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  • October 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Symbian: Setting the Mobility Standard

By: Fernando F. Suarez and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Symbian, a joint venture owned by companies who collectively sold a dominant share of the world's cell phones, faced competition from Microsoft in developing the operating system for "smartphones," which integrated mobile communications and computing functions. In... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Joint Ventures; Information Technology; Software; Wireless Technology; Mobile Technology; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 24 Feb 2025
  • Video

Scaling a Family Business to Build Multigenerational Success

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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

practices, and how it is partnering with global organizations to amplify their impact. He also delves into the challenges businesses face in adapting to climate risks and the role of AI in optimizing everything from supply chains to... View Details
  • October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
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AEP: Carbon Capture and Storage

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
By October 2010, American Electric Power, the largest coal-fired, electric utility in the United States, had been operating a carbon capture and sequestration pilot plant for one year. Using a proprietary, Alstom chilled ammonia technology, AEP was capturing and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Government Legislation; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Projects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Utilities Industry; United States
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  • 06 Oct 2023
  • Book

Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

solve difficult problems. Denouncing Mark Zuckerberg’s informal Facebook motto, “move fast and break things,” partners Frei and Morriss combine their decades of consulting experience—Frei as the UPS Foundation Professor of Service... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • December 2024
    • Case

    Tencent Games

    By: Rebecca Karp, Billy Chan and Nancy Hua Dai
    For years, Tencent Games, a division of China’s largest internet company, had taken the lion’s share of revenue in the global gaming market with blockbuster titles such as “League of Legends” and “PUBG: Battlegrounds.” These games defined the game genres that they... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Investment; Competitive Strategy; Video Game Industry; Europe; China
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    • January 2018
    • Case

    Spark Therapeutics: Pioneering Gene Therapy

    By: Robert F. Higgins and Tina Liu
    Spark Therapeutics is a pioneering gene therapy startup. It was spun out of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The company had taken with it much of the intellectual property and talent that CHOP had developed. The company is considering an initial public... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Strategy
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    • August 2009 (Revised March 2011)
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    Shenzhen Development Bank

    By: Li Jin, Yuhai Xuan and Xiaobing Bai
    Weijian Shan, Managing Partner of Newbridge Capital, faces a tough call in regard to his firm's investment in Shenzhen Development Bank, China's fifteenth-largest commercial bank listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Due to the aggressive lobby of the existing... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Commercial Banking; Investment; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; China
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    • June 2007 (Revised January 2009)
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    Nextel Partners: Put Option

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Douglas Scott
    Nextel Partners' shareholders have voted to exercise a put option that will require the company's largest shareholder, Sprint Nextel Corp., to purchase all the shares it does not already own. However, the put option does not stipulate a price to be paid, but rather a... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Stock Options; Price; Public Ownership; Valuation
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    • August 1989 (Revised January 1992)
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    Prospect Hill

    By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman
    Bill Hassett, a partner in the Nelson Companies, has to make some important decisions regarding the expansion of Prospect Hill Executive Office Park in Waltham, Massachusetts. The pre-development issues concerning him about the Hillside Building include how to position... View Details
    Keywords: Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Property; Decisions; Interest Rates; Urban Development; Organizational Structure; Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts
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      Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

      One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

      Over a decade ago, renowned innovation... View Details

        Amy W. Schulman

        Amy W. Schulman joined Harvard Business School’s Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in July 2014.

        In addition to her responsibilities at Harvard, Ms. Schulman is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, who focuses on investing in healthcare... View Details

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        HBS Recruiting Homepage

        Let's Work Together Career & Professional Development is dedicated to helping our recruiting partners successfully connect with talent at HBS. Contact our experienced team today to develop a customized recruiting strategy. Contact Us to... View Details
        • May 2003
        • Case

        Renault-Nissan Alliance, The

        By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
        On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, the board of directors of Renault-Nissan BV (RNBV) met for the first time to discuss the state of the alliance between Renault SA and Nissan Motors-two of the world's largest automakers. RNBV was a 50/50 joint venture company established in... View Details
        Keywords: Joint Ventures; Global Strategy; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Business or Company Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Auto Industry
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        • August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
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        PureTech Ventures in 2011

        By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy
        In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details
        Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston
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          Richard G. Hamermesh

          Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

          Keywords: health care
          • 03 Mar 2008
          • Research & Ideas

          Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

          Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of an imminent recession are all around us. The spillover from... View Details
          Keywords: by John Quelch
          • March 2022 (Revised January 2024)
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          Moksha Data: Delivering Insights for Public Service

          By: Ashish Nanda and Zack Kurtovich
          Moksha Data, a boutique consulting firm specializing in public sector work, started in January 2017 with a handshake between friends and a shared commitment to the principles of egalitarianism, ownership, and collaboration. The Houston-based firm had built momentum... View Details
          Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Professional Service Firm; Strategy Formulation; Data; Data As A Service; Government Contracting; Consulting; Consulting Firms; Consulting Services; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development; Strategy; Consulting Industry; Texas
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          What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

          By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
          We survey 79 private equity investors with combined assets under management (AUM) of over $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rate of return (IRR) and multiples to... View Details
          Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Capital Structure; Value Creation
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