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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets....
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to improve their existing product lines. We View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the...
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Entrepreneurial Management;
Family;
Family Conflicts;
Founders' Agreements;
Growth And Development;
Hardware;
VC;
Scaling;
Start-up;
Female Ceo;
Risk Assessment;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth Management;
Cash Flow;
Equity;
Success;
Failure;
Acquisition;
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Valuation;
Family and Family Relationships;
Information Infrastructure
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-053, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- October 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
LinkedIn Corporation
By: Francois Brochet and James Weber
The case is set at the end of the first public trading day of LinkedIn, an online professional network company. It provides information on the company's business model, financial statements, competitive landscape, and IPO terms, to help the reader critically assess the...
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Initial Public Offering;
Growth and Development;
Earnings Management;
Risk Management;
Valuation;
SWOT Analysis;
Emerging Markets;
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Competitive Strategy;
Web Services Industry
Brochet, Francois, and James Weber. "LinkedIn Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 112-006, October 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Life-Cycle Funds Authors:Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated life-cycle model with flexible...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
regional strategies and produce scalable models. In all four of these areas, promising models have already begun to emerge. By highlighting the most successful institutions and what can be learned from them, I show how America can create...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2016 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI
By: David B. Yoffie, Liz Kind and David Ben Shimol
In March 2016, Donna Dubinsky (co-founder and CEO) and Jeff Hawkins (co-founder) were struggling with a key question: Could Numenta be successful in both creating fundamental technology and building a commercial business? Located in Redwood City, CA, Numenta was...
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Artificial Intelligence;
Machine Intelligence;
Machine Learning;
Strategy;
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Information;
Technological Innovation;
Research;
Research and Development;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Platforms;
Commercialization;
AI and Machine Learning
Yoffie, David B., Liz Kind, and David Ben Shimol. "Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI." Harvard Business School Case 716-469, June 2016. (Revised August 2019.)
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
problem-solving entrepreneurs and successful entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates and Michael Dell become well-respected role models for younger people. Marketing, a distinctly American expertise, has of course encouraged consumers to be...
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by John Quelch
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
same battle, participants said. While it is no simple matter to create collaborative relationships for treating disease among workforces, other partnership models unrelated to HIV/AIDS may provide ideas, inspiration, or red flags. The...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
payment model undoubtedly simplifies billing matters for the patients, the main impetus is to lower health care costs while simultaneously improving quality of care. In the traditional fee-for-service model, hospitals secure permission...
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- 28 Feb 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Pursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare
- March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market
By: Paul A. Gompers and Ahmed Dahawy
Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in Egypt. However,...
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Business Model;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Acquisition;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry;
Egypt
Gompers, Paul A., and Ahmed Dahawy. "Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market." Harvard Business School Case 824-055, March 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact
In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The...
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Venture Philanthropy;
Scaling;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Social Justice;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Venture Capital;
Business Model;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Values and Beliefs;
Decisions;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Investment Portfolio
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact." Harvard Business School Case 521-090, March 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the...
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Carmen Nobel
- February 2021
- Case
Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community
By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin
Threadless, an online apparel company and artist community which Jake Nickell founded in 2000, continued to maintain its status as a top company in the online apparel industry during its second decade. From 2010 to 2020, Threadless continued to operate its...
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Business Model;
Decision Making;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Leading Change;
Management;
Marketing;
Product Launch;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Distribution;
Networks;
Sales;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Technology Industry;
North America
Greenstein, Shane, Karim Lakhani, and Christian Godwin. "Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community." Harvard Business School Case 621-056, February 2021.
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm exhibited traditional (symmetric)...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives'...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved over time. The core competencies underlying the contemporary in-house agency model are analyzed, and the competitive position that in-house agencies...
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Sean Silverthorne