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  • 20 Jan 2023
  • News

Free Spirits

Pepper invested $50 million in the company, part of a $75 million round announced in 2022, and the company has racked up industry awards in competition against beers with and without alcohol—the larger effect of which has been to carve... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 03 Feb 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  • 11 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Perfecting the Project Pitch

Everyone has a good idea for the next hot start-up or the next great invention. Everyone. Just turn to the person next to you on the subway and ask her; she'll almost certainly detail a can't-miss opportunity. Developing the idea often is... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
  • 20 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and those whose private equity investors had more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

you have to interact with both the thredUP website and its sellers." Clearing The Air A general misunderstanding of how MSPs work has hampered entrepreneurial attempts to create them and venture investments to bankroll them, says Hagiu.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 29 Aug 2023
  • News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
  • March 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Alexis Lefort
In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group of anti-terror cyber specialists, University of Cambridge mathematicians, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Talent; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Cybersecurity; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Europe; United States
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  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

disciplines, where academic research is leading to the development of a second skin that could improve drug delivery or alerting farmers and scientists on how to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural farming. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

developing customers on each side of the platform, it can still lose out. A great example was Microsoft’s failed efforts in smartphones. Microsoft built a very good operating system for smartphones, but it could not crack the market... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets.

By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a... View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Capital Markets; Decisions; Managerial Roles; Financial Institutions; Investment; Market Participation; Public Ownership; Relationships
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  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

2018 Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract— Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

A Taste of Tradition

method-a teaching approach unknown in Japan-continue to guide him, he notes, in overseeing Kikkoman's new business development. He also manages several other departments and subsidiary branches, such as the company's biochemical and research and View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

  Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

Case 516-059 Ocado In 2015, U.K.–based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

a period of financial repression. Nationalization led to lower interest rates and lower quality intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no real impact.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal
In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Decisions; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Finance; Investment; Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Media; Society; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Capital; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
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  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

ROE wheel. We illustrate how to develop accurate estimates for sales, profit, cash flow, investment in new assets, return-on-equity, profitability, and asset turnover. We discuss how to gather and analyze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

in the world. An HBS faculty member’s primary responsibility to students is to educate them, help them develop their leadership skills, and prepare them to graduate. Faculty Interaction: Important components of the HBS educational... View Details