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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
among many consumers than any political party, trade union, church, or mosque. Indeed, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz sought to make his coffee shops the "third place" in our lives, after home and work. Marketing is an... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
McCormack, the founder of leading sports agency IMG, which counts Maria Sharapova as one of its clients, is widely seen as the catalyst behind what has become the sports marketing industry. Legend has it that in 1960, McCormack, a lawyer,... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After World War II it diversified rapidly, forming part of a cluster of business groups that dominated the Turkish economy alongside state-owned firms. This study shows how the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010
Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
seen it all including Banco Nacional de Mexico's Agustín Legorreta (his bank was nationalized twice); Turkey's Güler Sabanci, the first woman in her family to run its $14 billion conglomerate and one of the globe's top business leaders; and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
of dollars off my data." It's hard to go into the mind of Ello's founder [Paul Budnitz], but my guess is that they genuinely believe there is a backlash and they're filling a need in the marketplace. The challenge for them is: how do... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
goods far more than on good services, he said. He illustrated this point with a list of billionaires in various industries. Health-care billionaires, like the heirs to the Stryker fortune, generally make their money from unique products. (Stryker View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
team. Now Westergren, the founder who has taken over as CEO, is facing even deeper pressures as he finds out about a lawsuit filed by former employees, and he is wondering if it is time to give up on ever achieving his vision. Note: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
of management, which Hamel argues clings to time-worn management innovations of the twentieth century to which the founders of new-generation firms were largely not exposed? Hamel, admitting that he does not have all the answers, poses... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Armarium would need to charge for its one-of-a-kind pieces with retail values that could reach as high as $15,000. The two founders faced significant scaling challenges, from how to establish guardrails around curation of the collection... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407024 St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision Harvard Business School Case 307-080 St. HOPE is faced with a decision concerning whether or not to expand from Sacramento to New York City. While charter... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50433 Harvard Business School Case 515-072 onefinestay Miranda Cresswell, marketing director, and Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of onefinestay, were grappling with branding and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://hbr.org/search/114007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-011 TaKaDu In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in SanFrancisco. Created by George Roberts, one of the founders of the New Yorkinvestment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., REDF has been a pioneer indeveloping VC-like ways of... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Administration at Harvard Business School, where she is a member of the Social Enterprise Initiative, and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and academic... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
structuring. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-003 Pershing Square 2.0 In June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and founder of New York hedge fund Pershing Square... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
lackluster. Able to deploy all the tools along the capital curve of impact investing, which if any is optimal for Anudip? The case recounts the transition of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, from the Omidyar Family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
developed a revolutionary video pill for imaging the small bowel in the gastro-intestinal tract. The development has required the integration of a wide variety of technologies. GI founder and CEO Gabriel Meron must determine GI's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne