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  • April 2021
  • Teaching Note

Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
Within 20 years of launch, entrepreneur Wang Yanquing had built Wuxi Lead into the world’s largest manufacturer of equipment for manufacturing capacitors, lithium-ion batteries, and fuel cells.
The first big choice an entrepreneur faces is what sector to... View Details
Keywords: Lithium-ion Batteries; Industry Dynamics; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurship; Markets; Strategy; Decision Making; Manufacturing Industry; China
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  • 27 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

aren't purposefully bad, says Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has authored several business management books, including Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

Alex Montana at ESH Manufacturing Co.

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Kernish
Alex Montana sat at his desk pondering the career decision before him. Alex was director of the North American division of ESH Manufacturing, a $4.6 billion, Cleveland-based company with operations on three continents. ESH's CEO had just offered Montana a promotion to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Cleveland
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    Case: The Allergan Board Under Fire (A)

    In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of directors received a surprise takeover offer from Valeant Pharmaceuticals in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge... View Details
    • 21 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

    The Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) welcomed scholars to Harvard Business School last year to advance their research about race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality. As the... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
    • Case

    Covisint (A): The Evolution of a B2B Marketplace

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
    Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler--the three original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that dominated the automotive industry throughout the 20th century--launched Covisint in February 2000 as an industry supply chain exchange that would drive out cost... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Supply Chain Management; Business Startups; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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    • 13 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Inner Life of Leaders

    or coauthored 15 books as well as the now-classic 1977 Harvard Business Review article "Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?" His latest book, Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 12 Jan 2018
    • News

    The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

    By: Ryan Raffaelli
    This study examines how community-based brick-and-mortar retailers can achieve sustained market growth in the face of online and big box retail competition. The appearance of Amazon.com in 1995 led to a significant decline in the number of independent bookstores in the... View Details
    Keywords: Bookstores; Competitive Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 18 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 18

    encourage excessive risk. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110005-PDF-ENG From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys Harvard View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • February 2018 (Revised February 2018)
    • Supplement

    HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (B)

    By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang
    This case provides a brief overview of the success and challenges of the HNA Group between 2015 and late 2017 when it grew rapidly through global acquisitions to become 170 on the 2017 Fortune 500 list. A firm that had begun as a provincial airline in China was now a... View Details
    Keywords: Internationalization; Scrutiny; Growth; China; Philanthropy; One Belt One Road; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Air Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Tourism Industry; China; United States; Europe; Asia; South America; Southeast Asia
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      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
      • 20 Sep 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

      and why we come to snap judgments about coworkers (and how to fight that natural instinct). The article was cited as a "Breakthrough Business Idea" for 2009 by Harvard Business Review. "The... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • 02 May 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

      Partner, Trinity Ventures In no particular order, for us they are team, market opportunity, and the product/value proposition for the solution. Technology differentiation or business model differentiation is also important to sustain a... View Details
      Keywords: by Lauren Barley
      • 15 Jun 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Remembering Alfred Chandler

      Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • February 2017
      • Case

      Aston Martin: A Second Century of Performance and Luxury

      By: Vish V. Krishnan, Karim R. Lakhani and Amram Migdal
      Following the March 2016 launch of DB11, Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.’s first new sports car platform in over a decade, this case discusses the future strategy of the famed British luxury auto manufacturer. Since its founding in 1902, Aston Martin has been characterized... View Details
      Keywords: Luxury; Auto Brand; Luxury Auto; Growth; Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Production; Innovation and Invention; Transportation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Transformation; Management; Marketing; Auto Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England
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      • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
      • Supplement

      Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market). This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the... View Details
      Keywords: Rapid Growth Stage; Green Energy; Start-up; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth Management; Finance; Decision Making; United Kingdom
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      Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

      By: Edward Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers and Michael Luca
      The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to... View Details
      Keywords: User-generated Content; Operations; Tournaments; Policy-making; Machine Learning; Online Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; City; Infrastructure; Business Processes; Government and Politics
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        Leaders Can Move Fast and Fix Things

        The assumption embedded in Silicon Valley’s famous “move fast and break things” ethos is that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. A certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to... View Details

        • 09 Oct 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: October 9

        organization wishing to profit from big data. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/ Great Leaders Don't Need Experience Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne