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- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
create safer and more effective treatments and, of course, reap profits—industry executives, like hopeful patients, still restlessly wait for relief. Given its scientific potential, said Pisano, biotech continues to bump against several economic barriers that need to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...
career with NeoCare Solutions – a mobile engagement platform that helps parents of NICU babies navigate the NICU and transition home. Interestingly, the business was incubated and is run as a start-up within Healthagen, the innovative View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
acquisition targets, and organizations of all types bid for employees—executives, highly skilled salespersons, and so on. More generally, the research may be relevant to any competitive decision-making context. For example, businesses that compete in a particular View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
that is freely available online—as an input for calculating price changes. In a given industry or category, the most technologically sophisticated company is able to continually undercut its rivals by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
diversified technology company. For Hamilton, this marked the electronics-testing industry’s transition to mature market status — an unwelcome development. “I was bored,” he says. “It was time for a change.” “I said to myself, ‘I’m done... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing standard View Details
- March 2020
- Module Note
Scaling and Sustaining Platform Businesses
By: Feng Zhu
Keywords: Platform Businesses; Platform Disruption; Platforms; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry
Zhu, Feng. "Scaling and Sustaining Platform Businesses." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-108, March 2020.
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
product's projected launch date next year). Will the Apple Watch reinvent wearables the way the iPhone did smartphones? What do those inside the watch industry think of it? For answers, we turned to Harvard Business School Assistant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
always been intriguing to me,” says Carty, which explains his five decades in the field—starting at Air Canada, moving on to American Airlines (where he served as chairman and CEO), and including board stints with Porter Airlines, Virgin America, and Hawaiian Airlines.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
projects and good returns. Project finance — Esty’s specialty and the focus of his course — involves highly leveraged deals and risk-taking, something that has interested Esty since he wrote his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings-and-loan View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Here, alumni and faculty experts weigh in on some of the assumptions about a hyper-connected world. The upgrade to 5G will be revolutionary for consumers. The arrival of 3G, which delivered the iPhone to the world and made it mainstream, was the stuff of real View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
Investments in information technology (IT) are finally beginning to pay off, thanks to the era of the networked computer. So says HBS assistant professor Andrew P. McAfee in an article published in last October's issue of Exec: The... View Details
- August 2016
- Case
CEO Succession at Cisco (A): From John Chambers to Chuck Robbins
By: Boris Groysberg, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Annelena Lobb
A smooth transition from former CEO John Chambers to new CEO Chuck Robbins had put Cisco in a position of strength. Looking back, the board reflected on what they had done well and what they might have done differently, and pondered whether another company might be... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, J. Yo-Jud Cheng, and Annelena Lobb. "CEO Succession at Cisco (A): From John Chambers to Chuck Robbins." Harvard Business School Case 417-031, August 2016.
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Ford Motor Company, and AT&T to multicultural markets. “Even though there are so few people in the industry who look like me, I understand that I should belong, I do belong, and that I have an important contribution to make,” she says.... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
to search, he firmly believes that the more search technology is improved, the faster researchers can find cures for diseases and a host of other societal problems. In brief, search can change the world—and for the better. Born in Paris,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
paramount. "When you went to Harvard Business School, we really knew what we were talking about," he told alumni. "But in the new economy, just about everything we accepted about business is being questioned." Nolan, an expert on general management and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- September 2020 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
Uber: Competing Globally
By: Alexander J. MacKay
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Strategy; Globalization; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation Networks; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai; Shanghai Shi; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; London; England; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding