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- 25 Oct 2016
- News
Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
- 06 Oct 2020
- Video
Black Founders: Camille McGirt, MBA 2021
- June 18, 2021
- Article
Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent
By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Gender Bias;
Health;
Innovation and Invention;
Research;
Patents;
Gender;
Prejudice and Bias
Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent." Science 372, no. 6548 (June 18, 2021): 1345–1348.
- July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues....
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Keywords:
Human Resources;
Private Equity;
Brazil;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Operation Management;
General Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Growth and Development;
Leadership;
Operations;
Problems and Challenges;
Transportation;
Human Capital;
Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Brazil
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters." Harvard Business School Case 419-007, July 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- August 2015
- Case
Yesware (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Christopher Payton and Ali Huberlie
Matthew Bellows founded Yesware, a Boston-based tech startup, to solve a problem that he'd encountered as a sales manager: sales people hate entering data, rarely do it accurately, and almost always input data that can't be synthesized in a way that is useful for the...
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Keywords:
Firing;
Culture Change;
Startup;
Technology;
Hiring;
Entrepreneurship;
Negotiation;
Sales;
Human Resources;
Technology Industry;
Boston
Ghosh, Shikhar, Christopher Payton, and Ali Huberlie. "Yesware (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-039, August 2015.
- June 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Lazard LLC
By: Guhan Subramanian and Eliot Sherman
Describes Lazard's situation in 2001, and supplies context for the subsequent negotiation between its Chairman and his hand-picked successor. In 2001 Lazard, the last of the great investment houses to remain both private and in the control of its founding family, is in...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Family Business;
Talent and Talent Management;
Selection and Staffing;
Management Succession;
Negotiation Tactics;
Financial Services Industry
Subramanian, Guhan, and Eliot Sherman. "Lazard LLC." Harvard Business School Case 907-046, June 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Study finds online ratings vulnerable to bias
- November 2011 (Revised April 2016)
- Case
Coco Chanel: Creating Fashion for the Modern Woman (A)
By: Mukti Khaire and Kerry Herman
Chanel, the iconic haute couture house, founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in 1913, came to embody its founder's philosophy, taste, and style and set a distinctive and influential tone for women's fashion. Coming to prominence during the height of cultural modernity in...
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Keywords:
Fashion And Creative Industries;
Apparel Manufacturing;
Business History;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Management Succession;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Brands and Branding;
Fashion Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
North and Central America;
Europe
Khaire, Mukti, and Kerry Herman. "Coco Chanel: Creating Fashion for the Modern Woman (A)." Harvard Business School Case 812-001, November 2011. (Revised April 2016.)
- July 2021
- Case
Y Combinator
By: John R. Wells
Y Combinator (YC) was a business startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California. Originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2005, by 2021, YC listed 2,830 companies amongst its alumni. More than 80% of these companies were still active, had been...
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Wells, John R. "Y Combinator." Harvard Business School Case 721-498, July 2021.
- April 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge
In February 2005, Jeffrey Tarrant (HBS '85) and Ted Seides (HBS '99) considered their strategy for Protege Partners, founded in July 2002 as a fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specializing in small hedge funds. Protege's assets under management had grown to $1.1 billion, and...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Randolph B., and Brian DeLacey. "Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge." Harvard Business School Case 205-100, April 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
Ruzwana Bashir is one of those talented people who could have taken a variety of paths to success. But Bashir, who grew up in North Yorkshire town in a small community of British-Pakistani families, knew from a young age that she wanted to become an entrepreneur and...
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- September 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Interactive Insurance Services: Redefining Insurance Distribution
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Marla Malcom-Nagler
Founded in July 1995, Interactive Insurance Services provided personal lines of insurance over the World Wide Web. In June 1996, the company was acquired by Intuit for $7.5 million. The case details the competitive and organizational issues faced by this rapidly...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Restructuring;
Growth and Development;
Distribution;
Business Processes;
Competitive Strategy;
Web;
Insurance Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Marla Malcom-Nagler. "Interactive Insurance Services: Redefining Insurance Distribution." Harvard Business School Case 399-017, September 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 19 Dec 2011
- News
Anthony J. Mayo: An interview by Bob Morris
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Open floorplans aren’t just annoying. They make us interact less.
- 26 May 2011
- News
Good companies need more than words
- Video
Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe
Gloria Serobe, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of WIPHOLD, outlines the founding vision for the Black women-owned investment company in 1994, as opportunities in business remained largely unavailable to women in South Africa despite having recently become...
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- August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Diageo and Mey Icki: Turkish Delight or Turkish Hangover?
By: Dante Roscini and Gamze Yucaoglu
In September 2013, two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned about new...
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Keywords:
Foreign Direct Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Government Legislation;
Taxation;
Valuation;
Business and Government Relations;
Government and Politics;
Risk Management;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Middle East;
Turkey
Roscini, Dante, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Diageo and Mey Icki: Turkish Delight or Turkish Hangover?" Harvard Business School Case 717-005, August 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Last Mile Health (A)
By: Brian Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan
As the Ebola outbreak threatens the fragile health system of Liberia, Raj Panjabi, the founder of Last Mile Health, faces a dilemma: should he expand beyond the organizaton's core mission to help the country build emergency health care capacity, or should he stick to...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Ebola;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Health Care and Treatment;
Rural Scope;
Health Pandemics;
Growth and Development;
Decisions;
Health Industry;
Africa
Trelstad, Brian, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Last Mile Health (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-027, March 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- 10 Feb 2020
- News