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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
In the last few years, the landscape for online learning has changed dramatically. Using new and ever more powerful technologies, the market is shifting rapidly, with many dozens of organizations, aggregators, and educational institutions... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
service targeted at an established market, then rapid market entry and a quick sellout provide the best chances for success. For an entrepreneur wanting to build a business over time, the odds can be... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, our 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win their local regions. On April 23, they travel to campus to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
readers weighed in on a question posed by KitNipBox cofounder and CEO Deena Malkina (MBA 2008): How could the monthly subscription service for cat owners erect sustainable barriers to entry to the market and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
utility vehicles and tractors for the Indian market in the 1950s. Today, it is a $6.6 billion enterprise involved in many activities, including information technology, logistics, infrastructure development, and financial services, as well... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture Contest. Clubs in Boston, Brazil, Chicago, Germany, India, New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
worries about losing focus on the hospitality business. The other side of that: If those pilots prove successful, they could open up a new core business. And with the market getting crowded—with heavies like Samsung and Philips making... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
infrastructure may be an unexpected burden, but it represents a strong opportunity to build entry barriers for future competitors. This is the story of Sabritas (Frito-Lay Mexico), Bimbo, and other power brands and billion-dollar firms in... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
anyone access to content; US-based Jupiter, the leading provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk and resilience; and Unifa, which provides AI technology that helps childcare providers track intellectual growth among children and facilitates the View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
counts thousands of members throughout New England and New York, a market that Cummings believes could support 100,000 customers or more. In the last year, Cummings hired sectionmate Philip Giampietro as CFO, a signal of the company’s... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
and expertise as a former marketing executive for Ann Taylor and Nickelodeon, Cycle for Survival to date has directly funded over a dozen clinical trials and studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. "Jen was a leader extraordinaire, a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
imperative. IBM’s “new collar” program is one example on a large corporate scale; it creates points of entry for people who lack traditional credentials. The pool of people in this category is vast: Any job posting that requires... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
entrepreneurs precisely because I know the risks. I think you should not do it precipitously. There's an aphorism in our industry that CEO is the new analyst, because a lot of young people want to be startup CEOs as opposed to taking traditional View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
two-sided marketplace, it must achieve a critical mass of both employers and employees in each market to be successful, an endeavor that takes time and resources. Focusing on a small number of states would allow the company to prove the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
challenges traditional views about the source of Japan's competitive success. Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, head of the unit's required course, Competition and Strategy, focuses on strategic commitments - decisions that involve significant amounts of irreversibility, such... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
which panelists discussed the integration of financial markets and collaboration among different players in technology sectors as evidence of the power of globalization. Attendees could then choose one of several panel discussions that... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's research... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
2001). “The state of the market has made for a more serious tone on campus, and that was reflected in this year’s conference. MBAs are never afraid to ask tough questions, and the Cyberposium provided a forum for students and industry... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
headlines and rack up revenues in the billions, a number of smaller U.S. companies — some publicly traded, others privately owned — refuse to be overshadowed. However modest their comparative size, their market share still reaches into... View Details