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The Market That Wasn't: The Non-emergence of the Online Grocery Category

By: Chad Navis, Greg Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the non-emergence of a potential new market category. In the late 1990s the entrepreneurial firms that attempted to sell groceries online attracted significant resources, made meaningful technological advancements and generated immense publicity, yet online... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Food; Emerging Markets; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

The Market That Wasn't: The Non-Emergence of the Online Grocery Category.

By: C. Navis, G. Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
In this paper, we examine the non-emergence of a potential new market category. In the late 1990s, the entrepreneurial firms that attempted to sell groceries online in the US attracted significant resources, made impressive technological advancements, and generated... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Failure; Food; Online Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPREMNET/Resources/EP31.pdf   Working PapersWhen Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper describes how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2024
  • HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology
  • July 2016
  • Supplement

Mahindra Tool: Project Economics

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
The case describes Mahindra Lifespace Developers’ (MLDL), a unit of Indian conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra, foray into the affordable housing segment. MLDL sees a huge opportunity in selling apartments to the burgeoning population of urban workers, which is badly... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India
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  • April 1993 (Revised July 1994)
  • Case

MathSoft, Inc. (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
MathSoft's VP of sales has doubled the size of the company's direct field sales force to support the launch of a new, high-end workstation software product priced at almost $9,000. However, sales of the new product are far below plan. At the same time, the VP of... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Communication Strategy; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Advertising; Product Launch; Information Technology Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States
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  • October 2016 (Revised March 2019)
  • Case

Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments

By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
Founded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees’ planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality... View Details
Keywords: Health Financing; Health Insurance; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Bundled Payments; Innovation; Scale; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; California; San Francisco; San Diego; Seattle
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    Aticus Peterson

    Aticus Peterson (apeterson@hbs.edu) is a PhD candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on how entrepreneurs and investors can... View Details

    • 20 Jul 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

    to business success. In today's global markets, companies have many choices to procure what they need to develop, build, and sell product. Pisano and Buciuni wanted to test the theory of the dying cluster. "I think people in general think... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
    • 01 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1

    Rory Abstract—Prior research examines how firms compete effectively in established markets. This study investigates new markets and traces how entrepreneurial rivals in such a market search for a successful strategy. Through an in-depth,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Das Narayandas

      Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation
      • 30 May 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Market Makers Bid for Success

      invented the concept of FairMarket Network, which is basically a distributed selling environment, where we'll run marketplaces and auctions for many companies underneath their own brand. That way they'll drive the traffic; they'll be... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
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      Marla Malcolm Beck

      When most high school seniors were thinking about college applications and prom dates, Marla Malcolm Beck was thinking about business. Smart and athletic, Beck played volleyball and softball and she was accepted to the University of California at Berkeley. And in a... View Details
      • 23 Mar 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: March 23

      Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 08 Jul 2021
      • Blog Post

      Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

      ultimate team player and not at all as the type of person who would strike out on their own. I love getting dropped into new situations and diverse teams to solve new problems and this interest in team dynamics, problem solving, and rapid change made me think that the... View Details

        Robert J. Dolan

        Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

        • 15 Jan 2019
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

        https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55402 The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets By: Bernstein, Shai, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper explores the creation and evolution of new stock... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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        Faculty & Advisors | MBA

        Centerview in 2009, the firm has been a leading advisor to the global Biopharmaceutical industry most notable representing biotechnology companies on strategic defense. In the period from 2019 to 2021, Centerview represented 18 companies in transactions where the View Details

          Benson P. Shapiro

          Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business... View Details

          Keywords: apparel; banking; beauty products; brokerage; chemical; computer; consulting; e-commerce industry; electrical equipment; electronics; financial services; food; high technology; industrial goods; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; metals; plastics; printing; professional services; software; steel; telecommunications; wholesale
          • 31 May 2016
          • First Look

          May 31, 2016

          management will inhibit innovation and entrepreneurial activities. We disagree and argue that risk management should function as a Revealing Hand to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in a cost-efficient manner. Done well, the Revealing... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne