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- July 2008
- Case
eHarmony
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Hanna Halaburda and Troy Smith
eHarmony's CEO needs to decide how to react to imitations of its business model, encroachment by competing models, and ascendance of free substitutes. The case provides four options to address these threats and asks students to choose one after they analyzed the...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Industry Structures;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Service Industry
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Hanna Halaburda, and Troy Smith. "eHarmony." Harvard Business School Case 709-424, July 2008.
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
2016 Boston: Self-published An Easy Introduction to Financial Accounting: A Self-Study Guide By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book is a self-study guide written for someone who wishes to teach themselves...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2002 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Space Data Corporation
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Jay Wynn
Space Data Corp. plans to partner with the U.S. National Weather Service to place transceivers on weather balloons and thereby create a national mobile communications network. The company is in the late development stages and is planning to launch a regional test that...
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Keywords:
Wireless Technology;
Business Startups;
Business Processes;
Adaptation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Opportunities;
Telecommunications Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
MacCormack, Alan D., and Jay Wynn. "Space Data Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 602-121, January 2002. (Revised April 2002.)
- January–February 2015
- Article
The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice
By: David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis
The article looks at giving and receiving advice as an element of organizational leadership and managerial ability. It suggests that the skills related to these actions, such as self-awareness and diplomacy, are not innate talents but can be learned. It lists problems...
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Garvin, David A., and Joshua D. Margolis. "The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice." Harvard Business Review 93, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2015): 60–71.
- September 2006 (Revised August 2008)
- Module Note
Assessing Your Organization's Capabilities: Resources, Processes and Priorities
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Stephen P. Kaufman
Summarizes a model that helps managers determine what sorts of initiatives an organization is capable and incapable of managing successfully. The factors that affect what an organizational unit can and cannot accomplish can be grouped as resources, processes, and the...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Experience and Expertise;
Innovation and Management;
Business Processes;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Mathematical Methods
Christensen, Clayton M., and Stephen P. Kaufman. "Assessing Your Organization's Capabilities: Resources, Processes and Priorities." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-014, September 2006. (Revised August 2008.)
- Blog
Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts
Our faculty at HBS produce many podcasts on diverse business topics, designed to get you thinking, elicit discussion and provide new perspectives. Here we've gathered a few recent episodes you might want to explore. Of course, you can...
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- March 2006
- Module Note
Financing Decisions within the Firm
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on the financial and managerial issues that confront managers who make financial decisions within multinational firms: how subsidiaries should be financed and...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
International Finance;
Taxation;
Business Subsidiaries;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Framework;
Performance Evaluation;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Desai, Mihir A., and Kathleen Luchs. "Financing Decisions within the Firm." Harvard Business School Module Note 206-124, March 2006.
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
take on a new growth opportunity that may differ substantially from yourarea of expertise," he notes. For example, another case in the course, "BYD Company, Ltd.," examines the largest Chinese...
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- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
If you are coming to Boston for one of our programs—and especially if you are coming from some distance away—you may want to extend your stay a few days and explore Boston, Cambridge, and the surrounding area. The Executive Education site...
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- February 2007
- Article
The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters
By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian F. Galiani and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky
We study the formation of beliefs in a squatter settlement in the outskirts of Buenos Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the...
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Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian F. Galiani, and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky. "The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 1 (February 2007).
- 2015
- Working Paper
Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Danielle Li and Bhaven N. Sampat
We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly...
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Keywords:
Economics Of Science;
Patenting;
Academic Reserach;
NIH;
Knowledge Spillovers;
Patents;
Research;
Government and Politics
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Danielle Li, and Bhaven N. Sampat. "Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-056, October 2015.
- April 1986 (Revised December 1988)
- Case
Massimo Menichetti
Examines different alternatives for the introduction of telemation and computer aided design in a small firm. The issues involve what extent of cooperation is required by different firms so that a telecommunicative interchange between them becomes effective.
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Jaikumar, Ramchandran. "Massimo Menichetti." Harvard Business School Case 686-135, April 1986. (Revised December 1988.)
- November 2014
- Teaching Note
American Airlines in 2011
By: Willy Shih
The American Airlines in 2011 case set was developed to provide a setting for the comparative analysis of two very different business models in the U.S. domestic airline industry—the network carrier and the low cost carrier (LCC). These models offer very different...
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- March 1993 (Revised January 1998)
- Case
Gallo Rice
By: John A. Quelch
Describes a company marketing branded rice products to three different countries--Italy, Argentina, and Poland. Explores the differences and similarities between the countries in terms of consumers, competition, products, and margins.
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Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "Gallo Rice." Harvard Business School Case 593-018, March 1993. (Revised January 1998.)
- March 2021
- Teaching Plan
The Black New Venture Competition
Black entrepreneurs encounter many unique obstacles when raising capital to start and grow a business, some stemming from deep systemic discrimination. During their second year at Harvard Business School (HBS), MBA students Kimberly Foster and Tyler Simpson decided to...
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Keywords:
Analytics;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startup Financing;
Financing;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Business And Community;
Business And Society;
Business Growth;
Discrimination;
Women;
Women-owned Businesses;
African Americans;
African-american Entrepreneurs;
African-american Investors;
African-American Protagonist;
African-American Women;
Early Stage Funding;
Early Stage;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Innovation Competitions;
Entrepreneurial Financing;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Small Business;
Leadership;
Information Technology;
Competition
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
progress? Making it easier for women to file patents would help. Providing additional mentoring and support, making sure women feel included in startup culture, and creating inclusive events at schools and...
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by Kristen Senz
- March 2016
- Supplement
Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades
By: Weijia Dai, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
This exercise provides students with a data set consisting of results from a hypothetical experiment, and asks students to make recommendations based on the data. Through this process, the exercise teaches students to analyze, design, and interpret experiments. The...
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- August 2022
- Article
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
By: Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally...
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Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler. "The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion." Quarterly Journal of Economics 137, no. 3 (August 2022): 1345–1381.
- October 1994 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Sport Obermeyer Ltd.
By: Janice H. Hammond and Ananth Raman
The case describes operations at a skiwear design and merchandising company and its supply partner. Introduces production planning for short-life-cycle products with uncertain demand and allows students to analyze a reduced version of the company's production planning...
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Keywords:
Product;
Supply Chain;
Demand and Consumers;
Production;
Planning;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Industry Growth;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Sports Industry;
United States;
Hong Kong
Hammond, Janice H., and Ananth Raman. "Sport Obermeyer Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 695-022, October 1994. (Revised August 2006.)
- 12 Mar 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
How to Bring Good Ideas to Life: The Paul English Story
Keywords:
Re: Frances X. Frei