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- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target (TN)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Teaching Note for [709002]. View Details
- May 2025
- Case
Fidji Simo: Growing the Pie at Instacart
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Barnett
In January 2025, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo considers strategies for continuing to grow Instacart from a grocery delivery platform to a holistic grocery technology company, including in-store grocery technology and expanding partnerships across the grocery sector. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Customers; Food; Health; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Operations; Going Public; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
Joly, Hubert, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and James Barnett. "Fidji Simo: Growing the Pie at Instacart." Harvard Business School Case 325-052, May 2025.
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of them. Rehiring View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Publications November 2014 Harvard Business Review Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—While existing theory suggests that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
On October 19, the School conferred its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on seven distinguished individuals. Since 1968, the School has selected outstanding men and women for the award, recognizing their accomplishments in the View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Scott Lee Abstract—Organizations often use non-monetary awards to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
could replace the painful prick of a vaccination needle. And as "delivery vehicles" for medicines proliferate, new distribution channels, such as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose of radiation. View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES It has also enabled him to make a difference in health care while still a student. Velasquez has worked with Massachusetts General Hospital, MassHealth, and the Massachusetts Department of View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
Business School alumni. Howard Stevenson discusses their pragmatic approaches to overcoming long odds. Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?Millions of people have been harmed by... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
awards, including the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and a 2012 Gold Effie. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/513032-PDF-ENG Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
a buy-American pitch to sell cars anymore (American Public Media’s Marketplace, July 6, 2009). “Despite the hype about Google’s innovation prowess, the company hasn’t proven that it can build sustainable new growth businesses.” — Scott D.... View Details
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1.4.3 Anti-Hazing Policy | MBA
nineteen (reproduced below), shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by regulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
can deliver the safest perceived service environment, in the face of ongoing public health threats from COVID-19 and from the next pandemic. Sustaining their business viability post-COVID will demand more... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
Law”—that everything can look like a failure in the middle—and don’t make it a self-fulfilling prophecy by getting bogged down in crisis details. Think about impact beyond the crisis and have a stockpile of ideas to roll out when the time comes. V. Kasturi Rangan:... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
hygiene products. In 2016, the organization moved to a larger space and hired its first employee. A few years later, it moved to a still-larger location. In the early days of Hope and Comfort, Feingold sometimes struggled to explain the concept of hygiene insecurity to... View Details
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In The Community | About
to the public Harvard Innovation Labs The Harvard Innovation Labs provide a multitude of in-kind support for local entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and offer a variety of partner programming and... View Details