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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
forgotten figures to light, and how her finance career prepared her for assembling an art exhibition. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Denise, can you just tell me about the process by which you began thinking about a career in art history? You... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
amazed by how people have embraced the club. Allegra J. Young (MBA '95), founder and president of the HBS Alumni Association for Technology Industries, agrees that industry-specific clubs are of great value to the School's graduates.... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
producing, and music marketing learning from her brother’s expertise. Regarding setting the go-to-market strategy for her music, Mendoza took advantage of her experience leading projects. She said, “I applied my consulting skills in mapping out the View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
solutions—and that doing so can open tremendous growth opportunities for their businesses and the country as a whole. Set in September 2015, this case provides a detailed look at Nigeria's poultry value View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
economies. In areas like fintech, supply chain, and agriculture, technology can be used to modernize various elements of the economy and provide value to businesses and consumers. For example, 73% of Egypt is unbanked, having no access to... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
some eternal issues of patient care: not only good health, but also quality, choice and trust? To consider these questions, the IS2K conference assembled a panel of experts, with HBS Professor Lynda Applegate as moderator, to talk about... View Details
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John Rogers
product development and manufacturing, I was ill equipped to take on the business challenges of agricultural value chain development. My first significant exposure to the space came during my initial January... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
it should be a two-way device. "This is not a new idea," Kim clarified. "Many attempts have failed. It primes us for success." Prices of televisions are going down, and the industry as a whole is mature, leaving an opportunity for the Internet to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
intentionally be "bad" at anything. But you can decide to not perform as well in areas that patients care less about, with the understanding that it will give you the resources to excel in those areas that patients value more... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
and focus it up the supply chain and let the market forces determine which of the growers, processors, and distributors are going to succeed and be responsive to these market opportunities,” says Kendall. One major opportunity, he says,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
those suppliers move downstream, potentially into competing with you, as they struggle to earn some kind of return? If your inputs are all becoming commodities and you don’t have a lot of differentiating complimentary assets as part of your View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
monetize the value they would create? Would investors see as much potential in BCM as its founders? And how would the company's cash constraints impact the strategy in the current economic environment? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
two-year research cycle, which focuses on the collaborations between businesses and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). For example, in 1997, the supermarket chain H-E-B expanded its regional base from Louisiana and Texas across the... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the various choices they face with respect to alternative modes of collaboration. Collaborative innovation can take a wide variety of forms, each with profound implications for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
challenge of managing relationships with "partners" or "associates." Yet as the Rana Plaza disaster and too many other examples show, every outsourced stop along the supply and production chains holds the potential for... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54899 forthcoming Management Science How Do Sales Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Analysis in the Nerlove-Arrow Framework By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung G. Park Abstract— This paper evaluates the short-... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of Individual Performance and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
models? A: I am writing a case on Farmacias Similares, a pharmacy chain in Mexico aimed at the low-income sector. Any medicine on its shelf is at least 30 percent cheaper than in traditional drugstores. It also has a medical clinic next... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace