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  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Passion & Purpose

photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and... View Details
Keywords: awards; Finance; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

How I Got to Google

up with Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) to gain some insider knowledge of a role cited by the Wall Street Journal for its coveted status among MBAs. Ramaswami, a senior product manager at Google (where he worked for nearly six years before... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ready, Set, Launch

magical event—a solution that matches the problem,” Eisenmann says. “And after you have that solution, you can step on the gas pedal.” Return to Tomorrow, Transformed View Details
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54036 August 23, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost By: French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Faculty News

Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn... View Details
Keywords: reunions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Oct 2024
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

purpose of the firm in society and how this can generate new models of capitalism. The day’s programming closed with a series of updates on entrepreneurship at HBS, with presentations from Thomas Eisenmann... View Details
  • April 2008 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Visions of Web 3.0

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero
Explores the Semantic Web, a vision for the next generation of the World Wide Web in which information is stored in machine-readable formats. While the Semantic Web would make information more easily accessible, barriers to its adoption are very high because website... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web
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  • March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Blackout: August 14, 2003

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ryland Matthew Willis
On August 14, 2003, an electricity blackout cascaded throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. Describes the structure, technology, and economics of the electric utility industry and how gradual deregulation beginning in the 1970s placed unprecedented, and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Infrastructure; Energy Sources; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Emerging Markets; Failure; Economics; Utilities Industry; Canada; Northeastern United States
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  • October 2000
  • Teaching Note

StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution TN

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
Teaching Note for (9-800-166). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

BET.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer
Black Entertainment Television, a leading cable programmer, is launching BET.com, an Internet portal targeted toward African-Americans. This case examines the challenges facing BET management as it defines its service offerings and target customer segments in a... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Ethnicity; Internet and the Web; Age; Race; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • February 2000 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

CNET 2000

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer
CNET's managers explain the strategic analysis that led to their decision to increase their annual marketing budget from $1 million to $100 million. CNET is an online information intermediary that helps consumers make purchase decisions about PC hardware and software,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Strategy; Decisions; Growth and Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Divisions; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Consumer Behavior; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry
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  • October 2000
  • Teaching Note

Petstore.com TN

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Abby J. Hansen PHD
Teaching Note for (9-801-044). View Details
Keywords: Retail Industry
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  • 5 Feb 2013
  • Conference Presentation

Financing Entrepreneurial Growth

By: Tom Alberg, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler and Sharon Vosmek

Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital.

The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
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  • March 2023
  • Case

Interior Collab

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
After venture capital-funded online interior design agency Homepolish collapsed, its former freelance designers met to discuss next steps. The bitter experience led some of them to create a workers’ collaborative called Interior Collab. The founding members needed to... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Employee Ownership; Trust; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
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  • August 2020
  • Teaching Note

Updating Dating

By: Scott Duke Kominers, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alan Lam
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 818-052. View Details
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  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2000
  • Teaching Note

Sendwine.com TN

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Abby J. Hansen PHD
Teaching Note for (9-800-211). View Details
Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry
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  • October 2000
  • Teaching Note

Priceline Webhouse Club TN

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Abby J. Hansen PHD
Teaching Note for (9-800-287). View Details
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  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Quick Studies

articles here: Carla E. Small–A Mother's Work David M. Hughes–Civic Whirlwind Thomas C. Høegh–All the Worlds's a Stage Taylor R. M. Keen–Against the Current Ronald P. Mitchell–Family Values Jennifer L.... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

the model before tackling the more competitive cities that the traveler-oriented services are blanketing. Testing a few big markets periodically will help confirm whether the return is greater by sticking to small and medium in the near... View Details