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- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
agreed there weren’t many retailers in the market with knowledgeable staff who took proper care of the products in order to deliver an exceptional experience. He knew he could build a company to fill that gap in the market. Linzmeyer... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
involve the mutual processing of another's experience, built around discourse and analysis, and I argue that they lead to not only linear growth in individuals' knowledge, but also growth in their individual... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
changed drastically in recent years. The growth in the e-commerce market had declined significantly. Furthermore, the advancement of AI and big data was turning shopping into a boundaryless experience—consumers could purchase View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- February 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
FreeMarkets OnLine
Describes the marketing strategy of an entrepreneurial start-up engaged in electronic purchasing for large manufacturers. By creating an electronic bidding platform, the company has been able to cut down procurement costs by about 15%. The case question concerns how... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Bids and Bidding; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Production; Electronics Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "FreeMarkets OnLine." Harvard Business School Case 598-109, February 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
“Ultimately, the MOGUL platform leverages technology to connect women and empower them to learn from each other as well as support themselves.” What have been the best and most challenging parts about launching the company? “The best part of launching MOGUL has been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Johnston says these four companies represent the variety of start-ups Aging2.0 is working with: Sabi improves day-to-day life by rethinking the most commonly used products and tools to elevate everyday moments with superior functionality... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
Carlos Ghosn, who touted to an HBS student audience the virtues of his company’s zero-emissions all-electric car, the Leaf. The CEO, his company, and its star product all embody the concepts of “global” and “thoroughly modern” to an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron's board (which was... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Aquion Energy
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Kiron
Leaders at Aquion Energy, a Pittsburgh-based battery start-up, are deciding on a market entry strategy. Should they pursue the large but unproven grid utility market or a smaller, but higher margin market? View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Production; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Capacity; Energy Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and David Kiron. "Aquion Energy." Harvard Business School Case 811-047, February 2011. (Revised November 2012.)
- January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Predictive Biosciences
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Kiron
A small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and David Kiron. "Predictive Biosciences." Harvard Business School Case 811-015, January 2011. (Revised March 2011.)
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
annualized abnormal returns of 14.1 percent while mismatched pairings saw returns of -39.8 percent. (See "The Impact of Fit.") Consider the experience of Paolo Fresco, whose success spearheading GE's growth into Europe did not... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers with the highest overlap in analyst coverage, in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation multiples, (c) growth rates, (d)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
immigrant scientists, entrepreneurs, and engineers in the United States helps facilitate faster technology transfer from the United States, which in turn aids economic growth and development. This is certainly a positive benefit diasporas... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
teams of almost 300 biotechnology companies that went public between 1979 and 1996. Even more than firm age, size, product stage, and receptivity of the equity markets, Higgins and Gulati discovered, the top executives' connections... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Download Kraft profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1941 Born, Brookline, Massachusetts 1965 Joins Rand-Whitney 1972 Founds International Forest Products 1994 Buys... View Details