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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
that.” In 2002, M&M launched its own sports utility vehicle, the Scorpio, which is now being exported to countries such as Italy, Russia, and South Africa. A hybrid version will hit U.S. showrooms within a few years, a prime example of... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
studying "open-source" and user innovations to determine exactly how they work—and when they can be effective. While open-source computer software is the best-known example of the trend, it is far from the only one. In one paper, for example, Baldwin studied... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
have a “guilty pleasure” author? James Michener. For some reason he captured my imagination years ago. Another guilty pleasure is Sports Illustrated. Nancy Koehn is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration and a business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
father watches it, too.” On his DVR: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Modern Family, and all four Stanley Cup–winning games by the Los Angeles Kings that his daughters won’t delete (the result of Dick’s... View Details
- 27 Apr 2012
- News
Fantasy Football for Politics Junkies
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
further down the ladder—a discussion that could easily stretch beyond business to the lavishly compensated worlds of professional sports and entertainment. There's also the concern over executive pay at firms that received government... View Details
- March 2024
- Case
Expanding the Bicester Collection to New York
By: Boris Vallee, Kirby Brand, Kristina Brown, Julie McCrimlisk, Chloe Sztabnik and Arthur Segel
Secretariat, if anyone remembers, won the triple crown at the Belmont Race Track on Long Island, located at the nexus of La Guardia, JFK Airports, the Long Island Railroad and multiple major highways. Belmont Race Track is now being rebuilt along with an adjacent UBS... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Urban Development; Brands and Branding; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; New York (state, US)
Vallee, Boris, Kirby Brand, Kristina Brown, Julie McCrimlisk, Chloe Sztabnik, and Arthur Segel. "Expanding the Bicester Collection to New York." Harvard Business School Case 224-068, March 2024.
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
consideration, both sensory and economic. On the sensory side: He has designed several eating utensils, including an espresso spoon that sports a hole in the middle so as not to break up the continuity of the crema on top. On the economic... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
the conference they'd also be checking their e-mail and navigating the news or their personal life, conducting what he called parallelism. But a subset of the tech-savvy group would already be miles ahead, he said. They would be sporting... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
business development and strategy from your vocabulary.” That’s a pretty awesome mustache mug you have on your Twitter profile (see https://twitter.com/aenbar). Any chance you’ll be sporting a real one in the future? “Ha-ha. Not likely.”... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
expenditures on teammates lead to better performance in both sports teams in Canada and pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Mohit Bathija
money to wear clothes and shoes like that. I wish I could go far away from this place and never have to look back. I wish I could be that boy. Ok .I have to admit .I was not the boy standing in line in this story. I was actually the one at the front—a simple ... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus
outlet – different than what I’d done before.” Bhargav Srinivasan, one of the co-hosts who is part of the four-year JD/MBA program, added: “I hosted a basketball podcast when I was an RC. That was much more about performance. It was View Details
- Web
Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
major sports stadiums. We will continue to emphasize both empirical and theoretical perspectives to gain a grounded understanding of questions such as: Can companies manage the portfolio so that the different categories are complementary... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
3 Concerns I Had about HBS
in spite of your faults. The ease of meeting people outside section after the first few months of class. Clubs, lunches, parties, FIELD, discussion groups, intramural sports — all of these activities are cross-section. The majority of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
year, it welcomed a user with loads of data—the city itself. Partner communities can alert Waze users to planned traffic incidents (concerts, sporting events) and road closures, reducing congestion; users get a better drive. The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- September 2023 (Revised May 2025)
- Teaching Note
On
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman
Teaching Note for "On," HBS Case No. 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the Speedboard, and... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Germany; Switzerland; United States
- September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
- Supplement
On
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman
Slides to support the teaching of the On case, 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Germany; Switzerland; United States
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
H-1B admissions by 10 percent resulted in a 1 percent increase of total patented inventions. However, the H-1B program seemingly had no sweeping effect on the number of patents sporting Anglo-Saxon names, indicating that immigrants were... View Details