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- March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Massive Incorporated (A)
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Clark Gilbert and Victoria Winston
How do you go to market with a brand new product in a new industry? How does a business develop an opportunity and then adapt its strategy to ensure success? Who are the early adopters and how does a business work with them? Katherine Hays, chief operating office at...
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Keywords:
Emerging Markets;
Product Launch;
Digital Marketing;
Business Startups;
Advertising Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, Clark Gilbert, and Victoria Winston. "Massive Incorporated (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-126, March 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- October 1995 (Revised January 1998)
- Case
Cybersmith
Cybersmith is a new company that has created a new retailing concept. This particular store has been reported in over 250 newspapers, and by every major American television network. Some would classify it as an on-line cafe, but management has positioned the store as...
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Marketing Strategy;
Joint Ventures;
Consumer Behavior;
Product Marketing;
Innovation and Invention;
Retail Industry;
Cambridge
Sviokla, John J., and Thomas A. Gerace. "Cybersmith." Harvard Business School Case 396-314, October 1995. (Revised January 1998.)
- 27 May 2021
- News
Facebook-backed report calls Apple privacy features anticompetitive
- 09 Nov 2020
- News
Best Business Books 2020: Technology & innovation
Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours
Translations available in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Western concerns about the rise of China and India are raising alarms today, much as they were fifty years ago. China and India currently operate in... View Details
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
proliferation of arbitration Companies from internet service providers to nursing home operators use arbitration to shield themselves from expensive, protracted lawsuits. Proponents say the approach resolves disputes faster than the court...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
airline's need to slow its growth rate in the response to increasing fuel costs and the effects of major operational crisis for the airline in February 2007. In 2005, JetBlue—typically viewed as a low-cost carrier (LCC)—made a move that...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of research on the accuracy of...
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- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just the United States seeing a...
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Leadership - Health Care
Health Care Initiative Leadership 1ms Robert S. Huckman Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Huckman teaches the second-year course in Operations Strategy and has taught HBS Executive Education programs and the...
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- July 2005 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Tanpin Kanri: Retail Practice at Seven-Eleven Japan
By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han
Toshifumi Suzuki, chairman and CEO of Seven and I Holding Co., was widely credited as the mastermind behind Seven-Eleven Japan's spectacular rise. Although Seven-Eleven Japan began as a small licensee of U.S. convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Inc. (then Southland...
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Framework;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Demand and Consumers;
Distribution;
Logistics;
Technology;
Retail Industry;
Japan
Lal, Rajiv, and Arar Han. "Tanpin Kanri: Retail Practice at Seven-Eleven Japan." Harvard Business School Case 506-002, July 2005. (Revised February 2011.)
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
but who also had experience in the Western way of doing business. "It was a foot in both worlds," Shelman says. "They knew firsthand the Western model but they also understood the challenges of operating in this Chinese,...
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- August 2021 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion
By: Michael W. Toffel, Kenneth P. Pucker and Eren Kuzucu
The Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (A) case introduces Allbirds as a footwear startup not only focused on simple design, comfort, and sustainable natural materials but on decarbonizing the wider fashion industry. Background material highlights the growing...
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Decarbonization;
Climate Impact;
Environmental Strategy;
Innovation;
Product Design;
Supply Chain Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Product Development;
Climate Change;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry;
United States;
California
Toffel, Michael W., Kenneth P. Pucker, and Eren Kuzucu. "Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (A)." Harvard Business School Case 622-024, August 2021. (Revised September 2024.)
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
and agility in their processes. Accelerate takes those steps and "turbocharges them," he says. Under a dual operating system, all processes and activities that involve what a company already knows how to do stay on the regular,...
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by Kim Girard
- Web
Angela Q. Crispi | About
Angela Q. Crispi Executive Dean for Administration Bio Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the...
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Search Funds
operating conditions and more. American City Business Journals can provide information about the number and types of companies in a given city. Factiva and Business Source Complete can be used to search news, industry, and...
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- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
they operate. Political science, government, and history paid attention; and even the economist Joseph Schumpeter, with his notion of individuals who operate outside the social structure and who can then innovate, staked out a tradition...
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- 22 Oct 2019
- News
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
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Artificial intelligence
- 08 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority
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by Kristina McElheran