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- February 2025
- Supplement
eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell
The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
NOWaccount
By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley
It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details
Nanda, Ramana, William A. Sahlman, and Lauren Barley. "NOWaccount." Harvard Business School Case 814-048, October 2013. (Revised August 2016.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality
By: Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III
This paper analyzes changes in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services (A&MS) industry using publicly released data that have been largely ignored in past discussions of the industrial organization of this industry, namely those available... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Mergers and Acquisitions; Revenue; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Rank and Position; Competition; Advertising Industry; Service Industry; United States
Silk, Alvin J., and Charles King III. "Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-044, September 2008.
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
difference. . . ." Fernando das Neves Gomes suggests that "If ways are found . . . in the classroom . . . [to address issues such as] how to win real clients, how to deal with competition—then the courses will become closer to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
beyond a few photos on the course website, but several gadget aficionado blogs found the photos and linked to them. The buzz went viral, eventually garnering Clocky a photo on the front page of the L.A. Times, a mention in Jay Leno's... View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
It was founded by Rockefeller and Ikea foundations and the Bezos Earth Fund. GEAPP launched at COP26 with aligned investments of $10B+. It is an alliance of preeminent philanthropic, government, donor, multilateral development banks,... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
propositions that most people consider prudent " Duncan Watts himself found it "surprisingly hard to pin down. Roughly speaking, it is the loosely organized set of facts, observations, experiences, insights, and pieces of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Lecturer of Business Administration Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities... View Details
- 03 May 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo
that she might not have felt as comfortable with otherwise, like following her passion to found and build The Partnership, a sustainable social enterprise that has forever changed the fabric of Boston’s business community, especially for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
planning, sports, empowering women, and the digital frontier. “We introduced several new panels for this edition of the event, and personally, I found the exploration of soft power particularly intriguing,” says Lootah. “This panel delved... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
was punching above their weight," says Werker. When they did so, a small number of demographically similar countries came out on top. The Small, The Rich, The Nordic "We found a handful of smaller, richer democracies most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
tailored therapies based on gene targeting feels like the promised land. A patient doing what she can today While potential therapies for HHT feel more tenable today than ever before, I found I could not sit on the sidelines. I never... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
challenges of poverty, under-resourced schools, and limited opportunity. He found his way to college, Wall Street, and HBS, then started his own investment firm, Southwest Harvard Group, before returning home, determined to give back to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
many users like Judy who, having archived her data and deleted her account, found that, “The interesting thing is that I only missed the site for one or two days.” Dyl suggested that the company should move on several fronts, including... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
my research on platforms, including Airbnb, Facebook, Instagram, Yelp, and Wayfair. There are lots of exciting opportunities beyond platforms as well. For example, one company recently found that increasing pay for lower-wage employees... View Details
- Profile
Ramya Sundar
for the first time here. Being part of the HBS community is like... ...being part of a truly global community. I’ve met some incredible people here at HBS. Even though social interactions have been impacted to a certain extent due to COVID this year, we have View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
Black identity. All emails were identical except sometimes, Demarcus specifically referenced his identity (“As a Black man ”), while other times he did not. The researchers found that students were up to 80 percent more likely to offer to... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
found six managerial barriers that hindered communication from lower levels getting to the top, among them ineffectiveness of the leadership team. “Unvarnished employee and stakeholder feedback is key in uncovering those barriers so that... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program
to music on a physiological and psychological level, and applying such knowledge to harness the medicinal value of music for improvement of the human condition. Despite my doubts, I found myself rather curious about the program. In the... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel