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Other Student Organizations - MBA
News Corporation is a non-profit self-funded news organization of Harvard Business School run by students. This organization is a publisher of The Harbus, bringing free news to Harvard community since 1937. Today it is available both in...
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- July 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Rocky Mountain Condiments: Close Encounters with the Legal System for the First Time
By: Lena G. Goldberg
The founder of a Colorado start-up focused on developing a line of condiments confronts a host of legal issues that threaten the viability of her young enterprise. She is suing a co-packer for, among other things, breach of contract, theft of recipes and trade secrets,...
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Keywords:
Law And Regulation;
Start-ups;
Founders' Agreements;
Cross-Border Jurisdiction;
Torts;
Consumer Protection;
Non-disclosure Agreements;
Intellectual Property Protection;
Fraud;
Legal Remedies;
Law;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Laws and Statutes;
Business Startups;
Contracts;
Intellectual Property;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Lena G. "Rocky Mountain Condiments: Close Encounters with the Legal System for the First Time." Harvard Business School Case 319-029, July 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Energizing, eye-opening, and familial. Was an HBS MBA worth it? Absolutely. I tell people that all the time. That's not to say all MBAs are worth it for all people....
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- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
administration in the HBS Strategy Unit. “It’s very taxing, to be honest.” Shifting to remote work at the start of the pandemic stripped away whatever was left of the elusive 9-to-5 business day and replaced View Details
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by Danielle Kost
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
About Rock Advisory Board The Rock Center’s Advisory Board is responsible for providing strategic direction for the Rock Center and its staff. The Advisory Board includes HBS entrepreneurial alumni, HBS faculty, and HBS staff. Paul Baier...
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- September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In...
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Keywords:
Legal Industry;
Procurement;
Professional Service Firms;
Pricing;
Competition;
Change Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Legal Liability;
Business Processes;
Legal Services Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gardner, Heidi K., and Silvia Hodges Silverstein. "GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services." Harvard Business School Case 414-003, September 2013. (Revised February 2016.)
- May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
InterfaceRAISE: Sustainability Consulting
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robert G. Eccles and Casey Taylor
InterfaceRAISE is a sustainability management consulting firm created to leverage the capabilities of its parent company Interface Inc., a carpet manufacturer recognized as a global leader in corporate environmental sustainability. This case illustrates the challenges...
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Problems and Challenges;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance;
Environmental Accounting;
Profit;
Marketing Strategy;
Human Resources;
Business Model;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Salesforce Management;
Consulting Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Toffel, Michael W., Robert G. Eccles, and Casey Taylor. "InterfaceRAISE: Sustainability Consulting." Harvard Business School Case 611-069, May 2011. (Revised March 2012.)
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
on top of data security? Eva Ascarza: First and foremost, compliance isn't just important; it's mandatory. Companies need to keep up with all the necessary regulations, especially as they can change. Take GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation], for instance. View Details
- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),...
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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
end, participants agreed that while disease management is a thorny concept involving all these many constituencies, it might in some instances leave room for business potential in the form of a carve-out. A carve-out, as defined in the...
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- May 30, 2019
- Article
Twitter Is Showing More Ads Instead of Better Ideas
A social media company that doesn’t know much about its users needs to work harder on its business model.
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Kominers, Scott Duke. "Twitter Is Showing More Ads Instead of Better Ideas." Bloomberg Opinion (May 30, 2019).
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Planned Giving - Alumni
Giving Planned Giving Giving Planned Giving Leave a Legacy Through planned giving, you can use a variety of strategies and assets to support HBS during your lifetime or at your passing, while also fulfilling your financial planning goals....
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- February 2021
- Case
China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry
By: William C. Kirby, Bonnie Yining Cao and John P. McHugh
China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry had over 3,000 platforms at its height in 2015. China Risk Finance (CRF) was one of the country’s P2P success stories. With over 1 million borrowers using CRF’s platform, it raised $60 million in its 2016 IPO on the New York...
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Keywords:
Financial Services;
P2P Lending;
Government And Business;
Regulation;
Finance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Kirby, William C., Bonnie Yining Cao, and John P. McHugh. "China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry." Harvard Business School Case 321-124, February 2021.
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
co-founder and CEO of AtHoc, a networked crisis communication company that was acquired by Blackberry. At Blackberry, Guy was a Division President and later its Chief Strategy Officer, working on the...
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- June 1989 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
Fairfield Inn (A)
By: James L. Heskett
The Fairfield Inn, an economy hotel venture by the Marriott Corp., has developed a novel method for selecting and measuring the performance of its hotel personnel that fits the company's strategy. Because it faces the need to grow rapidly, questions have arisen as to...
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Selection and Staffing;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Franchise Ownership;
Performance Evaluation;
Corporate Strategy;
Accommodations Industry
Heskett, James L. "Fairfield Inn (A)." Harvard Business School Case 689-092, June 1989. (Revised May 1993.)
- June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design
By: Willy Shih, Kamen Bliznashki and Fan Zhao
When IBM shifted from a traditional territory-based multinational organization to what it called a globally integrated enterprise, it established its headquarters for "Growth Markets" in Shanghai and "Established Markets" in New York. This positioned its China...
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Keywords:
Diversification;
Corporate Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Research and Development;
Emerging Markets;
Product Development;
Information Technology Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Kamen Bliznashki, and Fan Zhao. "IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design." Harvard Business School Case 611-055, June 2011. (Revised October 2012.)
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
and the government invested dramatically in building a scientific and technical infrastructure needed to fuel growth. That was the national strategy, but it was not industrial policy. There's an important need today for having a...
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- Research Summary
Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level...
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- January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Uría Menéndez (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles
Uria Menendez, the pre-eminent law firm in Iberia, is at a critical point in its long and distinguished history. Its newly appointed second generation co-managing Partners are facing some critical strategic decisions concerning how the firm should position itself in...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Networks;
Selection and Staffing;
Work-Life Balance;
Compensation and Benefits;
Decision Making;
Expansion;
Legal Services Industry;
Iberian Peninsula
Eccles, Robert G. "Uría Menéndez (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-088, January 2008. (Revised March 2008.)