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- September 2004
- Case
Valhalla Partners Due Diligence
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
The Valhalla Partners venture capitial firm introduced a new approach to the due-diligence process. An internal due-diligence report analyzes Telco Exchange, a startup company in the IT software space. An extended excerpt examines the trade-offs involved in the new... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Business Plan; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Dan Heath. "Valhalla Partners Due Diligence." Harvard Business School Case 805-033, September 2004.
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael Luca. That may be about to change. Thanks to the Internet, mobile apps, and a wide range of useful programs online, residents add to the pool of information with every keystroke... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
multi-state 911 outage left 11 million Americans across seven states without 911 service. Over 6,600 calls were lost including those from Alicia Cappola, a young mother who tried calling 37 timesbefore giving up and grabbing a knife to force out an intruder. Despite... View Details
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
SeatGeek
By: Robert F. Higgins and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-013. View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
COO, had to ensure the company's current business model of building cars and trucks remained strong, while concurrently navigating the company into the rapidly expanding industry of personal mobility. Personal mobility required new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. In 2006, the Bharti Foundation... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
new disruptive technology in the works, personal electronic health records (PEHRs), an open-source tool that collects data from all providers and gives patients access over the Internet or by mobile phone.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
a physical office. “An all-remote company immediately addresses all the concerns that cause geographic mobility friction. No one has to move anywhere,” he says. “But these companies have to address questions about managing coordination... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details
- April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
By: Paul A. Gompers
Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones." Harvard Business School Case 299-004, April 1999. (Revised September 2001.)
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations Management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
2005. In the intervening years, technological evolution has pushed INRIX’s capabilities far beyond just offering help to frustrated drivers on crowded highways. “We began as a traffic company, and HBS wrote a case about us back in 2012... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
Busbud was cofounded and is run by LP Maurice (MBA 2008), representing the Canadian region of HBS Clubs. Busbud is a mobile app that connects travelers to bus operators, allowing users to search, compare, and book intercity bus tickets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
critical moments in the development of all new technologies or skills. It becomes more desirable as even the most basic appliances, such as our mobile phones and watches, become loaded with capabilities of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- October 2018
- Case
SeatGeek
By: Robert F. Higgins and Sarah Mehta
In late 2016, Russ D'Souza and Jack Groetzinger, co-founders of the online event ticketing platform SeatGeek, faced some difficult decisions. In the company's seven-year history, SeatGeek had positioned itself primarily as an aggregator, facilitating ticket... View Details
Keywords: Event Ticketing; Sports Ticketing; Acquisition; Business Model; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Digital Platforms; Sports; Strategy; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms
Higgins, Robert F., and Sarah Mehta. "SeatGeek." Harvard Business School Case 819-013, October 2018.
- Web
Transportation - Business & Environment
Battery costs for electric vehicles have dropped 85% since 2010. [38] Challenge Globally, transportation is the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions. Reducing GHGs from this sector is difficult because economic growth usually requires increased View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing—when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
amount of technological growth in it. What we found in our recent paper (which I coauthored with Tina Highfill of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) is that growth in the space sector overall has been quite modest over the past decade... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
enormous collective negotiating power with respect to keystones. The same mobility that allows them to escape devastating technological transitions allows them to potentially "leave" a keystone... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien