Publications

March 2010 (Revised November 2010)
Case

Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?

By: Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia Tecco

Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers in order to get his costs down, but Westergren is not sure that such actions are consistent with his company's business model.... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Customer Satisfaction; Music Entertainment; Venture Capital; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Internet; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Web

Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

Market Maps Explore relevant Frost & Sullivan reports: The Future of Mental Health Management Emerging Digital Health Technology Innovations Transforming Mental Health Care Growth Opportunities in Mental and... View Details

March 8, 2008
Comment

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

By: John A. Quelch

The signs of an imminent recession are all around us. The spillover from the subprime mortgage crisis is weakening both consumer confidence and the consumer spending—much of it on credit—that has been buoying the U.S. economy. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Recession; Products And Sales; Core Values; Fluctuation; Volatility; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Growth and Development; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Risk and Uncertainty; Salesforce Management; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America

Read Now

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

communicate and made abbreviations like RT (retweet) and ICYMI (in case you missed it) part of the lingo of Twitter users everywhere. What to make of all this? Senior Lecturer Chet Huber, who joined the School's General Management unit... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

wasn't just a school - it was a business, where one could apply business concepts such as fiscal management and marketing strategies. However, he also had to remember that a nonprofit was a very different kind of operation from most... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh

As Migros, one of Turkey’s largest grocery chains, forays into online groceries, the company faces operational challenges related to inventory management, fulfillment and last mile delivery and strategics questions related to growing in an ecosystem with rapidly... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Management; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey

October 1990 (Revised May 1994)
Case

Confederated Pulp & Paper

By: David E. Bell

A rewritten version of an old case that updates the dates and prices and simplifies the economics. The issue is still one of determining a suitable inventory of wood for the mill to last through the winter. View Details

Keywords: History; Supply Chain Management; Spending; Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Growth; Information Management; Pulp and Paper Industry

October 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Case

PlanetTran

By: Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy

PlanetTran is an environmentally-friendly car service that utilizes a fleet of hybrid cars in providing livery service to corporations and individuals. The founder, Seth Riney, is evaluating outside funding options in order to expand the company, and has met several... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Venture Capital; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Expansion; Value

Web

Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)

of a sudden I became the credit manager in the worst economic times we'd had since the Depression. I'M THE ONLY PERSON in my family who didn't grow up in Seattle. I've always felt I can walk away anytime, even today. IT'S A MISCONCEPTION... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Seattle Times Company; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Information

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Jeremy Lipstein

working with an up-and-coming company wrestling with the management challenges that come with growth." In fact, the internship became a field study in Jeremy's Elective Curriculum year, in which he and three other classmates are... View Details

29 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact

recycler in Texas. It’s a company that has been family-owned for 25 years, with a vibrant, strong management team, but the owners are ready to step back and the company has a lot of growth opportunities to... View Details

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Carlos Coto

Carlos joined his fifty-odd HBS colleagues on the India IXP, where the focus was on "the technology and infrastructure necessary to sustain growth in an emerging market." That theme resonates with Carlos' own ambitions.... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

downturn, if and when it does come, will be cyclical. “The growth we’ve seen is a self-sustaining proposition based on a global competitive advantage in particular industries,” says Ramnath of ICICI, while citing the ever-present... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

September 2023 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab

By: George Serafeim and Michael Norris

In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo