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June 1993 (Revised April 1998)
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COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

COMCO Martech was a new breed of joint venture for COMCO Holding, a mid-sized Swiss-German company that had grown over a five-year period through tie-ups with small, start-up companies. Whereas a typical COMCO venture provided services to a large German retailer, was... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Business Startups; Trade; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Switzerland; United States; Europe

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

public-private partnerships to stimulate commercialization of Danish scientific research within the country's industry. DNATF established a process for evaluating proposals, making project awards, and then actively managing those projects... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210021-PDF-ENG ZINK Imaging: Zero InkTM William A. Sahlman, and Sarah Greene FlahertyHarvard Business School Case 810-050 "ZINK Imaging" describes the issues confronting CEO Wendy Caswell as she uses a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China

By: Crystal Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe and Janet Murray

We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust... View Details

Keywords: Ethnicity; Culture; Management Teams; Cognition and Thinking; Networks; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Trust; China

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October 2009 (Revised July 2012)
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Emotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count

By: Elie Ofek, Jason Riis and Paul Hamilton

Emotiv is getting ready to launch its innovative brain-computer interfacing (BCI) technology. The company has developed a special headset, called EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Sales; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Launch; Business Startups; Technology Industry

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

that makes continual learning part of business as usual. Cases & Course MaterialsThe Broad Institute: Applying the Power of Genomics to Medicine Harvard Business School Case 608-114 In June 2003, Harvard University and MIT announced an unprecedented View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

traces the strategic, organizational, and cultural challenges JMB faced in building an organization that eventually offered mentoring partnerships to 8,000 Indigenous students in 350 high schools throughout Australia. Furthermore, the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

June 2006
Case

Matthew B. Hunter

By: John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must manage the performance of a key manager in his company. Looks at the impact of family relationships on performance management. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Performance Evaluation; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management; Corporate Governance; Family and Family Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation Process

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

after only a brief trial. Management was considering whether marketing partnerships and open sourcing its software might relieve strains and facilitate future growth. Linden Lab was also debating whether and how to allow interoperability... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 1999 (Revised October 2000)
Case

Eggrock Partners, LLC (A)

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus

Explores the challenges of choosing how to grow a professional services firm (PSF). Before developing a growth strategy, the partners need to agree on what business(es) the company should be in. Each of the three partners has differing views of what the company should... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Expansion; Business Processes; Industry Structures; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Partners and Partnerships; Service Industry

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04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

poses the question: Should the open innovation unit fully incubate some ideas, instead of always seeking partnership with commitment from a customer-facing unit? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619013-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

trade, the Mediterranean was Europe’s most important commercial zone, its trade enriched European civilization, and its merchants developed the most important premodern mercantile innovations, from maritime insurance contracts and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

challenges in meeting the needs of the internal organization, large partners, and small up-and-coming firms. SAP executives, in this case, have to make a decision if a relatively small startup firm should be elevated to the highest strategic View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

across their entire platform. For those who already own an iPhone or iPad, the Apple Watch is an exciting new product that can track biometric and personal data. Also think about how the Apple Watch can facilitate partnerships with the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details