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  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

When I left, I was an extroverted marketer.” After graduation, he turned down a position with Salomon Brothers in order to launch his own venture, Applitek, developing a cable modem. The year was 1981, a full decade before most of the world had even heard of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 17 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

Keywords: by David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman & Jonathan T. Kolstad; Health
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

for online, hybrid and face-to-face applications with content that adds dynamic, real-life perspectives to undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs. Revenue from Corporate Learning products and services increased 18 percent from fiscal 2021. Corporate... View Details
  • December 2012 (Revised February 2014)
  • Case

Crafting a Founder Agreement at HealthCraft

By: Noam Wasserman, Janet Kraus and Yael Braid
HealthCraft's three founders are about to craft their founding agreement and split the equity among themselves. Uncertainty lingers over each member's future contributions, though—how is the team to devise a durable and effective split? Ever since consultant Kevin... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry
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  • Profile

Peter Gumulia

not his central passion. In college, Peter interned at a supply chain company where he helped a large retailer build its first distribution center dedicated to e-commerce. “I enjoyed the process,” he says. “I learned a lot about warehouse... View Details
  • April 2025
  • Case

Campbell's Recipe for Advancing School Nutrition

By: Hise O. Gibson, F. Christopher Eaglin and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
In 2021, The Campbell’s Company launched Full Futures, a collective impact initiative aimed at advancing school nutrition environments in underserved communities. The program started in Camden, NJ—home to Campbell’s headquarters—and later expanded to Charlotte, NC, and... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education; Nutrition; Social Enterprise; Business and Community Relations; Decision Making; Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; New Jersey; North Carolina; Pennsylvania
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  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Summing Up: What Next, If Manufacturing Proves Not To Be A Creator Of Those Good "factory Jobs" Of The Past? Manufacturing is essential to the health of an economy. It both fuels and results from innovation. It is natural in the course of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

costing (TDABC). Here, the authors describe the implementation experiment, share lessons learned across the care continuum, and report how TDABC has actively engaged health care providers in costing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

employees who struggle with mental health issues. To engage students in a role-play, the note includes a vignette featuring a struggling CEO. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2009
  • Case

Avid Radiopharmaceuticals: The Venture Debt Question

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
The CEO of a promising biotech company must decide how to respond to the macro-economic slump of late 2008. He had planned to pursue an aggressive schedule, moving the firm's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease imaging compounds through clinical trials and into the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Borrowing and Debt; Venture Capital; Financial Management; Investment; Health Testing and Trials; Expansion; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • Web

Dean Nitin Nohria | About

postdoctoral scholars. The two-story, 15,000-square-foot facility on Harvard’s Allston campus is a fully-equipped and permitted laboratory and office space for early-stage companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab.... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

rather than single firms. And most young companies are very narrow in scope in terms of the scope of their internal activities, which means that they need to extensively partner with other companies to bring... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 07 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

to engage with unfamiliar topics and start conversations on how to learn from even those who they may disagree with." The day provided many different chances for the attendees to network, including coffee breaks in between panels and... View Details
  • November 2014
  • Case

Nestlé SA, 2014

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2014, Nestlé was the largest producer of packaged foods and beverages in the world. 2013 revenues were $103.7 billion and operating profits $16.1 billion (15.5% of sales). The company owned 29 mega brands, each generating more than Euro 1 billion ($1.25 billion).... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Acquisitions; Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Nutrition; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
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  • 04 Apr 2022
  • What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

history. Its stock, suffering the typical ups and downs of entertainment companies during the pandemic, had recovered and was at about the same price as when Chapek took over from “legendary” CEO Bob Iger two years earlier. He was aware,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September–October 2020
  • Article

The Past, Present, and (Near) Future of Gene Therapy and Gene Editing

By: Julia Pian, Amitabh Chandra and Ariel Dora Stern
Emerging gene therapy and gene-editing technologies will have a growing impact on patient lives and health-care delivery. We analyzed a decade of data on clinical trials and venture capital investments to understand the likely trajectory of genetically focused... View Details
Keywords: Gene Therapy; Gene Editing; Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Health Testing and Trials; Venture Capital; Change
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  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

Business School Case 716-003 East Timor: Betting on Oil No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-702 BionX The BionX multimedia case introduces students to BionX Medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

billion. A 2015 Wall Street Journal exposé, which became the bestseller “Bad Blood,” led to several criminal and civil probes, and sanctions imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Theranos dissolved in 2018. Prosecutors must prove that Holmes, who was 19... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

that getting sleep and exercising were among my very top priorities. Sometimes that meant sacrificing social events, but I never felt bad about it because it was a conscious and active choice. It has made such a difference for my life and mental View Details