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June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
Case

athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare

When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States

01 Dec 2000
News

Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue

Sue is a very versatile 67-million-year-old tyrant lizard king — or Tyrannosaurus rex, as most of us know her. Her two hundred bones have been carefully assembled in the main entrance of Chicago's Field Museum in a manner so that each one can be removed for scientific... View Details

Keywords: McDonald's; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

those with no experience get ready (thank heavens for the early investments we made in HBX, now HBS Online). Our IT team did wonders to get everyone the technology and connectivity to teach, learn, and work from home. Staff across the... View Details

November 1990 (Revised September 1991)
Case

The Transformation of IBM

By: Andrall E. Pearson and David B. Yoffie

John Akers, IBM's chairman, must confront how to transform a $60 billion, full line, global computer company that is the leader in every market it serves, yet losing share across the board. The case explores senior management's perspective on the process of... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Adoption; Management Teams; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Computer Industry

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Morocco

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Profile

Taylor Wiegele

SpaceX culture," he missed the consumer connection. After eight months, as his designs were becoming clear, he began looking toward the MBA. "I wanted to enable new technologies, to give them legs," he says. "How can you position View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; CPG; Tech

October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in August 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are navigating Migros through COVID-19 and the unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Strategic Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey

September 2004
Case

Valhalla Partners Due Diligence

By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath

The Valhalla Partners venture capitial firm introduced a new approach to the due-diligence process. An internal due-diligence report analyzes Telco Exchange, a startup company in the IT software space. An extended excerpt examines the trade-offs involved in the new... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Business Plan; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

augmented-reality instructions southwestern us HBS Association of Southern California Brandon Molina, MBA 2010 CEO Swing by Swing Golf technology for the greens 2012 HBS Alumni New Venture Contest legal services sponsor: Cooley, LLP... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

September 2010
Teaching Note

China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy (TN)

By: William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 309034. View Details

Keywords: Rural Scope; Investment; Communication Strategy; Information Management; Government and Politics; Governance Controls; China

01 Dec 2000
News

The Rites of Autumn

up with John J. Burns (MBA 1955). Members of the Class of 1960 participated in a lively classroom discussion on "Changing Technology and the New Economy". The Class of 1955 made time for a tennis tournament. Hamming it up are 1965... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts

the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits As pioneers of the nascent information industry, the nineteenth-century credit... View Details

February 2019 (Revised June 2019)
Case

Where to Grow Next at Online Marketplace OLX

By: Thales Teixeira, Leandro A. Guissoni and Samy Dana

The CEO of OLX Brazil, an online classifieds platform business, is debating among multiple paths to grow sustainably (i.e., profitably) without the need for investor money. The options under consideration are (1) penetration growth by focusing on the core, (2) new... View Details

Keywords: Online Marketplace; Growth; Customer Acquisition; Facebook; Two-sided Network; E-commerce; Classifieds; Naspers; Schibsted; Innovation; Startup; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Brazil

30 Apr 2019
News

Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile

Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), the self-proclaimed romantic and founder of Hinge, the fast-growing dating app, thinks you can learn from his story. In an interview with Vogue, he... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Dec 2003
News

Rural Renewal

was thoroughly engaging intellectually,” says Reade of her years in the investment business. “We were detectives, piecing together the information to figure out the value of basic businesses.” Ultimately, however, she felt dissatisfied,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Crop Production; Agriculture

February 2018
Case

Whole Foods and JANA Partners

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher

In 2017, JANA Partners decided to launch an activist campaign at struggling supermarket chain Whole Foods Market. The company had struggled for the past several years, and JANA thought the presence of new directors could help turn around its operations, while Whole... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Information Technology; Institutional Investing; Investment Activism; United States

March 2017 (Revised November 2017)
Case

BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems? (with video links)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Jan W. Rivkin and Kelly McNamara

As the case opens in 1999, several key leaders at BlackRock, Inc., then a relatively small asset management firm, are trying to convince CEO Larry Fink and others that the firm should begin to offer Aladdin—its proprietary analytics and trading platform—to other asset... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Asset Management; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States