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01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

teaching. His coauthored research on golfer performance has aided the PGA’s development of a new metric to measure putting skills. Francesca Gino is an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations Markets Unit and teaches... View Details

26 Feb 2009
News

Last Look - March 2009

Our thanks to HRPBA ’60-ers Sandy Krickovic Self and Nancy Needham Merrill, who recognized themselves as the second and third models in the photo. Self wrote: “In Malcolm McNair’s Marketing class, we were studying the women’s retail clothing market and how there was... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has... View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their early-stage investments. Europe,... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

October 2016
Case

Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (A)

By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman

The case addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon in 2009-2010. The case highlights the challenges faced by a politician attempting to institute... View Details

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14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

individuals who incorporate for business purposes. Implementing such a tax would require measures to prevent some unintended consequences. A large fraction of corporations' excess cash--as much as two-thirds, according to some... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

Clarence M. Woolley

of the major European markets. As business picked up in the United States in the 1910s, especially with the onset of World War I, American Radiator began handling annual sales of $10 million and by the time... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

01 Feb 1997
News

Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)

business community stand on all this? Generally, it backs reforms, believing that open markets require political openness. The business community is influential but the government is sufficiently repressive... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United States in 2017,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208126 Patient Flow at Meldon Hospital (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 608-172 This case is an e-mail that follows up on the original case, which describes a day at Meldon Hospital when the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2016
News

Scaling Up at Five Below

target audience, where Joel Anderson (MBA 1993) is CEO. A retailer of trendy goods where everything is (you guessed it) five dollars and below, Five Below was launched in 2002 and now has over 500 stores throughout the United States.... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

23 Sep 2020
News

HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has spurred our collective awakening to the grave and continuing... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Ready for Takeoff

better public management," Domínguez says, "but you also begin to get more farsighted economic policies that allow business enterprises to invest and ordinary Brazilians to save." Then came what Domínguez calls the "happy accident" of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

Web

Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library

new business — a supermarket for office supplies. At the time, a boom in entrepreneurship was driving demand for office supplies yet small businesses had to rely on expensive and inconvenient “mom and pop”... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

A Juicy Story

Office software for the Mac. In 1998, Apple launched the iMac, a candy-colored computer that fit well with its ad campaign to “Think Different.” Even so, it sold only 6 million units over the course of three years, compared with sales of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Feb 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2001
News

David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High

To cap his already impressive business career, David Price is unabashed about his final goal. "I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company," he declares, exuding the energy and optimism reminiscent of a newly minted MBA. Price makes... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping

building. The losers have been the middle-of-the-road retail strategies—JCPenney, Kohl’s, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch—and the shopping malls they occupy. Their business models are completely outdated. Customers want convenience, they want... View Details

Keywords: Ron Johnson (MBA 1984), founder and CEO, Enjoy

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