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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
should be able to do something like this for the nursing home down the street,” says Hu. Hu’s idea won the HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track in 2012, and the business took off. CarePort,... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises “My first job was starting a small manufacturing unit that made bicycle parts. Then I launched another business for yarn. Once I made a bit of money, it went into the... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
a slow but surer approach to understanding human behavior." Others welcomed the possibility that this work may bring together economists, management theorists, and medical researchers. As Shann Turnbull put it, "The time has come for View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
of post-graduation career exploration funds that a HBS graduate may receive in their lifetime from all HBS and Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. Sources include, but are not limited to, the HBS Social Enterprise Loan... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
wind turbines, had evolved from a small family-run business into a global enterprise spanning four continents in just over a decade. But would the costs associated with the aggressive growth policy be too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
view raises questions of whether there will be an adequate supply of such talent. Will impatient Western managers eager to develop Chinese business opportunities delay initiatives until the right people can be found? How high is the cost... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria, where, as a recent HBS graduate,... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
performance-survival, employment, and growth-and firm innovative performance-quantity, quality, and nature of patents and papers-by comparing funded and unfunded firms. To address endogeneity around selection bias, we use a qualitatively similar subsample of small and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
MORE Dan Morrell: Tell me about RedSeal. What does the company do? What services does it provide? Ray Rothrock: RedSeal is an enterprise cybersecurity-software company. We do two big things. One, we model your network—and I’ll explain... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
It took more than a century for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks thirty selected blue chip stocks, to hit 20,000, but it finally happened last Wednesday – a milestone marked by banner headlines and happy investors. In a recent conversation in his Morgan... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
arrangements (HRA) rule and Joe Biden’s Public Option would go a long way to bringing more choice, affordability, and personal control to the purchase of health insurance. Trump’s rule enables employees in small- and medium-sized View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices associated with it, and the changes... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
practices of Canadian non-medical businesses. The best practices discussion was based on Cleveland Clinic Canada’s experience serving numerous Canadian enterprises through its Medical Director Program. “The webinar really gave us a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- July 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-055. When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique... View Details
Keywords: Female; Female Ceo; Female Entrepreneur; Female Protagonist; Health ＆ Wellness; Healthcare; Price Policies; Minimum Advertised Price; Differentiation; Positioning; Growth; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Disruption; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Competitive Strategy; Competition; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Product Development; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Advertising; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Social Enterprise; Retail Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Health Industry; Green Technology Industry; Education Industry; Distribution Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Canada; United States; United Kingdom
- March 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli
When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique product. Fifteen years later, the... View Details
Keywords: Female; Female Ceo; Female Entrepreneur; Female Protagonist; Health ＆ Wellness; Healthcare; Price Policies; Minimum Advertised Price; Differentiation; Positioning; Growth; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Disruption; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Competitive Strategy; Competition; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Product Development; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Advertising; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Social Enterprise; Retail Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Health Industry; Green Technology Industry; Education Industry; Distribution Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Canada; United States; United Kingdom
Israeli, Ayelet. "The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth." Harvard Business School Case 519-055, March 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details