sesia
Danish-born Bjarke Ingels is regarded as a giant in the field of architecture. He started his firm—the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)—in 2005 in Copenhagen. Fourteen years later, the firm has additional offices in New York City, London, and Barcelona and employs over 500...
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Keywords:
Buildings And Facilities;
Design;
Growth Management;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Talent And Talent Management;
Urban Development;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Construction Industry;
Service Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Denmark;
spain;
United Kingdom;
United States;
New York (city, Ny)
Groysberg, Boris, and Aldo Sesia. "Bjarke Ingels Group." Harvard Business School Case 420-026, July 2019.
- February 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Amazon in Fashion
By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock and Gabriel Ellsworth
According to many analysts and industry observers, in 2018 Amazon became the largest retailer of apparel in the United States and the second largest in the world, behind Alibaba. Much of Amazon’s apparel was made by third-party retailers on its platform, but Amazon had...
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Keywords:
Amazon;
Amazon.com;
Fashion;
Fashion Accessories;
Retail;
Retailing Industry;
Retailing;
Asos;
Inditex;
Multi-channel Retailers;
Online Retail;
Online Retailing;
Positioning;
Private Label;
Delivery;
Spending;
Online Technology;
Competitive Strategy;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
Apparel And Accessories Industry
Wells, John R., Benjamin Weinstock, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Amazon in Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 719-481, February 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- October 2018
- Case
BBVA: Corporate Governance & Corporate Strategy
By: Krishna Palepu and Jordi Canals
BBVA is a very successful Spanish bank facing a number of challenges as a result of significant industry and regulatory changes. The company takes pride in its board structure and excellent corporate governance. The Chairman of the Board was wondering how best to...
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- May 2018
- Case
Inditex: 2018
By: John R. Wells, Galen Danskin and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2018, Inditex, based in Spain, was the largest specialist fashion retailer in the world, generating sales of $31.5 billion in 2017 from a portfolio of eight retail brands selling through a total of 7,475 stores located in 96 countries and from websites in 49...
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- May 2018 (Revised October 2020)
- Supplement
La Ribera Health Department (B): Epilogue
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Emer Moloney and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The La Ribera case studies depict an innovative low cost/high quality privately financed hospital model struggling to achieve alignment with the Six Factors. It is reimbursed by the public sector in a Spanish environment whose Consumers, Structure, and Public Policy...
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- March 2018
- Case
EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box
By: Willy C. Shih and Esel Çekin
This case describes Ekol, an intermodal transportation and logistics company, and how it manages capacity planning. Its busiest routes linked motor vehicle assemblers in Germany and Turkey with many of their parts suppliers, but it had also developed key links in...
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Keywords:
Operations;
Logistics;
Growth And Development;
Strategy;
Intermodal Transportation;
Short-sea Transportation;
Capacity Management;
Capacity Planning;
Delivery Planning;
Route Optimization;
Car Spare Part;
Auto Industry;
Auto Manufacturing;
Automotive Supply Chain;
Supply Chain;
Europe;
Turkey;
Service Design;
Fast Fashion;
Near-shoring;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Operations;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Efficiency;
Logistics;
Transportation Industry;
Auto Industry;
Turkey;
Germany;
spain;
European Union;
Europe
Shih, Willy C., and Esel Çekin. "EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box." Harvard Business School Case 618-037, March 2018.
- December 2017 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
TelePizza (Abridged)
Describes TelePizza, Spain's leading chain of pizza restaurants and delivery services. TelePizza has experienced rapid growth to 500 stores since its creation in 1987. The company went public on the Spanish stock market in late 1996. Franchising has played an important...
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Applegate, Lynda M. "TelePizza (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 818-054, December 2017. (Revised June 2018.)
- May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
- Supplement
Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
The (B) case tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI.
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Keywords:
Hilti;
Business Model Innovation;
Bmi;
Fleet Management;
Decision Making;
Decision-making;
Implementation;
Power Tools Industry;
Construction Industry;
Construction;
Europe;
Switzerland;
Strategy;
Business Model;
Restructuring;
Transformation;
Transition;
Customer Value And Value Chain;
Customer Focus And Relationships;
Construction;
Innovation And Invention;
Leasing;
Strategy;
Growth Management;
Decision Making;
Construction Industry;
Switzerland;
Liechtenstein;
Germany;
Austria;
Europe;
United States;
Asia;
Brazil;
China;
Latin America;
Africa;
Japan;
Hong Kong;
France;
Italy;
spain
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Oliver Gassmann, and Roman Sauer. "Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-465, May 2017. (Revised September 2018.)
- May 2017
- Teaching Note
Hilti Fleet Management (A) and (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
These notes are meant to accompany Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model on Its Head (717-427) and Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model (717-465).
This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the... View Details
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Keywords:
Hilti;
Business Model Innovation;
Bmi;
Fleet Management;
Decision-making;
Decision Making;
Implementation;
Power Tools Industry;
Construction;
Construction Industry;
Europe;
Switzerland;
Liechtenstein;
Business Model;
Restructuring;
Transformation;
Transition;
Customer Value And Value Chain;
Customer Focus And Relationships;
Construction;
Innovation And Invention;
Leasing;
Strategy;
Decision Making;
Growth Management;
Construction Industry;
Switzerland;
Liechtenstein;
Germany;
Austria;
Europe;
United States;
Asia;
Brazil;
China;
Latin America;
Africa;
Japan;
Hong Kong;
France;
Italy;
spain
- 2017
- Chapter
Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy
By: G. Jones
This study examines the geography of the global wind energy industry before 2000. Between 1980 and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the...
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Keywords:
Renewable Energy;
Wind Power;
Entrepreneurship;
Business And Government;
Business History;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Geography;
Business And Government Relations;
Policy;
Business History;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Asia;
Europe;
United States
Jones, G. "Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy." Chap. 12 in Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome, 206–231. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
- 9 Dec 2016
- Conference Presentation
Discovering Unknown Unknowns of Predictive Models
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Ece Kamar, Rich Caruana and Eric Horvitz
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Ece Kamar, Rich Caruana, and Eric Horvitz. "Discovering Unknown Unknowns of Predictive Models." Paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Workshop on Reliable Machine Learning in the Wild, Barcelona, Spain, December 9, 2016.
- 9 Dec 2016
- Conference Presentation
Learning Cost-Effective and Interpretable Regimes for Treatment Recommendation
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju and Cynthia Rudin
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, and Cynthia Rudin. "Learning Cost-Effective and Interpretable Regimes for Treatment Recommendation." Paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Complex Systems, Barcelona, Spain, December 9, 2016.
- 8 Dec 2016
- Conference Presentation
Learning Cost-Effective and Interpretable Treatment Regimes for Judicial Bail Decisions
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju and Cynthia Rudin
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, and Cynthia Rudin. "Learning Cost-Effective and Interpretable Treatment Regimes for Judicial Bail Decisions." Paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Symposium on Machine Learning and the Law, Barcelona, Spain, December 8, 2016.
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