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  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

Design Institute address these trends? KL: Our aspiration is to help invent the future of capitalism. Let’s figure out how companies can operate ethically with digital technologies and how we can get all of... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • July 2001 (Revised December 2001)
  • Case

American Express Interactive

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Follows the protagonist, Sonia Sharpe, as she and her American Express Interactive Team attempt to develop and market an interactive, on-line, corporate travel service in a highly competitive environment. Looks at the possible resources and partnerships a company needs... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Global Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Vertical Integration; Financial Services Industry; Travel Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Will K. Kellogg

    Kellogg invented corn flakes and created a breakfast cereal empire. Practicing pioneering advertising techniques, he managed to change the American breakfast style. Today, the Kellogg Company carries on the... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 26 Apr 2011
    • Op-Ed

    HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

    Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
    • July – August 2011
    • Article

    Evolve (Again)

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Frenzy over social networks and interactive media can produce equally overhyped predictions that everything will change, not to mention money-losing investments in silly ventures. Separating enduring strategic lessons from the hype can help avoid a new crash. Hint: the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships
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    • 16 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

    great customer service is no longer the responsibility of just one department. Creating the customer-centric organization. (12,182 visits) What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style Researchers use machine-learning to look for links between a CEO's... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 6

    Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2025
    • Case

    AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

    By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
    Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Business Finance; Data Analysis; Angel Investors; Cognitive Biases; Scale; Venture Capital; Investment; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Public Opinion; Private Sector; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; London; United Kingdom
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    • summer 1984
    • Article

    Innovation: Our Only Hope for Times Ahead?

    By: R. M. Kanter
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention
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    • 12 Jul 2022
    • News

    Expanding the Power to Prosper

    After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in... View Details
    Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
    • 22 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 22

    on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Mar 2008
    • News

    Faculty Research Online

    currently practiced, contributes much to creativity and innovation, says Professor Emeritus Jim Heskett. What changes will allow managers, particularly in larger organizations, to add value to the creative process? Visit... View Details
    Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management
    • 01 Sep 2008
    • News

    Faculty Books

    Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
    • December 2018
    • Case

    Choosy

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Julia Kelley
    Founded in 2017, Choosy is a data-driven fashion startup that uses algorithms to identify styles trending on social media. After manufacturing similar items using a China-based supply chain, Choosy sells them to consumers through its website and social media pages.... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Machine Learning; Neural Networks; Instagram; Influencer; Fast Fashion; Design; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Production; Logistics; Business Model; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Social Media; Technology Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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    • 01 Dec 2001
    • News

    A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

    Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
    • 17 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

    innovate in batteries. In the process, Asia became the hub for innovation in the design and manufacturing of compact, high-capacity, rechargeable, lithium ion batteries, a... View Details
    Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
    • July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
    • Case

    Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)

    By: Willy Shih
    "This trial is going to take longer." Those were words that Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, was not surprised to hear as he nurtured the intraoperative radiotherapy business inside his company's microsurgery unit. But he also didn't expect it to take 13 years to... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Business History; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Research and Development; Safety
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    • 01 Sep 2008
    • News

    Faculty Research Online

    governance and financial incentives as well as organizational processes that strengthen ethical discipline, says Professor Emeritus Malcolm Salter. His new book, Innovation Corrupted: The Origins View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools