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  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

process in jeopardy. At the same time, the company has a second drug, Byetta, in its pipeline. Graham must decide how to manage the company's limited resources while also finalizing another deal that has huge future potential. Graham... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

  PublicationsManagement Accounting: Information for Decision Making and Strategy Execution Authors:Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura, and S. Mark Young Publication:. Pearson Education, Inc., 2011 Abstract An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

Struggles and Standard Chartered Bank: Managing Global Key Accounts Robert G. Eccles and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 411-011 Daren Kemp, a partner at leadership consultancy and executive search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2023
  • News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Scholarship Fund has sent more than 200 local MBA students to Harvard since 1968. The fund has also supported 11 local nonprofit leaders to attend the Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management Program (SPNM) at HBS. In addition, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

and helped take the company public. Along the way, she developed policies that enabled women to thrive at work—telecommuting (before it had a name) and flexible scheduling, among others. “There were no models for how to manage work life... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

outcomes of an organization’s immediate interventions or the ability to affect system-wide change. By graphing the two levels of scale against the two levels of impact, we have constructed a four-quadrant framework. Quadrant #1 focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

Business is about making money, not measuring macho. The scrap heap of business disasters is littered with managers whose ego drive overwhelmed good business sense. Founder and former chief executive Ray... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats patients from many different countries, according to the case. Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb
Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Trends; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Equity; Executive Compensation; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Interviews; Growth and Development Strategy; Ownership Stake; Opportunities; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; New York (city, NY); California; France
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  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

involves designing, launching, and managing teams. And yet teams are fickle. Even as teams become more common at all levels of organizations, a shocking number of them fail to live up to their potential or even to deliver at all. Teams... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

environments. Space Rentals. Retailers can also decide to become quasi real-estate companies that manage the overall merchandising look and feel of the spaces they rent. The UK chain Selfridges and department stores in Japan have employed... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

intended to help address that imbalance. This note provides a roadmap for managers and employees to follow when instituting or facing layoffs. It aims to help managers consider the broader implications that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

students, many of whom would be the first in their family to attend college, to HMS for a three-day immersion program. Ameen says he has a natural inclination for business. At Columbia, he ran a campus laundry service and managed a stock... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

Census II report addresses some of the most important questions facing us as we try to understand the complexity and interdependence among open source software packages and components in the global supply chain,” said Jim Zemlin, View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

  PublicationsThe Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen, and Pavel Zhelyazkov Publication:The Academy of Management Annals (forthcoming) Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

  PublicationsTechnology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders Authors:Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 8, no.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace