Publications

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

month, the results are nearly disastrous, but the concerns are human and strategic, not just technological: “How do we get people to change? Do we adapt our business process to the technology or the technology to our process?” I find... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
Case

IBM and Siemens: Revitalizing the Rolm Division (A)

By: Ashish Nanda, Antonio Davila and Georgia Levenson

The case opens with a discussion of the evolution of the private branch exchange industry in the 1970s and 1980s. It follows the path of Rolm from an independent company to an IBM acquisition and its problem as an IBM division. Then describes Siemens' growing interest... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Restructuring; Joint Ventures; Negotiation Participants; Business Divisions; Problems and Challenges; Acquisition; Telecommunications Industry

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

A conversation with John Davis, author of "Challenges Facing Family Companies in the Gulf Region" Family Business Review, vol XIII, no. 3, September 2000. Q: Where does family business take you?... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

Career Coach

Sarah Bua

public sector, health care consulting, venture capital and new business creation. Sarah helps her coachees identify, strategize a path towards, achieve and sustain their unique career visions. Her skills... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital

August 28, 2000
Article

Limits of the New Corporation

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Business Ventures

March 1, 1999
Article

Time For the Big Small Company

By: L. M. Applegate

Keywords: Business Ventures

April 2007 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (TN) (A), (B), & (C)

By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Boris Groysberg

Keywords: Business Ventures

Profile

Jake Flomenberg

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to business school to find more personal meaning in my career and to build a set of skills that I can leverage to create a larger impact on the things that are important to me. I... View Details

Keywords: Technology

September – October 1999
Article

Creating Breakthroughs at 3M

By: E. Von Hippel, S. Thomke and M. Sonnack

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Consumer Products Industry

May 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa

By: Paul A. Gompers, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal

Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of operations, Djoli must look beyond MStudio, which had supported them financially and in kind in exchange for equity,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Distribution Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Côte d'Ivoire

Educators

May 2015
Case

Shareholder Issues over Ten Generations at De Kuyper

By: John A. Davis and Courtney Collette

Keywords: Family Business

Educators

January 2012 (Revised November 2014)
Background Note

Scaling a Startup: People and Organizational Issues

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Keywords: Business Startups

Educators

January 1989 (Revised March 2009)
Supplement

General Electric: Valley Forge (F)

By: Robert L. Simons

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Pennsylvania

December 2000
Background Note

Networked Utility Providers

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown

Defines and describes ways to categorize networked utilities, software "applets" such as RealNetwork's RealPlayer, Macromedia's Shockwave, and AOL's ICQ that are downloaded via the Internet. Networked utilities extend basic Web browser capability to allow users to... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Software; Web Services Industry