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By: Debora L. Spar

I'll have a girl, please

American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

  • August 1988 (Revised February 1992)
  • Case

Norton Group PLC: To Be or Not to Be in the Motorcycle Business (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jon Skofic
Norton, a once famous motorcycle manufacturer, soundly beaten by Japanese competition, turns its attention to developing rotary engines. The company is acquired by Norton Group PLC, which is headed by a dashing entrepreneur. The new management must decide what... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Production; Competition; Auto Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Japan; United Kingdom
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  • September 1995 (Revised October 1996)
  • Case

Sunbeam Television (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and E. Scott Lathrop
Sunbeam Television, owner of a television station in Miami (a Fox affiliate), buys Channel 7 (a CBS affiliate) in Boston. They bring to the Boston station the concepts and ideas of their Miami news product--that is, a crisp, content-based design rather than one... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Change; Decisions; Design; Television Entertainment; Product; Motivation and Incentives; Value; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Boston
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  • 23 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

Not long ago, the senior management of a leading high-tech company was surprised to learn that research showed their R&D groups' creative performance to be in a prolonged slump following a corporate downsizing. The company's executives fretted that many of the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

the context of vehicle emissions testing in a state in which the government has outsourced these inspections to the private sector. Analyzing millions of emissions tests, we find empirical support for our hypotheses that particular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

entrepreneurial culture relative to its Wall Street counterparts, but competition in the investment banking industry is intensifying in 1997 due to a wave of mega-mergers. The new combined banking entities are able to offer customers a... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

dating application. The case recounts the process of launching a consumer Internet startup, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
  • Exercise

E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (C): Free Delivery Terms

By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for... View Details
Keywords: Data; Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Data Sharing; CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Delivery Planning; Customer Lifetime Value; Online Channel; Retail; Retail Analytics; Retailing Industry; Ecommerce; Grocery; Grocery Delivery; Margins; Analytics and Data Science; Retention; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (A): Estimating Sales

By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for... View Details
Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Analytics; CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Estimation; Online Channel; Retail Analytics; Retail; Retailing Industry; Data; Data Sharing; Bricks And Mortar; Ecommerce; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Sales; Goods and Commodities; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

Offices may look just as they did in March 2020, but many companies attempting to welcome workers back are finding that the rules of engagement have changed. For many employees, the sweet freedom of remote work has turned into bitterness at the thought of commuting and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 02 Nov 2022
  • News

Strong Finish

Heela Yang and Alicia Sontag Four years after its launch in 2015, the Brazilian-inspired beauty brand Sol de Janeiro was already profitable; its skin-tightening Bum Bum Cream had been Sephora’s top-selling skin care View Details
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

number of launches per year from, say, three or four a year to more than 20 a year. As they’ve been doing that, they’ve experimented with new technologies like 3D printing of rocket parts, like reusing... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

what you were doing before joining HBS and what inspired you to join the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team. Before coming to HBS, I lived in New York City where I worked in integrated marketing for VH1. During my time at... 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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  • 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
  • January 2008 (Revised November 2009)
  • Case

Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry

Linear Air is an air taxi start-up established to take advantage of the emergence of Very Light Jets, which incorporate new technology that cuts jet operating costs by about 40%. Air taxis could make use of the 5400 smaller regional airports throughout the US,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Industry Structures; Competition; Air Transportation Industry
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Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

leaders can improve competitiveness by focusing on national policies as well as regional initiatives and cluster development. Cross-National Regions Strategies that coordinate economic policy among neighboring countries can create mutual benefits to View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

opened a branch office in Chicago in the 1930s and another in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Manhattan: William Street, 1923. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Digital Equipment Corporation. Programmed Data Processor-1 Brochure.... View Details
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Judges - Alumni

Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), Technology Verticals Beauty, E-Commerce,... View Details
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807145 Micro Insurance Agency: Helping the Poor Manage Risk Harvard Business School Case 307-089 The notable success of insurance products for low-income clients of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne