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- April 2011
- Supplement
Daniel Kim's Dilemma (B)
By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Venture Capital; Revenue; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Style; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Behavior
George, Bill, and Natalie Kindred. "Daniel Kim's Dilemma (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-054, April 2011.
- December 2023 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In 2005, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone was a sensation. After its launch in 1999, the groundbreaking BlackBerry had captured the hearts and minds of corporate America through its secure wireless email service. The device was so addictive and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Management Style; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
Sandino, Tatiana, and Samuel Grad. "Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-023, December 2023. (Revised January 2025.)
- 17 May 2024
- Blog Post
Blending Heritage and Innovation: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025)
name, I ventured into the traditionally male-dominated tech industry. In high school, I joined the FIRST robotics team. In college, I chose to study Electrical and Computer Engineering, even though my dad, an engineer himself, had... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
C. “Tosh” Barron MBA 1972 Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Salman A. Khan MBA 2003 Founder and CEO, Khan Academy Naina Lal Kidwai MBA 1982 Former Executive Director,... View Details
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
His research has received numerous awards, and he is the most cited scholar today in economics and business. While Michael Porter is at the core a scholar, his work has achieved remarkable acceptance by practitioners across multiple fields. Dr. Porter’s initial... View Details
- Profile
Yaoxin Ding
Yaoxin Ding was born in a small, underdeveloped town in southeast China. Attracted to mobility technology and driven by a desire to “build out the infrastructure” of towns like his own, he studied traffic and transportation engineering as... View Details
- Web
About - Business & Environment
for the consequences that climate change is likely to bring. Spencer earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he focused on the history of urbanization... View Details
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- March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
- Teaching Note
Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences
By: Jill Avery
Camera IQ, a camera marketing software company that empowered brands to create and launch augmented reality experiences (AREs) across social platforms, had just raised an additional $5 million to fund further product development and expand its marketing and sales... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; B2B; E-commerce; Technology Platform; Marketing; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Growth Management; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Social Media; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Advertising Industry; United States
Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates
Abstract
Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details
How the Internet Became Commercial
In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method
Ninad Kulkarni just wrapped up the fall semester at HBS and wanted to share what he learned about the case method after his first few months in the classroom. About NinadI grew up in a suburb outside of Mumbai. After earning my View Details
- 22 May 2024
- HBS Case
Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore
recommendation engine steers up to 95 percent of TikTok’s content to the user. It also presents choices the user may not have sought out in the first place to lengthen the time someone might be on the platform and the breadth of what they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
Keywords: April White
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ハーバード - Global
decision. March 2024 | Case Kawasaki Heavy Industries Bets on Clean Hydrogen By: Professor Gunnar Trumbull; Akiko Kanno; Nobuo Sato Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), an engineering manufacturer headquartered in Japan, was aiming to scale... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
leadership to consider how they might incorporate the technology into the company’s platform and capabilities set. Following a partnership with AI company OpenAI, Summer Health’s engineering team developed a pilot to create a new AI... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship
This blog is a repost from the HBS Recruiting blog. An engineer by training, Stan Chang, MS/MBA 2020 candidate in the SEAS/HBS joint degree program, came to Harvard to “balance a business curriculum with an advanced View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jan 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention
Keywords: by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln