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- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
& Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit card. Will consumers embrace the service? Will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
focused on communication, education, engagement, and network building. This decision to pivot is why I took on the role at Harvard as the Sustainability Manager for HBS. I became interested in BEI because I’m interested in the notion of... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Springbank Collective, a coalition of investors seeking to eliminate the gender gap, believes the “gender equity lens” for investing is a gateway to bigger themes, such as the future of work, the aging population, and the work View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are highly defensible once established, owing to network effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
countries, agriculture still represents a large share of the domestic economy. Small farms and lack of resources often means that agriculture is highly inefficient. Technology can dramatically improve productive capacity of farms and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the past fifteen years of the contest, it's extraordinary." The Art Of The Pivot A few common experiences filter to the surface in conversations with past contest participants, whether their venture sells crème brûlée or online video... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
specified stage of development. It would throw the ball over the fence [to a major pharmaceutical firm] and it would sit around and wait. Sooner or later, if the product was successful, it would collect some royalties." Now, a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
helpful to them going forward. They also start to build personal relationships with faculty and administrators who may be pivotal to their adaptation process during their two-year stay." The student government at HBS now includes... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and international negotiator, has crafted a thought-provoking thriller that immerses us in one of history's most pivotal moments. In this novel inspired by two true stories from the Second World War, a young British nurse and a seasoned... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the world's largest economy build... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
economies where they are a novel phenomenon. Such entrepreneurs face more uncertainty than other entrepreneurs—they are embarking upon a new venture, in a new industry in economies that are emerging. The creative and founder-dependent nature of their View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
inactions, in our fight against climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act is likely to be one of the pivotal battles, not the only one, but perhaps the game-changing one. As a veteran, it’s not lost on me that climate change is not only... View Details