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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
  • January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
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South Dakota Wheat Growers

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
As a farmer-owned cooperative, South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Production; Rail Transportation; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Economic Growth; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; South Dakota
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  • September 1991 (Revised February 1993)
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Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Communication Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Monopoly; Intellectual Property; Research and Development; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry; London
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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
    • 02 Feb 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 2

      Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • November 1991 (Revised June 1997)
    • Case

    Micom Caribe (A)

    By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
    Describes the Puerto Rican manufacturing plant of a transnational company. The award-winning plant has dramatically improved the quality of flexibility of its operations, by taking a radical approach to manufacturing. The methods center on the use of specific... View Details
    Keywords: Business Plan; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Launch; Production; Performance Improvement; Quality; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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    • October 2017 (Revised August 2018)
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    HTC and Virtual Reality

    By: David B. Yoffie, Andy Wu and Allison M. Ciechanover
    In fall 2017, HTC CEO and Chairperson Cher Wang was driving the company to focus on virtual reality (VR). HTC's first VR product, VIVE, released in spring 2016, was applauded for its superior immersive room-scale capabilities. However, early adoption of VR beyond... View Details
    Keywords: Virtual Reality; Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Consumer Behavior; Customer Relationship Management; Technology Industry
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    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    semester it is offered. Students present work in progress and receive feedback from their colleagues and a faculty member. This seminar also develops presentation skills, critical thinking, and enduring relationships among students across... View Details
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    Patrick Chalhoub

    Patrick Chalhoub, CEO of Dubai-based luxury retailer Chalhoub, discusses how his business in the 1980s identified the luxury brands it sold in the region, and how the family developed the first Concept... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

    legal obligations Globalization has opened new opportunities and markets for businesses, but it has also brought new complexities. Countries have different legal requirements for layoffs in areas such as required severance pay, advance... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
    • December 2022 (Revised May 2023)
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    Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution

    By: Juan Alcácer and Emer Moloney
    At the end of 2019, Ignacio Galán, the Chairman and CEO of the world's third largest utility, Iberdrola, reflected on his almost 20 years at the company. He managed a portfolio of three very different businesses, each with their own specific opportunities and... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Engineering; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Timing; Industry Growth; Mission and Purpose; Strategy; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry; Spain; United Kingdom; United States; Brazil; Mexico
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets.

    By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller and Suraj Srinivasan
    We examine the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Capital Markets; Decisions; Managerial Roles; Financial Institutions; Investment; Market Participation; Public Ownership; Relationships
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    • July 1993 (Revised September 1994)
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    Millipore New Product Commercialization: A Tale of Two New Products

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Kevin Bartus
    Millipore, the worldwide leader in separations technology, was in the process of launching two key new products: one a liquid chromatography/mass spectrometer and the other a virus separation membrane. The case documents the product development and commercialization... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Product Launch; Product Development; Commercialization
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    • Career Coach

    Tim Butler

    in this area. His research led to the development of the CareerLeader business career assessment program that is used by over 600 MBA programs, universities, and corporations around the world. His coaching is focused on the View Details

      John C. Mulliken

      Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

      John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
      • 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

      • August 2008 (Revised September 2009)
      • Case

      Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS

      By: Tarun Khanna, Sonali R. Bloom and David E. Bloom
      This case explores the role that MTV, with its heavy diet of music and general youth-oriented media content, plays in spreading public-service messaging to contain the scourge of HIV/AIDS worldwide. There is a focus especially on its efforts in several emerging... View Details
      Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Africa
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      • 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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      • 20 Oct 2020
      • Blog Post

      Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

      impact. Along the way, I’ve been able to develop my understanding through both coursework and extracurricular offerings at Harvard. My background in the tech industry Before HBS, I worked at Google, where I started in the rotational... View Details
      • November 1992 (Revised December 1992)
      • Case

      Deere & Co. (A): The Computer Aided Manufacturing Services Division - A Window to the World (Abridged)

      By: Robert H. Hayes
      The Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Services Division of John Deere has just received approval to sell their software and computer systems to external customers. These tools, initially developed for internal use, have been widely used throughout Deere. Still,... View Details
      Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Machinery and Machining; Technological Innovation; Markets; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Outcome or Result; Computer Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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