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- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
businesses today, leadership is the central force mobilizing people to create something that did not previously exist. That is, leadership creates an enterprise in the first place. And leadership takes existing enterprises and finds new... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
(MBA 2005), Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) and Jayamin Pelpola (MBA 2010). The firm hopes to capitalize on the current development drive and rapid economic growth taking place in Sri Lanka. Based in Colombo, York Street Partners was launched... View Details
- February 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Dialpad Communications (A)
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Describes the evolution of Dialpad, a voice-over-Internet-protocol telephony company. Set in September 2000, CEO Brad Garlinghouse faces a dilemma: what to do about the large number of international users who use Dialpad to call the United States for free. He must also... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Venture Capital; Telecommunications Industry; California
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Dialpad Communications (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-090, February 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together for years, they had to find new ways of working as they tried to launch the new mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
funded by the World Bank and the operations are a public private partnership with Meridiam and CETUD, a government agency. Financing Climate Adaptation. Investors, businesses, and global society can mobilize the View Details
- Web
Student Clubs | MBA
Family Business Club Finance Club FinTech Club First Generation Students Club Food and Agriculture Club Football/Soccer Club Formula One Club French-Speaking Club Future of Mobility Future of Work Club G Gaming and Game Industry Club... View Details
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
availability and access to talent, financing sources, legal and regulatory environments, local culture, and exit markets. Career Focus: Global Entrepreneurship (GV) is a course for a variety of students. First, individuals potentially exploring careers in startups or... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program
Mobilizing Capital in Africa" case), I reflected upon my experiences being the grandson of an African political revolutionary and giving two TED talks by the age of 20 to underscore the importance of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
profitability,” in placing particular emphasis on how ventures scale by achieving not just product-market fit, but profit -market fit. Classes cover a diverse array of tech and tech-enabled businesses, including e-commerce, ed-tech, SaaS, HR-tech, View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
the constraints and opportunities of their representation structure are reflected in the micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
second-year MBA course Reimagining Capitalism in 2012, Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, has been helping students explore the roles that the corporation and its leaders can play in addressing these... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
improvement in patient throughput time. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-009 Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
to a capital provider to do what they said they were going to do and deliver the economic value that the projects promise,” said Jacobs. “The only way you can deliver that value, whether it’s to the investor or to other stakeholders like... View Details
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David A. Frankel
with seed capital for their nascent ventures. In all, he backed eight of his classmates in starting successful companies. For example, he gave Paley his first seed capital for Brontes, a maker of 3D imaging... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace