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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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  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

foreign executives conducting calls in English. New research by Assistant Professors Gwen Yu and François Brochet provides guidance to executives speaking to investors in any language. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts edited View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

HBS Press Books in Brief

they must do to reshape their businesses for the 21st century. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, presents a revolutionary model for... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • March 2004 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Akamai Technologies

By: Benjamin Edelman, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Eric J. Van den Steen
As the leading content delivery network, Akamai helps Internet companies deliver Web site content to end users with fewer delays and lower costs. Describes the strategic management challenges facing Akamai in early 2004. The company is poised to offer its next... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure
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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism edited by Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani (Edward Elgar Inc.) This selection of articles includes historical research on the role of entrepreneurship in creating... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections

of financial records, tax records, and correspondence of George R. Briggs, an automobile dealer of Plymouth, Mass., who handled the Dodge, Nash, Ajax, Austin, and Packard lines. The collection also contains information on relations with... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

Ethics, Economics, and Organizations Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine Service Management Professor James L. Heskett and Associate Professor Gary W. Loveman Entrepreneurship Professors Teresa... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation Course Number 1612 Professor Thomas Eisenmann Professor Shai Bernstein Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Project Applications will be accepted... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Responsibility initiative. Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine emphasized the importance of both ethics and economics for outstanding organizations. They argued... View Details
  • October 2004 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

Rakuten

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Andrew P. McAfee, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Masako Egawa
Rakuten, a native Japanese, e-commerce start-up and highly successful company, is expanding into new categories and new countries. It must figure out how to continue its trajectory of growth and profitability. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Japan
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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

University Elections

Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Directors. Ballots will be mailed View Details
  • 27 Mar 2014
  • News

From Marx to Marketing

Enterprises were over, and was very sorry about that," he recalls. "But that was superseded by my elation that East German people would be freed from the horrible yoke and terror of the Soviet system." For its part, as the world's leading... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Alumni Books

Professional Property Development by John McMahan (MBA ’61) (McGraw-Hill) McMahan addresses the fundamentals of successful property development — marketing, financing, planning, designing, construction, merchandising, and property... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

University Elections

Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Directors. Ballots will be mailed View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

and Organizational Issues Thomas Eisenmann and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Note 812-100 This note discusses the organizational challenges that startups often encounter as they begin to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Harvard Business School

Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

called into question by several significant organizational stumbling blocks. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073   PublicationsAgency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

abroad, he now has plenty of company: More than half of the School's faculty conducts research overseas each year. HBS professor Thomas R. Piper, who also taught in the ISMP program, currently heads two... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna