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Who Gets that Opportunity Right Out of Business School | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Who Gets that Opportunity Right Out of Business School Clive Chang Topics Business for Social Impact Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai... View Details

28 Jul 2021
News

Squarely in Their Corner

“personal board of directors,” that includes Sarah Harden (MBA 1999), CEO of the Reese Witherspoon media company Hello Sunshine. The two worked together at Fox Networks Group, where Ahuja helped launch Hulu while Harden served as senior vice president overseeing View Details

Keywords: mentorship; entrepreneurship; fintech; career; work-life balance; Finance

30 Mar 2018
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

organization shares with other cities the three-pronged, neighborhood-based development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and effective community wellness programs that helped to revitalize... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

Last month, health care executives and clinicians gathered to brainstorm strategies for navigating payment reform for providers, payers, and pharma. Speakers included HBS faculty Leemore Dafny and Robert Huckman, as well as Harvard... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact

leadership development services to some 350 clients, including the Salvation Army World Service Office, Harlem Children’s Zone, National Council on Aging, and KIPP Foundation. The core of Bridgespan’s strategy is anchored in knowledge: to... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Faculty Research Online

development. What’s their motivation? The observations presented in research by Professor Marco Iansiti and Gregory Richards (MBA ’99) suggest some fundamental changes in strategy used by technology companies. Visit... View Details

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

Career Coach

Megan Gardner

Circles.Work Experience: Tech Start-ups (Board member, Advisor, CEO/Founder), Investment Banking (including M&A) - Deutsche Bank, SoundView Technology (bought by Schwab), Strategy Consulting / Business Development (Ameriprise... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality

January 2016
Case

TransDigm Inc.

By: Eric Van den Steen, Kavita Mathews and Alon Galor

Transdigm had been very successful with a PE-like business model: it acquired smaller producers of aircraft components and improved their profits, mainly by increasing efficiency and applying value pricing. By 2014, Transdigm had completed almost 50 acquisitions. Its... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Price; Competitive Strategy; Air Transportation Industry

04 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

still need to meet regularly with customers. Companies need chief marketing officers to drive marketing strategy and make the most of the company's customer relationships. And companies still need flesh-and-blood employees to win and... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin

Jon Staff

Point Foundation mentor, and a Harvard Business School Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He earned his AB and MBA from Harvard University and lives in Brooklyn and Boston with his husband, Michael. Jon can be particularly helpful with: - Brick-and-mortar businesses -... View Details

November 2008 (Revised February 2010)
Case

CBS and Online Video

By: Dennis A. Yao, Francisco Pizarro Beleza Rodrigues Queiro and Julia Rozovsky

In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is the impetus for this decision. Should CBS join forces with this new venture, come... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Distribution; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Online Technology; Media and Broadcasting Industry

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

February 2014
Teaching Note

The Slingshot: Improving Water Access

By: John A. Quelch

Entrepreneur Dean Kamen has inked a multimillion dollar partnership with Coca-Cola (CC) to mass produce and distribute the Slingshot, a low energy device that can convert raw sewage into potable water for poor people and communities in developing economies. View Details

Keywords: DEKA; Dean Kamen; Coca-Cola; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Commercialization; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; North Africa; South Africa; Asia; South America

June 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Case

Microsoft in 2004

By: Michael G. Rukstad, David B. Yoffie, Brian DeLacey and Deborah Freier

Surveys Microsoft's expansion into new businesses, such as mobile and embedded devices, home and entertainment, and business solutions, as it faces challenges due to size and maturity and outside threats from Linux and Google. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Washington (state, US)

March 1992 (Revised April 2000)
Case

Adam Opel AG (A)

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

Focuses on the strategic issue of how to approach the East German market after the Berlin wall came down in late 1989. Within an unusually rich economic-political and organizational-personal context, the chairman of GM's German subsidiary has to respond to Volkswagen's... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Government and Politics; Organizations; Business and Government Relations; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Germany

01 Sep 2012
News

Faculty Research Online

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Many companies preach and practice corporate social responsibility, but their efforts often lack an overall strategy that... View Details

Keywords: Professor Kash Rangan; Professor Michael W. Toffel; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 1995
Case

Quorum Health Group, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green

Facing increasing competition from much larger industry players, Jim Dalton, CEO of Quorum, and Russ Carson, Managing Partner of Welch, Carson, Anderson & Stowe attempt to set the future direction for Quorum. The company was successfully spun-off from HCA in a... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Leveraged Buyouts; Venture Capital; Acquisition; Health Industry