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- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
authors suggest that once predictable surprises are identified, persuasive communication, coalition building (to mobilize people to confront the potential surprise), and structured problem-solving (to identify options and eliminate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Anthony Tan
for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could communicate directly with... View Details
- September 2004
- Case
Valhalla Partners Due Diligence
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
The Valhalla Partners venture capitial firm introduced a new approach to the due-diligence process. An internal due-diligence report analyzes Telco Exchange, a startup company in the IT software space. An extended excerpt examines the trade-offs involved in the new... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Business Plan; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Dan Heath. "Valhalla Partners Due Diligence." Harvard Business School Case 805-033, September 2004.
- 23 Apr 2025
- Podcast
ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation
The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows, and the up-skilling... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
to meet with BFFS faculty to promote the productive exchange of ideas. “We began by mobilizing Harvard research around the realities of how markets, individuals, and institutions behave ,” says Greenwood. “Ultimately though, we want the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
three were acquired in 2013. From an investor perspective, a minimum investment might be $400,000 to $500,000 spread across 8 to 10 deals to minimize risk. "If we can mobilize extra capital into really exciting life-science... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
to become a center for making mobile phone components and handsets, especially products using CDMA technology, which is widely used in South Korea. Controller board MADE IN CHINA REASON U.S. companies long ago outsourced the manufacture... View Details
- Portrait Project
Linda Li
It was the 2012 presidential campaign season. I had been knocking on doors of apartment units and mobile homes, on metal screens, wooden boards, cracked glass, and picket fences. Women and men, students and the elderly, English-speaking... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
from mobile devices. Next, social media, in the form of Facebook and Twitter, became the information workhorse, serving two roles. Initially, social media was used to engage fans during the buildup to Super Bowl week. That included... View Details
- March 2017
- Teaching Note
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Teaching Note for HBS No. 316-154. View Details
- 26 Feb 2025
- Podcast
David Deming on workforce shifts and the future of college
AI's early impact on the labor market: Are claims of revolutionary change overblown? The Harvard economist presents the long view on technological disruption and updates the post-secondary picture. View Details
- December 2019
- Supplement
Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia (B)
By: Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu and Susie L. Ma
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Infrastructure; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Korean Peninsula
Greenstein, Shane, Feng Zhu, and Susie L. Ma. "Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 620-060, December 2019.
- July 2006
- Background Note
Out of Frame: The Coming Digital Disruption of Hollywood
By: Stephen P. Bradley, Brian DeLacey and Reed Martin
The record opening of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, starring Johnny Depp, had finally provided the industry with incontrovertible proof that it was still possible to draw massive audiences to movie theaters. Grossing $136 million during its opening... View Details
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru
lifestyles and the name of your GEO country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging... View Details
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Elaine MacDonald Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact: HBS Alumni and the City of San Francisco Elaine MacDonald 11 Aug 2017 For 30 years, HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners has mobilized more than... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
New York Club Focuses on Entrepreneurship
April, the club hosted "Untethered New York: Strategies for Success in the Mobile Internet World," in cooperation with the New York Times and angelbeat.com. Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc., and Microsoft's SVP Craig Mundie were featured... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from most Android phones automatically... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
faculty chair), Allen Grossman, and F. Warren McFarlan each led a lively exchange that encompassed topics such as measuring SEI’s success in 2014, ensuring that the knowledge generated is applied, and mobilizing the HBS alumni network.... View Details