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- May 2012
- Case
Westlake Lanes: How Can This Business Be Saved?
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Alisa Zalosh
Shelby Givens, a new MBA, is the general manager of Westlake Lanes, a near-bankrupt bowling alley that her grandfather founded decades earlier. Givens has been given one year to turn a profit; if the goal is not met Westlake will close. During the first few days on the... View Details
Keywords: United States; Operations Management; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Turnarounds; Strategy; Leading Change; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Alisa Zalosh. "Westlake Lanes: How Can This Business Be Saved?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 124-431, May 2012.
- April 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Sanjeev Kapoor: The Recipe for Success
By: Boris Groysberg and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
India's most recognized celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor has been an integral part of the country's food industry since 1993. As a celebrity chef, Kapoor enjoyed a 17-year run of his hit TV cooking show “Khana Khazana,” published more than 100 cookbook titles in multiple... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Business Ventures; Change; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Food; Leadership; Management; Markets; Media; Organizations; Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Relationships; Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; India; South Asia
Groysberg, Boris, and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Sanjeev Kapoor: The Recipe for Success." Harvard Business School Case 419-076, April 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?
By: Boris Groysberg, John D. Vaughan and Matthew Preble
Scott and Ally Svenson, the founders of MOD Pizza, had to make a number of decisions in planning how to scale their small company. They wanted to grow MOD from 45 stores as of May 2015 to 200 stores by the end of 2016, and while the two believed that MOD could manage... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Service Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, John D. Vaughan, and Matthew Preble. "MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?" Harvard Business School Case 416-004, September 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- November 2024
- Teaching Note
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment” (September 2023). Tsedal Neeley : Winner of the 2024 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal in the View Details
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
strongly connected to real business problems, they may suspect sabotage or lunacy, both of which can create anger and not a steely determination to act fast and win. The crisis-creating strategy not only fails but makes matters worse. Because his managers and employees... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
Africa, especially for communities that aren’t connected to the grid. I am always drawn to how developing and emerging markets can approach these challenges while fostering economic growth and leapfrogging... View Details
- January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Envision Group
By: Gunnar Trumbull, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Based in China, Envision was one of the world’s leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the company’s global operations and supply chain by 2022 and 2028 respectively. As part of its... View Details
Keywords: Green Technology; Climate Change; Emerging Markets; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Renewable Energy; Energy Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Green Technology Industry; Battery Industry; China; United States; Japan; United Kingdom; France
Trumbull, Gunnar, Bonnie Yining Cao, and Dawn H. Lau. "Envision Group." Harvard Business School Case 722-045, January 2022. (Revised February 2022.)
- Fast Answer
VCPE Database Comparison
black; border-left:1px solid black">Great for portfolio companies, really helpful verticals and emerging spaces, detailed contact and valuation info. Intuitive... View Details
- October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Bizongo and e-B2B in India
By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Radhika Kak
Bizongo, an Indian e-B2B platform was co-founded by three college graduates in 2015 with the goal of creating the "Alibaba of India" when the B2B e-commerce landscape was practically non-existent. The founders saw a significant opportunity in connecting mid-sized... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; E-commerce; Business Strategy; India
Rodríguez Arregui, Álvaro, and Radhika Kak. "Bizongo and e-B2B in India." Harvard Business School Case 824-100, October 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
and economic histories to illuminate Schumpeter's life and work. A central theme details how Schumpeter's insights help us understand how the forces of capitalism, innovation, and entrepreneurship continue to transform the world today.... View Details
- February 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
BIM: Finding New Ways to Grow
By: Michael Chu and Gamze Yucaoglu
BIM, Turkey’s giant retailer with a hard-discount model for the popular segments, must decide whether to launch a brand-new format challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs... View Details
Keywords: Turkey; Decision; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Value Creation; Change Management; Decisions; Growth Management; Retail Industry; Turkey
Chu, Michael, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "BIM: Finding New Ways to Grow." Harvard Business School Case 317-097, February 2017. (Revised March 2018.)
- Web
Wilder House | About
project, primarily in emerging markets. About the Name William P. Wilder Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of William P. Wilder (1922-2019), a prominent Canadian executive, financier, philanthropist, and steadfast HBS... View Details
- March 2021 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
M-KOPA: Empowering Lives
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Wale Lawal and Pippa Tubman Armerding
The Pay As You Go solar power company in East Africa had sales of $71 million in 2019. It wished to grow to $300 million by 2025. M-KOPA, founded by three entrepreneurs in 2011, had grown nicely in Kenya and Uganda to reach nearly 750,000 households with an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Payment; Go-to-market Strategy; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Business Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Marketing Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Kenya; Uganda; Nigeria
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Wale Lawal, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "M-KOPA: Empowering Lives." Harvard Business School Case 521-085, March 2021. (Revised March 2024.)
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a manager. When she was about to step into an executive role as senior... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation: associating, observing, quetioning,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
connected than oneself was associated with more friendship formation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53066 Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne