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  • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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  • 24 May 2018
  • Blog Post

3 Ways to Get to Know HBS

year, our Admissions Director, Chad Losee, shares the latest application-related news in his “Direct from the Director” column. Student Profiles: Each year, we interview MBA students about what brought them to HBS, their experiences as an... View Details
  • August 1998 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jack Wieland and Chad M. M Raube
On February 20, 1997, FairMarket, an Internet-based business-to-business auction site, was launched. CEO, founder Scott Randall, drew on his experience building Internet businesses at NECX Direct, Yahoo, and Internet Shopping Network to build his business. This case,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Debates; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Management Style; Product Launch; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • February 1999 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.: Building A Venture Capital Firm

By: Walter Kuemmerle, Kiichiro Kobayashi and Chad S Ellis
JAFCO, a large Japanese venture capital firm, is making a second attempt to enter the U.S. venture capital market. The U.S. subsidiary, JAFCO America Ventures, is in the midst of a challenging turnaround. Going forward, the U.S. subsidiary's leadership needs to make a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Market Entry and Exit; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 26 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2021
  • News

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959) Two institutions completely changed the life of Charles P. Waite, says Patti Waite Bishop about her late father, a venture capital pioneer and founding partner at Greylock Management: the US Army and Harvard Business School. “He credited the... View Details
  • Web

Africa - Global Activities 2020

with a unique opportunity to support the career goals of our graduates. In pursuing their dreams, the recipients of this fellowship are making an important impact on the African continent. We are grateful to be able to support them in their efforts.” View Details
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • Blog Post

Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method

Chad Losee and he was able to deconstruct any myths we had related to the admissions process. HBS even developed a mobile app dedicated to Peek. This helped us access program information and built community among the students. Through the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

All Hands on Deck

been upended by the global pandemic. We wanted to provide flexibility to those whose employment, health, visa, or financial situation may have changed significantly since they applied,” says Chad Losee (MBA 2013), managing director of MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • Other Article

The Market That Wasn't: The Non-emergence of the Online Grocery Category

By: Chad Navis, Greg Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the non-emergence of a potential new market category. In the late 1990s the entrepreneurial firms that attempted to sell groceries online attracted significant resources, made meaningful technological advancements and generated immense publicity, yet online... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Food; Emerging Markets; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 14 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

of color prior to enrolling at HBS. These commitments, explained Chad Losee, managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, were identified through extensive research with external subject experts and continued conversations with... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

activities, as well as supporting economic data. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512017-PDF-ENG Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (A) Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 312-034 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • News

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”

Baker Library) and accessed with the DECmate housed in a VT100 terminal cabinet. At first I was envisioning Doris and Val at their Decmates inputting all the data for some 38,000 alumni, but no, the keypunched cards allowed alumni data to be digitized. The data went... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

entrepreneurs such as Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book “an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.” A past recipient of the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • News

Finding Common Ground

photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Note 311-020 Under the U.S. Patent Act, a patent owner has a statutory right to exclude others from engaging in the unauthorized production, use, sale, or importation of a patented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
  • News

Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

Dilemma" in Harvard Business Review. Editorial Counsel Tom Hulme (MBA 2007, OpenIDEO), Professor Karim Lakhani, Professor Gautam Mukunda, Michael Raynor (BDA 2000), Professor William Sahlman Working Team Stephanie Goff (HBS Alumni Relations), View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Case Study: Inside Story

Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to Lin’s sense of self, but they were... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information