• April 2023
• Case

Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed

By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li

This is a case about a fictional New York beverage company called Fizzy Fusion. The business is facing supply chain and inventory management challenges with its new product, SparklingSip. Despite seeking help from a data science consulting firm, the machine learning... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Production; Risk and Uncertainty; Analytics and Data Science; Food and Beverage Industry

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Parzen, Michael, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng, and Jessie Li. "Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed." Harvard Business School Case 623-071, April 2023.

• 30 Sep 2014
• News

What Tom Brady's Monday Night Fumble Teaches Us About Performance Evaluations

• April 1988 (Revised July 1989)
• Case

Precista Tools AG (A)

A young woman manager in a Swiss family firm finds that her role as a managing director becomes bitterly unpleasant once her older brother decides to leave an engineering career and join the family business. That is what the father, who was head of the business had... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Gender Characteristics; Switzerland

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Barnes, Louis B. "Precista Tools AG (A)." Harvard Business School Case 488-046, April 1988. (Revised July 1989.)

• 02 May 2005
• Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

know how to do it." The third thing is team. We look for engineering vision and execution, sales, and entrepreneurship in a team. Typically, it's at least two people; sometimes it's three. In the early stages, I tend to invest behind an entrepreneur, not behind a... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

• August 2011
• Supplement

Interview with Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree

By: David A. Garvin

MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has a set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employees must... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; India

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Garvin, David A. "Interview with Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 312-704, August 2011.

• 20 Aug 2021
• Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

How do you know if an MBA is worth it? We asked recent HBS alumni to reflect on their time at—and after—HBS. Here are their thoughts on the business school experience, the value of an MBA degree, and how to best prepare for HBS. Lindsay... View Details

• 03 May 2023
• Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

During his recent standing-room-only seminar about artificial intelligence (AI) and race at Harvard Business School recently, marketing professor Broderick Turner displayed a slide showing several white blob-like characters that resembled... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

• 07 Nov 2017
• First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

• 14 Oct 2018
• News

Fallout From Elon Musk’s SEC Settlement: A Big Fine, A New Chairman And A Huge Opportunity For Tesla

• 12 Nov 2015
• News

Airbnb Pledges to Work With Cities and Pay ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes

• 13 Jun 2021
• News

So You Can’t Find Great Women for Your Organization? Really?