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  • 20 Sep 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Vadym Volosovych
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

research and development process, manufacturing and clinical research strategy as well as offline retail. Hilary has a finance, consumer products and retail background, notably as brand manager of FIJI Water. Most recently, Hilary led... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Teaching Note

AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup

By: Frank Nagle and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-444. In 2024, AI agent startup company AGENTS.inc faced multiple strategic decisions that could shape the company’s ability to grow into the future AI agent market leader. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurial Finance; Competition; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Germany
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  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

information, and even price. Consumers can shape the marketing interaction, making it more relevant for themselves, and this should lead to greater involvement and responsiveness. The hope is an improvement in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

already being used in HBS Executive Education classrooms, with more to be made available this fall. As the world's developing economies continue to shift and grow, the Creating Emerging Markets project... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • July 2023
  • Case

HealthVerity: Real World Data and Evidence

By: Satish Tadikonda
Andrew Kress (CEO and founder) and his team had built a promising marketplace business at HealthVerity serving its core market in healthcare, with a focus on pharmaceutical R&D and services. Thus far, HealthVerity’s products had been unique to the pharma and pharma... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Marketing
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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

tool? Paul Healy: The tool was first developed to show students who were taking BAV how discounted cash flow (DCF) and earnings-based valuations work and can be reconciled. Over time, based on feedback from students about the value of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2014
  • Technical Note

Sustainability of Competitive Advantage

By: Eric Van den Steen
This note introduces a framework for analyzing the sustainability of competitive advantage. (While it applies more broadly, it was developed as a component of the PVA framework.) View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Monopoly
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  • Spring 2013
  • Article

China's Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles

By: Christopher Marquis, Hongyu Zhang and Lixuan Zhou
The Chinese government's effort to create an electric vehicle industry is a bold experiment in local and system-level innovation. It also provides a window into understanding the promise and peril of economic development policies, both for China and for the rest of the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Development Economics; Emerging Markets; Green Technology Industry; Auto Industry; China
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  • February 1998 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

FreeMarkets OnLine

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
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
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • Web

    Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

    AI-enabled expansion into new markets while improving productivity and service delivery? CIO Nitin Tandon explains the global workforce strategy underpinning the effort. Shake Shack’s test kitchen: View Details
    • Web

    Courses - Entrepreneurship

    estate developers to inventors. TEM will give students the opportunity to hone their skills in identifying and testing business opportunities, decomposing complex business problems, determining what decisions the responsible business... View Details
    • Web

    Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

    success. 8 weeks, 5–6 hrs/week Pay by August 14 $1,850 Certificate Entrepreneurial Marketing Professor Christina Wallace Develop the entrepreneurial mindset and toolkit to create a viable, scalable business... View Details
    • April 1971 (Revised February 1984)
    • Case

    Gould, Inc.: Graphics Division

    Describes the decision of a battery manufacturer to diversify into the computer field through acquisition and the development of a new product. Among the issues to be discussed are the company product fit, phases in new product introduction, product positioning, and... View Details
    Keywords: Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Acquisition; Product Development; Computer Industry; Battery Industry
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    • 19 Sep 2023
    • HBS Case

    How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

    are already a significant amount of open-source models that you or I could build on. So, let's say we want to block AI from generating hate speech. To the extent that there is a market for hate speech, some entrepreneur will be able to... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
    • 28 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

    businesses amid the opportunities and uncertainties of developing markets throughout recent decades. Working Knowledge Editor-in-Chief Sean Silverthorne asked Gupta about his experience interviewing Kapur.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
    • December 2003 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    FIRA: Confronting the Mexican Agricultural Crisis

    By: James E. Austin, Michael Chu and Cate Reavis
    In fall 2003, Mexico's agriculture sector was facing a crisis brought on largely by a surge in cheap U.S. imports resulting from NAFTA and inaccessible and/or expensive terms of credit for Mexican agricultural producers. It was getting harder for Mexican producers to... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Public Sector; Trade; Financial Instruments; Crisis Management; Markets; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Technology Differentiation and Firm Performance

    By: Sam Arts, Bruno Cassiman and Jianan Hou
    Prior work has extensively studied how investing in R&D and building a technology portfolio relate to superior firm performance. However, the value of a firm’s technology portfolio should also be driven by the degree to which it is more unique and technologically... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Portfolio; Differentiation; Competitiveness; Organizations; Technology; Performance; United States
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