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- 09 Sep 2015
- HBS Seminar
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University
- October 2018
- Case
Shield AI
By: Mitchell Weiss and A.J. Steinlage
Shield AI’s quadcopter – with no pilot and no flight plan – could clear a building and outpace human warfighters by almost five minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots...
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Public Entrepreneurship;
Artificial Intelligence;
AI;
Entrepreneurial Sales;
Government;
Defense;
Shield AI;
Brandon Tseng;
Ryan Tseng;
Andrew Reiter;
Robots;
Robotics;
UAV;
UAVs;
Government Sales;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Sales;
Government Administration;
National Security;
Business and Government Relations;
AI and Machine Learning;
Technology Industry;
United States
Weiss, Mitchell, and A.J. Steinlage. "Shield AI." Harvard Business School Case 819-062, October 2018.
- May 2006 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Codon Devices
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
In December 2005, 40-year-old John Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out...
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Keywords:
Strategic Planning;
Venture Capital;
Intellectual Property;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Genetics;
Competitive Advantage;
Science-Based Business;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Biotechnology Industry;
Cambridge
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and David Kiron. "Codon Devices." Harvard Business School Case 806-198, May 2006. (Revised June 2006.)
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
psychology along with management, Chua was born and raised in Singapore, itself a multicultural society. "I've always been fascinated by how culture changes the way people interact and innovate, and how collaboration is affected by intercultural View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 2017
- Mimeo
Science for Society: Science and Technology Based Social Entrepreneurship
By: Tarun Khanna, Shashank Shah and Kundan Madireddy
This publication is an outcome of the team's research, engagement and interactions with over 25 science and technology-based social enterprises in India. It provides details on the research process, insightful outcomes and innovative impact.
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Science-Based Business;
Information Technology;
Business and Community Relations;
India
Khanna, Tarun, Shashank Shah, and Kundan Madireddy. "Science for Society: Science and Technology Based Social Entrepreneurship." Harvard University South Asia Institute, 2017. Mimeo. (This publication is an outcome of a grant from the Tata Trusts.)
- Web
Faculty & Research - Leadership
Faculty & Research Faculty & Research Fall, 2024 Article MIT Sloan Management Review The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities To Pursuing Growth...
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- 2018
- Book
Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust
By: Ray A. Goldberg
The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic...
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Keywords:
Food;
System;
Global Range;
Health;
Environmental Sustainability;
Development Economics;
Partners and Partnerships;
Public Opinion;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A. Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)
Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements) In fact, in one of the pilot studies involving 184 mid- to senior-level business managers enrolled in an HBS Executive Education course—all of whom negotiate as part of their business...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
customers have bought the detergent anyway? “The folks who had the data did not go to the managers and say, ‘I have all this data. Let me tell you how to run your business now.’ They said, ‘Look, let me...
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- October 2013
- Article
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
By: Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee
In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategy;
Value;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Porter, Michael E., and Thomas H. Lee. "The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 50–70.
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2018
- Supplement
Jumia Nigeria PowerPoint Supplement
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By...
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- January 2018 (Revised March 2019)
- Teaching Note
Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A) and (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By...
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- January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
General Scanning, Inc. (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
General Scanning, Inc. was founded by Jean Montagu and Pierre Brosens, two MIT mechanical engineers with an interest in developing innovative products based on the early application of lasers. They invented proprietary technology for laser beam positioning and scanning...
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Transition;
Entrepreneurship;
Management Practices and Processes;
Product Development;
Strategic Planning;
Research and Development;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Commercialization;
Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Sean McClenaghan, and Charles Tillen. "General Scanning, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 698-036, January 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review Notable progress was made during FY23 in advancing the School’s priorities. Accelerating research on how digital and data are transforming management...
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- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
PDS: Ring-Fencing the Ranch
By: Dennis Campbell, Tarun Khanna and Kerry Herman
Pallak Seth, Group CEO of PDS Multinational Fashions, is contemplating options to bring better collaboration across his global apparel supply chain platform. PDS, a group of 50-plus subsidiary companies, each led by its own CEO and with different apparel industry...
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Keywords:
Collaboration;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance;
Partners and Partnerships;
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Campbell, Dennis, Tarun Khanna, and Kerry Herman. "PDS: Ring-Fencing the Ranch." Harvard Business School Case 721-361, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
The first few minutes of new employee orientation, if done right, can lead to happier and more productive workers and, ultimately, increased customer satisfaction. Unfortunately, a lot of companies do it wrong. In many firms, employee...
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- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
many took advantage of economies of scale and other more efficient production processes. Yet, firms increasingly held on to the savings they gained from these reduced costs, rather than passing them on to customers in the form of lower...
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by Rachel Layne
- January 1998 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Acer America: Development of the Aspire
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Anthony St. George
Follows the development, national launch, and global rollout of the Aspire, Acer's first new product developed outside of Taiwan. Implementing a very promising new PC concept proves challenging to Mike Culver and his U.S. team, who are plagued by coordination problems...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Organizational Design;
Supply Chain;
Problems and Challenges;
Relationships;
Business Subsidiaries;
Product Launch;
Computer Industry;
United States;
Taiwan
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Anthony St. George. "Acer America: Development of the Aspire." Harvard Business School Case 399-011, January 1998. (Revised April 2001.)
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman