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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

healthier alternative candy bar snack. Business Track, 2025 Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Business Track Winner Accelerating AI model development for physical AI. HydroHaul Eli Litchman (MBA 2025) Fenil... View Details
  • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
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  • 24 Apr 2023
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

use bespoke strategies to navigate the splintered regulations. Are there ripe customer segments waiting to be tapped? Cann has prioritized larger marketing campaigns with the goal of raising overall awareness, but with mixed results.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

begun. For example, MASS Design Group, a non-profit collective founded a decade ago in response to epidemic outbreaks, is currently working with restaurateurs Jody Adams, Jaime Bissonnette, and Ken Oringer on case studies developing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

ask herself one question: “What can I learn that will make me better?” By staying focused on this question, she found she was able to avoid feeling strong emotions and reflect more thoughtfully on the feedback she received. I’m finding in my research-in-progress that... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • February 2003
  • Case

Whitbread Hotel Company (A)

By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Alan Parker has developed an effective organization using organizational fitness profiling and other change methodologies. Parker knows that as Whitbread continues to grow, both internally and through acquisitions, the company will have to change its organization... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration
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  • February 2007 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

Banca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance

By: Michael Chu and Jean Hazell
Three leading Latin American microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCION investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: History; Microfinance; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development; Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
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  • January 1986 (Revised March 1997)
  • Case

Horizon Group

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of a situation confronting the co-founder of a company planning to produce software for microcomputers. The company has just completed raising money from some wealthy investors by forming an R&D Limited Partnership. Development of the program (an... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Business Plan; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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  • 10 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & C. Jason Woodard
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

modeling financial returns of customer DERs, such as behind-the-meter batteries and smart thermostats. Dennis' role prior to HBS was a Strategy Manger, Global Operations at Google. Nabig Chaudhry (MBA 2024, Section J), Summer Internship:... View Details
  • Research Summary

Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

organization. 8 weeks, 4-5 hrs/week Pay by September 11 $1,850 Certificate Winning with Digital Platforms Professor Feng Zhu Explore digital platforms' unique properties, opportunities, and risks, and develop scalable View Details
  • October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
  • Case

eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin Kohler
Launched as an eBay for services, eLance promises to leverage the capabilities of the Internet to not only change the way services are bought and sold, but change the fundamental dynamics of the global economy. Building on theories posited in the HBR article by Tim... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Job Search; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Web Sites; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry
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  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

Malcolm P. McLean, a truck driver, fundamentally transformed the centuries-old shipping industry, an industry that had long decided that it had no incentive to change. By developing the first safe, reliable, and cost effective approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
  • 19 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

they were more likely to accept it even though they couldn’t tell what was behind it. Their resulting stocking decisions were 26 percent closer to the recommendation than the average choice. Why? Because they trusted their own peers who had worked with the programmers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • November 2019
  • Supplement

Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL

By: Chiara Farronato, Alan MacCormack and Sarah Mehta
This multimedia supplement accompanies the case “Innovation at Uber: the Launch of Express POOL” (case no. 619-003). Set in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This multimedia supplement... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; California; San Francisco
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  • 26 Nov 2021
  • News

How to Build Stronger Relationships With Colleagues in the Zoom Era

  • 11 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

Corporate Strategy Development group and that was really life changing for me. I hadn't realized that corporate strategy at a place like Nike existed,” Leahy says. Nike was... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

focused on devices and three on e-commerce. Given his lead role in these inventions, we surmise that Bezos has developed expertise in e-commerce and devices, two of Amazon’s core business areas. This perhaps isn’t surprising, given Bezos’... View Details
Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

developing his strategy for Zensar against a backdrop of a rapidly changing IT industry. Kishore, a strong proponent of digitizing business processes in order to increase productivity and revenue, wants to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman