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Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers... View Details

Keywords: software; e-commerce industry; venture capital industry; biotechnology; video games

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Pioneer- Entrepreneurship and Industry Emergence

This set of projects studies entrepreneurship in a creative industry-i.e. high-end fashion in India-with the main aim of understanding industry emergence and the role of pioneer-entrepreneurs.

Fashioning an Industry: How Entrepreneurs and Others... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

four regional offices. Through a program instituted in 2006, many of these patent examiners were allowed to work from home up to four days a week, which gave them flexibility in their schedules. In 2011, the... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Nov 2016
News

Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

locations in India, as one solution. She also explored ways that health care products can be produced at lower costs, making them accessible to larger populations, while working for a Boston-based medical technology company during the... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

business but also as a determinant of wealth and poverty, they will find a way back to becoming leading participants in the debates over the fundamental question of what makes an economy grow. 2. Innovation.... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

them "data whisperers") is so acute that it may be years before a sufficient supply can be trained. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 190,000 are needed now in the US, along with 1.5 million managers capable View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

technological innovations that improved the efficiency and speed of work in agriculture, manufacturing, communications, and transportation as well as advances in newly developing fields in science and... View Details

Jeremy Yang

Jeremy Yang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Marketing in the MBA required curriculum. He develops data products for... View Details

Keywords: advertising; media; entertainment; information; consumer products

November 2000
Case

Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)

Describes the evolution of Wit Capital from its origins as a small brewery to an online investment bank advising both small technology-based companies seeking to raise capital and large companies seeking to acquire Internet companies, as well as offering retail... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship

December 2006 (Revised April 2014)
Case

J. R. D. Tata

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson

J.R.D Tata, Chairman of the Indian conglomerate Tata & Sons, played a significant role in building India's economic infrastructure. Under his guidance, Tata & Sons built locomotives, steel refineries, airlines, chemical plants, and technology-based enterprises.... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Development Economics; Working Conditions; Leadership; Infrastructure; Personal Development and Career; Business and Government Relations; India

01 Feb 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

attempt to define the characteristics of "good" programs in order to understand how best to structure, deliver, and price new ones. Benchmarking against sister institutions will help define what the market... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

graduates indicated a vast disconnect between the School's resources and the perceptions of students and recent alumni. The committee proposes instituting targeted presentations by senior faculty to current... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

January 2020
Case

Celata Bioinnovations

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In December 2019, Jon Hu (HBS ‘19) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process.... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

edited by Ted A. Adams "When you study the tire industry," HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow told a Class Day audience of graduating MBAs last June, "you are confronting the meaning of life." A distinguished... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

their cue from alumni feedback, the organizers have assembled a first-rate roster of HBS faculty members who will present their latest research in one of four timely areas: Managing Innovation, the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

September 2010 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel

By: Karthik Ramanna and Rachna Tahilyani

The case describes the challenges faced by Tata Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS. It first describes those challenges in the context of the institutional voids that make IFRS adoption difficult in India.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Steel Industry; India