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Minal Mehta

away from making blockbuster bets. From a personal-experience standpoint, I really had to internalize that lesson to leave a steady job at Amazon and put all my weight behind launching a new and risky venture. To this day, my View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Services

February 1992 (Revised December 1992)
Case

MCI Vision (A)

By: Frank V. Cespedes

This case series focuses on divisional marketing and sales efforts concerning Vision, a new telecommunication product intended for the small business marketplace. Vision represents both a significant opportunity, and different field marketing requirements, for MCI.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Sales; Opportunities; Competitive Strategy

Citation

Find at Harvard

20 Aug 2024
Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

identifying customer needs and R&D to introduce hit products. Nike’s ecosystem. One of Nike’s initial ventures into fitness was the 2012 launch of the FuelBand, a wrist-worn fitness tracker with social features. Its key feature,... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

29 Aug 2024
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12... View Details

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

really had to internalize that lesson to leave a steady job at Amazon and put all my weight behind launching a new and risky venture. To this day, my team and I have decided there's nothing to gain from... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

after he took office in July 2010. That collective effort came to fruition in January 2011, when the faculty voted overwhelmingly to support the creation of the FIELD course. MBA Program Innovation: FIELD Launches Mission Possible:... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups "R" Us

way of life for many alumni. Consider that roughly half of all alumni start a business at some point in their careers. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to this issue. The takeaway from one story is that students get fired up about start-ups, as evidenced by the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

Web

IT Strategy: Empowering the Future of Generative AI Innovation at HBS | Information Technology

intelligence (GenAI) and an increasing availability of tools. With a desire to be at the forefront of this new technology, HBS IT launched a strategic initiative to evaluate opportunities and risks in order to ensure informed... View Details

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

2024. The launch marks the culmination of a two-year organizing effort by a core team of alumnae, working closely with HBS, to expand the former HBS Women’s Association of New York (HBSWANY) from a local... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2014
News

The Next Lessons

serving some 10 million students a month, and used in more than 300,000 classrooms around the world to teach math, science, arts, economics, and more. Khan, who now leads a team of 60 at the non-profit, counts Microsoft’s Bill and Melinda... View Details

Keywords: William Weber

25 Feb 2020
News

Case Study: The Credit Bureau

young professionals) select pieces from curated collections on the company’s website—think Scandinavian, mid-century modern, or industrial looks. Within a week, a white-glove team delivers preassembled pieces and arranges the room. When... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

Web

Curriculum | MBA

Technology Ventures course during the fall term, and, during the January and spring terms, complete the Capstone course, in which they work in a small team to build and launch a new product. Play Video... View Details

Web

Product Management - Course Catalog

Educational Objectives: A Product Manager is obsessed with the problem their product tries to solve and works to both define the product’s functional requirements and lead cross-functional teams to develop, View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Net Positive

At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2003
News

For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

school systems that have achieved a high level of excellence overall.” To address this situation, HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education have launched a three-year joint venture with nine urban school districts representing more... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Internship In Action

introducing a new operational strategy for a group of sellers. After a few weeks of investigation my manager and I pushed to initiate the launch of this new operational strategy, which has been super cool. After visiting the warehouse and... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

05 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Learning to fail at HBS

some operational experience. With that, as the summer is dawning upon us, you’ll find me in Zambia, a landlocked country in the south/eastern part of Africa. I’ll be working for a recently launched e-commerce startup (the "eBay of... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail

20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

Prize4Life has also worked with Jackson Laboratory to develop a colony of ALS mice to be provided to competing teams at little or no cost. To address the barriers to collaboration, Prize4Life has partnered with the Biomedical Research... View Details