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- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About
the best known entrepreneurial ventures of the 20th century, including Apple, Intel, Teledyne, and Scientific Data Systems. Expressing the School’s gratitude at the dedication ceremony, Dean Kim B. Clark observed, “Arthur has helped make possible View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
We are on the cusp of a new millennium; yet the face of corporate power in the United States remains overwhelmingly white. People of color hold less than 1 percent of all senior executive posts. But what about leaders such as Kenneth... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 26 May 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth
Grinnell/SEAs) Even while honing her entrepreneurial skills, Sweeney continued to build new machines. Since coming to Harvard, she’s designed a fleet of spacecraft to clear small debris from low-Earth orbit, a robotic plant to mimic... View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
says. Lessons for business leaders everywhere How do leaders around the world build legacies that last? “My answer would be that just like you think of investing in a physical facility, in new product... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- August 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
VTS
By: Mark Roberge and Michael Roberts
The case raises issues around sales force deployment and management issues in the SaaS industry. Specifically, VTS sells a software product to the real estate industry and has designed a Go-to-Market strategy for what the founders perceive to be the unique... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
But this is a far cry from the PSF CEO, who lives and works among her "shareholders." She passes them in the hall, eats lunch with them, and has to guide them productively to accomplish her objectives. Even if they work in... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
employees. Nikos Mourkogiannis cited four types of purpose that provide “sources of energy” for an organization: Heroism: The desire to change the world and society. Discovery: The challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by entrepreneurs willing to work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
regional franchise of a fast-growing restaurant promotion company, was ultimately successful, named to the Inc 500 list of fastest growing private US companies, and launching Bessalel's 30-year career as an entrepreneur and investor. Bessalel leans on those decades of... View Details
- April 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Kodak (A)
By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Model; Leadership; Disruption; Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
Gavetti, Giovanni M., Rebecca Henderson, and Simona Giorgi. "Kodak (A)." Harvard Business School Case 703-503, April 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- June 2024
- Article
Valuing the Societal Impact of Medicines and Other Health Technologies: A User Guide to Current Best Practices
By: Jason Shafrin, Jaehong Kim, Joshua T. Cohen, Louis P. Garrison, Dana A. Goldman, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joshua Krieger, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Peter J. Neumann, Charles E. Phelps, Melanie D. Whittington and Richard Willke
This study argues that value assessment conducted from a societal perspective should rely on the Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA) framework proposed herein. Recently developed value assessment inventories—such as the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness’s... View Details
Shafrin, Jason, Jaehong Kim, Joshua T. Cohen, Louis P. Garrison, Dana A. Goldman, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joshua Krieger, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Peter J. Neumann, Charles E. Phelps, Melanie D. Whittington, and Richard Willke. "Valuing the Societal Impact of Medicines and Other Health Technologies: A User Guide to Current Best Practices." Forum of Health Economics and Policy 27, no. 1 (June 2024): 29–116.
- October 2019
- Case
Agility Africa
By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
Alcacer, Juan, Caroline M. Elkins, and Esel Çekin. "Agility Africa." Harvard Business School Case 720-357, October 2019.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko and Tarun Khanna
A longstanding literature holds that firms should hire and move talent from the geographic periphery to hubs as a means to create value from human capital. They do so, however, at the risk of losing the worker to rivals located in the same geographic hub,... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Residency; Technology Industry; India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Victoria Sevcenko, and Tarun Khanna. "Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-080, February 2014. (Revised August 2020.)
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
game between buyer and seller in which one's gain is the other's loss. Pricing is at the center of this part. But, there is a second, win-win part of most buyer-seller relationships, including almost all business-to-business relationships. The win-win part often... View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
Carnival has survived—and has even emerged stronger—says Gilson, who chronicled the company’s travails in the new case study Carnival Corporation: Cruising Through COVID-19, co-written with research associate Sarah Abbott. The case... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
firms often hunt for target companies they see as undervalued. By cutting costs or reorganizing, the acquirer can improve productivity and position the firm for profitable operations or a future sale. In some quarters, fears persist that... View Details
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McCulloch Hall | About
included new flooring and ceiling tiles, window repair, low-flow plumbing and fixtures, and upgraded electrical systems. When work was completed in 2009, McCulloch Hall, home to 84 MBA students, was awarded Platinum LEED certification,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
Legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt warned his students and industry executives against “marketing myopia”—that is, adopting an insular marketing approach where the business puts its own needs ahead of... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
Buffalo. We would use the same basic steps to purchase a pen, generator, or a hammer. The point was to use new technology to take advantage of economies of scale. The executive committee for our company met one month to discuss changes... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
social networking industry in 2003, but has been overtaken by MySpace and Facebook. The two options are: 1) offer new features to help members enhance their offline lives, such as arranging events with their friends; and 2) offer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne