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- September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb
Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Plan;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Trends;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Executive Compensation;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Job Interviews;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Ownership Stake;
Opportunities;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Technology Industry;
Web Services Industry;
New York (city, NY);
California;
France
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Tom Quinn, and Annelena Lobb. "On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping." Harvard Business School Case 822-033, September 2021. (Revised December 2023.)
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
economic recovery. Will any of these positive developments materialize? The fact is, forecasting the number of bankruptcies presents the same modeling challenges as forecasting the number COVID-19 cases. Absent any such relief, it may be...
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- February 2021
- Case
Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris
In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did...
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Keywords:
Solar Energy;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Alternative Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Green Technology;
Salesforce Management;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Energy Industry;
Africa;
South Africa;
Malawi;
Uganda
Applegate, Lynda M., Frank V. Cespedes, and Michael Norris. "Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa." Harvard Business School Case 821-041, February 2021.
- March 2019
- Case
HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion
By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer...
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Keywords:
Loyalty Programs;
Multi-vendor Platform;
Retail;
Big Data;
Customer Relationship Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Business Model;
Analytics and Data Science;
Competitive Strategy;
Decision Making;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Turkey
Gupta, Sunil, Donald Ngwe, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion." Harvard Business School Case 519-057, March 2019.
- 03 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Platforms and Limits to Network Effects
- Teaching Interest
Data Science for Managers
- Served as a teaching fellow; assisted MBA students with classroom coding exercises.
- Developed course materials, including new case studies, technical notes, and code notebooks students used to analzye case data.
- Developed interactive web... View Details
- October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS...
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Keywords:
Investing;
Investing For Impact;
Ecotourism;
COVID-19;
Equity Financing;
Strategy Formulation;
Profitability;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Sustainability;
Conservation Planning;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Investment;
Social Enterprise;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Financing and Loans;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Health Pandemics;
Tourism Industry;
Africa;
Rwanda;
Angola
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 321-020, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- December 2010
- Article
The Case for Professional Boards
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States...
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Keywords:
Financial Institutions;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Failure;
Accounting Audits;
Quality;
Behavior;
Legal Liability;
Experience and Expertise;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Performance Effectiveness;
United States
Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.
By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Customer Relationship Management;
Rural Scope;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance Consistency;
Safety;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
China
Bell, David E., and Aldo Sesia. "COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 508-079, June 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- 2007
- Report
Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy
By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
The report synthesizes, interprets, and draws implications about Russia's economic progress, applying the Porter competitiveness framework. It is part of a Strategic Audit of the Russian Federation, a broader set of research activities coordinated by CSR to provide a...
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Keywords:
Macroeconomics;
Microeconomics;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Russia
Porter, Michael E., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy." Report, Center for Strategic Research, Moscow, Russia, December 2007.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
notice the value in interesting accidents. This is a non-trivial capability. Pasteur called it the "prepared mind." There's an interesting analogy to evolutionary models of creativity here. In 1960, Donald Campbell proposed that...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
models to create a further turn of the wheel. Most of this month’s respondents at least implicitly appeared to accept the validity of the concept. However, there was healthy skepticism. For example, Scott Hessell commented, “I think the...
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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
schools choose to display on their websites. First, the data strongly rejects patterns predicted by classic models of voluntary disclosure. In contrast with the traditional unraveling hypothesis, top schools are least likely to display...
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Anna Secino
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
embrace this model where you enable and encourage users through various challenges and allow the community the degree of autonomy it needs to be healthy. So, in a nutshell: Split your IP. Have a distinct strategy for the open and closed...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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- September 2020
- Case
Uber at a Crossroads (2017)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Model;
Customer Satisfaction;
Fairness;
Values and Beliefs;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Investment;
Government Legislation;
Business History;
Compensation and Benefits;
Resignation and Termination;
Employment;
Wages;
Lawfulness;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management Style;
Market Entry and Exit;
Digital Platforms;
Product Design;
Organizational Culture;
Problems and Challenges;
Attitudes;
Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Transportation Networks;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Valuation;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Uber at a Crossroads (2017)." Harvard Business School Case 721-376, September 2020.
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
residents, the Atlanta Housing Authority, and business leaders. “People see that model and want to know how it works,” explains Majors, who consults with groups in Omaha, Rochester, Orlando, and Philadelphia, to help them assemble the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
talk of a couple of the new incubators going public themselves. Four leaders in the evolving incubator space — Timothy Rowe of Cambridge Incubator, Toby Corey of Intend Change, Flip Filipowski of Divine Interventures and Jeff Crown of Lycos Labs — came together to...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
counterintuitive. But positive conflict resolution gives people the sense that 'We're in this together; we're a team.'" To leverage this principle, Sole advises managers to model effective conflict resolution as well as educate their...
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by Lauren Keller Johnson
- September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores...
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Keywords:
Packaging-as-a-wallet;
Plastic Waste;
Business At The Base Of The Pyramid;
Reusable Packaging;
Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Value Creation;
Goals and Objectives;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Chile
Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)