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  • September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Supplement

On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman
Slides to support the teaching of the On case, 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Germany; Switzerland; United States
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  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

Management Review The Real Lessons From Kodak's Decline By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didn't recognize soon enough that digital technology would decimate its traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Next Normal

Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, American Express, and Uber extending work-from-home policies well into 2021 and beyond, the reality of remote work is here to stay. Touching on issues of trust, productivity, and digital tools for connection and... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

by serving as a central organ for distributing news of corporate activity to internal as well as external audiences. In effect, it served as a vehicle for making human conversation all but unnecessary, at least from an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
  • September 2023 (Revised August 2024)
  • Teaching Note

On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman
Teaching Note for "On," HBS Case No. 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the Speedboard, and... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Germany; Switzerland; United States
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  • 05 Mar 2020
  • News

Green Light

meeting with the CEO, Lo drew him a network diagram of what the future infrastructure of TV distribution was going to look like. “It’s all going to be bits and bytes,” she told him. Lo would later help stitch together some 200 European... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

(CD) and the compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM) and, again with Philips, the digital videodisk (DVD). By the 1990s Philips's functional capabilities were unable to meet the Japanese competition. Its technical capabilities had been... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
  • Web

Working Groups, Upcoming Event, and Resources | About

community, and we have felt their impact in our classrooms and on our campus. We find ourselves facing difficult and complex questions about what constitutes hate speech and private speech, particularly in a digital era; how we navigate... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316142-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-140 Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved In fall of 2015, the Toronto, Canada–based education technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

world? Discusses the new distribution platforms, including downloads and video streaming. Also, provides a brief background of the evolution of the U.S. TV broadcast networks from the 1970s through the end of the 20th century. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

launched and scaled digital health products and founded the digital health team’s first diversity, equity, and inclusion program. This initiative was instrumental in lifting up underrepresented voices,... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 619-014 Zebra Medical Vision An Israeli startup founded in 2014, Zebra Medical Vision developed algorithms that produced diagnoses from X-rays, mammograms, and CT-scans. The algorithms used... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

retailers’ annual sales, so it is a critical time to get retail execution right. Dynamic pricing strategies must be carefully executed to maximize margins while driving volume. Inventory turns must be carefully monitored so that physical and View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

research-based approaches to increase competitiveness in the digital economy. Networking: Coffee Not Cocktails by Janet Shaner (MBA 1989) Lulu.com A good network can bring new ideas, access to resources, funds, clients, and help build... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing, PCs. And that defined the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

evaluate policies that change incentives for entry into self-employment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51676 Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—During the period 2005–2014,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital convergence and decreasing magazine sales. Historically a proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: creating a senior management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Data and Machine Learning By: Guo, Xiaojia, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Bert De Reyck Abstract—Problem definition: In collaboration with Heathrow Airport, we develop a predictive system that generates quantile forecasts of transfer passengers’ connection times. Sampling... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence specifically addressing questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne