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- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
"Luxury, Technology, Integration"
The above title was my answer when I was asked earlier this fall to sum up my experience in Milan in three words, working as an MBA intern within the office of the CEO of the YOOX Net-A-Porter (YNAP) Group. In a world where technology and...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- October 2023
- Teaching Note
Metaverse Wars
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-431. Metaverse Wars recaps the development of the metaverse concept and the attendant hype, bringing the narrative up to the summer of 2023 when Meta’s big pivot looked more like a costly misstep than a stroke of strategic genius. In...
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- September 2022
- Case
Blake Sports: Evolution of the CEO and the Executive Team
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
Cameron (Cam) Barker, CEO and Founder of Blake Sports Apparel, sat in his office at his company’s headquarters in Birmingham, England, feeling stunned and disappointed. Only a few minutes prior, he had wrapped up a meeting with CFO James Ryan, a highly-respected star...
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Keywords:
Leadership And Managing People;
Leadership Skills;
Team Dynamics;
Team Effectiveness;
Team Leadership;
Team Management;
Leadership Style;
Leadership;
Management;
Management Skills;
Management Style;
Talent and Talent Management;
Groups and Teams;
United Kingdom
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Blake Sports: Evolution of the CEO and the Executive Team." Harvard Business School Case 423-038, September 2022.
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HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research
if it weren't freely available. Research by Frank Nagle and colleagues puts a value on an economic necessity that will require investment to meet demand. Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year by Rachel Layne...
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- January 2014
- Case
Newfield Energy
By: William E. Fruhan and Wei Wang
In September 2013, Miles Griffin, CEO and chairman of the board of Newfield Energy, prepares to present financial proposals to the board of directors for approval. Newfield (based in Houston, Texas) was a large independent energy company primarily engaged in the...
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Fruhan, William E., and Wei Wang. "Newfield Energy." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-541, January 2014.
- Article
The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms...
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Coles, Peter A., John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried. "The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 187–206.
- 07–08 Feb 2022
- Virtual Programming
Leading High-Performance Companies with Purpose
How can you show up to work more inspired and help others do the same??Join HBS professor?Ranjay Gulati (PHDOB 1993)?for a program exploring?the power of purpose, an underutilized approach that can embed work and life with meaning and deliver...
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- 15 May 2017
- Blog Post
Exploring Career Options at HBS
eyes to various paths available to reach my goals and instilled in me the importance of making a positive difference in the lives of people around me in any job I end up pursuing. 2. There are many resources available to help you explore...
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- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
Tim Chaves (MBA 2015) is the founder of ZipBooks, a free accounting app that helps small business owners get paid faster. Tim founded and sold two small businesses before coming to HBS, where he made the decision to dive into the venture-backed startup world. We...
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- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
Summing Up Consumer generated marketing is a fact of life to which all of us will have to adapt. Adaptation means learning how to use CGM to provide one form of input in fashioning product and marketing decisions. Those are the messages...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation processes (RAPs) while reminding...
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by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic...
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by Susan Young
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Direct from the Director - MBA
Class of 2025, to pursue the opportunities a STEM-eligible degree affords. The degree qualifies international students on an F-1 visa for a 24-month extension, allowing up to three years of eligibility to...
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Faculty & Research
communications groundwork to foster a coherent identity, setting up new organizational structures, and paying close attention to interpersonal dynamics at the team and individual level. Citation Purchase Related Raffaelli, Ryan. "The...
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA
health and wellness company provides at-home lab testing kits and digital results to consumers, and offers a suite of validated tests, including; food sensitivity, fertility, STDs, and thyroid. This past year Everlywell did $40M in sales....
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- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
other, and finally demand the communities, companies, and institutions that represent you also reflect on and act on their role in perpetuating or benefitting from racism. I grew up in Houston, TX, the most ethnically diverse city in the...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
make companies more efficient when public markets are largely flat, they said. According to Nikos Stathopoulos (HBS MBA '95), a partner in Apax Partners, which was founded thirty years ago, "If you look at what drives the sources of...
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- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids...
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Energy;
Energy Sources;
Growth Management;
Expansion;
Global Strategy;
Cash Flow;
Energy Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
models on the Internet, the whole notion is to open up a vast quantity of information that is available in real time to all players in a particular supply chain—or more accurately, supply network. So everyone can see the whole picture...
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