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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
administrative background for the other two cases. This case deals with the problems facing the head of a start-up division responsible for developing and bringing to market a new product based on technology deemed very important to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
and Sylvan Guo, for Hue, an e-commerce technology platform that helps brands and retailers to showcase short-form, customer-generated video reviews on their websites. The virtual audience then awarded the Crowd Favorite prize of $5,000 to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
had built its reputation by being environmentally responsible ran into trouble when it expanded its business into India," she explains, "because people there were not willing to pay for the world-class technology necessary to... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
to hear from the business, political and community leaders from Hong Kong and beyond,” says Alison Chan (MBA 2002), the Conference Chair and club president. "This is the event that our alumni look forward to attending every year.” Held at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
question is: In the wreckage of a collapsed building, whose labels do you find? Often, the activist community will point their fingers at the brands for basically enabling those factories to exist and to persist with very risky working... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
could the report provide a clearer representation of the organization's strategy and its ability to create and sustain value over the long-term? And finally, how could web-based technologies be used to promote the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
or six companies, and it's very possible they could be competitors with each other" sometimes, he said, simply because it's as important to support the development of the technology. A company does not have to be first to market with a new View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
who are assertive and strong. Looking ahead, there are more great things on the horizon as Dozie plans to grow her team, raise institutional capital, expand into national retailers, and leverage technology to build a Bossy View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508111 Sensors Unlimited: Bringing InGaAs Technology to the Market Harvard Business School Case 608-138 Sensors Unlimited was a small start-up in short-wavelength... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
periodicals like Aperture magazine. Harold Livesay observes that in the way Henry Ford envisioned the Model T as an affordable means of transportation for all, so too did Land see his products as opening "vistas of art and communication... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we learned that codifying and View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Robert Salas, CEO, wants a management system that communicates and motivates Amanco's three high-level goals.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2025
- Case
Shifting Winds: DEI in Corporate America
By: Clayton S. Rose, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and David Lane
In the 2020s, intense and conflicting social and political pressures challenged organizational leaders around the world. Prominent among these were powerful competing views on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) in the United States. Public... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Demographics; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Retention; Recruitment; Adaptation; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Maryland; Tennessee; District of Columbia
Rose, Clayton S., Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon, and David Lane. "Shifting Winds: DEI in Corporate America." Harvard Business School Case 325-017, January 2025.
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
communication but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are each internally homogenous but different from each other, merge, the above results translate to specific predictions how the change in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of strategic next steps for the group. Hewlett-Packard (HP), a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne