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  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

tech industry. In the immersive Startup Bootcamp program, I joined a small team to take an idea from scratch and build a minimum viable product (MVP). Courses like The Entrepreneurial Manager, Launching Tech... View Details
  • Web

Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

have a considerable journey ahead, usually with obstacles and challenges unique to their ideas, industries, and market contexts. But regardless of the specific path, they will need to prepare for their journeys by researching the following issues: Minimum viable View Details
  • 19 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

companies are monitoring Twitter for complaints and asking how can we intervene?” Social collectiveness also lets marketers crowd-source brand messages from actual fans who already discuss the brand on social media. Today's fans can be proactive in delivering their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 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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  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

No. 9-690-044 (Harvard Business School Publishing, 1989) Richard Sandomir, “Frances Hesselbein, Who Transformed the Girl Scouts, Is Dead at 107,” The New York Times, December 16, 2022. Your feedback to last month’s column How would Jack... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • August 2008 (Revised December 2009)
  • Case

Nantero

By: William A. Sahlman, Dan Heath and Caroline Perkins
This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have competing visions for the company, and its business model. Some... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment; Product Development; Production; Technology; Semiconductor Industry
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William R. Kerr | About

faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill served as Unit Head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit from 2020-2023. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal... View Details
  • Research Summary

Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
  • June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.

By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Customer Relationship Management; Rural Scope; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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  • 01 May 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • Web

National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Presentations on National Competitiveness The Institute has developed research-based economic agendas for more than 60 nations since its founding in 2001. Asia-Pacific Australia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Mongolia Nepal View Details
  • 12 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

my breakup, I resorted to the love and support of my family, only to realize that the people who are important in my life, like my dad, did not know truly me. This was not a product of his lack of curiosity. I kept him at the peripheries... View Details
  • 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
  • Web

Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

retail drugstores and 215,000 employees operating in 47 states in 2015. Since 2006, the company had been expanding its role in health care, moving beyond traditional drugstore alone. In 2014, reflecting its new approach, the company... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

"The data show that students’ responses to a case are about more than the text itself." Exploring gender in case production offered one set of insights, but we also wanted to understand how it figured in the HBS classroom during the same... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

life-threatening situations, he had reached the top of Mt. Everest, the earth's highest point. By doing so, he became only the 24th person in history to "summit" the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. Wendel was the first of a team of eleven experienced... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing
  • 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
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

has a dark side, and if employees aren’t careful about how and when they express it, it can turn off colleagues or even make them feel threatened, according to new research. “You can’t just express passion and expect it will be jolly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2014
  • Case

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.: Taking on Seasonal Starvation in Latin America

By: Christopher Marquis and Zoe Yang
A company with a strong commitment toward corporate social responsibility since its founding days, Green Mountain faced an ethical decision point in 2007 as new information from the field uncovered a chronic dire problem facing coffee communities—seasonal starvation.... View Details
Keywords: Fair Trade; Coffee; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; Central America; Mexico; Guatemala; Nicaragua
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  • 2003
  • Case

Corning Microarray Technologies

By: Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble and Gautam Bellur
In mid-2000, the scientific community reached a momentous milestone—the complete mapping of the human genome. Researchers in the field of genomics were anxious to dig into a tremendous array of newly possible scientific inquiries, and needed efficient experimental... View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Genetics; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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