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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number of View Details
Rick Grinnell
Rick Grinnell is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, focused on investing in AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure. As an experienced venture capitalist and operator, Rick has invested in some of the most... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
MS/MBA program, we learn the more structured way to avoid failures, such as doing customer research, ideating with a minimum viable product, then seeing how people react to it—steps that lead to success.” Arnon hopes the engineering,... View Details
- January 2008
- Teaching Note
Pilgrim Bank (A): Statistics Review with Data Desk
By: Frances X. Frei
Teaching Note for 602104. View Details
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
substitute for finding the right role: what you want, what you're good at, what meets customer needs. I found it. In nine months I have gone from launching one market to managing four," James says.... View Details
- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony (TN)
By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Teaching Note for [508-001]. View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
models are very powerful,” he explains. “We have trucks that do deliveries, but the innovation is in how we are able to suit local needs, with many different collection models customized for local circumstances.” For Carson, a founder of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- May 2024
- Supplement
gWorks (B)
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 (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-722, May 2024.
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
possible, then a change in your business model may be necessary. Go local: pre-sent choices to customers only from local suppliers so that the delivery and logistics is managed by the seller, but monitored... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
is just one of many dilemmas that can incite insomnia in a sharing-economy platform provider. There’s also the threat of disintermediation between producers and consumers; the fear of trying to compete in a winner-take-all market; and the challenge of attracting View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
what extent does platform leadership help or hinder the development of such ideas? Do our anti-trust laws adequately address the issue of platform leaders and their behaviors? Platform leadership requires ingenuity, a strong customer... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
of Starbucks, agreed that ethical actions formed the foundation of good relationships with suppliers, customers, and employees. “An important portion of our customers cares what kind of company we are,” noted Smith. “If they hear we're... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
grappling with three questions. First, should GPS create its own mobile app for credit card customers or leverage the bank’s already successful mobile banking app? Second, if a separate app was developed, then who should View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we examine changes in domains’ tendency to “diversify” their pool of nameservers—how frequently domains employ DNS View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a... View Details