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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a struggle. "I had no practical... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- April 2011
- Case
Shimano: The Intel of the Bicycle Business
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Shimano, known as the Intel of the bicycle business, is contemplating on investing in a new growth market, namely the comfort bicycle market. View Details
- September–October 2022
- Article
Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price
By: Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Sabir Semerkant
Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers.
In this article, the authors present a scorecard to... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Retailing; Online Business; Ecommerce; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Omnichannel Retail; Omnichannel Retailing; Amazon; Amazon.com; Sales; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Advertising Industry; Battery Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Israeli, Ayelet, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins, and Sabir Semerkant. "Should Your Company Sell on Amazon? Reach Comes at a Price." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 5 (September–October 2022): 38–46.
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
more than seven times. It’s like winning a lottery. So there are issues with the idea of virality, the self-selection involved in liking, and then there’s the contagion aspect that’s also part View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
are covered, but that still left scores, maybe hundreds of individual leaders who could not be included due to space constraints. Q: Are aspects of U.S. business history... View Details
- March 2023
- Case
Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission
By: Ethan Rouen, Dennis Campbell and Andrew Robinson
Pete Stavros was on a high after his latest experiment with employee ownership. As the head of industrial investments for KKR, Stavros orchestrated the sale of CHI Overhead Doors, which turned into KKR’s best investment in more than two decades and created $360 million... View Details
Rouen, Ethan, Dennis Campbell, and Andrew Robinson. "Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission." Harvard Business School Case 123-079, March 2023.
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
to owners on the brink of ruin. Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness The pandemic has challenged managers as never before, but one powerful leadership strategy is being... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
managed centrally. This level of control is conducive to protecting the organization's brand and reputation and coordinating overall strategy and operations. A high degree of... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- October 2019
- Teaching Note
Granite Equity Partners
By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu
This teaching note accompanies HBS case 219-040, “Granite Equity Partners,” which follows the private equity firm as it evaluates the potential acquisition of Tyrell Corp., a Minnesota-based quality control biomaterials company. Granite Equity’s fund was different from... View Details
- November 2004 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Ice-Fili (Abridged)
By: John R. Wells, Pai-Ling Yin and Michael G. Rukstad
Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical integration, horizontal diversification, and location issues. Ice-Fili is the largest... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Geographic Location; Competition; Vertical Integration; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Russia
Wells, John R., Pai-Ling Yin, and Michael G. Rukstad. "Ice-Fili (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 705-441, November 2004. (Revised January 2007.)
- 14 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020
evolve, and change the face of entrepreneurship and investing over the next two years and beyond. 4. Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS-MBA The MS/MBA curriculum builds upon students’ existing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
question. For his part, Olson endorses a strategy of cooperation over confrontation. Macmillan may have won the pricing war, but what have they lost? After all, Amazon can retaliate by promoting other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
point of view, it will create a new paradigm,” said Gupta. Radio frequency ID tags, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and online gaming were among the other topics covered. The conference, which drew over 500 attendees, was organized... View Details
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
without their consent. Yet, sometimes honesty does hurt and bad guys do win. Thus, the fact that creative managers can often come up with strategies that are fair to non-shareholder constituencies while still maximizing shareholder value... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
business-location decisions at an alarming rate, and those activities being offshored are more job-rich than those coming in,” said Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor and head of the Institute for View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
- 19 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
every aspect of corporate strategy." The articles in the book have been selected, he writes, "to help corporate leaders think through global strategies at a time when... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle