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  • 29 Jun 2010
  • News

In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline

    Richard S. Ruback

    Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details

    • April 2003
    • Tutorial

    ABC Pen Factory Tutorial

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    To preview this online product, Authorized Faculty can call our customer service department at 1-800-545-7685 or 617-783-7600. Illustrates, via a guided audio tour accompanied by dynamically changing spreadsheets, the role for activity-based cost systems. The numerical... View Details
    Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants
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    • Article

    What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation

    By: Noubar Afeyan and Gary P. Pisano
    Many people believe that the process for achieving breakthrough innovations is chaotic, random, and unmanageable. But that view is flawed, the authors argue. Breakthroughs can be systematically generated using a process modeled on the principles that drive evolution in... View Details
    Keywords: Breakthrough Innovation; Variance Generation; Selection Pressure; Emergent Discovery; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation; Innovation Leadership
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    • February 2003 (Revised July 2003)
    • Case

    Ember Corporation: Developing the Next Ubiquitous Network Standard

    By: Rebecca Henderson and Nancy Confrey
    Ember is a venture capital-funded start-up that hopes to establish a standard for ubiquitous wireless networks. Its unique approach and proprietary technology promises to create enormous value in a wide variety of markets, particularly in local sensing and control.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Wireless Technology; Value; Competitive Strategy; Standards; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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    • July 1996
    • Case

    Buck & Pulleyn's Team Management

    In 1993, the firm began to move from a traditional hierarchical structure to client-focused teams. The case describes the process and some consequences of this restructuring. Performance seems to be improving, but some employees preferred the structure certainty and... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Change Management; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams
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    • TeachingInterests

    Behavioral Economics and Applications in Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2013 and 2014)

    Second-year undergraduate course introducing students to academic research in the field of behavioral economics. The course covers key models of time-inconsistent preferences, overconfidence, social preferences, and projection bias. The students are introduced to... View Details
    • September 1981 (Revised August 1987)
    • Case

    CIBA-GEIGY Agricultural Division

    By: Benson P. Shapiro and Roy H. Schoeman
    In 1979 Leo Bontempo, marketing vice president of Ciba-Geigy Agricultural Division was deciding whether to purchase an $840,000 program for TeleSession. This was a marketing service designed to accelerate the adoption of new products among large innovative growers by... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Communication; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 03 Mar 2020
    • News

    Do Universities Need 2U to Create Digital Education?

    • April 13, 2021
    • Article

    Misinformation about Science in the Public Sphere

    By: Dietram A. Scheufele, Andrew J. Hoffman, Liz Neely and Czerne M. Reid
    This is an introduction to a special issue on a colloquium of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled, “Advancing the science and practice of science communication: Misinformation about science in the public sphere.” This event was the... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Dissemination; Communication Strategy; Science; Information
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    • October 2013 (Revised July 2025)
    • Teaching Note

    Amazon in 2025

    By: Sunil Gupta
    Amazon launched its website in July 1995 to sell books online and by 2020 it has grown to become a digital giant with over $280 billion in annual sales. A large part of its growth came from expanding into a variety of businesses that some see as unrelated. Has it... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry
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      Joseph L. Badaracco

      Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School's MBA and executive programs.
       
      Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis... View Details

        Leemore S. Dafny

        Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Co-Chair at the Harvard Business School. She also serves as Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an... View Details

        Keywords: health care
        • Teaching Interest

        Overview

        Prof. Nagle has taught a wide variety of topics to various types of students including everything from computer programming and e-commerce for undergraduates to cyber security for the FBI and HBS Executive Education participants to innovation and technology management... View Details
        • September 2019
        • Case

        Funding Sources for Science & Technology Start-ups in India

        By: Tarun Khanna, Arjun Swarup and Rachna Tahilyani
        India's start-up ecosystem is amongst the largest globally, with a variety of funding options from angel investors, venture capital and corporate venture capital to debt. Classic consumer focused start-ups which look to leverage technology have been able to raise... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Science; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; India; South Asia
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        • 12 Nov 2013
        • News

        Cities, startups tap the wisdom of crowds for sustainability

        • 2013
        • Book

        Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text and Cases

        By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy
        This book provides a framework for business analysis and has been used by business schools throughout the world. It provides a foundation for analysis using four key steps: 1) Strategy analysis: Identifying a firm's strategy and understanding sources of its competitive... View Details
        Keywords: Governance; Debt Securities; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Credit; Business Ventures; Strategy; Financial Condition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Forecasting and Prediction
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        • 09 Oct 2012
        • News

        Michael E. Porter on Why Companies Must Address Social Issues

        • 2010
        • Article

        Creativity

        By: Beth A. Hennessey and Teresa M. Amabile
        The psychological study of creativity is essential to human progress. If strides are to be made in the sciences, humanities, and arts, we must arrive at a far more detailed understanding of the creative process, its antecedents, and its inhibitors. This review,... View Details
        Keywords: Creative Ability; Creativity; Social Psychology; Research; Interdisciplinary Studies
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        • 29 Nov 2018
        • Blog Post

        The HBS Community - Student Initiatives

        discussions start with these topics, they end up moving in a variety of directions based on the different backgrounds and interests of the dinner guests. The group is always a random mixture of second year students (ECs), first year... View Details