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Brandon Tieu

Coming to HBS is like... Arriving at HBS feels like parachuting into leadership camp where every day is a chapter from the best business book, but in an interactive format. The case discussions and conversations with peers allow you to... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Setting a Higher Bar on Fatherhood

I am often asked the question, “How do you get through business school with a family?” I might give a light-hearted reply, but what I really want to say is, “How do you get through without one?” Here at HBS with me is my incredible wife,... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718496-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-430 Redfin: Redefine Real Estate Founded in 2004, Redfin envisioned a light-touch model in which clients... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53811 Do Banks Have an Edge? By: Begenau, Juliane, and Erik Stafford Abstract—We decompose bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2024
  • Supplement

Heritage Holding (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: The summer of 2022 marked a crucial period for Heritage Holding co-founders, Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter. The... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; North America
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  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

fuels was in line with what other companies supported: $100-150/ton of CO2. For their business model, BTG Bioliquids chose the technology licensing route, instead of a capital-intensive model where they... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

By: Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions that matter most for the particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Patents; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Science-Based Business; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora networks for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Portrait Project

Brandon Angelini

make people think it was done professionally”). Through building something together with my parents, I learned about a lot more than a picnic table. I picked up insights about planning, hard work, thoughtfulness, and humility. My life will be View Details
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

the industry run. Each brightly colored bag of Kahawa 1893 features a prominent QR code that allows purchasers to give to the women behind the beans. “People have been very receptive to the idea,” says Nyamumbo. “Customers tip at restaurants, and they tip their Uber... View Details
  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

YouTube and creators’ sites. On the surface, YouTube’s business model appears to be the work of genius. But it has posed problems. One problem was lack of profitability. Wojcicki, who got to know Google’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 07 Feb 2019
  • Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

scale might actually be an advantage for innovation motivated me to write this book. Lagace: As you say, innovation is a broad term. What does it mean to you? Pisano: Innovation means change that creates economic value. Innovations can be about technological change,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

It's not often that a best seller inspires academic research. If anything, it's usually the other way around. But Harvard Business School Associate Professor Diego A. Comin was motivated by reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Google Inc. (Abridged)

By: Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats it poses to Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. Asks what Google should do next. One... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Search Technology; Web Services Industry
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  • 03 Nov 2023
  • News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Club of Sweden, in partnership with the climate action organization We Don’t Have Time, hosted its first annual Stockholm Climate Leadership Forum on October 4. The event, which featured a series of discussions with Swedish business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 24 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

before eventually leading him to his current role at Formlabs, a 3D printing manufacturer committed to making technology accessible. While at HBS and HKS, Winston was eager to learn about for-profit business View Details
  • 05 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

Ron Johnson's latest undertaking has the makings of a perfect business school case study. As the new CEO of J.C. Penney he's charged with transforming an aging department store chain with lagging market share. The sweeping plan begun... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail