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- March 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Alexis Lefort
In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group of anti-terror cyber specialists, University of Cambridge mathematicians, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts....
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Technology;
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AI and Machine Learning;
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Alexis Lefort. "Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)." Harvard Business School Case 824-092, March 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- 2013
- Dissertation
Designing Freemium: A Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics
By: Clarence Lee, Vineet Kumar and Sunil Gupta
Abstract. Over the past decade "freemium" (free + premium) has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups for its ability to acquire and monetize a large install-base with limited marketing resources. Freemium is a hybrid strategy where a firm offers...
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturer. 68 Booth provided dealers with the "Polaroid Promotion Plan" that detailed the timing, logistics, and value of newspaper ads, training sessions, and demonstrations of the camera in order, Booth asserted, "to stage a dramatic...
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- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration....
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- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been answered in practice to inform...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Environmental Justice (EJ): working to combat climate change and promote climate resilience and investing in the green economy in a way that creates good, well-paying jobs, with a focus on combatting inequality and the disproportionate...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
personal lives, but they often need the help of well-managed social institutions to succeed. Leaders have several structural devices they can use to promote this balance. For example, they can balance financial and symbolic rewards for...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
there was zero budget to promote awareness of the effort and encourage completion of its online survey. “Thanks to YALP, we were able to have the support and engagement of many other networks in the community.” Educational excellence and...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
drink mix; it’s quite another to compete with the ad spend, sales forces, and promotional programs of Gatorade and other big beverage companies in a larger but already crowded category. This entrepreneur knows her customer base, other use...
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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
casual interactions are the first to “go missing” in the virtual environment. Establishing opportunities for informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. To learn more, read 6 Ways to Support...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
how these management skills can be acquired through peer networks, the researchers partnered with the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable (iSPIRIT), a think tank that promotes the growth of Indian software product companies. The...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
Sloan. As the case shows, Walker herself reflected on her path before an audience in 1912 at the National Negro Business League convention in Chicago: "I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I View Details
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Leadership - Health Care
social media. Her efforts focus on promoting the initiative's mission to foster a connected and thriving healthcare community at HBS. Before joining HCI, Lu worked with the International Health Systems Program team at the Harvard T.H....
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Association for "Long Term Impact of Promotion and Advertising on Consumer Brand Choice" (with Carl Mela and Donald R. Lehmann, Journal of Marketing Research , May 1997). Das Narayandas : Received the 2003 HBS Student Association Faculty...
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- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
go into work, will I somehow miss a promotion or really important information at work.’ I think leaders would really benefit from acknowledging those emotions directly.” Zlatev suggests that managers encourage a sense of openness by...
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by Pamela Reynolds
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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity
cutting-edge research related to race, diversity, inclusion and inequality. Her innovative research focuses on contemporary bias (implicit, explicit, and structural), the effectiveness of antidiscrimination law, and the capacity of law to reduce inequality and View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Agglomeration and Innovation
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by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
- 13 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions
- 06 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals
- 2022
- Chapter
The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience
Book Abstract: There has been a major revival of interest in State Capitalism: what it is, where it is found, and why it is seemingly becoming more ubiquitous. As a concept, it has evolved from radical critiques of the Soviet Union, to being deployed by neo-liberals to...
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State Capitalism;
History;
Macroeconomics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Systems;
Europe
Reinert, Sophus A. "The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm, edited by Mike Wright, Geoffrey T. Wood, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Pei Sun, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, and Anna Grosman, 53–77. Oxford University Press, 2022.