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  • 05 Mar 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

of management, which Hamel argues clings to time-worn management innovations of the twentieth century to which the founders of new-generation firms were largely not exposed? Hamel, admitting that he does not have all the answers, poses... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

Ramana NandaHarvard Business School Case 812-168 Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of ABC India Pvt. Ltd., reflected on his meetings as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

Genevieve Thiers, founder and CEO of Sittercity.com, looked over at Dan Ratner, Sittercity's vice president and her boyfriend of five years. It had taken her six long years to build Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting Web... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

The thing about small organizations…is they are often in the process of constructing their strategy and that means that they may not be able to grow the people they have in those positions. The founder often doesn't live through the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

817-016 Mark43 The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

point. To help them establish a commercialization strategy, the Hövding board had prevailed upon the founders to hire a professional CEO. But surrendering management control was an emotional process for Haupt and Alstin, while the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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 Werner Siemens View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509050 Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1) Harvard Business School Case 109-013 Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

50 employees) but was poised for significant growth. For founder and CEO Michael Lebowitz, the central challenge was to figure out whether and how the agency could retain its boutique culture while transcending its boutique size. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508052 Ithmar Capital Harvard Business School Case 809-032 The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

gender gap among companies in Sweden. They excluded family-run companies, because in those cases the CEO was likely to be the founder or a descendent of the founder. And they focused only on executives—comparing women at the top with men... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

tap into the talent pool of young Chinese scientists. Strategic and operational integration of Sym-Bio into PerkinElmer is explored through the lens of the founder and CEO of Sym-Bio and that of the acquiring company. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

countries (and states) compete for talent, and how therapies are developed. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807096 The Howland Long-Term Opportunity Fund Harvard Business School Case 207-066 Melissa Howland, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

diagnostic firm, is evaluating the offer made by Ron Zwanziger, the firm’s founder and former CEO, to acquire the company and take it private. The offer arrives at the end of a tumultuous year for the company, which saw Zwanziger fighting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

rapid evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry. In the early 2000s, as Millennium's competitive advantage in early-stage research slipped away and its losses mounted, founder and CEO Mark Levin moved the firm downstream away from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

Canadian GAAP, (2) adopting U.S. GAAP, or (3) adopting IFRS. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110023-PDF-ENG Nantucket Nectars: The Exit Joseph B. Lassiter, III, William A. Sahlman, and Noam T. WassermanHarvard Business School Case 810-041 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

director of all operations in Kibera, is leaving to go to graduate school. Rye Barcott, founder and president, has a new career and a growing family and can no longer play an active role in CFK's operations. Kim Chapman, chair of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

century. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709057 From xiaonei to hainei: The Quest for the Social Networking Service Market in China Harvard Business School Case 808-164 Wang Xing, the founder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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