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- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
watches the program at its original time be valued in terms of cost for ad space the same as a person who watches it 3 days later via his DVR? This same problem is cropping up within View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to View Details
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
they get there." Not only do CEOs struggle to learn how to run a company from a lonely role at the top, but they often quickly find that the network of coworkers they relied on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when... View Details
- August 2006 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
SUN Brewing (A)
The Khemka family of India, founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing, faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the rouble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN Brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Emerging Markets; India; Russia
Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "SUN Brewing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-022, August 2006. (Revised June 2010.)
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
have been several. First, innovation in frameworks and methodologies along with trained professionals have provided value-added services uniquely available from the consulting firm. For example, the View Details
- September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Supplement
SUN Brewing (A) (CW)
The Khemka family of India--founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing--faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the ruble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
exception: So-called quick flips, such as the upcoming Hertz deal, have underperformed the market. In a new study, Lerner and Boston College's Jerry Cao studied 496... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
therefore, become unique local centers of innovation for the likes of mutual funds, venture capital, and biotechnology in Greater Boston or aircraft equipment and design, boat and shipbuilding, and metal... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
Knowing when to use artificial intelligence and when to rely on the human mind is a shifting fine line, one delineated by new research that shows considerable benefit and speed from generative AI—if it’s applied to View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
Cavallo’s research didn’t extend to why prices are changing more frequently, but he has some theories. Technology like pricing algorithms has cut both the labor and decision cost of price changes. Those algorithms have become more common... View Details
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
you put the results into the context that most of the fintech companies claim that they use alternative data, it’s very surprising that their... View Details
- December 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell
By: Robert F. Higgins, Richard G. Hamermesh and Ingrid Vargas
Describes the start up of Viacord, a Boston-based medical services firm founded by Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA) in 1993. Told from Fisher's perspective, the entrepreneur details the conceptualization and launch of the business and the many obstacles and expenses faced in... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Service Industry; Health Industry; Boston
Higgins, Robert F., Richard G. Hamermesh, and Ingrid Vargas. "Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell." Harvard Business School Case 806-002, December 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
thousands of facilities of publicly listed firms, Heese identified the towns where the local newspaper presses permanently came to a halt. Heese found that after a newspaper shuts down, violations at... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
and humidity. If high-achievement types want to be as effective as they can be, they have to tune themselves up every day and be aware." DeLong says he didn't write the book to create organizations "that feel good or that are... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
Francisco 49ers football team, and Grousbeck, CEO of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. The fund focuses on sports media content, an industry headed to $60 billion in... View Details
- June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business
Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
Spear, Steven J. "Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business." Harvard Business School Case 601-081, June 2001. (Revised May 2002.)
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
company. "An executive there told me that you can't buy this kind of publicity," says Deighton. The New Rules But what does this all boil down to for companies that want to be successful in this relatively... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Akamai Technologies: Expanding the Talent Pipeline
By: Christopher Stanton, Lynda M. Applegate, Allison Ciechanover, Emily Grandjean and Sophie Beck
In 2022, senior executives of Cambridge, MA-based Akamai Technologies met to consider whether and how to scale a successful technical training program. The program, Akamai Technical Academy (ATA), was launched in 2016 to address a key challenge at Akamai and in the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry; United States; Boston
Stanton, Christopher, Lynda M. Applegate, Allison Ciechanover, Emily Grandjean, and Sophie Beck. "Akamai Technologies: Expanding the Talent Pipeline." Harvard Business School Case 823-101, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
candidacy in the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and then applying for and being granted a waiver of medical and psychiatric prerequisites so that I could receive full training in clinical psychoanalysis.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace