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- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
paper with Harvard graduate students Sonia Jaffe (Department of Economics) and Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School). Carmen Nobel: How can a discount voucher service like Groupon benefit retailers?... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- August 1998 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Harbus Foundation, The
By: James E. Austin and Linda Carrigan
Describes the challenges faced by a group of HBS students as they create a foundation. Given surplus funds generated by the student-run newspaper, The Harbus leadership decides to find a meaningful use for the excess cash. Profiles both the entrepreneurial process used... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Asset Management; Financial Institutions; Investment Portfolio; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
Austin, James E., and Linda Carrigan. "Harbus Foundation, The." Harvard Business School Case 399-031, August 1998. (Revised October 2002.)
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
representative of what happens when a patient appears in a doctor’s office. “A patient doesn’t tend to walk into your office and announce that they have TB. Instead they might say, ‘I have View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
be too small to back financially, Beckford viewed them as critical to transforming local communities across the country. “There’s a whole universe of small real estate operators doing cool, transformational... View Details
- Career Coach
Lauren Murphy
responsibility at the Proctor & Gamble company where she was a Brand Manager and a Regional Marketing Manager. She began her business career in the buying office as an Area... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
tolerance for risk and responsibility, Shruti returned to India and jumped into entrepreneurship “head first, feet next.” With a startup team, she began fine-tuning plans to launch a digital platform to help... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
also attempting to raise awareness about gender inequality for early- and mid-career professionals as well as women at the senior executive level. Although significant progress has been made over the past 50... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- May 2003
- Module Note
Building Capabilities for Experimentation, Learning, and Prototyping
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Describes the conceptual foundations and pedagogy for a module on managing experimentation, learning, and prototyping in the development of products and services. Can also be used as part of a more general course on Managing Technology and Innovation. Shows how... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Product Development; Learning; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Management
Thomke, Stefan H. "Building Capabilities for Experimentation, Learning, and Prototyping." Harvard Business School Module Note 603-089, May 2003.
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
their target audience.” Cebisa Ncube Design Thinking and Innovation Participant Discover frameworks and techniques you can leverage to bring new and innovative products or services to market. “The course masterfully interwove design... View Details
- November 2015 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability
In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial crisis. As the first outsider ever recruited to lead the company, Polman lost little time in challenging the... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 916-414, November 2015. (Revised August 2016.)
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Automotive Product Development
At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
were using the platform to conduct various COVID-19 information campaigns. That conversation planted the seeds for the study. “What we wanted to do was zoom out and say: How cost effective are these interventions as View Details
- November 2022
- Case
The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Tiffany Farrell. "The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales." Harvard Business School Case 323-031, November 2022.
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
protocol, and deportment comprise the visible tip, they might be linked to more deeply rooted, less obvious forces that are fully capable of sinking the ship. This working paper, through a questionnaire format—intended View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
finance/insurance, healthcare, and more), and how to pitch the strategic advantages of the region. Moreover, I am grateful for the opportunity to put into practice the skills I have refined in the MBA program such as strategy development,... View Details
- April 2009 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Before the Fall: Lehman Brothers 2008
By: Clayton S. Rose and Anand Ahuja
This case examines Lehman Brothers in the months preceding its collapse. Following the announcement of a huge and unexpected second quarter loss, the CFO was removed from her post after only seven months in the job. This case explores the challenges faced by a firm... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Management; Financial Markets; Crisis Management; Trust; Financial Services Industry
Rose, Clayton S., and Anand Ahuja. "Before the Fall: Lehman Brothers 2008." Harvard Business School Case 309-093, April 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Digital Transformation
Hyder Ahmad (MBA 1995) Hyder Ahmad (MBA 1995) sees the advancing digital transformation of business and society as a seismic shift, likening it to the changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution. “This... View Details