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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
Beryl (MBA 2012) , CEO, Rocketplace Gilles BianRosa (MBA 2001) , Chief Product Officer, N26 Marty Blue , Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Harvard Business School, Car Gurus Nadia Boujarwah (MBA 2013) , Co-Founder & CEO, Dia & Co Caitlin Brumme... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
mainframes. In the field of defense electronics, Lehman Brothers provided capital to Loral Electronics Corporation and supported entrepreneurs such as Charles “Tex” Thorton, who bought Litton Industries. In 1954, the firm issued securities for the Hertz Corporation, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
shareholder in our business. I think we are really showing that horizontal integration and synergies can work. I am also very proud that we are one of the first real cars on the information superhighway. People talk about it a lot, but we... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
A simple view of negotiation presents a cold transaction between what one person has and what the other person is willing to pay for it. If the price is right, the deal gets done. As anyone who has recently bought a car or sold a house... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
existing, conformist cultures. The results are not terribly compelling. These organizational cultures seem mismatched and contradictory—like a car whose front door has been replaced with one of a different color. But many other companies... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
to government estimates. And, in 2020, 3,142 people were killed in car crashes involving distracted drivers. With automation gaining more momentum, Sadun hopes car designers will double down on safety... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
make sure they weren’t getting a dud. “Now it’s a red flag to try to sell a car without proactively offering a CARFAX report. That’s how we’d like to see this go,” says Kennealey. The Question: Nester has received zero pushback on its $87... View Details
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
California families. The result was perhaps a bias toward gaining evidence in support of a predetermined strategy. California is a car culture. Most households undertake a weekly shopping expedition, supplemented with stock-up purchases... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
and children by not only providing medical care, but also working to rehabilitate people’s homes and provide vocational training for parents. She initially shied away from seeking help from the rich and powerful—people she saw as greedy and corrupt, who drove expensive... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
the first time.” As she talks about the tasks queued up ahead, all enabled by this new range of motion, a car cruises down the boulevard four floors below, windows down and stereo cranked. The bass line bounces up the brick-front... View Details
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
are especially suitable for bundling. It also helps if the bundled products work well together, he says. For example, luxury cars such as BMW are often coupled with packages of options that work well together, essentially a mixed bundle.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
reigned in Brazilian military settings. That got even worse when I unexpectedly lost queer people close to me due to targeted violence. Just before getting off the car at the airport on the last day of a trip to my hometown, I told my... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
zero. Consumer confidence has plummeted with the value of 401(k) plans and retirement nest eggs. Retail sales fell 1.2 percent in September, double the expected decline. Car sales are at a fifteen-year low. And credit card defaults look... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
balancing my left and right brain. It probably also explains why my last four cars have been sporty SUVs. —Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Back to top “Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy” J&J was confronted with a major crisis in October... View Details
- Portrait Project
Edo Bedzra
A year ago, I was involved in a car accident on I-95 to New York. The car did not survive. Staring death in the face on a three-lane highway brought new perspectives to me—time is the most powerful currency... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
in my case, that’s probably the largest influence. He had everything from a wrecking yard where they salvaged parts from cars to a machine shop where they rebuilt engines to a distribution supply business. He did lots of things and he did... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
The job's dull and the car is more safe than sporty, but at least you can get a little wild at lunch with a Mango Madness. Given the difference between the two brand identities, it's no surprise that they didn't both thrive under the same... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
lot of companies spend a lot of resources playing defense. We want to play offense, we want to innovate, pilot, template it, build for scale, and go," said Mark Norman (HBS MBA 1994), president and COO of Zipcar, the time-sharing car... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
of law enforcement and the impact you can have. I decided I wanted to learn the heartbeat of the street and know more about that side of life.” The heartbeat of the street can quicken in an instant. At a stoplight on one of El Monte’s main drags, a View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade