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- June 2008 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Galper
Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career—his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a young boy in a family of entrepreneurs, Nalls had a reputation as a hard...
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Business Startups;
Experience and Expertise;
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Galper. "Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls." Harvard Business School Case 808-167, June 2008. (Revised October 2012.)
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
representation in policy formulation; and c) accountability in implementation. Examples are drawn from the experiences of South Africa and Brazil. Several preliminary factors...
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Martha Lagace
- June 2004 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Millennial Net
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall
Millennial Net created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks, a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was founded in 2000 and in early 2004 was looking for a second round of funding. The area had attracted a number of new...
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Keywords:
Information Infrastructure;
Technological Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Information Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall. "Millennial Net." Harvard Business School Case 804-173, June 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
- 22 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products
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by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel
- 2018
- Chapter
Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with...
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Keywords:
Business Groups;
Conglomerates;
Globalization;
Entrepreneurship;
Business History;
Organizations;
Business Conglomerates;
United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey. "Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence." Chap. 5 in Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution, and Resilience, edited by Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino, 123–146. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- February 2007
- Case
South African Airways (A)
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig
Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO...
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Keywords:
Fairness;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Employment;
Growth and Development;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Air Transportation Industry;
South Africa
Margolis, Joshua D., Laura Morgan Roberts, and Laura Winig. "South African Airways (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-014, February 2007.
- October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Orange Imagineering
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Todd H Thedinga
As a proven entrepreneur, Rich Miner has been successful in the start-up world. Now, following the acquisition of his start-up, he has established a corporate R&D/venture operation in America to serve as the "eyes and ears" of his European parent company, Orange...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Research and Development;
Business Startups;
Acquisition;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States;
Europe
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Todd H Thedinga. "Orange Imagineering." Harvard Business School Case 804-048, October 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- March 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Noodles & Company (Abridged)
By: Linda A. Cyr
Aaron Kennedy has successfully grown Noodles & Co. from a single global noodle shop to a chain of 58 restaurants spanning six states in seven years. In the face of increasing competition, Kennedy has plans to roll out 240 new stores in the next four years. He must...
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Competition;
Entrepreneurship;
Franchise Ownership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Cyr, Linda A. "Noodles & Company (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 805-098, March 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail
- April–June 2014
- Article
Firmes mondialisées et imaginaire de la beauté
By: G. Jones
This article highlights the role of business enterprises as influences on ideals of human beauty. The homogenization of such ideals has been one of the most noteworthy features of globalization over the last two centuries. This study suggests that firms were both...
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Keywords:
American History;
Economic History;
Business History;
Globalization;
Entrepreneurship;
History;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Europe;
North and Central America
Jones, G. "Firmes mondialisées et imaginaire de la beauté." Relations internationales 157 (April–June 2014): 131–146.
- Article
Multilateral Matching
By: John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
We introduce a matching model in which agents engage in joint ventures via multilateral contracts. This approach allows us to consider production complementarities previously outside the scope of matching theory. We show analogues of the first and second welfare...
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Keywords:
Matching;
Stability;
Competitive Equilibrium;
Core;
Networks;
Competition;
Joint Ventures;
Balance and Stability;
Groups and Teams;
Entrepreneurship
Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Multilateral Matching." Journal of Economic Theory 156 (March 2015): 175–206.
- March 2016 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built...
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Keywords:
On-demand Economy;
Sharing Economy;
Technology Startup;
Technology;
Growth Strategy;
Business Startups;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Entrepreneurship;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Strategic Planning;
Service Industry;
United States;
Boston;
Cambridge;
New York (city, NY);
California
Fuller, Joseph B., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy." Harvard Business School Case 316-154, March 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
- March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
MTN: Unlocking Value While Driving Socioeconomic Progress
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
On March 10, 2021, Ralph Mupita the new CEO of MTN Group, Africa's largest telecommunications company, presented the group’s 2020 annual results and unveiled a new strategy to “drive growth and unlock value.” Despite MTN’s leadership in most of its markets, the...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Goals and Objectives;
Valuation;
Emerging Markets;
Business Strategy;
Financial Management;
Information Technology;
Corporate Finance;
Telecommunications Industry;
Africa;
South Africa;
Ghana;
Nigeria
Esty, Benjamin C., Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha. "MTN: Unlocking Value While Driving Socioeconomic Progress." Harvard Business School Case 722-371, March 2022. (Revised April 2022.)
- March 2000 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Stainless Steel Studios, Inc.
Stainless Steel Studios is the latest entrepreneurial venture of renowned computer game designer Rick Goodman. Goodman must now decide the role of customer feedback in crafting the next generation of computer games. This case addresses how operations systems can be...
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West, Jonathan, Michael J Buttrey, S. Robert Goldman, Jonas P Nilsson, and Christian G. Kasper. "Stainless Steel Studios, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 600-034, March 2000. (Revised February 2002.)
- January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?
By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg
This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools...
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General Management;
K-12;
Charter Schools;
Public Schools;
Edtech;
Education;
Information Technology;
Management;
Public Sector;
Entrepreneurship;
Education Industry;
Boston
Kim, John J-H, and Daniel Goldberg. "Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?" Harvard Business School Case 316-138, January 2016. (Revised November 2018.)
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
of opportunity, America could instead be closing it down—unless we create a positive agenda to renew the American spirit," she writes in the book's introduction. Kanter believes America at the start of the 21st century has lost its...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- January 2017
- Supplement
Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners: Cash Flow Tool
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita) is one of the U.S.'s leading dialysis providers, a process whereby persons with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are connected to a machine that performs the functions of a healthy kidney. Kent Thiry, DaVita's CEO, has expanded...
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- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Monarchs versus managers
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore solutions. Below Professor Myra Hart shares her vision of the program, now View Details
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- October 2013 (Revised February 2019)
- Teaching Note
Red Hen Baking Company
By: Richard Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Lisa Paige
The case explores the decision to expand in a small business setting. In 2007, the Red Hen Baking Company (RHB) was deciding whether to move from its cramped and inefficient Duxbury, Vermont facility to a new facility in nearby Middlesex, Vermont. It had been in...
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