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Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is an MBA elective designed for students who will join startups, launch their own companies, or work in established firms launching information technology products, in particular, new... View Details
- December 1999 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Focuses on Millennium's strategy to grow and revolutionize drug development through the use of new technologies such as genomics. Describes how Millennium Pharmaceuticals--a fast-growing biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MA--has used strategic alliances to finance the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Financing and Loans; Medical Specialties; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Time Management; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cambridge
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-038, December 1999. (Revised August 2001.)
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
Investors Demand CEO Face Time
- 11 Oct 2010
- News
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won't
- January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Mayhem on Madison (A)
By: A. Eugene Kohn and David Lane
In his first project, an aspiring property developer negotiates the development rights above a one-story bank branch in Manhattan's tony Carnegie Hill. Community resistance erupted immediately, spearheaded by celebrity and socialite residents. Facing rejection of his... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Development Economics; Business and Community Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)
Kohn, A. Eugene, and David Lane. "Mayhem on Madison (A)." Harvard Business School Case 208-067, January 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
- November 1989 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Automation Consulting Services
By: Robert Simons and Hilary Weston
Illustrates the management control challenges that are associated with rapid growth and geographic expansion. Situated at an offsite Executive Committee Retreat. The three founding partners of a specialized consulting firm are grappling with several difficult questions... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Expansion; Consulting Industry
Simons, Robert, and Hilary Weston. "Automation Consulting Services." Harvard Business School Case 190-053, November 1989. (Revised April 2018.)
- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
negative health outcomes, including heart disease—Wu says this is the first study to analyze the impact on the innovation generated by firms and their workers. The research team analyzed a sample of 3,445 inventors and 1,180 View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
Randolph B. Cohen
Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details
- December 2002 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (B): A Global Merger
By: Ashish Nanda
The negotiations for the merger between Cap Gemini and Ernst & Young conclude, resolving issues of how to bring together Ernst & Young consulting partnerships from all over the world into the publicly held Cap Gemini. Reactions to the merger were optimistic within Cap... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation; Multinational Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Nanda, Ashish, Bertrand Moingeon, Lisa Haueisen Rohrer, and Guillaume Soenen. "Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (B): A Global Merger." Harvard Business School Case 903-057, December 2002. (Revised February 2005.)
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
companies in the S&P 400 Index. Some 70 percent of the PE-backed firms hired new CEOs when they were acquired, and about two-thirds of those new CEOs were outsiders to the... View Details
- Research Summary
Technology and Innovation
Professor Snow's research focuses on technological innovation, specifically the relationship between new and old technologies. While most technology scholars and experts have focused on the issues surrounding new technologies, he likes to point out that... View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
The Financing of R&D and Innovation
By: Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner
Evidence on the “funding gap” for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high... View Details
Hall, Bronwyn H., and Josh Lerner. "The Financing of R&D and Innovation." Chap. 14 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation: Volume 1, by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, 609–639. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010.
- 22 Mar 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How Etsy Found Its Purpose and Crafted a Turnaround
- 2010
- Book
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
By: Geoffrey Jones
The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms that have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Industry Growth; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Jones, Geoffrey. Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Eclipsed and Confounded Identities: When High-Status Affiliations Impede Organizational Growth
By: Daniel Malter
I propose that an organization's growth potential may suffer if its identity is eclipsed by or confounded with the organizations with which it collaborates and competes. Using status as a salient feature of identity, I devise two network measures to capture the degree... View Details
Keywords: Distinctiveness; Status; Networks; Resource Acquisition; Growth; Venture Capital; Status and Position; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Identity; Growth and Development Strategy
Malter, Daniel. "Eclipsed and Confounded Identities: When High-Status Affiliations Impede Organizational Growth." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-019, October 2014.
- Research Summary
Foreclosure with Incomplete Information
In this paper we investigate the robustness of the widely-used new foreclosure doctrine and its associated welfare implications to the introduction of incomplete information. In particular, we make the realistic assumption that the upstream firm’s marginal cost... View Details
- May 2023
- Article
Do Internal Control Weaknesses Affect Firms' Demand for Financial Skills? Evidence from U.S. Job Postings
By: Janet Gao, Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli and Joseph H. Schroeder
Ineffective internal controls over financial reporting often relates to a lack of qualified personnel with sufficient accounting and technical expertise. In this study, we examine whether firms respond to internal control failures by increasing their demand for... View Details
Keywords: Internal Controls; Labor Demand; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Experience and Expertise; Recruitment; Competency and Skills; Corporate Finance
Gao, Janet, Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli, and Joseph H. Schroeder. "Do Internal Control Weaknesses Affect Firms' Demand for Financial Skills? Evidence from U.S. Job Postings." Accounting Review 98, no. 3 (May 2023): 203–228.
- 2009
- Chapter
Creating Superior Customer Value in a Connected World
By: Ranjay Gulati
"In the early twenty-first century, customers are more demanding than ever, and difficult economic times make them all the more so. As customers tighten their wallets and increase their demands, firms face greater pressure to provide superior customer value. Reducing... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
growing new firm with an open source business model. In response, IBM in 2005 bought a small firm called Gluecode that sold products in the same market segment as JBoss. IBM... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether to make new investments. Not only must they consider the particulars of each company individually, but they must... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Financial Management; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; Western United States
Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, and Ann Leamon. "Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches." Harvard Business School Case 809-072, January 2009. (Revised March 2011.)