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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
about the project. Why did HBS launch the project? Rivkin: Many of us at the School have come to believe that the ability of firms in the United States to be competitive in the world economy and to support living standards in America is...
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
investor, cases in the course frame many of the critical opportunities and challenges associated with activating exponential growth and managing through the extrapolation phase as a venture scales. Scaling situations are presented through a variety of functional...
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- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
Although launching a platform can generate new revenue, success is not automatic. After studying more than 20 companies that have tried to move from products to platforms, the authors point to four practices...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
executives set standards for leadership. As good as the late 1980s were to forest products company Boise Cascade (BC) Corporation, the early 1990s spelled near disaster for its primary business — making plain, white copier paper. Like...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2012
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Shop Talk, Different Avenues
Retail, has nine outlet villages located throughout Europe. The company sees itself as not purely a landlord but as a partner that will work with tenants on product offering and assortment. Those who do well get more space; those who...
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Terrance McGuire
meet the legendary venture capitalist and learn firsthand about ARD’s investment in Digital Equipment Corporation. At the time, Digital was the computer industry’s hottest company and ARD was proud to promote Doriot’s role in launching...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
brilliant, so they’ll always have new ideas, but if you can’t focus them on what you need to achieve as a company, you’re toast.” Grace Under Pressure: Daniel Gulati and Vivian Weng competed in the contest as first-year students and View Details
- 06 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
as Manager, Clinique Global Marketing, rising quickly to a Director role. “Joining the Clinique brand at Estee Lauder allowed me to get more classic brand management training in a big corporation. Developing new skincare products and...
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- 06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6
behavior are reduced (Study 5). Our results have important implications for models of ethical decision making, moral behavior, and self-regulatory theory. Publisher's link: http://www.francescagino.com August 2013 Journal of Finance The Real View Details
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Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
was Kohl's nor Macy's," says Meyer. "But now they could tap into this huge market." One of the biggest challenges SodaStream faced was creating a consumer need—homemade soda—where none existed before. "We were really launching a new View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
Sofia Baqueiro (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Intern at Whole Foods Market, e-Commerce Digital and Product Management Team The e-Commerce Digital and Product Management team owns the customer...
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- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
presence to Jay.” The Rally Fighter, pictured above, is Local Motors’ most well-known vehicle, with appearances in the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and the racing video game Forza Horizon 2. Local Motors launched on March 25,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
since 2007 by Cynthia Carroll (MBA ’89), the first woman and first non–South African to hold the firm’s top spot. In addition to South Africa, from which it derives roughly half its profits, Anglo operates in some 45 countries, employing about 160,000 workers. Its...
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Jessica Kramer
summer internship with a San Francisco startup, Strava, where she will help develop a go-to-market plan for the international expansion of the company’s fitness data-analytics product.. “After graduation, I plan on gaining more startup experience before I View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
Washington, DC. Launched in 2011, Knock out!, which also makes products for men, uses a patented “No Trace” technology. “Entering the contest and presenting before the judges helped me to step back and...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce acknowledged to be genetically modified since the short-lived Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of...
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- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
process that has led to many successful product launches, but are there areas of customer need that are undervalued by the traditional process? A novel online customer analysis approach suggests untapped opportunities for innovation, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus rationalize the apparently contradictory empirical facts that the market for IPO underwriting exhibits seemingly collusive pricing despite its low...
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Sean Silverthorne