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  • 06 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

American company that filed for bankruptcy protection in January. The company developed the first digital camera in 1975. Yet Kodak was never able to ride the digital wave over the long haul, and the company's invention ironically served... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu
By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Decision; Financial Strategy; UAE; KSA; MENA; Cost Accounting; Business Model; Business Startups; Transformation; Cost Management; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain Management; Performance Evaluation; Mathematical Methods; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Transportation Networks; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Bahrain; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; North Africa
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  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

chronicles the meteoric rise and equally fiery fall of Iridium, Motorola’s spin-off venture into global wireless communications. Although the technology was literally “rocket... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • News

Stick with Plan A

Ezuza, Inc., a Mexico City-based mobile payments company she launched in 2007 that focuses primarily on the unbanked and under-banked in emerging markets. Zuza means "gain" in Zulu; the e stands for... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

technology at all but with the way you are collecting and using your data, experts say. Although getting your CRM program in order is an essential component of achieving customer loyalty, there's much more... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

note examines the relationship between video gaming devices (console, handhelds, mobile and PC) and gaming software development. The impact of broadband, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Powering Up

tossed into landfills. So Eric Giler (MBA ’82) is working on a better plan: wireless technology in which devices are powered by electricity from remote energy-emitting coils. “It’s not electricity going... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

and labor-law situations are analyzed for the U.S., U.K., Germany, China, and India. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409104 Welcome to a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), was preparing to meet with his senior managers to discuss BBC WW's global strategy options. BBC WW exploited and exported BBC-branded content around the globe through all formats, including magazines,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in... View Details
Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details
Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas)
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

and medium businesses draw meaningful, actionable insights from across all of their disparate data sources. Jana Care Sidhant Jena, MBA 2011 Jana Care is a health technology startup that aims at... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Aldrich Renovations Reach Halfway Point

classrooms provides faculty with three projection zones, audio- and video-conferencing capabilities, an in-room camera for recording classroom sessions, at-seat student polling, and View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
  • Case

Technical Data Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman
Describes a decision confronting the president of a small company about selling some or all of the shares in his company to another firm. Technical Data Corp. provides analytical services to professional bond market traders over a system of computer terminals operated... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Negotiation Tactics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Information Industry; Service Industry
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  • 13 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto
  • 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... View Details