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- 08 Mar 2019
- News
A Passionate Patron and Collector
HBS MBA, and how the arts factored into his academic experience. “When I was 3, 4 years old, I would draw and paint,” Van Lee tells the interviewer. “In elementary school, I was in the glee club. In high school, I was in speech and drama. The performing arts and visual... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries to businesses and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
demonstrate that, in Africa, we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way,” Lawani explains. “We're just at a different point in our development.” With over $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly sub-Saharan, Helios focuses on financial... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
insight of that paper, which is that a demand for fairness could lead to different economic systems such as those observed in France versus the U.S. (multiple equilibria). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-059.pdf A Brief Postwar History of U.S.... View Details
Christina Melas-Kyriazi
Christina joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2021, where she focuses on early-stage investments in fintech and commerce. Christina was previously Head of Product for Consumer Foundations at Affirm, where she led a team of product managers to... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- Profile
Fangfang Wang
In China, Fangfang Wang participated in a general management training program at Mars Food that allowed her “the freedom to customize my career path.” Through a series of rotating assignments, Fangfang developed a deep understanding of View Details
- 21 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?
- March 2006
- Case
Bringing OTC back to the Exchange: Euronext.liffe's launch of ABC
Euronex.liffe, a derivatives trading exchange, launches matching, clearing, and confirmation services for the over-the-counter market. This combination of services creates a new platform for a market that potentially cannibalizes its current exchange-based services. Is... View Details
Cantillon, Estelle S., and Pai-Ling Yin. "Bringing OTC back to the Exchange: Euronext.liffe's launch of ABC." Harvard Business School Case 706-489, March 2006.
- April 2002 (Revised July 2002)
- Case
Imagicast
By: John T. Gourville and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Imagicast has brought to market an interactive, multimedia retail kiosk designed to increase product sales. In spite of promising projections by industry analysts and detailed demand forecasts by Imagicast management, the company has yet to sell a single kiosk. Time... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Sales; Technology; Retail Industry; United States
Gourville, John T., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Imagicast." Harvard Business School Case 502-052, April 2002. (Revised July 2002.)
- November 2001 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Audio Spotlight, The
By: Youngme E. Moon
Joe Pompei, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, has invented a breakthrough audio invention. The invention is an "Audio Spotlight" that projects a narrow beam of sound in the same way a laser beam projects a narrow beam of light. He must now decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Value Creation
Moon, Youngme E. "Audio Spotlight, The." Harvard Business School Case 502-014, November 2001. (Revised August 2002.)
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
organizations. This book makes the case that the role of business needs to be more centrally incorporated into narratives explain the making of the modern world. Broadly, it explores a number of key questions. Were entrepreneurs and firms architects, co-architects, or... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 10 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting
its way of working: We had to solve a problem in limited time and therefore they made sure that we had access to all the resources we needed. Small meeting with the chief of marketing? Of course! Problems in understanding technology? Let’s ask the relevant engineers.... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
audience bursts into applause, he delivers his key pitch: Just think about all the wires coming off things like TVs, he says. "Imagine if you can get rid of 'em." Finally untethering consumers from their wall sockets and their... View Details
- January 2010 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
The Random House Response to the Kindle
By: Bharat N. Anand and Peter Olson
In early 2010, e-readers, like Amazon's Kindle and Apple's impending iPad, threatened to disrupt the book publishing industry. The case provides an overview of the industry, describes the broader trends regarding e-readers, and asks: how should major publishers like... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Trends; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Consumer Behavior; Industry Structures; Corporate Strategy; Hardware; Publishing Industry
Anand, Bharat N., and Peter Olson. "The Random House Response to the Kindle." Harvard Business School Case 710-444, January 2010. (Revised February 2011.)
- June 1989 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Chaircraft Corporation, 1988
Illustrates the difficulty of effective production planning and production control in a multistage production process affected by seasonal demand. A rewritten version of an earlier case by S.C. Wheelwright. View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Demand and Consumers; Production; Performance Effectiveness; Planning
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Chaircraft Corporation, 1988." Harvard Business School Case 689-082, June 1989. (Revised July 2006.)
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
And many are jumping in without doing their homework to determine the distinct financial needs of consumers in the countries they are targeting. “Successful operators deal with the unique circumstances of countries to provide a product... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
alter significantly how people think about the company, its products, and the brand. US consumers have not had a high-quality perception of GM brands over the past few decades. Although driven in part by the company's missteps, the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
developed countries. Large emerging economies with little inward FDI include India and Turkey, despite the relaxation over the last two decades of the restrictions imposed on foreign firms between 1950 and 1980. This working paper explores why Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne