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- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
products. We also develop next generation type rechargeable battery, fuel cell, solar cell based on our advanced materials. Lydian LabsJoe Rodden, MBA 2022Lydian Labs aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the chemical industry by... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Trade Catalogs National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade... View Details
- August 1998 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jack Wieland and Chad M. M Raube
On February 20, 1997, FairMarket, an Internet-based business-to-business auction site, was launched. CEO, founder Scott Randall, drew on his experience building Internet businesses at NECX Direct, Yahoo, and Internet Shopping Network to build his business. This case,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Debates; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Management Style; Product Launch; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Jack Wieland, and Chad M. M Raube. "FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect." Harvard Business School Case 399-006, August 1998. (Revised June 2000.)
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
in the world of digital communications will lie not in knowing how to engineer big technological breakthroughs but in how to develop products and services by creatively combining new and existing... View Details
- Web
The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology
find sustained market growth amidst digital advancements. The focus is on CEO Jeff Clarke's decision on whether to continue film production or close the factory permanently. Professor Ryan Raffaelli on location at Kodak headquarters in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
from outside the United States last year, proving the company’s standing as a truly global entity. And Immelt has made it a priority to ensure that the ranks of upper management reflect this new reality. “The way we train our people is global, and the way we View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
have been struggling for years to develop new products that don't rely on movie tie-ins. How can this be? "Inside the large manufacturers you've got middle managers who want to put forward only those... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
Ventures, Defy Partners, Greycroft, and Lerer Hippeau. Prima said it will use the funding to continue product development and support operations. The company sells its products... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
internal workings of organizations, tending to ignore the larger market forces that affect them. "Today, however," says HBS professor Michael Jensen in the introduction to his latest book, Foundations of Organizational Strategy, "technological and historical View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
alternative collaborative modes should be driven by a number of factors including characteristics of the technology, the capabilities of the firm, and the distribution of competences in the environment. We develop a set of guidelines for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S. View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
coauthors on this paper was connected to the manufacturing sector of India. We studied how the GQ project affected the productivity of incumbent plants and the growth of new entrants. The GQ was very important for the manufacturing View Details
- September 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
RailTex, Inc. (A)
By: Norman A. Berg and James Weber
By 1992, RailTex, Inc., had acquired and was operating 23 geographically separate short-line railroads (feeder lines for larger railroads) in Mexico, Canada, and primarily in the United States. Founded in 1977 with $500,000 of capital as a railcar leasing company, the... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Divisions; Cost Management; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Systems; Product Marketing; Logistics; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation
Berg, Norman A., and James Weber. "RailTex, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-033, September 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
details of his theories regarding economic development and international financial interactions, as well as his indebtedness to earlier Renaissance traditions. The book also uncovers new material relating to Serra’s life and provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
assuming that all customers are shoppers leads to overestimating their overall price sensitivity. Big lessons from a simple product In the context of retail gas, which many consumers view as a standardized product, a station’s location... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
In the online marketplace, oodles of retailers and developers rely on “platforms” such as Amazon.com, the Apple App Store, Facebook, and Twitter to get their products and services into the hands of users.... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne