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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
William H. Gates III
In 1980, Gates signed a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for their new personal computer. Gates retained the rights to his operating system, MS-DOS, and struck deals with nearly all other... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Thomas E. Braniff
Braniff received his first airmail contract from the federal government in 1934, four years after founding Braniff Airways. In 1952, Braniff acquired Mid-Continent Airlines, which made Braniff Airways View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Samuel M. Zemurray
revive the ailing company. Dismissing poorly performing executives while pursuing lucrative contracts in Latin America, Zemurray soon returned United Fruit to profitability. Under Zemurray’s leadership,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO Reinhold Hesse is debating several options: establishing a joint... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
service. Rubicon had made great progress since introducing its service. They had signed up large multi-national customers and had a number of large potential contracts in the negotiation phase. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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A Polaroid Timeline 1932–1977 | Baker Library
becomes a consultant. Polaroid net sales: $141,959. Net profit: $8,677. 1940 Harvard Business School Harvard Business School faculty begin working with Polaroid on research projects and case studies. 1941 Military Contracts Polaroid... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories, whose primary clients were European, U.S., and Canadian firms. Export contracts to such firms had helped Bangladesh become View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the evolution of ASUSTeK from a motherboard supplier, to an ODM of desktop and notebook PCs, through its split into three companies that separately pursue the branded business, ODM, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr.
Using his Ford automobile as collateral, Wyatt entered the gas distribution and energy pipeline business with $800 in 1955. His tenacity and determination quickly secured gas contracts throughout Texas, and... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- Fast Answer
Buying a Small Business Pt3: Screening brokers /small companies (For HBS Alumni)
What are the resources useful for screening brokers and small companies for buying a small business? You may begin with the following: Go to the HBS alumni research portal to... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
McBride. "Digital assets" were the currency, in the form of ad, television, movie, and videogame song placement, ringtones, mixes, and community-created content. But new artist-label View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
financier or a source of technology—and that these contracts can be enforced. A second important—though very challenging—role for government is to intervene directly in the entrepreneurial process. But these... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced with the alternatives of fulfilling the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Alternative Asset Management's (BAAM) growth from 2007 to 2013, a time when the overall fund of hedge funds industry contracted substantially. Additionally, the case analyzes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
indicated that he believed that another doubling in size was feasible, but it would probably take a major acquisition to do so. And JCDecaux faced more pressing short-term issues. The contract for London bus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne