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  • 17 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

This summer I had the opportunity to intern at a venture firm based in Boston called Underscore. Their approach during the interview process really stood out to me and set me up for a summer where I was able to make an impact. What do you... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • October 2009 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

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
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  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

insider stock purchases are significantly greater after SOX than before. Abnormal trading volumes around filings of insider sales are also greater post-SOX on average, but stock returns are not more negative. However, once controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2020
  • Supplement

Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment

By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu
This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor liquidity and limited ability to obtain credit. One of these companies was Pierre... View Details
Keywords: Distress Investing; Investment; Debt Securities; Strategy; Restructuring
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  • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
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  • April 2017
  • Supplement

Imprimis (C)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel
This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A & B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis’s decision to introduce its own line of compounded eye drop medication called LessDrops. The case then examines the moral dilemma faced by CEO Mark Baum, who was struck by the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Moral Sensibility; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Blenheim Chalcot

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In April 2019, Manoj Badale and Charles Mindenhall, co-founders of Blenheim Chalcot, were contemplating how they might go about developing their portfolio. Since founding the company as an internet consultancy called netdecisions in 1998, Badale and Mindenhall had... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom; United States; India
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  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

of its top customers to nontraditional competitors-IBM and SAP on the one hand, big data start-ups on the other-offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a multibillion-dollar initiative focused on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

the macroeconomic potential-for incomes, productivity, and delivery of critically needed services-is huge. A call for "better management" may sound prosaic, but given the global payoffs, it's actually quite radical. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks

Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera & Kelsey Jack

    ShotSpotter

    SST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on... View Details
    • Winter 2013
    • Article

    The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators

    By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
    The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent for patents, and when buyers and sellers do... View Details
    Keywords: Intellectual Property; Platforms; Intermediaries; Aggregator; Patents; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Distribution Channels
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    • 19 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

    September 2017 Management Science Channel Integration, Sales Dispersion, and Inventory Management By: Gallino, Santiago, Antonio Moreno, and Ioannis Stamatopoulos Abstract—We study the effects of the introduction of cross-channel... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jul 2014
    • Blog Post

    Connecting Fashion & Technology at Kate Spade

    April was filled with introductory calls and various trips to New York City and San Francisco. In the end, my interview with the Senior Director of Product Strategy here at the Kate Spade company went extremely well, and I was very... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
    • April 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment

    By: Victoria Ivashina, Michael Harmon and Terrence Shu
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 219-018. This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor liquidity and limited ability to obtain... View Details
    Keywords: Distress Investing; Investment; Debt Securities; Strategy; Restructuring
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    • February 2021
    • Article

    How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice

    By: Ryan W. Buell and Basak Kalkanci
    Amid growing calls for transparency and social and environmental responsibility, companies are employing different strategies to improve consumer perceptions of their brands. Some pursue internal initiatives that reduce their negative social or environmental impacts... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Operational Transparency; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Behavior; Perception
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    • 13 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 13, 2007

      Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Program

    Creating Brand Value

    you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., View Details
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

    the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous doctors, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. Our analyses reveal that the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 19, 2006

    punch of earlier generations: video sales generally decrease over time across all quantiles of the sales distribution, but this effect is most pronounced among best-selling titles. Our findings have... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne