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    The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

    The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft's Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed... View Details

    • October 2019
    • Case

    A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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    Soltan Bryce

    came to HBS. They are my people!” While an MBA student, Soltan was on the founding team of the venture-backed startup, Plume, the first gender-affirming telehealth service that “provides access to gender-affirming care for the trans community, virtually.” The theme:... View Details
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    5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies - MBA

    5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 3. Financial Obligations 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 5.1 Information... View Details
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Learning by Supplying

    By: Juan Alcacer and Joanne Oxley
    Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Supply Chain; Competitive Advantage; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competency and Skills; Relationships; Telecommunications Industry
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    • March 2020
    • Case

    Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire

    By: Ayelet Israeli, Danilo Tauro and Sarah Gulick
    This case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming an integrated adtech company that could leverage AI to buy digital media, while creating and serving display and... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Competition; Marketing; Advertising Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Europe
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    My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
    • 04 May 2021
    • Book

    Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

    purpose as “enriching people’s lives through technology by addressing key human needs.” Best Buy’s competitive advantage had always been the unique customer service provided by its sales associates, but that only mattered if they truly... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
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    Immersive Field Course: China and Taiwan

    By: Willy C. Shih
    I designed this course to enable students to examine cross-strait issues between the Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China—(Taiwan) at a critical juncture. Many products produced for the global marketplace—televisions, computers and computer components,... View Details
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    Mid-US - Global

    customers, and guide the company as it navigates clean energy technologies and other challenges. June 2024 Teaching Material Miami's Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone Teaching... View Details
    • 18 Mar 2013
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: LEGO

    play" and "quality in every detail" that was distributed to everyone in the company. Like his father, Godtfred paid careful attention to every aspect of the business, applying, for example, his knowledge of material science and production View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
    • January 2021
    • Article

    Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ryan Allen and Michael G. Endres
    Supervised machine learning (ML) methods are a powerful toolkit for discovering robust patterns in quantitative data. The patterns identified by ML could be used for exploratory inductive or abductive research, or for post-hoc analysis of regression results to detect... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Supervised Machine Learning; Induction; Abduction; Exploratory Data Analysis; Pattern Discovery; Decision Trees; Random Forests; Neural Networks; ROC Curve; Confusion Matrix; Partial Dependence Plots; AI and Machine Learning
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    Partners - Case Method Project

    the Arts West Palm Beach, FL FL 2 of 37 Virgilio Beato Sebring High School Sebring, FL Subjects: Grade 11/12 American Government FL 3 of 37 Samantha Beovich Freedom High School Orlando, FL FL 4 of 37 Heather Boos Frank H Peterson Academies of View Details
    • 18 Jan 2022
    • News

    How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

    • 05 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

    lower-tier performer, it's not dooming you to some bad outcome, but your odds of getting a good outcome are significantly reduced.” Which companies are known for helping workers? The authors profile five companies that stand out. IBM. The View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

      Joshua D. Coval

      Joshua Coval, Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Area, joined HBS in July 2001. Prior to joining HBS, Joshua was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan Business School where he was on the faculty since 1996.... View Details

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      Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      financial crises’ and external, sector-specific demand shocks. Innovation-Driven Stage In the Innovation-Driven Stage, the ability to produce innovative products and services at the global technology frontier using the most advanced... View Details
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      Faculty & Advisors - MBA

      imperative to scale beyond a single instance, and to reach more people and urban places. Tom Clay MBA ’97, Harvard University; BA, Mathematics, Princeton University. Tom Clay has 20 years of experience successfully commercializing new View Details
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      1.2 MBA Honor Code - MBA

      conditions for honorable academic work. Examples of Honor Code Violations While some activities – copying from another’s exam, for example – are enduring illustrations of violations of the Honor Code, advances in technology and innovation... View Details
      • 22 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

      strategy is, it won't work forever. There will be booms and busts, customer preferences will change, competitors will introduce new products, and disruptive new technologies will emerge in unexpected places. This brings us to the final... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert Simons