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- March 2022 (Revised December 2022)
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Perch
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Stacy Straaberg and Julia Kelley
In May 2021, Perch CEO Chris Bell needed to decide whether his e-commerce aggregator company, which bought and scaled Amazon Marketplace brands, should acquire up to three acquisition targets. The prospective acquisitions, Web Deals Direct, HomeCo, and Future Brands,... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategy; Business Strategy; Integration; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; North America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; Asia; Philippines
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
districts had above-average financial development. But, that’s an example of how one might imagine that there are complements between infrastructure spending and making financing available. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
of Quest Diagnostics who now serves as dean of Boston University School of Management. Freeman said that when he became dean, his plush CEO-like office was on the top floor, so he decided to move to a small windowless office in close... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
come from nothing tend to have a little bit of a protective nature because they don’t live in a world of surplus or opportunity everywhere. So when they do finally get an opportunity, they’re a little worried to let someone from New York or View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Connections While an analyst for a small-business investment company in Boston in 1962, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), was sent to New Hampshire to checkout a novel communications innovation - a nascent cable TV operation looking for... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
build healthy relationships. And, on this basis, global teams can work together virtually on any number of complex problems and exciting opportunities. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
following Boston Children's and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Texas Children's had some of the highest volumes in the nation, seeing more than 20,000 congenital heart disease patients and performing over 800 cardiac... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
services in Vietnam, for example, might go to an inner-city neighborhood of Boston with a high concentration of foreign nationals, to survey them on their banking habits and test out new ideas for changing these habits. Theory Into... View Details
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio and Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, both of which received the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book, among several other honors. His latest book,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jeff Immelt graduated from HBS in 1982, he had job offers from Morgan Stanley and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
advancing those reforms, not just being a passive investor. Massachusetts, for example, is looking at ranked choice voting right now, so for our members in the Boston area it’s a moment when they could engage with their representatives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
inventing many of the core digital technologies of the past half-century. But it is by no means the only way to support the growth of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Universities, for example, play a crucial role in training the engineers upon which startups rely. Unlike... View Details
- February 2024
- Case
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (A): A Comparative Analysis of Climate Actions and Change Enablers in 14 U.S. Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Throughout the early 2000's, emphasis was placed on initiatives to adapt to and mitigate climate action in cities. This series presents overviews (snapshots) of 14 U.S. metropolitan regions to help identify similarities, differences, and opportunities for developing... View Details
Keywords: Climate; Climate Impact; Innovation; Mitigation Policies; Carbon Footprint; Investing; Climate Finance; Renewable; Mobility; City; Climate Change; Adaptation; Renewable Energy; Weather; Problems and Challenges; United States; Boston; Detroit; Miami; Minneapolis; St. Paul; Pittsburgh; Seattle; San Jose
- March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Public Sector; Experience and Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-Life Balance; Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence; Personal Development and Career; Real Estate Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States
Margolis, Joshua D., and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka." Harvard Business School Case 421-065, March 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- May 2017
- Case
Pho Hoa Dorchester
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu
Pho Hoa is a traditional, family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts that opened in 1992. As he approached retirement in recent years, the founder/owner has scaled down his involvement in the day-to-day operations, leading to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Pho Hoa; Tam Le; Small Business; Restaurants; Dorchester; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; Family Business; Change Management; Transition; Diasporas; Cash Flow; Food; Employment; Wages; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Ownership Stake; Franchise Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Viet Nam; Massachusetts; Boston; Eastern United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Michael Raiche, and Roger Zhu. "Pho Hoa Dorchester." Harvard Business School Case 317-121, May 2017.
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
Francisco 49ers football team, and Grousbeck, CEO of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. The fund focuses on sports media content, an industry headed to $60 billion in revenue, according to the Causeway partnership. Higgins says the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
with Anant Thaker (HBS MBA 2011) of the Boston Consulting Group and Howard Rudnick of the Tobin Project, Moss offers an alternative perspective: Perhaps we've been looking at the question the wrong way. Inequality And Making Decisions In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
sites themselves make it more difficult than it needs to be. To the rescue: Virtual Dates, an online ice-breaker from Jeana Frost of Boston University, Michael Norton of HBS, and Dan Ariely of MIT. Lessons Not Learned About Innovation Why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
the almost 100,000 students who entered NYC high schools this year.) We're at an earlier stage of a similar project with Boston Public Schools. Tayfun and Utku Unver and I have been working on kidney exchange, to facilitate exchange of... View Details