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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
though there is more complexity around managing an international venture capital firm, there are great benefits to understanding what’s happening in other geographies. A simple example is how much there is to be learned from emerging Internet View Details
- January 2014 (Revised April 2025)
- Teaching Note
The PGA Tour
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 714-442, 714-443, 714-444, 714-445, 714-446, 714-447. View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
change can level the playing field. Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Out of the Valley
Episode 1: The Camel and the Unicorn Why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing it startup dominance—and what that could mean for the future of innovation. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Episode 2: A Creator in the Era of View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
numbers one never thinks about, even though they play a crucial role in most aspects of life. Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal by Mark W. Johnson (MBA ’96) (Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
content—including no disruptive advertising. “We’re not trying to eradicate YouTube,” says Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor (MBA 2004). “We’re offering creators a different environment and business View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
to make sure you are selling items that have good profit margin. That is critically important. So it's taking a cold hard look at your business and asking, are there enough people who are going to continue to buy your goods in a store... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
like Ameritrade and Charles Schwab. Although not mentioned in his book, The Innovator's Dilemma, one has to ask the question of whether leading business schools, including the Harvard Business School, fall... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
hockey-stick returns. “We believe that in every technological disruption you have to have hand-in-hand capital model disruption and business... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968
By: Amar Bhidé
This case history analyzes how the founders of McKinsey & Co. built one of the world's leading management consulting firms by developing a “system” of professional norms, approach to serving clients, personnel policies, organization, governance, and ownership. The... View Details
Keywords: McKinsey ＆ Co.; Company History; Professional Norms; Vision; Organizations; Business History; Business Model; Strategy; Consulting Industry
Bhidé, Amar. "Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 95-010, January 1995. (Revised July 2020.)
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210021-PDF-ENG ZINK Imaging: Zero InkTM William A. Sahlman, and Sarah Greene FlahertyHarvard Business School Case 810-050 "ZINK Imaging" describes the issues confronting CEO Wendy Caswell as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
Giovanna Abramo (MBA 2022) spent the last three years prior to HBS working at Bain & Company in Mexico City where she worked on performance improvement, strategy, and operational model redesign projects across industries like consumer... View Details
- May 2017
- Supplement
Betfair (D)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, John Heilbron and Neil Campbell
Betfair reconsiders its approach to international gambling markets amid regulatory uncertainty. View Details
Keywords: Betfair; Exchange; Betting; Leisure Industry; Laws and Statutes; Business Model; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Europe
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, John Heilbron, and Neil Campbell. "Betfair (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-519, May 2017.
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
what Alex calls the “camel approach”—a sort of counter to the Silicon Valley unicorn model. Lazarow: It is this notion of building sustainability and resilience into the business model from day one. Of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2009
- News
Last Look - March 2009
Our thanks to HRPBA ’60-ers Sandy Krickovic Self and Nancy Needham Merrill, who recognized themselves as the second and third models in the photo. Self wrote: “In Malcolm McNair’s Marketing class, we were studying the women’s retail... View Details
- January 2022
- Supplement
Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (B)
By: Ariel D. Stern, Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
Set in early 2020, this (B) case provides an update to the (A) case (no. 622-009) and provides additional context regarding the challenges facing Somatus. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Management; Strategy; Business Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; United States; Virginia
Stern, Ariel D., Robert S. Huckman, and Sarah Mehta. "Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 622-045, January 2022.
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
supporting gay and lesbian rights, and saving the rainforest. I'd like to see more companies copy our business model and become advocates for social change." Working Assets' charitable-donation model,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- April 2018 (Revised May 2018)
- Teaching Note
Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This Teaching Note helps instructors teach the HBS case, “Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant,” (HBS No. 318-104) presenting analysis of the case and a teaching plan to guide classroom discussions. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Innovation; Scaling; Global Corporate Cultures; Global; Cultural Context; Mainstream; Platform Strategies; Ecosystem; Digital; Internet Of Things; Business Model; Change Management; Disruption; Global Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Business Strategy; China
- February 2004
- Case
Aspire Public Schools
Set in the fall of 2003, covers managerial challenges facing the CEO and COO of Aspire Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management company. In operation since 1999 and funded by prominent national foundations and venture philanthropies, Aspire operates 10... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry; California
Leschly, Stig. "Aspire Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 804-114, February 2004.