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- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
we had a shared passion for technology and building great user-focused products: four out of the six team members had cofounded their own company, three had worked in product development, and four were engineers. Everyone on the team was very analytically inclined, but... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
and don't walk away when they should. Integration's hard to pull off, but a few companies do it well, consistently. Given that we're in the midst of the biggest merger boom of all time, that collective wisdom seems inadequate, to say the... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- July 2023 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
India Stack: Digital Public Infrastructure for All
By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Amitabh Kant, India Sherpa in the year of India's G20 Presidency, and Nandan Nilekani iconic tech entrepreneur wondered how to share India's model of digital public infrastructure to build social and economic inclusion. 'India Stack', the umbrella term for India's DPI... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
look at leadership in American public life. If you spend as much time as I do around politicians, you hear a lot about leadership. They all promise to offer it, in different shapes and forms. Strong leadership. Bold leadership. Tested... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 23 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive: Fashion for All
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Max Hancock
- July 2023
- Case
Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
By: Satish Tadikonda, Shikhar Ghosh and William Marks
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna was riding the successes of developing a vaccine in record time and helping stem the tide of the crisis. However, the company had grown at an incredible rate, more than doubled its number of employees, and had to put on hold... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Growth Management; Management Succession; Retirement; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
Tadikonda, Satish, Shikhar Ghosh, and William Marks. "Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Harvard Business School Case 824-021, July 2023.
- 20 Aug 2021
- News
Auto Industry Chip Shortage Worsens
- December 2020 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
eXp Realty and the Virbela Platform
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jan Bena, David Rowat and Emma Salomon
As he considered his plans for the future, Glenn Sanford, CEO of eXp World Holdings, Inc., faced an exciting conundrum. He had built the first all-remote real estate brokerage firm, eXp Realty, which had been growing exponentially and was thriving, even amidst the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; All Remote; Virtual Platform; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Digital Platforms; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Jan Bena, David Rowat, and Emma Salomon. "eXp Realty and the Virbela Platform." Harvard Business School Case 621-068, December 2020. (Revised March 2021.)
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
The Dow at 20,000: What's All That About?
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings The Next Economic Growth Engine Scaling Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in Production This paper summarizes new findings and... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Energy Industry
useful for research topics of all key aspects of sustainability in energy industry HOLLIS Catalog (Tip: The link leads to a search result on sustainability and circular economy in energy. You may modify... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Construction Industry
bird flu, swine flu and now Covid-19. If we have indeed entered an era of pandemics, how might we design the cities of tomorrow so that the outdoors does not become a no-go zone, but remains a safe and habitable space? Resources The following databases are... View Details
- Research Summary
Is there a Relationship Between IT Investment and Industry Structure?
A provocative current argument is that 'IT doesn't matter' in a competitive sense -- that it benefits all companies equally, and so provides advantage and differentiation to none and leaves industry structures unchanged.
As we accumulate a longer history of IT... View Details
- October 2011
- Case
Gene Sequencing: Staking a Position in an Expanding Industry
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara Aspinall and Phillip Andrews
Towards the end of 2010, companies in the gene sequencing industry were pushing aggressive R&D programs to develop technologies and products in the race to sequence the entire human genome at a cost of $1,000. It remained to be seen when the "$1,000 genome" would... View Details
Keywords: Genetics; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Competition; Venture Capital; Biotechnology Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., Mara Aspinall, and Phillip Andrews. "Gene Sequencing: Staking a Position in an Expanding Industry." Harvard Business School Case 812-004, October 2011.
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All
business school is the perfect one. Hence, my goal for the summer internship was to get out of my comfort zone and test the following hypothesis: Can I thrive in an unstructured, fairly chaotic environment? Is fashion the industry where I... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
trillion hedge fund industry to police itself with voluntary standards and codes. Codes of conduct and self-regulation programs are growing in popularity, but are these initiatives just window dressing to appease critics and deter... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
Vietnamese manicurists, Korean dry cleaners, Haitian cab drivers, Gujarati motel owners. Anyone who lives in an American city can see how immigrants tend to cluster in industries along ethnic lines. Is this because they are forced to by... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
and the sport of rodeo kayaking quickly emerged from the rapids. Harvard Business School professor Carliss Baldwin and her colleagues Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel were drawn to the sport as well, but not to get their feet wet. Instead, they realized that both... View Details