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    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

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    Leveraging Knowledge for Performance

    Morten Hansen is involved in research which examines how knowledge residing in different units in a company can be leveraged to improve performance in a specific unit. He has conducted several large studies of the use of knowledge in creating competitive performance,... View Details
    • September 2010
    • Supplement

    Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships (CW)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
    Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime Services, a New Jersey-based shipping research and consulting firm, has been asked by a new potential customer in May 2008 for advice on purchasing a capesize bulk carrier. After identifying a suitable ship with his... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Decisions; Microeconomics; Finance; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Market Transactions; Partners and Partnerships; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Consulting Industry; New Jersey
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    • October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    Digitas (A): Strategic Interactive Group

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, David Lane and Courtenay Sprague
    Kathy Biro, president of Digitas, an e-strategy consulting firm, has successfully grown out of the company's roots in the strategic interactive group. Her challenges now include managing the integration of the SIG with Digitas's other component, direct marketing firm... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Integration; Expansion; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Organizational Design; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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    • May 2004
    • Supplement

    Slingshot Technology, Inc. Supplement: Partnership Agreements

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
    Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Intellectual Property; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry
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    • August 2001 (Revised May 2004)
    • Case

    Maria Hernandez & Associates

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    This case presents the situation of an unemployed web page designer who starts a new consulting firm with personal savings and a family loan. Two months later, she is to report on operations to her father, using financial reports she must design and construct. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Accounting; Business Startups; Design; Borrowing and Debt; Service Industry
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    • 17 May 2012
    • News

    How To Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone

      Edward B. Berk

      Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

      Ted... View Details

      • 02 Jul 2014
      • Blog Post

      Connecting Fashion & Technology at Kate Spade

      I found my internship with Kate Spade through Career & Professional Development’s collaboration with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Coming from management consulting where the recruitment process was very... View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

        David B. Yoffie

        Professor David B. Yoffie is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his... View Details

        Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games
        • 02 Feb 2016
        • Blog Post

        A Summer Internship in General Management

        Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management... View Details
        Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
        • 16 Feb 2017
        • News

        Growth uncertainty grips corporate boards: Survey

        • 29 Aug 2011
        • News

        Google gets a wake-up call on questionable ads

        • January 2000
        • Case

        Selecting a New Name for Security Capital Pacific Trust

        A methodology for selecting a new corporate brand name is explored, highlighting different types of names, criteria and hurdles in securing new names, and legal implications. Brand identity consultancy Lippincott & Margulies guided a real estate investment trust... View Details
        Keywords: Brands and Branding; Financial Services Industry
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        • 24 May 2012
        • News

        Businesses need an image repair

          Ananth Raman

          Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence—supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations—to MBA students... View Details

          Keywords: apparel; retailing; software
          • 18 Aug 2011
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980

          Keywords: by Kevin Koh, Shivaram Rajgopal & Suraj Srinivasan; Accounting
          • September 1998 (Revised September 2001)
          • Case

          IBM's Reinventing Education (A)

          By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
          Describes IBM's national innovation strategy to transform K-12 public education through new solutions developed by IBM engineers and consultants using information technology. Examples are: data warehousing in Broward County, FL schools, tracking software for the... View Details
          Keywords: Social Enterprise; Innovation Strategy; Information Technology; Education; Business and Community Relations; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry; San Jose; Philadelphia; Ohio; Florida
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          • 24 Jun 2020
          • News

          Why Are Black and Latino People Still Kept Out of the Tech Industry?

            Jeffrey J. Bussgang

            General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

            Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

            Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details