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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Alumni Books

Professional Property Development by John McMahan (MBA ’61) (McGraw-Hill) McMahan addresses the fundamentals of successful property development — marketing, financing, planning, designing, construction, merchandising, and property View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • November 1997 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

MicroAge, Inc.: Orchestrating the Information Technology Value Chain

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kirk A. Goldman
MicroAge, Inc. started as a storefront in Tempe, AZ in 1976 selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. During their first year of operation, founders Jeff McKeever and Alan Hald sold $1.5 million worth of computer kits, priced at under $1,000 each. Twenty years... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Growth Management; Risk Management; Product; Opportunities; Horizontal Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Arizona
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  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

produce a machine based on the recently developed process named xerography. Invented by the patent lawyer Chester Carlson, xerography involved a process by which images were transferred from one piece of paper to another by means of static electricity. Rapid View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets with nationalized banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Books

Implementing Strategy. "There's the question of profit and growth versus control, for instance, or short-term results versus long-term capabilities. Managers today are involved in a very delicate balancing... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2008
  • Teaching Note

Marketing Chateau Margaux (TN)

By: John A. Deighton and Leyland Pitt
Teaching Note for [507033]. View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Management Teams; Distribution; Sales; Market Entry and Exit; Price; Luxury; Demand and Consumers; Growth and Development Strategy; Governance Controls; Food and Beverage Industry; France
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  • April 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

The Container Store

By: Tatiana Sandino, Zeynep Ton and Aldo Sesia
The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its employees first, and its cofounder and CEO Kip Tindell practices Conscious Capitalism. Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Conscious Capitalism; Merchandising; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Service Delivery; Going Public; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry; United States
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  • January 2009 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT'

By: Willy Shih
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is executing a strategy that leverages the desires of municipalities in China to build clusters of high technology companies. By partnering with those cities to build new semiconductor fabs that SMIC would... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Semiconductor Industry; China
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  • December 2005 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

NewSchools Venture Fund in 2004: At a Crossroads

By: Stacey M. Childress and Caroline Joan King
Founded as one of the first venture philanthropy organizations in the United States in 1998, NewSchools Venture Fund brought new investors and new ideas to public education reform. By 2004, the organization and its founder were reassessing their model and their role in... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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  • Web

History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

entrepreneurs moving their organizations from start-up to growth phase. 2019 Celebrated SEI's 25th anniversary with the Frontiers of Change convening of over 300 alumni, faculty, leaders in the field, students and staff. Published... View Details
  • 16 May 2017
  • News

Facing the Board

of things. The 72 alumni were among 400 who returned to campus to join 936 students for the inaugural HBS Boardroom, a new RC capstone experience that includes first-year student teams presenting case-based management decisions to alumni... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom
  • Profile

Mariano Bomaggio

the career front, so I came to HBS to explore them. I saw it as a perfect way to discover what I really enjoy within different industries and places to work." In his finance classes, Mariano has been exposed to "how managers... View Details
Keywords: Tech; Manufacturing/Energy
  • January 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

The Credit Suisse Group

By: Ashish Nanda and Kelley Elizabeth Morrell
On September 19, 2002, Lukas Muhlemann announced that he would step down as chairman and CEO of the Credit Suisse Group, effective January 1, 2003. The bank had progressed from a small Swiss start-up 150 years ago to a global banking powerhouse. Over the past 5 years,... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Management Succession; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Switzerland
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  • June 2000 (Revised September 2000)
  • Case

Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of Digital Business Infrastructure

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

India's economic growth is an exciting new playing field for the retail industry and for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, a panel of that country's businessmen agreed. Rising incomes, increased advertising, and a jump... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

being able to put the team in place," as she put it, Polished could not take root. But by last December, Polished seemed closer to its initial destination. Rhyne had secured a lease at Boston's Logan Airport, begun building the first Polished center, added an... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg