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- March 2003 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Threshold Sports
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Todd H Thedinga
Describes the sales, marketing, and operating issues facing Threshold Sports, a small cycling event management company that produces the Pro Cycling Tour. Examines the issues facing the company as it approaches breakeven and attempts to grow the business substantially....
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Growth Management;
Bicycle Transportation;
Service Delivery;
Sports;
Service Industry;
Service Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Todd H Thedinga. "Threshold Sports." Harvard Business School Case 803-134, March 2003. (Revised January 2006.)
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
School. A number of issues, however, can block employees from benefitting from their more successful peers. For example, an employee might not recognize themselves as underperforming, so don’t seek help. Or,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
working paper Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services by María R. Ibáñez, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School; Jonathan R. Clark , an assistant professor at the...
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- August 2003 (Revised November 2003)
- Background Note
Working Effectively with Counsel
Popular stereotypes of lawyers include "overhead," "Dr. No," "internal cop," "keep us out of trouble!" and "get us out of trouble!" Focus groups of business leaders queried in a survey by the Case Western Reserve University Law School associated the word "lawyer" with...
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Bagley, Constance E. "Working Effectively with Counsel." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-007, August 2003. (Revised November 2003.)
- January 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Gold Hill Venture Lending
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
David Fischer is trying to raise $200 million for a first-time venture debt fund that will be affiliated with Silicon Valley Bank, a major technology lender. Despite his lengthy experience in venture lending, the process is proving difficult. He and his partners are...
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Information Technology;
Value Creation;
Venture Capital;
Partners and Partnerships;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Gold Hill Venture Lending." Harvard Business School Case 804-083, January 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
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Commodities;
Coffee;
Mexico;
Foreign Investment;
Institutions;
Immigration;
Developing Agriculture;
Development;
Export Crop;
Emerging Market;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
History;
Capital Markets;
Business History;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
well as a corresponding interactive map for empowering the public to directly interact with raw COVID-19 data. We caught up with project lead, Cray Noah (MD/MBA 2022) and one of the student volunteers,...
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- December 2007
- Case
Akshaya Patra: Feeding India's Schoolchildren
By: David M. Upton, Christine Ellis, Sarah Lucas and Amy Yamner
Describes a highly successful effort by an Indian Charity to feed poor schoolchildren at lunchtime. This provides two significant benefits. It improves nutrition for the children, and helps keep them in school since the provided meal is occasionally the only meal they...
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Food;
Service Operations;
Education;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Food and Beverage Industry;
India
Upton, David M., Christine Ellis, Sarah Lucas, and Amy Yamner. "Akshaya Patra: Feeding India's Schoolchildren." Harvard Business School Case 608-038, December 2007.
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
Focuses on Furman Selz's acquisition by Xerox in 1987; its return to a private company in 1993; and a second acquisition, by ING, in 1997. In particular, provides the opportunity to evaluate five major...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2012 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?
By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Alexis Brownell
This case describes a new venture attempting to bring early-stage entrepreneurial financing to Finland and other Nordic countries. Entrepreneurship is taking off in Finland, an area that historically has had little venture capital or high-growth start-up activity, but...
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Keywords:
Angels;
Angel Investors;
VC;
Micro-VC;
Accelerator;
Incubator;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Business Startups;
Financial Services Industry;
Finland;
Scandinavia;
Europe
Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and Alexis Brownell. "Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?" Harvard Business School Case 813-068, September 2012. (Revised March 2013.)
- October 2023
- Article
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA
By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years....
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Keywords:
Safety Regulations;
Regulations;
Regulatory Enforcement;
Machine Learning Models;
Safety;
Operations;
Service Operations;
Production;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Decisions;
United States
Johnson, Matthew S., David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel. "Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15, no. 4 (October 2023): 30–67. (Profiled in the Regulatory Review.)
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
William A.M. Burden Sr. graduated from Harvard College in 1900. (Harvard University Archives) William A.M. Burden Sr. graduated from Harvard College in 1900. (Harvard University Archives) For nearly half a century, Burden Hall served...
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Linda Kush
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
laughter and joy as well as anxiety and uncertainty. While the global pandemic has upended our lives at HBS, it has also reinforced the strength and resiliency of the LASO familia. LASO has been challenged...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
way it did in other countries. That’s largely due to the predominant culture of lifetime employment, which ties workers to a single company and values years of service more than the development of skills....
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- January 2000 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
Patagon.com: Building (and Defending) the First Financial Destination in Latin America
By: William A. Sahlman, Ramiro Montealegre and Luis Pereiro
Describes Patagon.com, a company trying to build a financial portal in Latin America. The company's founders, Wenceslao Casares and Constancio Larguia, must deal with complex financial and strategic challenges as they guide the company in a difficult context.
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Finance;
Financial Services Industry;
Latin America
Sahlman, William A., Ramiro Montealegre, and Luis Pereiro. "Patagon.com: Building (and Defending) the First Financial Destination in Latin America." Harvard Business School Case 800-185, January 2000. (Revised May 2000.)
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
Research Center lab. When it didn't see the results it sought, Xerox terminated further funding for projects that we know today as Ethernet (by 3Com) and PostScript (by Adobe). These projects were evaluated within Xerox and judged not to...
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- May 1996 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Ecolab, Inc.
By: Ashish Nanda
By 1993, Ecolab has established a dominant market position in the institutional cleaning industry. As the company’s principal competitor, Diversify, drives sales aggressively, Ecolab president Al Schuman faces a choice about how best to market Ecolab’s offerings....
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Employees;
Retention;
Marketing Strategy;
Risk Management;
Service Industry
Nanda, Ashish. "Ecolab, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 396-371, May 1996. (Revised November 2018.)
- Web
Interviewing - Alumni
crime other than a traffic violation? Response : No. I've never been convicted of anything other than a minor traffic violation. Follow Up Guidelines Send each person you meet...
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