Publications

June 2012
Case

The Atavist: Reinventing the Book

By: Mukti Khaire and Mary Tripsas

Atavist, a start-up founded by journalists, publishes enhanced ebook singles as well as the software to create enhanced ebooks. The company is currently engaged in both publishing and software development, but as they raise funding and grow, must decide whether to... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Growth Strategy; Innovation; Publishing; Software Industry; Technological Change; Disruptive Innovation; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

30 Jul 2010
News

Notes from a Hammock

I’m just back from vacation and the usual summer fun: swimming, boating, murder and mayhem. Oh, that last part no worries, it got no further than my hammock. That’s where I finally got around to reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first in Swedish author Stieg... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a steadfast commitment to course... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Gift of Gab

For the second year running, Jin (“PJ”) Kim (MBA 2006) won the HBS Public Speaking Competition. Kim and seven others were selected as finalists from a preliminary group of nearly forty MBA students after each delivered a four-minute, impromptu speech on a randomly... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Sep 2003
News

Sharon Patrick

Patrick acknowledges the challenges of the last sixteen months due to the federal investigation and indictment of Stewart for a personal stock sale unrelated to MSO. However, she remains upbeat. “The strength of our content and business model — and the brand labels,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Information; Information; Information

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Information Technology

04 Jun 2014
News

Investing for Real and Permanent Good

Keywords: Carnegie; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

18 Aug 2015
News

And Now, a Word from Our Graduates

Keywords: alumni; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

May 28, 2010
Article

Going Green in Annual Reports

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Michael P. Krzus

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Reports

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June 2004 (Revised September 2006)
Case

Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO

The large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Decision Making; Management Systems; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

01 Dec 1998
News

Faculty Retirements

interface with the securities markets, he is the coauthor or editor of seven books, including Wall Street and Regulation; Managing Financial Institutions; and Islamic Law and Finance. He has written numerous working papers and articles in... View Details

April 2001 (Revised November 2001)
Case

AvantGo

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

Richard Owen, CEO of AvantGo, is preparing for a meeting in which he will set the human resource policy for the firm going forward. It has been three months since the company's IPO, and given the tremendous cramp in hiring over the six months prior to the IPO, he knows... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Management Teams; Selection and Staffing; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology; Decisions; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States

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15 May 2018
News

HBS MBA Admissions Shifts to Two Rounds

In a recent post to his “Direct from the Director” blog, HBS Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee (MBA 2013) notes that the MBA application process will now include only two rounds instead of the previous... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

New HBS Alumni Board Members

She has taught at the Wharton School and at the United Nations Economic Development Mission in the Republic of Belarus. A former assistant director of Admissions at HBS, she is the past president of TriCom Ventures and was general manager... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Rauner Honored

Bruce V. Rauner (MBA '81) (right), who recently endowed an HBS professorship bearing his name, was honored at a March 2 dinner held at the Dean's House. Rauner, managing principal of the Chicago-based private-equity firm GTCR Golder... View Details

January 1986 (Revised March 1997)
Case

Horizon Group

By: William A. Sahlman

Contains a description of a situation confronting the co-founder of a company planning to produce software for microcomputers. The company has just completed raising money from some wealthy investors by forming an R&D Limited Partnership. Development of the program (an... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Business Plan; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry

2009
Book

Chinese General Management: Tsinghua-Harvard Text and Cases

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Guoqing Chen

Keywords: Management; Higher Education; Information; Cases; China

January 2007 (Revised April 2007)
Case

The Tale of the Lynx (A and B)

By: Noam T. Wasserman

The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Growth and Maturation; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Succession; Conflict and Resolution; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry