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Good Start Genetics is developing a low-cost, sequencing based, pre-pregnancy test for multiple genetic disorders that will replace one-disorder-only tests currently on the market. Insightsquared Frederick Shilmover , MBA 2010 Jacob... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

comment is spoken in an offhand way, but that ability to understand how a business will scale has been a key factor in some of DFJ’s enormous multiple returns. Today, DFJ spans affiliate networks in more than 30 cities around the world... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver

like Gone with the Wind, a theater owner simply had to screen the movie for people to line up around the block. Today, with movies showing at multiple times and locations, to say nothing of the dizzying array of entertainment options, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

With WAC, the longest running of all the report-writing incarnations, the prototypical assignment featured formal and informal discussions of the case at hand, followed by each student’s own fevered analysis. Then came multiple... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

can be used to explore multiple issues including creating and building an iconic fashion brand, entrepreneurship, and ethical responsibility of business. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318139-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2015
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‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

01 Nov 2012
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Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

wanted to avoid turning Tweezerman into one more failure in what had been a previous career of multiple entrepreneurial misfires. What if this last and greatest airplane, which had finally begun to fly—and fly high—now crashed and burned... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

19 Nov 2012
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LEED-ing by Example

while also bolstering private-sector demand for LEED buildings." Leading With Leed There are multiple environmental assessment tools available to governments and building developers in the United States, including the International Code... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

11 May 2011
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Building a Better Board

where the independent directors based their assessments of him on direct, private conversations with company executives at multiple levels of management. (He detailed the process in a 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "Evaluating... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

varieties, we show that there is no pure strategy symmetric price equilibrium in general (for n > 2 with linear transportation costs). In turn, if the limitation on the number of varieties consumers purchase comes from a budget constraint, then we obtain a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

founder that I ever felt there was a big difference between men and women. I was asked for more due diligence, for more numbers, and for so much more research on competitors.” Saigal, whose brother launched his own company, was able to compare their efforts and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers

congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Organizational Behavior 31 (2011) Abstract The goal of this paper is to promote research about organizational errors-i.e., the actions of multiple organizational participants that deviate from organizationally specified rules and can... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South Asian countries,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

videos this morning.” Balancing act: “In leadership, there’s a tension between getting good information from multiple stakeholders and a more top-down approach, where you trust your intuition, take a minority point of view, and run with... View Details

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

and empirical implications that focus on the interface between technological shifts and identity change at multiple levels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-048.pdf Cases & Course... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Leading Science-Based Enterprises. Says Sato: "Whether it's the Whitesides' one-lab model, with dozens of post-docs from diverse fields collaboratively working on big problems, or the Stem Cell Institute's embrace of multiple labs... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

12 Jul 2004
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Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

not related to costs imposes huge burdens on the system today. Having multiple prices drives up administrative costs. Patients covered by the public sector are subsidized by private-sector patients. And within the private sector, patients... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

19 Oct 2022
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If I Were You

multiple resources. Leverage them and be bold and have fun. That’s what I would say. Jeremy Watson (MBA 2016): Jeremy Watson. Reach out to your professors now. Get their phone numbers and emails and bug them. That would be one [laughs].... View Details

13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor category––with View Details

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