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September 2011 (Revised March 2014)
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Brightcove, Inc. in 2007

Brightcove, a technology and services provider to content owners in the Internet television field, aimed to become a media distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Diversification; Digital Platforms; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Distribution; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

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08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

to commercialize its R&D more effectively in foreign markets. Until then, Eli Lilly had operated one home-base-augmenting laboratory site abroad and some small sites in industrialized countries for clinical testing and drug approval... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

a summer intern in 1966, became a senior trader under Lew Glucksman, and then a partner in 1978. Known as a driven company man and nicknamed “the Gorilla” for his intensity, Fuld doubled the size of the organization. The attack on the... View Details

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Operations Management Unit. He teaches Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) in the MBA elective curriculum and previously taught the Technology and Operations Management course in the MBA... View Details

21 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

somehow you can achieve better results. This is a hard race to win. So many managers confuse operational effectiveness with strategy. Another common mistake is confusing marketing with strategy. It's natural for strategy to arise from a... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

July 2022 (Revised February 2024)
Teaching Note

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-055. When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique... View Details

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March 2019 (Revised April 2021)
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The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli

When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique product. Fifteen years later, the... View Details

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Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search

By: Lars Bo Jeppesen and Karim R. Lakhani

We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large R&D intensive companies, and blind review of solution... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Open Source Distribution; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Markets; Independent Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Gender; Science

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21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Abstract The long-standing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

Harmonizing Accounting Standards Really Harmonize Accounting?: Evidence from Non-U.S. Firms Adopting US GAAP Authors:Mark T.Bradshaw and Gregory S. Miller Periodical:Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

and improve the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the U.S. to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. The Project focuses... View Details

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HBS - Key Metrics

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Key Metrics Financials (in millions) 2022 2021 2020 2019 Revenues $966 $805 $861 $925 Expenses 908 779 831 821 Cash from Operations 58 26 30 104 Capital Investments 43... View Details

12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

important factor in a lift out's success. Operational integration is the focus of the third stage. Ideally, teams will start out working with the same or similar clients, vendors, and industry standards. The fourth stage entails full... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Real-Time Data and Machine Learning, that puts many of these principles into practice. That paper, coauthored with Xiaojia Guo and Bert De Reyck of the University College London School of Management, details a project with Heathrow Airport using probabilities to... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

largest private prison operator in the U.S., was considering expansion options. The company's largest customers, federal and state governments, were under economic pressure to reduce the incarceration rate and lower View Details

October 2010
Article

Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams

By: Michael Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, Robert Chapman Wood, George Westerman and Charles A. O'Reilly III

This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We operationalize exploitation and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement

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17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

they themselves feel an internal desire to excel. The question, though, is how to inject more individuality into the workplace without inviting chaos. Some companies and leaders have tried to graft individuality and related values like... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

teaches Business, Government, and the International Economy in the MBA Program, cites several periods in history when excess capacity has been blamed for economic upheaval. Emmons says that "accurate business forecasting is never really... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

restatements can represent an absence of errors, it can also indicate a lack of detection and disclosure of errors and irregularities. We infer the magnitude of detection and disclosure by associating the frequency of restatements with the quality of the firm's View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Dating at HBS

discussion group, I came to respect him greatly. We always ended up on the same side of the arguments, and whereas I could teach him Finance he excelled in Technology and Operations Management, so we complemented each other’s skillset. We... View Details

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Brightcove, Inc. in 2007

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Faculty - Private Capital Project

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search

First Look: April 21, 2009

First Look: October 30, 2007

About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

HBS - Key Metrics

First Look: December 12, 2006

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

First Look: December 21

Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

Too Much of a Good Thing?

First Look: July 22

Dating at HBS