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- 01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project
beginning was that the only way DTC physical goods make sense, as a venture-fundable, multiple-X return on your investment business, is if you can achieve the strong lifetime value (LTV) to customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) ratio that...
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- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
Innovation Science. 2. Technology is propelling business transformation “While some firms think about technology merely as a different type of capital investment that does not impact their way of doing...
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by Danielle Kost
- Web
Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
accounting fundamentals course, discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks, 6–8 hrs/week Enroll by October 10 $1,850 Certificate Sustainable Investing Professors Shawn...
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Business Books, 2018. Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence , Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Emer Moloney. Transformation at ING (A): Agile , Transformation at ING (B): Innovation , and...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the design and deployment of digital technologies. He is best known for his pioneering work on software development,...
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- June 2024
- Supplement
Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Marie Dessain
In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of...
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Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Disclosure;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Compensation and Benefits;
Innovation Strategy;
Leading Change;
Goals and Objectives;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Chemical Industry;
Energy Industry;
United States;
Germany;
Europe;
North America;
London
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
attracted many U.S. companies to Western Europe. Technology made it easier than ever before for companies to move people, knowledge, and goods around the world. There were new waves of innovations in transport and communications. In 1958...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
first installment. People who got the more flexible contract invested significantly more in their businesses and earned higher returns as a result. Their businesses were bigger three years later, and they are still bigger now, 10 years...
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- 2024
- Chapter
Managing, Preserving, and Unlocking Wealth through FinTech
By: Grace Headinger, Lauren Cohen and Zhaoheng Gong
In nearly every generation, a sentiment like Einstein’s has been expressed as a cautionary tale to constrain the development and application of technology. In spite of these calls, technology has time and again proven its utility and ability to improve across and upon...
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Headinger, Grace, Lauren Cohen, and Zhaoheng Gong. "Managing, Preserving, and Unlocking Wealth through FinTech." Chap. 11 in Research Handbook on Alternative Finance, edited by Franklin Allen and Meijun Qian, 250–281. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
“In India, you often encounter a really strong set of value-driven businesses. And it’s an interesting question why.” Reputation is an especially strong attribute of long-haul companies, adds Khanna. “I really think of it as an asset that is View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
intersection of finance and technology and makes early stage investments. Javier recently served as SBA's Associate Administrator and oversaw the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC), Small Business View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group...
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Martha Lagace
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Past Issues - Alumni
HBS faculty and alumni offer nine strategies to put you over the top, whatever the year ahead may hold. Out of the Valley A special Skydeck miniseries explores how frontier markets are defining the future of innovation In Review Nitin...
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- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
Delta will decide two years from now, ‘That was an initiative and now we’re done.’ They understand that it will take substantial investment in time and resources.” Atlanta is more than 50 percent Black Delta started as a Louisiana...
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- May 2010 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group
By: Willy Shih and Nancy Hua Dai
As Zuo Zongshen drove the transformation of the Zongshen Industrial Group from an early imitator in the motorcycle business to a company that increasingly focused on innovation as a way to get out of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new...
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Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Investment;
Disruptive Innovation;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Motorcycle Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, and Nancy Hua Dai. "From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group." Harvard Business School Case 610-057, May 2010. (Revised June 2012.)
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
their full promise. And that’s a key piece of information to have as companies consider investing what consulting firm Accenture estimates will be $35 trillion into cognitive technologies in the United States by 2035. Just adding AI tools...
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- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
comfort, connection, and respect for its product and the communities Starbucks serves. CEO Howard Schultz has reignited Starbucks with innovative new offerings and by refocusing workers on the company's core values.Photo: iStockPhoto So...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter...
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April White
- Web
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting
make a positive impact on the world, one exciting path forward is investing in mission-centered businesses. Areas like healthcare, education, energy, and the environment attract innovative and...
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- March 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture
Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching the first online newspaper site; builds a network of newspaper sites called Real Cities; and invests in...
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Internet and the Web;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Newspapers;
Innovation and Invention;
Journalism and News Industry
Gilbert, Clark. "Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture." Harvard Business School Case 803-107, March 2003. (Revised October 2003.)