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  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one mountain peak to another through... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Cash Out Josh Lerner and James Mason “In November 2020, the co-founders of DigiPlex study the future growth trajectory of their Nordic data center venture. A critical question was on the agenda: was now finally the right time to sell... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

technological sophistication, and, as claimed in a recent, well publicized lawsuit, gender? My inspiration for these rants is Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76), co-founder of Intuit and a true disruptor. From its founding Intuit, quickly became... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The company's first promising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909033 Clutch Group: Should Abhi Shah Grab This Opportunity? Harvard Business School Case 809-065 Abhi Shah ('06), co-founding CEO of Clutch Group in the U.S. and Bangalore, must decide whether to risk a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 10

of metrics to describe TV programs and broadcast advertising. Co-Founder and CEO Deb Roy said: "We want to measure audience engagement, not just media consumption." But what was the value of audience engagement? How could it be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

or is it still too early?" Dick Costolo wondered as he reflected on the latest acquisition offer. He had been building FeedBurner with his three co-founders for almost four years and was staring at the details of an acquisition offer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

challenges facing Moleskine, an Italian-based consumer products company known for its oilcloth-covered notebooks once used by Ernest Hemingway and Vincent van Gogh. CEO Arrigo Berni and co-founder Maria Sebregondi aim to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

were preordered, generating $2.6 million in sales. On one snowy morning in January, CEO Steve Chambers met with co-founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Cynthia Breazeal and newly hired VP of Consumer & Development Relations Lynda Smith to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

Business School. She co-founded and was founding chair and director of the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative. She is author or co-author of 20 books including her most recent, Think Outside the Building: How Advanced... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

development. Product development metrics including lead time, capacity, and productivity are defined and discussed. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-050 BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead... In 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from GSK's size and bureaucracy occurs in a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

Verne Global: Building a Green Data Center in Iceland Thomas Steenburgh and Nnamdi OkikeHarvard Business School Case 509-063 Verne Global, a pioneering startup created to build the first large-scale data center in Iceland, faces critical challenges regarding its green... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

methodology? Bernstein:This study would not have been possible without my collaborator and close friend from the days of my doctoral studies, Ben Waber. After finishing his doctorate at the MIT Media Lab, Ben co-founded (and is CEO of)... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an angel group and the other from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

of corruption. But after initial successes-buoyed by visibility generated from mass street protests against corruption in 2011-traffic to the website has slowed. The question before spouses, ex-bankers, and ipaidabribe.com co-founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how Schultz and his team saved Starbucks from near collapse, by both executing a deep,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

sale was prompted by a co-founder who wanted to sell his share of the business. The case explores the rationale for owners to monetize at least a portion of their company's value and the sales process. Additionally, it compares two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

the case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808163 The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis Harvard Business School Case 408-003 Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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