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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
business model and analyzes how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. The research supports prevailing explanations of business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
continue as the concentrated detergents were introduced across North America? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/613045-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-119 Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810082-PDF-ENG CommonAngelTM (B) Lynda M. Applegate, Kaitlyn Simpson, Max White, and Christopher McDonaldHarvard Business School Supplement 810-011 This case discusses changes in CommonAngels'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2001
- Teaching Note
PlanetAll TN
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steven Silverman and William A. Sahlman
Teaching Note for (9-898-105). For book only. View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
October 2017 Negotiation Journal Prescriptions Based on a Realistic View of Human Behavior By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53096 November–December 2017 Harvard View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
global poverty; their target is to donate 10% of their profits, but as a new capital-intensive business they give 2% of their revenue. Their income streams are mainly direct-to-consumer sales along with corporate sales and a special... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
example of the growing number of social entrepreneurs whose credo is “putting purpose before profit,” as Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer and serial entrepreneur Reza Satchu chronicles in a 2024 case study, “Flashfood: The Magic of... View Details
- August 2019
- Teaching Note
MoviePass
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for HBS No. 619-052. View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
into these market areas? Or should it go more aggressively to attack the coastal areas with its new 2000 cc model to be launched in late 2011? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612029-PDF-ENG Mike Mayo Takes on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation Innovation and Business Growth By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
and empirical implications that focus on the interface between technological shifts and identity change at multiple levels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-048.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 2020
- Working Paper
Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968
By: Amar Bhidé
This case history analyzes how the founders of McKinsey & Co. built one of the world's leading management consulting firms by developing a “system” of professional norms, approach to serving clients, personnel policies, organization, governance, and ownership. The... View Details
Keywords: McKinsey & Co.; Company History; Professional Norms; Vision; Organizations; Business History; Business Model; Strategy; Consulting Industry
Bhidé, Amar. "Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 95-010, January 1995. (Revised July 2020.)
- November 2014
- Teaching Note
Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet?
By: Willy Shih
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
threats to intellectual property (IP) and models the interactive impact of modularity and state-sanctioned IP rights on these threats. It identifies strategies for capturing value in so-called "open systems" in which IP is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
in the very early phases of a new industry. We identify two distinct essential journeys that enabled the company to grow: an internal journey focused on developing and refining a business model and an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2009 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?
Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact center startup to a group of angel investors visiting for the first time. The task has given him cause for some soul searching: has it been worth it to battle the impoverished infrastructure and... View Details
Isenberg, Daniel J. "KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?" Harvard Business School Case 809-114, January 2009. (Revised June 2009.)
- January 2003 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network
Covers the origin, evolution, and nature of the KIPP Academies, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the... View Details
Leschly, Stig. "KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network." Harvard Business School Case 803-124, January 2003. (Revised April 2003.)
- 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31
increase in experience, consistent with learning on the job. Answerers who focus on particular question categories provide answers of higher quality but earn lower pay per hour (perhaps reflecting a lack of versatility). Answers provided during the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne