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    Walter A. Friedman

    Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

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    • 16 Apr 2015
    • News

    Why e-commerce giants must reinvent, and why the human touch is still vital

    • 26 Jun 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

    the day, huddling with family in the Florida twilight as brilliant fireworks light up the sky above Cinderella’s castle. Disney clearly knows a thing or two about creating memorable moments, says Julian De Freitas, assistant professor at Harvard View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
    • March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Dassault Systemes

    By: Stefan H. Thomke and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    Dassault Systèmes, a leader in product lifecycle management software, has enjoyed a very profitable business model in 3D engineering design. In the past, it has successfully managed market disruptions and opportunities through acquisition and organic innovations. Its... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Product Marketing; Technology Industry
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    • 28 May 2020
    • News

    Private equity requests for flexibility may backfire during pandemic

    • August 2020 (Revised August 2023)
    • Case

    Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services

    By: Michael Chu, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
    Nubank, a wholly-digital solution created to disrupt Brazilian banking, with 6 million clients and a $4 billion valuation after five years, must decide whether to expand to Mexico. The company was founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Colombian-born David Vélez to seize what... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Financial Inclusion; Digital Banking; Credit Cards; Banks and Banking; Disruption; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; South America; Brazil; North America; Mexico
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    • 03 Feb 2022
    • News

    Olympic Sponsors Are Banking on Public Indifference to China's Human Rights Abuses

    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

    Recreational marijuana is legal in 18 states. Scant attention has been paid, however, to the profound impact that federal legalization would have on the cannabis market. Essentially, it would squeeze out the illicit cannabis market, along with all its concomitant ills.... View Details
    Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
    • January 2016 (Revised November 2019)
    • Case

    Blackstone at Age 30

    By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
    Since its IPO in 2007 and following the global financial crisis, Blackstone largely outpaced its alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Asset Management; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 15 Sep 2017
    • News

    Harvard professor has a novel way to fix Washington before 2018

    • January 2023 (Revised December 2023)
    • Case

    OhmConnect: Energizing the Future

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Founded in 2013, OhmConnect was a free consumer web app that alerted customers about peak hours of electricity demand, and paid them to lower their energy use at home during these periods. The company sold the aggregated reductions generated by thousands of households... View Details
    Keywords: App Development; Renewable Energy; Electricity Usage; Regulations; VC; Technology; Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC); Scalability; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business Model; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; California; Texas; Europe
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    • February 2001
    • Case

    PlanetFeedback: The Voice of One ... The Power of Many (A)

    By: James L. Heskett
    The management of PlanetFeedback in proposes a merger with Intelliseek. Their goal is to create a comprehensive C2B and B2B business focused on the generation and analysis for business clients of consumer feedback data via the Internet, Planet Feedback's board of... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Information Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry
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      Frank Nagle

      Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

      • 17 Jan 2021
      • News

      Future of ‘brand Trump’: The first president to leave office poorer than when he went in?

      • 01 Apr 2024
      • In Practice

      Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

      balance of consumer adaptation to higher costs, business strategy adjustments, and market dynamics. Additionally, the end of expanded SNAP [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program previously known as... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
      • February 2016 (Revised September 2020)
      • Case

      T-Mobile in 2013: The Un-Carrier

      By: John Beshears, Francesca Gino, Jonathan Lee and Sean (Yixiang) Wang
      By 2013, the U.S. wireless industry was in the midst of a costly transition. As consumers began to embrace more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Positioning; Competition; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      • Teaching Interest

      Overview

      Andrea has worked as a teaching assistant in the following courses -Advanced Microeconomics (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies) -Advanced Macroeconomics (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies) -Global Strategic Management... View Details
      • 24 Feb 2011
      • News

      SABMiller Spurning Femsa Means Higher Foster's Price: Real M&A

      • November 1999
      • Case

      Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

      By: Andre F. Perold
      Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
      Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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      • January 1996 (Revised April 1996)
      • Case

      Digital Imaging in 1995: Opportunities in the Descent to the Desktop

      The dramatic shifts of the imaging industry from analog to digital technology is creating emerging markets in 1995. How can a competitor position itself to enter the market successfully? This case describes the key technologies, market segments, competitors, and... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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