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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
prematurely pressured into decisions that went against their open-platform philosophy, they also knew that in order to fulfill their mission to democratize education, they had to eventually build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
rather than truly expanding boundaries. Despite the questioning, Paulus remained committed to fulfilling her vision of the A.R.T. mission in order to solidify A.R.T. as a leading and financially stable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is created, what factors impact it, and how you can take control of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
full-time — is their own clearly articulated definition of fulfillment and success. While each emphasized that there is no single strategy for achieving balance between work, family, and spiritual/personal growth, their stories are food... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
engage in self-creation and the utility that they derive from such activities. We propose that creating products fulfills consumers' psychological need to signal competence to themselves and to others, and that feelings of competence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
A may prefer to accept lower future profits in order to interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
an older case study, Deaver Brown and Cross River Inc. (HBS No. 394-042). It concerns two entrepreneurs, Andrew Sullivan and Hope Abasi, who have designed an innovative pushchair (baby stroller) and, a year later, are looking for an order... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
"one-stop shop" for IP services, with five interrelated lines of business. Which of these services provided the largest market opportunity for Ocean Tomo? How should the company allocate its scarce resources (it had not sought outside funding yet) in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
locations begins to dry up? In 1986, a group of social entrepreneurs reimagined education in India, developing a low-cost, "one-teacher school" model to provide educational access in regions that had proven cost prohibitive for government schools. They founded Ekal to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Well, I think, our life's greatest obstacles present us the most opportunity. What fun would life be if we never faced any adversity? What sense of fulfillment would we have if we never had an obstacle to overcome? What sort of growth... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
organizations. What is the best structure for Planned Parenthood to fulfill its mission? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309104 Real Property Negotiation Game: Buyer Case, Celia Hernandez (A)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
business and life, and gave them practical experience by sending them on consulting assignments with real companies. In the military, he ruffled feathers by resisting orders so he could make sure soldiers had the equipment they needed to... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
that his mother is dead. His father soon abandons him in order to seek employment, leaving his son behind in a string of foster homes and orphanages. This establishes a pattern of neglect and desertion that continues for Hajim’s entire... View Details
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lifespans – ‘curing the disease of aging’. We also look at feeder technologies that act as accelerants to the core technologies. These include ubiquitous networks that collect data on everything including what happens inside our bodies and brains, new models of... View Details