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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
therefore a critical issue for all young firms. Most firms start out small, and small size makes them vulnerable to failure. Large firms almost always possess sufficient slack resources that buffer them from...
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- October 2022
- Case
Lyra Health: Transforming Mental Health
By: Rembrand Koning and Nicole Keller
In January 2022, Lyra Health was deciding between several different alternatives to grow the business. Founded in 2015, Lyra Health, was a digital mental health platform that combined technology with human therapists and coaches to deliver high quality mental health...
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- 11 Dec 2013
- News
No movement for women at the top in corporate America
- 16 Sep 2011
- News
Seeing Yourself as Others See You
Rajiv Lal
Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details
- August 2016 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
InsideSales.com (A)
This case focuses on growth requirements for a company moving from its base in SMB customers (Small and Mid-Sized businesses) to Enterprise customers (companies with more than 500 employees). It examines the differences in buying processes, product requirements,...
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Keywords:
Business Organization;
Customer Relationship Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Talent;
Talent Management;
Organizations;
Growth Management;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Technology Industry;
United States
Cespedes, Frank V. "InsideSales.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 817-018, August 2016. (Revised June 2017.)
- December 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
Price Discrimination
This note, which is introductory in nature, provides a classification scheme for some of the more common examples of price discrimination. For each case that is discussed, the note characterizes the appropriate market segments, the alternative product "versions," and...
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Dhebar, Anirudh S. "Price Discrimination." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-105, December 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
- December 2015
- Article
Emotion and the Art of Negotiation: How to Use Your Feelings to Your Advantage
Negotiations can be fraught with emotion, but it's only recently that researchers have examined how particular feelings influence what happens during deal making. Here the author shares some key findings and advice. Anxiety leads to poor outcomes. You will be less...
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Brooks, Alison Wood. "Emotion and the Art of Negotiation: How to Use Your Feelings to Your Advantage." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 12 (December 2015): 56–64.
- September 1999 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Eggrock Partners, LLC (A)
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
Explores the challenges of choosing how to grow a professional services firm (PSF). Before developing a growth strategy, the partners need to agree on what business(es) the company should be in. Each of the three partners has differing views of what the company should...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Expansion;
Business Processes;
Industry Structures;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Employees;
Partners and Partnerships;
Service Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., Myra M. Hart, and Sharon Peyus. "Eggrock Partners, LLC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-047, September 1999. (Revised October 2000.)
- 27 Mar 2015
- News
What Silicon Valley Learned From the Kleiner Perkins Case
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
A new study of startups sharing a coworking space offers a new wrinkle in the debate over work-from-anywhere: Proximity matters, especially close proximity, to spread knowledge...
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by Ben Rand
- Web
Required Curriculum - MBA
greatest challenges. Each of the five cases describes a set of leaders trying to “make a difference in the world” – that is, to harness the resources of the firm to tackle...
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- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
job is to read the work of my students and colleagues, assess their assumptions, logic, and conclusions, and make connections. This invaluable set of skills must be provided to all users of generative AI tools. Critical thinking has been...
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- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Inner play
- 05 Aug 2020
- News
Rethink How You Do Business in Order to Keep Being Innovative
- 2022
- Book
The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI
By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
The pressure to "be digital" has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge.
The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other. To thrive...
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Keywords:
Digital;
Artificial Intelligence;
Big Data;
Digital Transformation;
Technological Innovation;
Transformation;
Learning;
Competency and Skills
Leonardi, Paul, and Tsedal Neeley. The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2022.
- 13 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology
“In tech,” Henry Tsai (MBA 2017) says, “it’s ingrained in you to ask, ‘Where can I be impactful?’” After a summer internship serving in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, Henry’s target location came into view. “Of all the View Details
- February 2011 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
The Ford Fiesta
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Executives at Ford wondered if social media could be the marketing solution for the launch of the youth-oriented 2010 Fiesta. But with social media came a ceding of control. Some at the company believed that if Ford was going to move beyond its conservative brand image...
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Keywords:
Advertising Campaigns;
Digital Marketing;
Leadership;
Goals and Objectives;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Market Entry and Exit;
Standards;
Auto Industry
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "The Ford Fiesta." Harvard Business School Case 511-117, February 2011. (Revised December 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- May 2013
- Article
The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives...
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Keywords:
Buy-side Analysts;
Sell-side Analysts;
Stock Recommendations;
Recommendation Optimism;
Recommendation Performance;
Investment Recommendations;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Financial Markets;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin Shanthikumar. "The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts." Management Science 59, no. 5 (May 2013): 1062–1075.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail
By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
The share of e-commerce sales is rapidly increasing and so are the associated losses generated by website outages and slow websites. We leverage novel retail and website performance data to investigate the impact of website performance on online sales. This question is...
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Keywords:
Online Retail;
Quasi-experiments;
Abandonment;
Synthetic Control;
Internet and the Web;
Performance;
Service Operations
Gallino, Santiago, Nil Karacaoglu, and Antonio Moreno. "Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail." Working Paper, October 2018.