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  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • September 2000 (Revised July 2001)
  • Case

Chapters.ca

By: Michael J. Roberts, Rajiv Lal and Walter J. Salmon
Describes the challenges facing the online site associated with Canada's largest bricks-and-mortar bookseller. Presents a variety of lenses for examining the economic model of the online versus traditional book-selling business, and asks students to identify the... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Product Marketing; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Canada
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  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

The case describes an organization's use of the science of improvement to transform their process quality from below average to the top 10% in their industry. The case outlines the protagonist's strategy of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Stanley C. Gault

    generated a 4-fold increase in revenues and a 6-fold increase in profitability. While he stripped weak product lines and slashed excess cost, he invested in new product View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • Career Coach

    Vanessa Wu

    Energy, she has developed strong experience in strategy topics and in the power & utilities sector. For the past summer, she pivoted to startup for her internship. She can share insights on resume and... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2014
    • News

    Case Study: Declawing the Competition

    recurring product and service preference feedback, consider vertically integrating those items that are most desired, allowing you to fine-tune and evolve the product, [as well as] developing a cost... View Details
    • 11 Oct 2016
    • Blog Post

    Why We Recruit: HelloFresh

    make a difference every single day as you develop and implement your ideas. This is a unique opportunity to grow quickly in a fast-paced, rapidly growing international startup. Is there anything else you would like to share with fellow... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • December 1998 (Revised September 1999)
    • Case

    Novartis: Betting on Life Sciences

    By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
    The merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz produced genomic-based synergies for health care, agribusiness, and nutritional supplements. How to build on the strength of the individual divisions and provide synergies that would continue Novartis' leadership role is the question... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Divisions; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Product Positioning; Science-Based Business; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

    admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and... View Details
    Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production
    • 28 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

    have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a product because there are better and cheaper ways of doing that. Malls are going to increasingly transform into places for... View Details
    Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail
    • 16 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

    Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "Interdepartmental coordination doesn't tend to happen organically. It needs some intervention to create collaborative networks." “What corporate-level View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • August 2009
    • Case

    Intuit

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    This case study provides an overview of Intuit's growth and, in particular, the sales and service initiatives that historically fueled the company's growth from start-up to a corporation. It also outlines certain processes and cultural values, as well as specific... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Product; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Sales; Business Strategy
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    • 15 Jan 2020
    • News

    The Business of Access

    help,” she says. A success to be sure, but the nonprofit world, Lisle quickly learned, was more complicated than the business world: “In the private sector, a customer pays and receives something, whether it be a product or a service. In... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon
    • 13 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 13, 2016

    Falabella stores, whether to develop personal banking services further, and whether to make substantial changes to the strategy or to exit the business. Purchase this case:... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

    each distinct product area, where strategy is set, core product and process technology are maintained, and a critical mass of sophisticated View Details
    Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
    • 17 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 17

    style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Nov 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

    Professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro are two members of the HBS faculty team that developed the new Executive Education program, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective. In this conversation with the Executive... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 01 Dec 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

    [expletive] out of the U-Stor-It.” Recently, Mark Zuckerberg reminded us that the notion of the Metaverse has been flourishing in the tech world. Let’s assume that his adoption of the notion as a central organizing strategy for Facebook... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 06 Nov 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

    Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation processes (RAPs) while reminding... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Dec 1999
    • News

    Christensen and Vernon Remembered

    his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of... View Details