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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978)... View Details
- September 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Charles Schwab Corporation (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nicole Tempest
A look at the industrial restructuring in the brokerage industry made possible by e-commerce. Focuses the student's attention on the decision alternatives facing Charles Schwab, one of the industry leaders in January 1998. In a word, the challenge is "Do they slash... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Internet and the Web; Price; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Nicole Tempest. "Charles Schwab Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 300-024, September 1999. (Revised March 2001.)
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients (TN)
By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis
Teaching Note for 511093. View Details
- Web
Event Guidelines | About
ensuring that maximum capacity levels are not exceeded at any time. Setup : All room layouts, furniture, vendor supported elements (such as event lighting, staging, etc.) will be managed by HBS Operations. Service View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
an excellent public-private partnership model that provided the right incentives for investment and the flexibility to attack the problems in service delivery. This was key. How did you structure Manila... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
Cardona. “If you told my teachers that I would go on to be a teacher myself and work on education policy, they would have found that really incongruous.” Simmons credits some of those same teachers and coaches (he found an outlet in wrestling and football) with View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
provided technical assistance to alumni participants; and HBS alumni club liaison T.C. Haldi managed the logistical challenge of coordinating the alumni-student exchanges and contributed many creative, substantive suggestions. Tamara... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
fundamental decisions for any business: where to play, how to deliver, and how to win. Where to Play. Entrepreneurs must target downturn needs such as superior value relative to existing players or provide good substitutes for the... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
executive Marjorie Alfus and The Committee of 200, a national organization of women business executives. The project provided funding, case connections, and research assistance to HBS faculty who wrote cases featuring women. “We’ve made... View Details
- February 2006 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Pixamo-Inc., AG, or OOO?
Andrew Prihodko is forming a new venture, Pixamo, the next generation of online photo management and sharing sites. Pixamo's alpha site has generated over 1,000 users and a lot of information about registration and usage patterns. Prihodko must address a number of... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Web Services Industry; Delaware; Switzerland; Ukraine
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Pixamo-Inc., AG, or OOO?" Harvard Business School Case 806-123, February 2006. (Revised December 2009.)
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
announcing the change, MBA Program Chair and Senior Associate Dean W. Carl Kester emphasized the need to address new management challenges, such as increased competition from abroad and from companies that are taking advantage of disruptive technologies. "The View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
operations covering widely recognized brands including Lipton, Hellmann’s, Birds Eye, Ben & Jerry’s, Dove, Sunsilk, and Pond’s. Taking advantage of full access to corporate archives and executives, Jones discusses Unilever’s strategies to cope with globalization and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
beverage companies, and they know they have major water issues." This has created a rapidly increasing demand for technologies and services to discover, manage, filter, and disinfect and/or desalinate water, and to improve infrastructure... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
1991): to provide continuous Internet access to the planet’s unconnected billions through, in Cassidy’s words, a “complex choreography where thousands of balloons are being steered and programmed all in an... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
year. Using Internet Data for Economic Research Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2015
- Case
Venture Republic, 2011
By: W. Carl Kester and Mayuka Yamazaki
In December 2011, the founders of Venture Republic, a Japanese developer and operator of on-line search engines for shopping and travel, faced a decison about whether or not to take the company private in a management buyout transaction just three years after an... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the world. That doesn't even make... View Details
- December 2003
- Teaching Note
Capital One Financial Corporation (TN)
By: Bharat N. Anand and Michael G. Rukstad
Teaching Note to (9-700-124). View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace