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- 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; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Germany; Switzerland; United States
- 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
- March 2004 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Salt Lake Organizing Committee, The: 2002 Olympics
By: H. Kent Bowen, Bryce LaPierre and Courtney Purrington
After two and a half years of effort, Fraser Bullock, COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, faced projected deficits and post-9/11 security requirements only five months before the opening ceremony. Summarizes the organizational structure and processes put in place by... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Planning; Practice; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Sports; System
Bowen, H. Kent, Bryce LaPierre, and Courtney Purrington. "Salt Lake Organizing Committee, The: 2002 Olympics." Harvard Business School Case 604-092, March 2004. (Revised February 2006.)
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
thing: “Sports. Pirates, Steelers, Penguins, anything black and gold. Pittsburgh just reverberates around its sports teams.” Life lesson: Learned in HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s class. “The real engine behind being successful is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
until seventh grade, basketball until eighth grade, football until ninth. Then I wrestled and threw the shot put and discus through high school. The faster the ball moved — or the smaller it got — the sooner my career in that sport was... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
as they were years ago . Even skis within our sport have undergone dramatic improvements.” Read about Hanson’s effort to engineer a better boot. Previous Next Enjoy football, repair capitalism Roger Martin (MBA 1981) Dean, Rotman School... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
southeast Australia, with supportive, attentive parents who created opportunities for success. His dad was the first in four generations to attend college and he worked as the high school principal. “We were very involved in the local View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Kosztyo have made that concept a reality, with BuyerWeb currently boasting some five hundred participating merchants (mostly small or specialty businesses) from fourteen different categories of products and services, including items such as cigars, coins, wine, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, leading efforts on social inclusion, gender equality, youth support, anti-racism, sports values, and scientific ethics, including AI governance. She spearheaded UNESCO’s AI Ethics Recommendation,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
the competitive sports arena-- and reaffirm my deep belief that everybody, that every citizen and every leader can be a champion of change, and can, by working really together, create the relationships, create the visions, and create the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
has steered off course. What do men and women not get about each other? Women just don’t get that men are remarkably simple. A sandwich, some sports on TV, and sex — you’ve got a happy man. Women are unnecessarily complicated, and men... View Details
- 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
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
HBS senior lecturer David Edelman exploring "The Future of AI and the Customer Experience." Upcoming discussions in the series include "The Future of Leadership in the Digital Era," "ChatGPT and the Future of AI," and "The Future of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Ultimate Frisbee with one, and I could tell by the way he played he’d be a terrific person to do a company with. The other was a woman who almost made the Canadian Olympic marathon team. People who are intense about sports often bring... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
inevitably results in the same spotlight on oneself. The Brazilians may well think, as Hamlet did when turning the tables on his adversaries, "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard." View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
models (including 11 in North America) slated to debut over the next three years. The lineup features the rotary-powered RX-8 sports car and the all-new midsize Mazda6, which, Fields proudly notes, has “class-leading driving dynamics,... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
power. Power brings the ability to trade favors. Watch likeability grow along with respect when enough women win top spots and can get people things they desire–budgets, promotions, tickets to sports matches, introductions to celebrities,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter