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  • July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)

Introduces a "new-economy" company, Madison Avenue, facing challenges of mega-success. In the two years since its founding, the company's revenues have grown from zero to nearly $30 million, head count has swollen from the start-up handful to more than 200, and the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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    Joseph L. Bower

    JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

    Keywords: information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry
    • 16 Jan 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

    Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn't intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane: the history of business practices. But when she started researching account books from the mid-1800s, a period of major economic development during the... View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
    • 23 Oct 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Strategy-Focused Organization

    development, and employee capabilities, they can improve their position relative to competitors, so that when the external environment improves, they will enjoy profits much higher than the industry average. How senior executives react... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
    • Web

    Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

    industries, it enables comparative research on the evolution of business in emerging markets over recent decades. For example: What similarities and differences may be observed between entrepreneurs in the financial services View Details
    • 19 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The History of Beauty

    Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry is the first serious attempt to trace the history of the $330 billion global beauty industry and its large collection of fascinating entrepreneurs... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • Web

    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    decisions involving sustainability issues. Cases are set in a variety of industry contexts, including energy, agriculture, transportation, chemicals, and investment. Some of the environment-related cases recently taught (Spring and Fall... View Details
    • 25 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

    Many businesses are loath to share proprietary information with others, fearing it will undercut their long-term financial prospects. They view openness as a threat to innovation. But a new years-long study of the wireless router industry... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology
    • 10 Dec 2007
    • HBS Case

    One Laptop per Child

    evolution of "action pricing"—setting an audacious price goal and endeavoring to meet it. The laptop typifies technological breakthroughs that influence the mainstream in ways that could have large potential impact. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
    • June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
    • Case

    VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

    This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Mozambique
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    • March 2023 (Revised August 2023)
    • Case

    Majid Al Futtaim: Adapting the Shopping Mall to the Digital Era

    By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in August 2022, as Ahmed Galal Ismail, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Properties and Fatima Zada, digital and omnichannel director at Majid Al Futtaim Shopping Malls, go over the plans to roll out the omnichannel mall offering for the Mall of the Emirates they... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United Arab Emirates
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    • 04 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 4

    Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Events - Business History

    Bayreuth), "Political Entrepreneurship in the German Export Industry after 1945" 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski.... View Details
    • 10 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

    now know you are more technical than you thought! Evolution How have you evolved? Consider phases in your journey by role or “eras.” For example, perhaps who you were as a strategic leader was very different when you were bootstrapped... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 06 Feb 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

    • Web

    Globalization - Faculty & Research

    Centers The globalization of business has long encouraged Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty to research international business practices and the effects of globalization. Seminal contributions - Christopher Bartlett on managing across borders , Michael Porter on... View Details
    • Web

    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    before it went public. He then led Open Market's expansion into business-to-business applications. In 1999, he founded and ran PurchasingCenter.com, a "My Yahoo" portal for industrial purchasing agents who purchase $2-$10 million of... View Details
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    Research - Private Capital Project

    deposits, sudden widespread drawdowns on credit lines can be destabilizing to the banking sector. However, we... Spring 2024 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2007
    • News

    Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

    examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of View Details
    • Web

    Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    social entrepreneurs and their funders as they seek to advance the enterprise from startup to scale. It focuses on the evolution of four social entrepreneurs and their decision-making paths as they attempt to scale their respective... View Details