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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog

product or service over time, and in satisfying customer needs more precisely and blocking competitive advances. Cases include Evernote, an online notetaking app. We will discuss the company’s reconfiguration of its product line and pricing in response to changes in... View Details

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

future. He also offers suggestions for avoiding the worst mistakes and gives advice for reviving your own company. For most companies, a big jolt in the industry landscape is a pretty rare event, Sull says. The travel industry, for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

golf.” Out of office: “I paint landscapes and portraiture.” It’s a hobby Motley’s pursued since the age of four. Fork in the road: “Engineering versus art school. My dad made that decision for me, and I ended up in engineering school.”... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

landscape of India's infrastructure. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407061 Keggfarms (India)—Which Came First, the Kuroiler or the KEGG? Harvard Business School Case 807-089 Vinod Kapur... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

like Grubhub. For more, see It’s Called Price Coherence, and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers.) THE TEMPTATION TO CUT CORNERS COMPETITIVELY Edelman contends that the current competitive landscape encourages all TNCs to cut corners, or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

best friend and lover since college? In Amy Unbound, you will witness the collision of love, ambition, family, and commitment as one extraordinary woman navigates the complex journey toward personal and professional fulfillment. The emotional View Details

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

$10 million, the ALS landscape has radically changed. Most of the big drug companies are setting up ALS research programs and the number of ALS research publications is skyrocketing.” While effective treatments remain elusive, Kremer and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Tiffany Pham

kind-hearted nature and candor.” How do you use what you learned at HBS today? “At HBS, I learned to think on my feet and make optimal decisions, with limited information, while overcoming complex problems. In the media and technology sector, as the View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entertainment / Media; Technology

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

performance. Course Content and Organization The course is structured into four modules: 1. Business Models and The Complete Strategy Landscape How can firms create enormous entrepreneurial value by developing new business models? The... View Details

05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

Gary Kusumi is considering. GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2024
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

listing for the internship with the National Park Service in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way. As a native... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023

issues of science and policy acted as a reminder of the scale and ever-changing policy landscape as students dove more deeply into specific solutions with such topics as food and agriculture, carbon capture, finance, the electricity grid,... View Details

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Burden Park | About

Center and Klarman Hall, the park welcomes visitors arriving from the south side of campus, setting the stage for the unique landscape they will encounter throughout the School. Burden Park also serves as a place for community members to... View Details

30 Aug 2018
News

Sharing a Passion for Art

Netherlands in attendance. The name Voorlinden (literally “in front of the Linden”) has been associated with the surrounding landscape since the 16th century, but the museum’s architecture itself is decidedly modern. Walls consist of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

context of venture-backed companies. Professor Nanda, you’ve identified 2006 as a turning point in venture capital investing. What happened then, and how did it change the decision-making process among venture capitalists? Ramana Nanda: In the mid-2000s, the... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

case's protagonists, Communication Manager Marilee McInnis. Participants recently published an e-book around themes that emerged at the workshop, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting. The School's Baker Library | Bloomberg Center has one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

06 Oct 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)

2+2 Program?During my final semester at HBS, I had the opportunity to write a case titled Cannabis: Growing Profits for Real Estate with Professor Charles Wu. In it, we examined how the shifting regulatory and economic landscape of... View Details

16 Feb 2018
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Out of PE, Into Africa

63 days, we had experiences that will last a lifetime: close encounters with wildlife, interactions with aboriginal cultures, road trips through stunning landscapes and so much more. We all got outside of our comfort zone, learned so much... View Details

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

has dramatically reshaped the competitive landscape and the founders must decide between pursuing their high-growth strategy versus retrenching—including cutting costs and pulling out of their first international expansion that they had... View Details