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  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709019 CalPERS'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

Radio-Frequency Identification Harvard Business School Case 610-027 The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

Pincus set up shop, the general impression of private equity matured. SUVIR SUJAN first thought of returning to India when consulting work brought him home in 1999. Since then he's sold a start-up to eBay and recently launched a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • News

If I Were You

company. But I think most HBSers are ready for entrepreneurship one way or the other. And so I would say, swing for the fence. Michael Segal (MBA 2015): Michael Segal.My advice is based on my own experience, where at least for the first year, my head was in a bunch of... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

Pfizer), placing them in scientific advisory kinds of roles. In contrast, people coming out of Baxter were more likely to take on management positions in these start-up firms, reflecting Baxter's entrepreneurial career imprint. Similar... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

What’s Next

more so in the future will include connecting participants to a broader array of content and experiences that we offer at the School. Alumni Engagement The world is changing rapidly, and I need to keep learning to keep up. In start-up... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the burdensome... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

villages, and rural landlessness. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50542 Harvard Business School Case 316-085 Paez Paez, an Argentine start-up fashion brand, sold traditional alpargatas, a sleepy shoe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

deals with supplier difficulties faced by WildChina—a travel service provider in China. WildChina is a classic case of a company that is trying to bring a local, within-country product to a market outside the country (in this case, travelers to China from around the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

and Tiona ZuzulHarvard Business School Case 410-081 Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software and technology backgrounds of its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

economically more valuable, in keeping with the values of fine art more generally. Q: Why did you use the Indian art market as the basis for your study on how categories evolve? A: Our interest began when we wrote a case on Saffronart.com, an Indian View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

about needs and generate peer pressure for giving. And different locales do seem to have developed different conceptions of what is appropriate activity in this realm. In Silicon Valley, it is well known that corporate social action is very results-oriented, engendered... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Singapore and Malaysia. Capital in Taiwan and Hong Kong went to the most efficient firms, including small, start-up entrepreneurial firms, and was not based on the political or ethnic status of such firms, he said. Extremely attractive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

eastern Europe. We tend to forget this sort of entrepreneurialism, somewhat blinded by the light of the start-up culture of the United States and Silicon Valley. Q: Some great but autocratic German entrepreneurs including Alfred Krupp and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

whole episode has certainly highlighted the manufacturer’s duty to validate the quality of suppliers.” For the full story of how SmartPak got its start, years before this bump in the start-up road, you’d want to meet Westley, the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-001 Quiet Logistics (A) This two-part case focuses on how to identify and manage strategic uncertainties in an innovative, entrepreneurial start-up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

results. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713537-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-014 Sample6: Innovating to Make Food Safer Tim Curran, CEO of Sample6, a start-up biotechnology company developing a novel food safety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

a start-up founded by journalists, publishes enhanced ebook singles as well as the software to create enhanced ebooks. The company is currently engaged in both publishing and software development, but as they raise funding and grow, must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

high because website owners would need to recode data and content on their existing sites, agree on ontologies for structuring information, and develop new tools for querying Semantic Web data. The case profiles two start-ups with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace