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ReSpo.Vision: The Kickstart of an AI Sports Revolution

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Nikolina Jonsson

This case study explores the growth journey of Polish computer vision sports start-up ReSpo.Vision in an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem. By providing 3D data and analysis to soccer clubs, ReSpo.Vision achieved significant milestones with a €1 million seed round, an... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Plan; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; Poland; Europe

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06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2013
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risk reports-that spread their expertise (toolmaking). While controlling the tools' design and implementation, the risk managers incorporated business managers' insights (teamwork) and made sure everyone could understand the findings... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Aug 2018
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Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

You have to have a major part of your value-add in hard-to-replicate areas that require expertise or experience that you can’t just buy off the shelf in some advanced design or manufacturing tool. An industrial design firm was recently... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

07 Apr 2015
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"teammates." The case gives students the opportunity to explore how a mission-driven Fortune 500 company can leverage its own resources and HR expertise to partner with non-corporate entities to create social value and support... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2013
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Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2011
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sources. Recently, the insertion into this world of business models incorporating advanced management expertise have demonstrated that commercial success is possible while significantly improving access to these basic services for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2000
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Market Makers Bid for Success

horizontally. We also decided that while there are lots of companies with expertise in different verticals, our basic concept of using auctions to help buyers and sellers was exactly right and our pricing was right. While our executional... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

26 Mar 2013
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manager who is the head of the new business segment. Used in combination, the cases explore these very different perspectives, the different levels of subject matter expertise brought to the table by each team member, and they highlight... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
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Cesaro e Associati

By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal

This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details

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04 Mar 2014
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and expertise have to learn to coordinate and establish a virtual, well-aligned organization. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/the-kursk-submarine-rescue-mission/an/114046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-065 Samuel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2007
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The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

Miller, an HBS professor with expertise in financial communication, conducted in-depth research on whether and how the press digs up original information on accounting malfeasance—with surprising results. "The press is important in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

October 2019
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GRIT Fitness

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull

In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details

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26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

made MIA unique—offering affordable homes for its BOP customers in Mexico—to fulfill other critical needs at the BOP for water, clean energy, and health care services? Jaime was an expert in housing, but could he translate that expertise... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2012
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fast-growing food service sector. Internationally, the plan sets out a vision of Brasil Foods evolving from an exporter to a true multinational. The team believes their operational expertise and scale combined with Brazil's booming... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2009
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collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. As a result, America has lost not only the ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops but also... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Sep 2008
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empirical analyses provide two primary insights. First, analyst characteristics such as industry expertise and relative experience, and brokerage house characteristics such as continuity of coverage, are associated with the decision to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2014
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competition and federal health care reform as factors complicating the plans of Mayo Clinic to grow through several channels. Students must ultimately decide whether Mayo Clinic should focus its future growth on its current areas of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2014
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suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities, and its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the organizational hierarchy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

numerous challenges. Pierre, who took the lead in the initiative, had to select the right people to compose a team that had all the expertise and knowledge required to develop an entirely new market offering. A competitive move by the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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