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- 09 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS
SEI Courses There are a number of HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) affiliated courses offered during students’ second year. The one I’m taking this semester is called “Nonprofit Clinic: Tackling Inequality.” This course is brand... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
consideration, both sensory and economic. On the sensory side: He has designed several eating utensils, including an espresso spoon that sports a hole in the middle so as not to break up the continuity of the crema on top. On the economic... View Details
- January 2020
- Case
The June Oven
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Christian Godwin
The June Oven was a smart oven which was capable of identifying food and cooking it accordingly. This type of smart oven represented the next step in the long history of oven and stove development. Due to the widespread use of traditional ovens, the market for the June... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Trends; Customers; Design; Entrepreneurship; Food; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Demand and Consumers; Distribution; Product Development; Sales; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Christian Godwin. "The June Oven." Harvard Business School Case 320-067, January 2020.
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
tents, and other gear for maximum performance, comfort, and enjoyment. And now, shoes. Last year the Timberland Company, a heavyweight in the footwear business, acquired the GoLite brand for its new line of strong but super-lightweight... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
preferences are homogeneous, newspapers are more likely to engage in cost-cutting. Both responses are more pronounced for newspaper firms whose sister firms have already experienced Craigslist’s entry. We also find that failure to design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
I think CEOs should not stay too long at any company." Louis-Dreyfus believes that successful global enterprises must be decentralized. While Adidas's corporate headquarters maintains authority over the company's mission, vision, and overall View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
at 40 percent), proactively publicize the School's Web site and add new features that will attract more alumni to the site, and develop push technology allowing alumni to subscribe to specific online offerings. Last year, the committee served as a sounding board for... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- Profile
Minal Mehta
the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
and PhytoTEK were semifinalists, while AI Exchange received a mention at Monday's awards dinner as the winner of an informal popular vote. Modeled after the HBS student Business Plan Contest, now in its 15th year, the Alumni New Venture Contest was View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Between two matching bids, the Boston-based company—which creates cards that open to reveal intricately designed 3D structures—chose Shark Kevin O’Leary’s $300,000 offer for 15% of the company. We talked to Rose about pitching the Sharks,... View Details
- Profile
Jonathan Assayag
entrepreneurship – and a realization that he would need formal business training before he could move forward. "I did my research going through the MBA application process," he says, "Primarily, I knew that HBS had an amazing View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
led by Professor Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Loughran's goal is to make the series a monthly event that will serve as "an ongoing continuing education... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture
By: Ranjay Gulati
Customer centricity has been an important part of the culture at Cisco Systems since its inception. While part of this is attributable to values put in place by the founders and retained by subsequent management, it is also closely interwoven with its organizational... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employees; Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Business Units
Gulati, Ranjay. "Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture." Harvard Business School Case 409-061, January 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
do exactly what they're told and disregard every other consideration. While a human would have understood that the sites' designers wanted to maximize quality as measured by clicks, the algorithms maximized clicks at the expense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
Sasha (HBS '02) combines her gift for quickly gauging life passions of HBSers with her experience in formulating effective job searches for them to score their dream jobs. Her eclectic background spanning consulting, design thinking, and... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
dysfunction had been tracked. Key factors for integrating outcomes measurement into the clinical workflow include ongoing communication between cross-functional teams composed of clinicians and technical professionals, an iterative design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
businesses, there's no reason to have a chief marketing officer because there's no single company brand to manage. But in companies that have more related businesses, it makes sense to have these positions toward the top with the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- October 2018 (Revised April 2019)
- Teaching Note
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
Teaching Note for HBS No. 418-011. View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; United States; Canada