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May 2025
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Windsurf and the AI Code Assistant Market

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Sudhanshu Nath Mishra and Radhika Kak

In April 2025, the founding team of Windsurf, an AI start-up specializing in code generation gathered in Mountain View, California, to assess its remarkable year of growth. The company had scaled from a niche GitHub Copilot alternative to a breakout player with over... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Venture Capital; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Technology Industry; United States

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05 Mar 2013
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allows students to discuss issues surrounding director performance assessment, director elections, investor engagement with companies, and director reputation. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113050-PDF-ENG Trouble Brewing for Green View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2012 (Revised July 2013)
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The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China

By: Meg Rithmire

Since opening to the global economy in 1979, but especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United... View Details

Keywords: China; Public Sector; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; China

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08 Jun 2007
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Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal

Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer

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Informa Tech Inkitt, Inc. Innovius Capital Insight Partners Instacart Insulet Intrepid Growth Partners Intuit Invesco InvestBev Investcorp Investindustrial Invictus Growth Partners Invus Opportunities Iodine Software Ipsen IQT - In-Q-Tel Iron View Details

10 Aug 2010
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PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications and Search Results Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (June 2010) Abstract Widely used online "trust" authorities issue certifications without... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Introduction – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

School, and his protégé Fritz J. Roethlisberger led a landmark study of worker behavior at Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T. Unprecedented in scale and scope, the nine-year study took place at the massive Hawthorne Works plant outside of Chicago and... View Details

11 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

additional changes three months in. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress. Signal your values. You might see mountains of food go to waste at your welcome receptions and decide that all food budgets should be slashed in half.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

explanation is elegant: “Personal spirituality functions in a deceptively simple way. When a person who has lived for themselves and their immediacy is thrown into a new and frightening environment, be it a prison camp or a liferaft, a View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Strategy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students June 2025 Case AI Wars in 2025 By: Andy Wu and Anna Yang In June 2025, Google leaders in Mountain View, CA convened after its parent company... View Details

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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

R. Perella Wasserstein, Parella, & Co. MBA 1972 Thomas J. Perkins Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers MBA 1957 Patrick Michael Petitti Hourly Nerd MBA 2014 Frida Polli pymetrics MBA 2012 Gregorius Poort Rescale MBA 2011 Matt Quinn dyli MBA 2015 C. Richard Reese Iron... View Details

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Mid-US - Global

United States Mid-US Harvard Business School (HBS) established the Mid-US Research Center (MRC) in 2021 to build a deeper understanding of business practice and innovation in the South, Midwest, and Mountain regions. The MRC plays a vital... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

the role of a modern Hollywood producer—and how he manages a burgeoning franchise Such Great Heights Tom Vogl (MBA 1998) , CEO of The Mountaineers explores the past, present, and future of the adventure business Negotiating Peace in... View Details

04 Jan 2022
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Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

country that we go to, we always visit the open market, because that’s where you see real living,” he says. “You see it out in the open.” "Coming down the mountain at full speed, there’s nothing like it." People experience nature in all... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

walked here with his mother, who hid in a cave somewhere on the mountain with her mother and three siblings during the Korean War. A bomb blast—friendly fire from US troops—killed everyone except Kim’s mother and her younger brother. The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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Partners - Case Method Project

CA 21 of 65 Daniel García Chula Vista Learning Community Charter High School San Diego, CA Subjects: Civics CA 22 of 65 Jennifer Golub-Marcus Harvard-Westlake School Studio City, CA CA 23 of 65 David Gracia Esparto High School Esparto, CA CA 24 of 65 Walter Greason... View Details

27 Jan 2020
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Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

restrooms. Today Buc-ee’s is a road trip destination, with more than 30 sprawling stores offering Texas-themed gifts, Buc-ee’s brand beef jerky, plenty of gas (as many as 120 pumps at one store), mountains of ice to refill coolers, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

challenge that experienced mountaineers say is greater even than Mount Everest. “It was the biggest, most vast, most intimidating mountain I had ever beheld in my life,” Kostova says, recalling the first... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

2025 | Case | Faculty Research In April 2025, the founding team of Windsurf, an AI start-up specializing in code generation gathered in Mountain View, California, to assess its remarkable year of growth. The company had scaled from a... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

History and Geography II (1877 to Present), AP US History CO Kelly Evans Mountain View High School Loveland, CO ND Melissa Evensen Fargo North High School Fargo, ND NY Clemmie Everett Rye Country Day Rye, NY Subjects: AP U.S. History,... View Details

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