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26 Aug 2015
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Investing in Relaxation: Soothe Raises $10.6 Million

31 Jan 2015
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The Boston Startup Scene's Superbowl Vet

17 Oct 2014
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Making Tomato Paste in Nigeria

Keywords: Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Oct 2014
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The Go-To Company in Mobile Advertising

Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

26 Sep 2014
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InsightSquared: Boston's Next Big Thing?

August 2012 (Revised September 2013)
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EnerNOC: DemandSMART

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice

EnerNOC is an energy company with an innovative business model: it serves as an intermediary between electric utilities and electricity users. It contracts with electricity users willing to reduce demand during periods of peak energy demand, and sells this as excess... View Details

Keywords: Production Planning; Productivity; Environmental Protection; Energy; Environment; Business Government Relations; Laws And Regulation; Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain Management; Production; Energy Conservation; Energy Industry

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November – December 2011
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Competitive Strategy for Open Source Software

By: Vineet Kumar, Brett Gordon and Kannan Srinivasan

Commercial open source software (COSS) products-privately developed software based on publicly available source code-represent a rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar market. A unique aspect of competition in the COSS market is that many open source licenses require... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Product Development; Growth and Development; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Quality; Policy; Perspective; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Emerging Markets

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24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
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Clean Slate

For the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the pandemic opened up the rare opportunity to rethink “everything we do and how we do it,” says CEO Lisa Wieland (MBA 2001). The independent public authority that owns and operates the... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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@Soldiers Field

engage with climate change research through a multimedia display sponsored by the Business & Environment Initiative and the HBS Operations Sustainability Team. View Details

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Eryn Schultz

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I decided to apply to business school because I wanted to pivot away from strategy consulting and move into an operations focused role at a mission-oriented organization. While I had... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

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Public companies: fast growing | Baker Library

Information > Operating Metrics & Ratios. Under CIQ Operating Metrics and Ratios , select Growth Rates . Add desired growth rate criteria ( e.g., Total Revenues, 1 Yr Growth %). Click View Results . In LSEG... View Details

27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger profit margins. The group’s... View Details

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Philipp Schäelli

Working with smart and driven people is a hugely important element for me and I am looking forward to being in such an environment. At HBS learning and challenging your views is a constant process. In my career I look to continue that process be it through interactions... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

sharks” operated illegally, making their customers vulnerable to exploitation. 26 The illegality of the industry also poses a challenge for historians. Because most early salary lenders strove to keep their business under the table,... View Details

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

has been specifically designed to provide hands-on guidance and operational support for students who are seriously pursuing founding or joining life sciences ventures before, upon, or soon after, graduation. Students will learn and... View Details

23 May 2018
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Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Corporate Associates Program 2003 Earns MBA with Distinction 2003 Inducted into the Verizon Academic All-American Hall of Fame 2003 Serves as Chief of Human Intelligence Operations Cell, Afghanistan; receives Bronze... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective

turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

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