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June 2024
Teaching Note

Numenta in 2020: The Future of AI

In 2020, Numenta’s co-founder, Jeff Hawkins, completed his pathbreaking research on artificial intelligence. His co-founder and CEO, Donna Dubinsky, had to find a business model to monetize the technology. This teaching note explores the challenges of building a... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Monetization; Strategy; Intellectual Property; AI and Machine Learning; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry

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22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

In 2000, The Entrepreneurial Manager was introduced into the required first-year MBA curriculum. The course—and its presence in the first year—marked an important milestone in the evolution of teaching entrepreneurship at Harvard Business... View Details

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Teaching Fellow, Industrial Organization 1 (Pakes), Harvard University Economics Dept. View Details

June 2020
Teaching Note

Tesla's CEO Compensation Plan

By: Krishna G. Palepu

Teaching Note for "Tesla's CEO Compensation Plan," HBS Case #118-085. View Details

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May 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A), (B), (C), and (D)

By: Doug J. Chung

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 517-090, 517-133, 519-095, and 519-096. View Details

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January 2019 (Revised March 2019)
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Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A) and (B)

By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan, Francois Brochet and Christine Johnson

Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-030 and HBS No. 119-090 View Details

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April 2017
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Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (A, B, C, D)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Nathan Overmeyer

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 417-068, 417-069, 417-070, and 417-071. View Details

Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey

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June 2013
Teaching Note

Bonne Chance

By: Jim Sharpe and Ian Cornell

This is a teaching note related to HBS Case 813049. View Details

Keywords: Turnaround; Turnarounds; Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Cash Flow; Cash; Forecasting; Bank Debt; Distressed Debt; Forecasting and Prediction; Entrepreneurship; Retail Industry; United States

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March 1996 (Revised January 1997)
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Erik Peterson (A) - (E) and Richard Jenkins TN

By: John J. Gabarro and Judith Maas

Teaching Note for (9-494-005), (9-494-006), (9-494-007), (9-494-008), (9-494-009), and (9-494-113). View Details

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Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details

April 2020
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Cambridge Franchise Partners

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

Teaching Note for HBS No. 217-082. Cambridge Franchise Partners (CFP) was established by Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane (both HBS ’15) to pursue a roll-up strategy in the quick service restaurant (QSR) sector. Burger King (BK) approved CFP’s request to become a... View Details

Keywords: Roll-up; Franchise; Franchise Management; Small Firms Management; Franchise Ownership; Small Business; Management; Acquisition

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August 2020
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People Analytics at McKinsey

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Olivia Hull

Teaching note to accompany "People Analytics at McKinsey," HBS No. 418-023. View Details

Keywords: People Analytics; Analytics; Human Resource Management; Business Analytics

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May 1991 (Revised January 2017)
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Turner Construction Co.: Project Management Control Systems

By: Robert Simons

Teaching Note for Turner Construction Company: Project Management Control Systems (190-128) View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Execution; Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Projects; Management; Construction Industry

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By: Ebehi Iyoha

Professor Iyoha teaches the required first-year MBA course The Entrepreneurial Manager. View Details

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By: Rajiv Lal

I will be teaching the First Year Marketing course next year. View Details

Brian L. Trelstad

Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry