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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
What does cyberspace mean for physical retail space? Has online shopping changed the fundamentals of retailing? How should managers evaluate new in-store technologies? Harvard Business Review posed these questions to three retail...
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- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
ultimately set the new standard of leadership in this era, never wavering from their purpose and values. They became role models for the business community by serving society through their organizations,...
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Angela Q. Crispi | About
Angela Q. Crispi Executive Dean for Administration Bio Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the...
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- August 2007
- Case
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi
Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue them. He was approaching an American private equity fund to raise money. Describes Alecrim's challenge in creating SAT...
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Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Private Equity;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Utilities Industry;
Brazil
Applegate, Lynda M., and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi. "Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo." Harvard Business School Case 808-062, August 2007.
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
to take the best ideas from the US fast-food model and adapt them to serve the needs of the Chinese consumer." Initially this involved hiring the right people. For Su this meant Chinese managers who read and spoke the language, who...
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- August 2014
- Article
Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process
By: Raul O. Chao, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Many large organizations use a stage‐gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage‐gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no‐go...
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Chao, Raul O., Kenneth C. Lichtendahl, and Yael Grushka-Cockayne. "Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process." Production and Operations Management 23, no. 8 (August 2014): 1286–1298.
- January 2024
- Case
National Football League and Private 5G
By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Shuoyo Chen
On September 9, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) designated Verizon as its official 5G partner in a 10-year deal, committed to enhance the experience for NFL teams, players, and fans in stadiums. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Verizon will help us...
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Football;
National Football League;
5G;
Verizon;
Communication Technology;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Sports Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Wu, Andy, Grant Son, and Shuoyo Chen. "National Football League and Private 5G." Harvard Business School Case 724-433, January 2024.
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
carlballou Most industries are in major digital upheaval, but retail particularly seems in some kind of disruptive spin-cycle. As the retail season eneters its most crucial time of year, we take a deep breath to contemplate research from Harvard View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
research going on at Harvard Business School. Held each May on the HBS campus, the event provides the opportunity for a few faculty to share recent work with an audience of doctoral students, HBS staff members, and other professors. This...
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- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
new distribution called the tilted-Gompertz distribution. This model can capture the wide range of skewed diffusions commonly found in practice—diffusions of innovations described as having “extra-Bass”...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience
how Alibaba’s Taobao got started as a B2B platform, or what Uber’s highly profitable business model was, or that the now very popular Swiss watches were seriously struggling for a while until Jean-Claude...
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Hawes Hall | About
appreciation at the time of the Hawes’s gift, Dean Kim B. Clark noted, “Rod and Beverly Hawes are a wonderful model for us all. While building an outstanding business and a close-knit family, they never have...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
improved ability of firms to replicate business innovations has changed the nature of business competition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-016.pdf Do...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
typical consumers think. That's fine if you only want to keep making incremental improvements to your products, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a former brand manager at Gillette, Samuel Adams, and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president, recalled, "The laser printer alone paid for all of the other PARC research projects many times over. If some of the...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
the business models of traditional incumbents and those of potential innovative MSP entrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55341 Oral...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
centers into more nimble operations that can sustain its renewed brands far into the 21st Century. Nancy F. Koehn, James E. Robison Professor Of Business Administration: General Motors was formed in 1908, the same year Henry Ford brought...
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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
alike. It is also, however, an opportunity to examine current business practices in order to increase long-term operational efficiency and competitiveness, as well as to innovate for the sake of surviving...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
investors gathered together for an unprecedented two-day convening which provided a rich opportunity to forge connections through Harvard Business School with leaders of high-growth, deep tech, and biotech ventures. The goal was to...
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