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- January 2025
- Case
Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
power of its own wheels. On the contrary, McLean saw several stackable trailers in the hull of the ship. The trailers would need to be constructed of heavy steel so that they could withstand rough seas and protect their contents. They would also have to be View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
and alumni engagement, along other topics, and also ran a design thinking workshop focused on reimagining reunions. On behalf of the current members of the board, in their role as ambassadors to the HBS alumni community, what follows are... View Details
- Web
Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Business School Case, 2023. With Frank Nagle, Maria P. Roche, Nataliya Langburd Wright, and Sarah Mehta. Hugging Face: Serving AI on a Platform , Harvard Business School Case, 2022. With Daniel Yue, Kerry Herman, and Sarah Gulick. AWS and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
concerns—who might be interested in collaborating to make change. Then together, explore how existing work practices may compromise both equity and effectiveness; design small, local experiments to change these practices; monitor the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
start a company after receiving funding from the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship, a program designed to support entrepreneurs at the pre-idea stage. Alongside two former colleagues, I co-founded an on-campus rewards View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
importance of architecture. This theme emerges at multiple levels—in the design of Microsoft's products, its platforms, and its intellectual property. At the product and platform level, the key idea is that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
Principles is designed to help new and aspiring leaders unleash the potential in themselves and others, and cultivate high-performing teams. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes, including self-assessments... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
Meanwhile, starting in 2013, Analog Devices CEO Vince Roche encouraged innovators from the top down and transformed the semiconductor giant into a designer of integrated, strategic systems—including a View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Online Learning Model | HBS Online
Business School faculty and delivered via our innovative online platform designed to bring the HBS classroom to you. Wherever you are in your career—or the world—we can help you achieve your goals. In a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
Global Leaders Maxwell Nii Laryea and his fellow Class of 2024 teammates Nitzan Israel, Arden Kreeger, Charlie Li, and Dylan Soukup saw the cultural differences while developing marketing concepts for Ellie Care, a technology platform... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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For Organizations - Business & Environment
students who want to learn about your company and hear from senior leaders. Organizations are invited to design targeted events in collaboration with clubs. Organizations can also request resume books from any official student club via... View Details
- Web
Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Care Curriculum Health Care Curriculum Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) is a distinctive curriculum developed at Harvard Business School by Professor Michael Porter and a team of colleagues. The VBHCD curriculum, designed... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
rural India.” Danielle Colson MBA 2022 | Co-founder & COO, Mantel “Mantel is developing the first liquid phase materials that capture CO2 at high temperatures. Our molten borate technology enables new process designs that reduce costs by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
understanding, and it has evolved into a course that also teaches design thinking and team effectiveness through practice in the real world. It takes place in the spring of the RC year for all 900-plus students and culminates in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
process and then understand how it works is very difficult, however. Gross showed some creativity in finding an innovative way to do just that. His study looked at graphic design competitions that take place via online View Details
- February 2008 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Weber Shandwick: The Client Relationship Leader Program
By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman
In 2002 Weber Shandwick, a leading global public relations agency, instituted a Client Relationship Leader (CRL) Program for its top 32 global accounts. The purpose of the program is to ensure that all of the firm's resources across geographies, practice areas, and... View Details
Keywords: Blogs; Competency and Skills; Customer Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Advantage; Public Relations Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and Kerry Herman. "Weber Shandwick: The Client Relationship Leader Program." Harvard Business School Case 408-077, February 2008. (Revised December 2011.)