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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
distinct roles, one to administer the existing institutional frameworks, including the provision of infrastructure and the administration of laws and regulations, and the second to mobilize political power to bring about modernization of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up call to an View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
benefits than possession of power. However, status puts greater constraints on mobility than power does, as it is harder for a high-status actor than for a high-power actor to acquire the high-power, high-status position. Empirical test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
“They underestimated me and that didn’t work in their favor.” Whitlow advised Black entrepreneurs to get involved in their communities. “Long-term profitability is driven by bringing long-term value to many, many people,” he said. JULY 20 Amira Polack (MBA 2018),... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
and industrial designs used by firms to protect their IP globally. We then show that IP protection remains fragmented, the quality of IP applications might be questionable, and the development of a comprehensive IP footprint worldwide is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
& Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit card. Will consumers embrace the service? Will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
dramatically over the course of the decade she’d taught the course—with globalization, the Internet, and mobile technology all increasing the pace of business and making innovation essential. In her quest to find new models, she had... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
which people have deep bonds to work but loose affiliations to organizations, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success. Building on his research, Gianpiero has contributed to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
flash sales industry was created using this idea as a cornerstone of its business strategy. In this paper, we identify and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer, particularly for products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
mobilizing joint action in these areas. Download working paper: View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- March 2021
- Case
Founders Factory
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett
In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Markets; Planning; Expansion; Global Range; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg; Europe; France; Paris; United Kingdom; England; London; United States; New York (city, NY)
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and James Barnett. "Founders Factory." Harvard Business School Case 821-009, March 2021.
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1727508 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 711-464 Vodafone in Japan (A) Despite a rough start in the Japanese telecom market, by late 2003, Vodafone seemed to have weathered the storm, largely based on the strength of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunity to create and spread innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. In doing so, they joined a groundswell of interest in social entrepreneurship. Just as entrepreneurs spot missed opportunities in business and View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Nadkarni (MBA 1987) HarperCollins Leadership Tech entrepreneurs, make your startup dreams come true by utilizing this founder-to-founder guide to successfully navigating all phases of the tech startup journey. With the advent of the internet, View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
possessions when they know there is a newer version available to them. “Content is king, but whose content will trump? “I believe 2016 will show more brands owning their own destinies by becoming content creators. As competition rises for both share of mind and time... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details