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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
Maddy ultimately lost Adesemi in 2000, following a sale forced by a major investor. She wrote a book about the experience, Learning to Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back (HarperBusiness 2004). Some of... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
prior to coming to HBS in 2007. A member of the School’s Technology and Operations Management unit, Shih closely studies disruptive technology and technological strategy, and took time to analyze the Pokémon Go phenomenon below. Christian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
business?" Of course, the case method provided ample opportunities for all of us to show our brilliance. I remember "expanding" on some of Walt Manley's comments in Earl Sasser's Management of Service Operations class and telling Ben... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- July 1996
- Case
Bayside Controls, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen, Jennifer Kochman and Sylvie Ryckebusch
Two recent MBA graduates acquire a small and ailing metal-machining company that had manufactured small aerospace components. Through clever application of state-of-the-art manufacturing, engineering, and marketing/sales concepts, they turned the company into a growing... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Leveraged Buyouts; Machinery and Machining; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Production; Personal Development and Career; Sales; Aerospace Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Jennifer Kochman, and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "Bayside Controls, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-004, July 1996.
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
stepmother's homespun culinary skills, he created "Uncle Dave's Vermont-Made Old-Fashioned Ketchup," an all-natural, spoonable condiment in a jar whose time had apparently come; after just two weeks of sales the tasty sauce brought in... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
cinema chain in Peru, to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet wishes to better align their operating model with the needs and behaviors of its customers. Please note: This case study includes mandatory video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
innovation, the team knew it was necessary to stand back and look at the big picture—to see how IBM worked now and operate it at its best in order to understand the gaps, dilemmas, and opportunities. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
practices that companies can follow to put this into place: Link work to social purposes employees care about Recruit Holdings believes work should add value to society. It also operates under the philosophy that a good manager should... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
fills this void by showing that the expansion of self-service operation and the increasing use of transparent packaging had a significant impact not only on how consumers purchased foods but also on how they understood food quality.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
and I do product marketing for Hot Wheels at Mattel) and we have outsourced a lot of the business to partners that are incentivized to act on our behalf and have expertise that we need. This has allowed us to build a business that has done 3x in View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom features entail expensive departures from OPOWER's product roadmap.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another manufacturing process. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
counting on to drive sales over the next few years might not be forthcoming. Corporate downsizing is hardly anything new. Indeed, in recent years it has often been management's tool of choice for improving competitiveness. Ironically, new... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, argues that the sudden availability of niche offerings more closely tailored to their tastes will lure consumers away from homogenized hits. The "tail" of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
driving the Porsche as his company car. “With God as my witness, that’s what happened,” says Rogers, who still seems amazed by the turn of events. Taking Dreyer’s National When Rogers and Cronk took over on May 20, 1977, Dreyer’s was a $6-million-a-year View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
company to pull out of the exchanges. The largest health insurer in the US, UnitedHealth Group, never really embraced the exchanges in the first place and has also suspended the sale of many of its plans on the exchanges for 2017.... View Details
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
based on the color of a person's skin through its “Dark is Beautiful” campaign—endorsed by well-known actor-director Nandita Das. However, despite the recent guidelines on advertising of skin-lightening products, many Indians still aspire to have fair skin. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/114016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-037 Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio This case describes the sale of Citigroup's leveraged loan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of double-digit growth. Moreover, this View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso