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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
experience and allow them to dream about and complete bigger projects. Lal: There is the potential to use the Internet to make your store more valuable, like Home Depot does in letting you plan a project online and then coming into the store to discuss it with someone.... View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 12 Jun 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. June 12, 2019 - July 10, 2019 View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 03 Apr 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: April 3, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety of topics in View Details
- May 2024
- Supplement
gWorks (A)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Growth Management; Applications and Software; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "gWorks (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-721, May 2024.
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
a pioneer - in the process of capturing customer information, mining that information for value, and converting the information into shareable knowledge, which is then communicated among workers through robust electronic networks. For... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Web
Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog
can be found here . Accepted students will be notified by August 15, 2025. Learning Objectives Most early-stage ventures and new products fail because too few customers want what’s offered. Specifically, either: 1) the product doesn’t... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
do you think? Original Article Periodically, somebody comes up with the idea of turning the organization upside down, with the customer on top. Those serving customers in the frontline come next, and top... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Michelle Giguere
In high school, Michelle Giguere, "fell" into the Gap and never left, working part-time at the apparel retailer throughout college and returning full-time after graduation. "I loved the mix of fashion with the energy of View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
and 1990s, however, competitive pressures have forced managers to reassess industrial research as a business priority. In Engines of Innovation: U.S. Industrial Research at the End of an Era, editors Richard Rosenbloom, the School's David... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not workable in the Internet age, where... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
fashionable and custom-fitted bras to fuller-sized customers and the 85 percent of women who wear the wrong size. In the social enterprise track, the winner was India Info Village, a team featuring Rita Singh (MBA ’05) and several other... View Details
- Web
Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
Now Key Concepts Develop and continually adapt go-to-market strategies Distinguish between marketing- and sales-led organizations and marketers’ role in each Establish a customer selection strategy, including buyer personas and journeys... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
industries, from which customers appear to have been the major beneficiaries. I do not think the situation will change for the better for investors. It will not change because the odds are heavily stacked against them.— Dr. B. V.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. In the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
National Small Business Association survey. Almost half of the 950 people surveyed said that customer demand was down, and one-third of respondents were experiencing supply chain disruptions. More than half expect the US to sink into a... View Details
- July 2003 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Model N Inc.
By: Marco Iansiti and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
The CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up needed to make organizational and product changes to deliver a new software solution to a Fortune 500 customer. He was wondering how he should structure the company to best meet the requirements for this particular customer, while... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Trends; Communication; Customer Focus and Relationships; Selection and Staffing; Time Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Software; Computer Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Model N Inc." Harvard Business School Case 604-015, July 2003. (Revised October 2013.)
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
Management and Entrepreneurial Finance, continue to broaden their scope and impact on entrepreneurial studies at HBS. The EC also now offers many small, innovative courses such as Professor Elon Kohlberg's Analytical Reasoning, Professor... View Details
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Bloomberg: company information
for dividend/split history. EE for earnings estimates. ERN for earnings. FA for financial analysis. HDS for institutional and insider holdings. HG for historical price graph. HP for historical price table. MGMT for management profiles.... View Details