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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
asked him to become a director of Bell Canada, he accepted that post as well. (McArthur proudly remains a Canadian citizen, and currently chairs the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.) He helped a half-dozen start-ups get off the ground,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
for investing heavily in R&D and innovation by large companies or in the decision to open a new start-up by a graduating Harvard Business School MBA. Uncertainty kills investment, however, and we are seeing uncertainty on an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Published: January 10, 2011 For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
start-up stage of development. A second case on strategic planning at NFTE was recently published. Pathways to Independence: Welfare-to-Work at Marriott International This case highlights Marriott's welfareto- work program, which trained... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
takes the man’s point of view in hopes of rebalancing a debate too often confined to women, to political correctness, or to conforming reluctantly to equality laws. From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story by Ganesh Natarajan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“Given that a nonprofit has fewer resources, it requires a start-up mentality.” That challenge, along with Habitat’s ongoing growth and evolution as an organization, promise to keep Song engaged for the long haul. “I’ve been blown away by... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Business School Case 812-172 This case examines the PowerPoint presentation that Ranjith Kumaran, founder of the start-up PunchTab, Inc., is using for his investment pitches to venture capital firms. Students can discuss the materials... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
started her own hedge fund firm in 2001 after nearly 20 years as a star biotechnology analyst and hedge fund manager. After the start-up phase, her firm became highly profitable. In 2004, however, one of her four analysts lost a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars already seemed to be aligning: As... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
was fierce, and there were always thousands of start-ups looking to enter the sector. Founder and CEO Ma Huateng (“Pony” Ma) remarked, “In America, when you bring an idea to market you usually have several months before competition pops... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
banking and - as a new owner of an apartment - threw herself into interior design and antiques, taking courses and attending events and lectures. More recently, she's been helping develop The Franklin Report, a start-up publication that... View Details