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- Career Coach
Ryan Kennedy
hone their career visions, craft their job searches, and take the next steps towards a meaningful career. Work Experience: Product Manager at LendingHome.com (mortgages), Risk & Operations View Details
- August 2018 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Lexoo: Building a Long-Lasting Platform
By: Chiara Farronato and Elena Corsi
Daniel van Binsbergen, Lexoo’s CEO, and web developer Chris O’Sullivan, CTO, had set up Lexoo, a UK legal marketplace, to help small and medium enterprises (SME) find legal advice at low prices. Lexoo had recently invested in a new vertical focused on larger companies.... View Details
Keywords: Marketplaces; Legal Services; Growth Strategy; Technology Ventures; Service Operations; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Growth and Development Strategy; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom
Farronato, Chiara, and Elena Corsi. "Lexoo: Building a Long-Lasting Platform." Harvard Business School Case 619-019, August 2018. (Revised February 2022.)
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
record $3.5 billion operating profit for 2016, in part due to targeted expense cuts. Fidelity recently cut its fees for online brokerage trades on a bold bet it would result in a strong increase in transactions over its closest rival,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
situation today is absolutely viable, Brazil’s economic basics are absolutely solid, and we have conditions to grow,” Meirelles told the New York Times (December 13, 2002). Meirelles headed BankBoston’s Brazil operations from 1984 to 1996... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
treasurer. Last fall, the two brothers consolidated stock in the business between them after buying out the stakes of other family members. “I concentrate on the overall experience of our business with special attention to the retail areas. Rick focuses on the food... View Details
- December 2007 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
The American National Red Cross (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Eliot Sherman and David Chen
Describes the governance issues facing the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross. After a series of issues--FDA consent decree on its blood operations; the response to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina--the Red Cross board was under pressure to fix its governance from... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Business Processes; Non-Governmental Organizations; Service Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., Eliot Sherman, and David Chen. "The American National Red Cross (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-040, December 2007. (Revised October 2008.)
- February 2008
- Article
Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms
This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of material, energy and... View Details
Keywords: Boundaries; Production; Market Transactions; Supply Chain; Management; Cost; Theory; Performance Productivity; Information Management; Complexity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms." Industrial and Corporate Change 17, no. 1 (February 2008): 155–195. (Selected as one of the top twenty articles in the first twenty years of publication, 1992-2011.)
- 27 Jul 2010
- News
Four Things Great VCs Do
Morton H. Meyerson
Meyerson is recognized as the operational and financial genius of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). During his CEO tenure, EDS grew from a $200 million consulting business into a $4 billion large-scale systems consulting enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Designing Students
(from left) Karena Wells, John Semel, Denton Chase, Lee Falck (partly hidden), and Rich Lim, all members of the HBS Class of 1998, demonstrate how to use the Vita-Tech 2000, a handy vitamin dispenser they created for the Managing Product... View Details
- June 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Great Western Hospital: High-risk Pregnancy Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton and Samuel Takvorian
Great Western Hospital (GWH) is a community hospital in Wiltshire, South West England and one of England's largest maternity providers; responsible for delivering over 9,000 babies per year. The case discusses the efforts of Dr. Harini Narayan, consultant obstetrician... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Risk Management
Porter, Michael E., Emma Stanton, and Samuel Takvorian. "Great Western Hospital: High-risk Pregnancy Care ." Harvard Business School Case 712-495, June 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- October 1990 (Revised August 1991)
- Case
Peanut Butter Fantasies
By: Amar Bhide and Myra M. Hart
Addresses the interrelated challenges of marketing and finance faced by a small, struggling packaged foods company. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Finance; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Distribution; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry
Bhide, Amar, and Myra M. Hart. "Peanut Butter Fantasies." Harvard Business School Case 391-072, October 1990. (Revised August 1991.)
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
Are international firms that interact with U.S. capital, labor, and product markets more likely to be more transparent than companies without those interactions? In this e-mail interview, HBS Suraj Srinivasan delves into a recent working paper on the subject and on... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
testing and iteration without significant capital investment, physical infrastructure, or long-term commitments. The cloud allows for seamless scaling based on demand, facilitates more efficient staff management of resources, and provides... View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
like? We went public in July 2011, a few months after I was put in the CEO role, so there wasn’t a lot of breathing time. I had worked closely on day-to-day operations with the firm’s founder since 2005, so I was up to speed on most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
looks on the back of the garments right down to the appearance of the hangtags. Having that level of access to the product inspires us as much as anything else. What management issue do you think about most in your job? The culture of the... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
by Harvard Business School professor Forest Reinhardt, considered whether firms should and do engage extensively in CSR. This essay, in other words, considered empirical evidence. Reinhardt found that relatively few firms do engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
Patricia Will (MBA 1980) is cofounder and president of Belmont Village Senior Living, which operates 25 retirement communities in the southwestern and midwestern United States. In this video, she talks about how she came to found a... View Details