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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

chance of success than at home. — John Heard reflecting on his first trip to China in 1841, from his diary, 1891 4 Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business Augustine Heard grew up in Ipswich, Massachusetts, surrounded by ships... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

example, the success of Gilt Groupe and other high-fashion flash sale sites has proven that younger shoppers are willing to buy these categories online. They are also comfortable purchasing high-fashion designer shoes on the web, given... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

Business , published in 1900, Paul Nathan explained, “The intelligent job printer will never permit himself to forget that printing is allied to advertising, and that almost all of the printing he does depends in some way upon its success... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

successful companies. While Nelson tries to keep a low profile, Providence, with offices around the world, competes with larger, global firms. With the success of the firm and $40 billion under management,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 26 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

basketball, culling a US Department of Education database for individual schools’ reported revenue by sport, which provided, through econometric modeling, a causal link between athletic success and revenue. A Multimillion-Dollar Industry... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education
  • September 2022
  • Case

BancoSol: Financial Inclusion in the Perfect Storm

By: Michael Chu and Carla Larangeira
In the pandemic, financial inclusion icon BancoSol faces a government-mandated year-long deferral of all loan payments, followed by the sudden Covid death of its CEO. In a Bolivia mired in political turmoil following a failed presidential election, with clients not... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Crisis Management; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Bolivia
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Chu, Michael, and Carla Larangeira. "BancoSol: Financial Inclusion in the Perfect Storm." Harvard Business School Case 323-023, September 2022.
  • 06 Jun 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

possibility that " managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change" (proposed by those who engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Toward a Life Well Lived

addressed by a multitude of alumni who take part throughout the semester-long course. The involvement of alumni—including former course participants, who become “Lifers”—is key to the success of Crafting Your Life. Perlow regularly speaks... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

500 company. DaVita has already had a successful experience launching Rx (after some difficult early years), and the company is now even serving patients from some of DaVita's leading competitors. However, Paladina is the company's first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

Sometimes when John R. Wells, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, meets a senior manager from a successful company, he likes to ask the provocative question, "Is your company already dead?" In his more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

that certain aspects may not work exactly as intended. It behooves organizations to be more thoughtful about how sponsorships are designed. For instance, a protégé’s success may be less about the mere vote of confidence than about the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

entrepreneur also realized that the success of his company depended on the continuation of its research efforts on a variety of fronts. Patent protection enabled the Polaroid Corporation to successfully protect and market its products as... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

alternatives can be cost-competitive. Success factors for feedstock business model: One of the key criteria for where facilities will be built to use BTG Bioliquids technologies to decide the FPBO facility location is the proximity to the... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review

community-wide event attended by faculty, staff, and students. At the event, then-Dean Nitin Nohria remarked, “Not only has he transcended many racial barriers in his own life, Jim Cash also has propelled generations of Black students, faculty, and staff, as well as... View Details
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

creating, at great time and cost, a successful therapy, and then beating long odds to win FDA approval, the rewards can wane as quickly as a patent expires. And most drug candidates wash out long before even making it to market. That... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 20 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

decades of social history, where enjoyment of nonproductive leisure time was seen as a mark of a successful life. The ability to fritter away your hours was considered the apex of success as evidenced in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed these courses! I’ve discovered that successful investing isn’t an accident but can be approached through a rational understanding of risk and rewards. I want to apply the same kind of principles to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Editor's note: Seasoned entrepreneurs know that a great idea for a new company is no guarantee of a successful exit. Startups fail more often than not, largely due to hubris-fueled mistakes by an inexperienced founding team. Alas, the... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

environment is one in which we have a lot of potential to do that. We still don’t know what the long-run, successful business models and infrastructure solutions are going to look like. We don’t know if they’re the things we have right... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
  • 09 Jun 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

right. These firms have established patent licensing units, which have frequently been successful in extracting license agreements and/or past royalties from smaller rivals. For instance, Texas Instruments has in recent years netted close... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
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