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March 2016
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IC Group A/S

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details

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16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

product development in firms and communities, co-wrote the case with former HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi to encourage further exploration of the benefits and tactics of open-data approaches. “ All agencies will have issues,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

Firms should begin to do the same and help people fulfill their social needs online. To continue the earlier analogy, "You should come to the table and say, 'Here is a product that I have designed for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

01 Jun 2004
News

Books

post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

School professor Benjamin G. Edelman discusses the paper's findings Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy (24,997) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6659.html Published: April 11, 2011 Most startups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

based in Montreal, allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online through a free, web-based CAD program loaded with hundreds of designs for industrial parts that are then created via 3D... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

get to know their new section mates during START. Academically, START introduces incoming MBA students to their sections and the case method. START ambassadors lead a series of events designed to help MBA students bond both with their... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Case Study: Let’s Dance

Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

deep learning. “We are excited about emerging markets, where we see high adoption rates of technologies designed for the point-of-care,” she says. “In the United States, we can use deep learning to generate rich information that enables... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

two. Though a step in the right direction, this approach suffers because the boundary between "market" and "nonmarket" is artificial and far from clear-cut. We find it more productive to focus on the key types of games... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

Fellow Marco Piovesan, whose research on how temptation influences work productivity included field experiments with children tempted by soda and candy at an Italian summer camp. "Understanding where these preferences and their behavior... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

complained of intense time and productivity pressures, these issues were seen as a barrier only for women, defined as "work/family conflict." Meanwhile, measures taken to combat work/family issues pushed women off the partner... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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Data Science for Managers 2 - Course Catalog

hands-on lab sessions and case discussion sessions) Final Team Project Career Focus DSM2 is designed for students who already have some exposure to basic data science. DSM2 allows students to build a deeper understanding of how data and... View Details

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

scale in the United States and is being introduced in many other countries as well. While transmitting digitally offers many significant advantages over the current analog method, it also requires specially designed broadcast equipment... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a two-week, capstone project for which students worked directly with clients on a real-world, high-impact issue. We connected with some of the boot... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

learned that the world’s wasted food could feed 800 million people. To test the idea of selling less-than-perfect products at a discounted price, he bought $200 worth of “unpretty” food, set up a sales table at a busy Toronto... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

22 Jul 2021
News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

session over a week in June, where they were matched one-to-one with seven HBS alumni mentors for guidance on strategy, problem-solving, and more. The club designed the War Room series to allow HBS alumni to interact directly with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from Uber to Zillow, which test everything from new View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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