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  • January 1996 (Revised February 1996)
  • Case

Peterson Industries: Louis Friedman

By: David A. Garvin
Louis Friedman, the president and CEO of Peterson Industries, must make decisions about two engineering projects and the level at which they should be funded. In the process, he must manage the overall resource allocation process and the company. A rewritten version of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Motivation and Incentives; Resource Allocation; Budgets and Budgeting; Projects; Engineering
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Competing Ad Auctions

By: Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee
We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract users via Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Auctions; Market Participation; Market Platforms; Mathematical Methods; Competition
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  • October 2001 (Revised April 2002)
  • Case

Calgene, Inc.

By: Ray A. Goldberg and John T. Gourville
In 1993, Calgene is on the verge of introducing the world's first genetically engineered plant product--a tomato will taste better and stay fresh longer. At the same time, it is using biotechnology to produce improved plant products for the cottonseed and the... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Launch; Innovation Strategy; Social Issues; Production; Problems and Challenges; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • October 1976 (Revised June 2008)
  • Case

Chemalite, Inc.

A chemical engineer who has set up a company to manufacture and market one of his inventions is trying to prepare his state of the corporation report. This case is designed to serve as a vehicle to introduce students to basic bookkeeping and accounting functions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Valuation; Chemical Industry
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  • 31 Oct 2019
  • Video

Anu Aga

Anu Aga discusses the decision India-based engineering company Thermax took in 1996 to devote a specific share of profits to social spending, and to focus explicitly on education, supporting schools and the... View Details
  • October 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Epic Games

By: Andy Wu and Christopher Zhang
Epic Games entered a stagnant market with its PC-games digital storefront in 2018, in the context of incumbent competitors such as Steam, its meteoric rise via Fortnite, and imminent industry shifts in gaming distribution. On the surface, Epic Games Store’s competitive... View Details
Keywords: Industry Analysis; Video Games; Platforms; Comparative Advantage; Growth Strategy; Innovation Focused Strategy; Pricing Strategy; Strategy; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry
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  • Article

Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America

By: Tom Nicholas
Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Power and Influence; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Capital Markets; Capital Structure; Information Technology; Patents; Creativity; Economic Systems; Development Economics; United States
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  • 16 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together

At HBS, Fernando Czapski, MBA 2019, was seeking an internship that would help him fulfill his career transition from engineering to product development. At Zillow, Melissa Tran, University Recruiting Programs Specialist, was responsible... View Details
Keywords: Technology

    George A. Riedel

    George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and... View Details

    • Career Coach

    Michele Chambliss

    leverages her strengths in strategic messaging and attention to detail. She serves as Board President for a non-profit and has led hiring for leadership roles there and at another non-profit. Michele holds a BS Electrical Engineering from... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
    • July 2000
    • Case

    Aerospace Technologies, Inc.

    By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
    Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details
    Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Accounting; Revenue; Cost; Business or Company Management; Profit; Engineering; Bids and Bidding; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Consulting Industry; Israel
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    Kevin Dolan

    is an avid runner. He is on the Board of Directors of The People’s Music School in Chicago, an organization that provides rigorous music education to children who face financial barriers. Kevin has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in... View Details
    • 03 Apr 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

    Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
    • 01 Aug 2014
    • News

    Kaplan Life Sciences Fellows Announced

    • Video

    SEAS/HBS Showcase Technology Event

    • 13 Oct 2010
    • News

    Stimulus of $1 Trillion Adds Zero to Deficit

    • 07 Feb 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Chuck Eesley, Stanford University

      Joseph B. Lassiter

      Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

      Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy
      • Video

      Nicolás Jodal

      Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, describes how the gender balance in systems engineering has unexpectedly changed over time in Uruguay, while expressing his commitment to diversity as both a foundational aspect and a deliberate business strategy. View Details
      • October 2023 (Revised January 2025)
      • Case

      Sydney Loves Kevin

      By: Ryan W. Buell and Himabindu Lakkaraju
      Kevin Roose was a columnist and podcast host for the New York Times, who focused on technology and its effects on society. When Microsoft launched the latest version of its search engine Bing in February 2023, the company invited Roose to its Redmond campus to... View Details
      Keywords: Newspapers; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Perspective; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Technology Industry
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