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  • January 2018
  • Case

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States; Canada
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  • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; CivicTech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Canada
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  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Out of work for a year following a serious illness in 1993, Kjeld appointed a five-person management team to help him run the company when he returned. The group focused mainly on driving growth. When a benchmarking study revealed LEGO's global name recognition was on... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

others in its industry increase a firm's propensity to engage in practices consistent with the aims of the related social movement. Similarly, in the realm of public politics, threats of state regulations targeted at a firm's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Zealand's Marine Cluster (2009) Nicaragua The Nicaraguan Coffee Cluster (2006) Nigeria Lagos ICT Services Cluster (2017) Nollywood — The Nigerian Film Industry (2008) Nigeria Financial Services (2008) Norway Norway’s Fish and Fish... View Details
  • Web

Aldrich Hall | About

eliminated from the 1920s campus construction for economic reasons, and growing enrollments in the wake of World War II stretched the limits of provisional facilities in Baker and Carpenter Halls. With extensive input from Dean Donald K.... View Details

    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction
    • 30 Nov 2021
    • In Practice

    What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
    • August 2019
    • Case

    Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search

    By: Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan
    Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... View Details
    Keywords: Search Technology; Customer Acquisition; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Technology Industry; Israel
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    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    how one CEO we’ve talked with builds in multiple perspectives to his decision-making. At his industrial products company, he has established bi-weekly meetings with his senior team focused on two questions: What do we know now that we... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
    • September 2009
    • Article

    The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders

    By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
    Technology management poses particular challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business Education; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment; Communication; Curriculum and Courses; Framework; Design; Goals and Objectives; Learning; Information Technology Industry
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    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Book

    The New History of American Capitalism

    property come into being and inflect material and ideological life. The study of finance as a concept constructed by law and naturalized by economics is one theme that the new history of American capitalism emphasizes and that exemplifies... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • Web

    Greenhill House | About

    stucco and brick office building was designed in the Georgian Revival-style by McKim, Mead & White as part of the original 1920s campus plan, though construction was delayed for financial reasons until 1965, during the tenure of Dean... View Details
    • Web

    Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

    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... View Details
    • Web

    The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

    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... View Details
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    Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

    of this sort could be a valuable addition to many if not most companies in at least five ways: as a source of knowledge and expertise, as a sounding board and constructive critic, as a driver of accountability, as a stimulus for... View Details
    • August 1975 (Revised July 1983)
    • Case

    Lincoln Electric Co.

    By: Norman A. Berg
    Covers the strategy and management practices of the world's largest manufacturer of welding equipment. Discusses the compensation system and company culture, and the leadership style of management. View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Compensation and Benefits; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 2006
    • Working Paper

    Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning

    To date, little research has been done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Business or Company Management; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Planning; Electronics Industry
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    • March 1995 (Revised March 2001)
    • Case

    The Black & Decker Corporation (A): Power Tools Division

    By: Robert J. Dolan
    Presents Black & Decker's performance against a Japanese competitor and others in the power tools market. Black & Decker is anxious to regain its market share leadership in particular segments of the market. View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Competition; Globalization; Construction Industry; Construction Industry
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    • Web

    Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    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... View Details