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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Business Development at SunPower. Chrissy Kahn (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy Intern at Montauk Seaweed Supply Company Montauk Seaweed Supply Company is a start-up working to transform New England-area farmed seaweed... View Details
  • July 1996
  • Case

Bayside Controls, Inc.

By: H. Kent Bowen, Jennifer Kochman and Sylvie Ryckebusch
Two recent MBA graduates acquire a small and ailing metal-machining company that had manufactured small aerospace components. Through clever application of state-of-the-art manufacturing, engineering, and marketing/sales concepts, they turned the company into a growing... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Leveraged Buyouts; Machinery and Machining; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Production; Personal Development and Career; Sales; Aerospace Industry
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  • March 1993 (Revised December 1993)
  • Case

Johnson Controls, Automotive Systems Group: The Georgetown, Kentucky Plant

Prior to the 1980s, automakers purchased individual seat components and built the seats alongside their auto assembly lines. This case describes how Johnson Controls, Automotive Systems Group, blossomed when automakers turned to outsourcing the complete seat set. The... View Details
Keywords: Production; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Kentucky
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Organization of the United Nations, Yearbook of Food and Agricultural Statistics , various years Institut International d’Agriculture, Annuaire International de Statistique Agricole , various years. Notes: United States coffee production... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

product is made." Vinyl is really interesting because I can’t think of many other products that kids will buy that were cool for their parents. Usually it’s like, “Oh, my parents like that stuff. I don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care

Illustration by Drue Wagner Mike H. M. Teodorescu (DBA 2018) CEO, SurgiBox Dan Brown (DBA 2019) CFO Concept: Founded in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, SurgiBox’s lead product is a portable operating room that fits into a backpack and runs on a rechargeable... View Details
Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; surgery; Ukraine; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

Resources - Alumni

New Venture Competition Resources 14ms Past Pitches : View past Student and Alumni NVC pitches Become an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job Joining the Right Start-Up The Startup Rules of Three HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

looks to build a mobile technology product development team by executing an "acquisition-hire" (i.e., "acqui-hire") to acquire New York City-based start-up Stamped, a mobile application... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

President, The Baupost Group Download Klarman profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, New York City 1979 Joins Mutual Shares full time 1982 Baupost is launched 1990... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/04-039.pdf The Malleability of Environmentalism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

Importantly, these past track records also predict divergent future real outcomes in patents, patent citations, and new product innovations. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

capability of winner-take-all," says Yoffie. Many dot-com companies assumed strong network effects around their businesses, then lost more than a trillion dollars chasing something that didn't exist. Network effects can speed the adoption of a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Action Plan: Wild at Heart

At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability
  • 06 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

It was the summer of 2017, and after working at Mars in R&D for eight years, I started to think about the next step for my career. I enjoyed my role as a product innovation manager in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry because it... View Details
  • February 2022 (Revised July 2022)
  • Supplement

InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (B)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details
Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

experts perform their work. Yes, certain tasks can be completed correctly and completely by AI, but for those types of tasks we will see something like the Industrial Revolution, where people's jobs changed, and they were able to use new... View Details
  • November 1978 (Revised December 1979)
  • Case

Federal Express (C)

The Marketing Director for Federal Express, a fast growing freight airline specializing in small packages, must select a strategy to achieve a big sales increase for one of the company's services. First he must decide on the relative emphasis to place between... View Details
Keywords: Product Marketing; Sales; Air Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States
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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Innovation & Innovative ... Innovation & Innovative Capacity Innovation—in the form of View Details
  • June 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Ducati Corse

By: Francesca Gino and Andrew P. McAfee
Ducati Corse, the racing arm of Ducati Motorcycles, has entered the Moto GP circuit with a completely new bike. This bike was designed and tested using a great deal of information technology. After a very successful initial season, the Ducati Moto GP team sees... View Details
Keywords: Design; Business Strategy; Product Marketing; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Change Management; Research and Development; Motorcycle Industry; Italy
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