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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year

associate dean and MBA Program chair W. Carl Kester noted that while the two-cohort system had met its educational objectives and contributed numerous innovations, a special faculty and administrative staff steering committee found that the disadvantages and View Details
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

robust evidence that market leaders were significantly more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of e-buying but commensurately less likely to adopt the more radical practice of e-selling. The findings highlight the strategic significance of adjustment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-027.pdf Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Due to network effects and switching View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • May 2024
  • Supplement

Forest Park Capital (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of purchasing a small business. The case conveys the details of Betsy’s final decision at the terminus of her search, between a software company... View Details
Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Web Services Industry; North America; Missouri
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  • December 2021
  • Case

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape

By: Eugene F. Soltes, Grace Liu and Muneeb Ahmed
In 2018, automotive tycoon Carlos Ghosn was arrested in Japan on financial misreporting charges, followed later by charges of improper payments and misappropriation of funds. Over a year later, still awaiting trial, Ghosn organized his escape from house arrest in Tokyo... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Law; Courts and Trials; Rights; Risk and Uncertainty; Auto Industry; Japan
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  • October 2018
  • Case

SeatGeek

By: Robert F. Higgins and Sarah Mehta
In late 2016, Russ D'Souza and Jack Groetzinger, co-founders of the online event ticketing platform SeatGeek, faced some difficult decisions. In the company's seven-year history, SeatGeek had positioned itself primarily as an aggregator, facilitating ticket... View Details
Keywords: Event Ticketing; Sports Ticketing; Acquisition; Business Model; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Digital Platforms; Sports; Strategy; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms
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  • Portrait Project

Keta Burke-Williams

Figure skating was solace. I loved the cold, rink air against my cheeks, the sound of my blades carving grooves into the ice, and the intoxicating scent of Trident tropical gum, cool air, and Zamboni gas. That was absolute freedom. As I grew taller, and the View Details
  • Portrait Project

Josh Solera

didn't know this man particularly well, but I like to imagine how much he and his wife enjoyed their soup. His faith in me pushed me to work harder, and to dream bigger. I want to inspire others to do the same, even if it costs me a few... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Andrea Coravos

mausoleum. “Would you like a guide?” he eventually asked. Muhammad’s three-hour tour cost a paltry $6, an uncomfortable bargain for his hustle and magic. In America, we are told that success comes from hard work. But is meritocracy real?... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Faculty Research Online

Survive — Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Cost cutting and restructuring are just the first steps in coping with the current global financial crisis and defining how business will be conducted in the future. In this... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Family Matters

University of California. The $5,000 cost was beyond her family’s means, but Thompson-Woode’s mother decided she would ask the community to invest in her daughter’s dream. “The city raised the money,” Thompson-Woode says. “People wanted... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • February 2003 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Pharmaceutical Industry, The: Challenges in the New Century

By: Stephen P. Bradley and James Weber
Provides a broad overview of the numerous internal and external forces that were driving change in the global pharmaceutical industry in 2003. These forces--including downward price pressures, political and social pressures, increased development costs, new... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Change; Cost; Price; Globalization; Government and Politics; Brands and Branding; Industry Growth; Society; Competition; Consolidation; Technology; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers felt that they were being threatened by cheap fish from Vietnam, and local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • 03 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education
  • 27 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

camera. Sony can either advertise on Facebook and accept a very low click-through rate, or give away free cameras to several Facebook members (potentially at a lower cost than advertising) and generate a viral campaign. Our research shows... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail
  • 14 Mar 2007
  • Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

diversification. Are there costs of syndication? Undoubtedly. When venture groups team up, it may "soften the competition." In many technologies and regions, there are only a handful of leading groups. When two of these work... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to match the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services