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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
afforded Middlebrooks precious peace of mind at work, knowing her children were in a safe, loving, and familiar environment. In addition, she credits husband William, who owns a customer service and training firm, with sharing equally in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
conditions and other factors. Through acquisitions and by building on its strengths, Martin and Giraud note, Club Med intends to double in size by 2003, operating as a services company that is active in leisure and entertainment. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
heck out of it,” recalls Holley, a former consultant and finance executive. “The question was whether it could be profitable. I was pleasantly surprised to find that both were true.” Last summer, Holley wrapped up his acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if they deliver a qualified View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
2008), offers this case study to HBS alumni: “There are many reasons for us to pursue diversification. Our client pool is made up of relatively small, local solar markets, and installations will eventually slow down; many customers (as... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
purchaser, rather than the generator, of roadway data. The early days required a lot of evangelism, but in the past five years, most governments have begun seeing how much more effective we can be.” Turning government agencies into View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Rob Ristagno (MBA 2005) Independently published Ristagno guides you step-by-step through the five forces of dramatic online revenue growth and shows why it is vital to identify your very best customers and focus relentlessly on their... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Traps” (November 2006) and “Block-by-Blockbuster Innovation” (May 2010), along with her books SuperCorp and Confidence. How can companies tap their customers for innovative ideas? Carliss Baldwin Baldwin Firms have a tendency to look at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
market-segmentation scheme for reconfiguring your offerings to reduce costs while delivering new value to customers; lessening innovation risks with strategic experiments and alliances with customers; and appealing to increasingly value-conscious View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
and a culture that values employees above all and empowers them to excel. Unlike its competitors, Dreyer’s has always insisted on delivering ice cream to grocery stores with its own trucks and drivers to ensure product quality. Early on that meant View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant change under Immelt, including... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
pymetrics to help them meet their diversity goals. And the firm’s impact is likely to spread, thanks to its recent acquisition by Harver, an automated recruiting platform with global reach. Seke Ballard (MBA 2010), founder of the fintech... View Details