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- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
and limiting production volumes; illegal poultry imports threaten food safety while undercutting prices of domestic product; corruption is rampant; debt is exorbitantly expensive; commercial real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
Is there a method to their madness, investing in what has been widely characterized as a dying business? Of course there are plausible explanations for their purchases that have nothing to do with economics. Their motives might include both the public good (maintaining... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business innovation, HBS professor Clayton Christensen has written a new book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
competitors could only offer three. However, LEGO offers a 30-35 percent margin to retailers, compared to competing brands offering 40-50 percent margins. What if local retailers wanted the higher margins and could care less about turnover? Outsourcing risks. With... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
for new challengers to take root. Sara Grant: Why did you choose to study Web browsers to look at the idea of diffusion of innovation in a market? Pai-Ling Yin: Web browsers were the turning point in mass commercializing the Internet.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
to a competitor instead. This likely forces a more careful consideration of new P&G technologies when they become available. Spin technologies off. Lucent created its New Ventures Group (NVG) with the mandate to launch new ventures that would View Details
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Mara Group
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group." Harvard Business School Case 114-060, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
prices. Philanthropy, seeded by the steel fortunes, played a major role in funding education, culture, and historical preservation projects. City and state government, combined with self-organized private-sector players, played their part by funding technology as well... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
investment enabled Xerox to participate substantially in the resultant value. As Kearns stated in 1993, "XTV is a hedge against the repeated missteps of the past." 40 Armed with this new structure and the charter to hunt for View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
where they might be applied. We want to make common academic techniques more accessible to practitioners and to encourage their use in solving real business problems. Q: Many managers continue to use traditional methods for allocating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Corp.: Commercializing a Diagnostic Test Harvard Business School Case 307-055 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307055 Good Technology: Empowering Mobility around the Globe (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308002 North Goes East Harvard Business School Case 208-136 In August 2006, Magnus Lofgren and Robert Provine, managing directors and co-founders of the "North Real View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
including commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Representing one of the largest DIP loans in history, this financing was considered critical to the company's survival. One unique and controversial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
For millions of TV watchers, the commercial break is an annoyance of the past, thanks to the fast-forward button on their digital video recorders. Consequently, advertisers are turning to the web, where popular sites such as YouTube and... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
as well as something with enormous social value because a lot of food goes to waste. Q: Can you give us other examples of how this works in practice? A: In Brazil, Banco Real has grown in 10 years from a small behind-the-pack bank to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Starting in 1997, Mohammad Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar, has been largely associated with Dubai's most renowned real estate projects: the world's tallest building, largest mall, and biggest fountain show.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
labs and venture capital-backed firms, you see that there are both very real strengths and some serious limitations," Lerner says. "Much of the motivation for writing this book was to bridge the gap between the two models."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
to Valeant for an IRR of 17.6% for a MOIC of 1.6x. The (B) case answers the question whether “good is good enough.” Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-077 The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman