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Lindsay Steinmetz

different areas of social enterprise through my current role at the Ford Foundation. How has HBS prepared you for your current role and your longterm career? HBS prepared me to know the questions to ask... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • January 2004 (Revised November 2004)
  • Case

Rwandan Tea Industry, The: Looking into the Future

By: Debora L. Spar
In 2003, the Rwandan government was focused on transforming the nation's tea industry into a world-class competitor. To accomplish this objective and stave off the downward prices that plagued the international tea market, the government believed that the industry... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Privatization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Rwanda
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  • November 1996 (Revised December 1996)
  • Case

Rogers Communications, Inc.: The Wave

By: John A. Deighton, Karsten Voermann and Reginal Gilyard
Rogers Communications, Inc., Canada's largest cable television provider, is deciding how it should respond to developments that appear to portend the convergence of its industry with the computing and telecommunications industries. In particular, it is investigating... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Consumer Behavior; Technology Adoption; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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  • March 2016
  • Teaching Plan

Emaar: The Center of Tomorrow, Today

By: Sid Yog, Esel Cekin and Marc Homsy
Starting in 1997, Mohammad Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar, has been largely associated with Dubai's most renowned real estate projects: the world's tallest building, largest mall and biggest fountain show. Emaar's pioneering success attracted a large number of private... View Details
Keywords: Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Egypt; Dubai; Real Estate; Finance; Emaar; Public Real Estate Company; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Financial Condition; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Real Estate Industry; Dubai
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  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

results of additional tests are consistent with the risk of expropriation being a barrier to information disclosure about firm performance. In contrast, we find no evidence that disclosure of government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

Poweo: David and Goliath in the French Electricity Market

By: Noel Maurer and Elisa Farri
Charles Beigbeder, the president and founder of Poweo, an alternative electricity and gas operator in France, needs to decide on the company's strategy in light of electricity deregulation and the dominant position of Électricité de France (EDF) in the French market.... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Competitive Strategy; Competition; Privatization; Monopoly; Market Entry and Exit; Energy Industry; France
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  • 03 Jul 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to pursue a “zero tolerance” policy of arresting all those crossing the border illegally, requiring the separation of adults from children, as a means of discouraging further illegal View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

them. Many wanna-dots will ultimately arrive in cyberspace, although not necessarily by the same route, as we will see in the two examples that follow. The story of cookware catalog vendor and retailer Williams-Sonoma shows how barriers... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

sellers’ cost structures and capacities. When fixed costs of entry are high, sellers with small capacities may be deterred from entering the market because of their inability to leverage economies of scale.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2024
  • Case

ChatGPT Enters the Voice Wars 2024

By: David B. Yoffie and Sarah von Bargen
OpenAI joined the Voice Wars in September 2023 when it launched its voice feature for ChatGPT. Initially only available to Pro subscribers, ChatGPT gave free access to all users two months later. It formed partnerships with a variety of companies, including carmakers,... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Lawsuits and Litigation; Technology Adoption; Market Entry and Exit; Technology Industry
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  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

partnered with HBS administration to advance racial equity and diversity; efforts that laid the groundwork for the HBS Anti-Racism Task Force and the Racial Equity Action Plan. Jackson joined the task force, lending her own experience... View Details
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Medical Device Industry

By: Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern
Does the large-scale technological change that is characteristic of an industry-wide digital transformation entrench industry leaders or enable the rise of new entrants? We offer a novel approach to this question by studying the medical device industry, a unique... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Medical Devices; Digitization; Medical Technology; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Growth; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • 23 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

to female consumers. An app that allows pregnant women to request a seat on public transport, for example, was rated more than 99 percent female-focused, while an app using artificial intelligence View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Diversion, Rent Extraction and Competition Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract This paper studies search diversion by competing intermediaries connecting consumers with third-party stores. First, we show that endogenizing store View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

an honest, collective, and public conversation about their organization's alignment with espoused strategy and values. The research has identified a syndrome of six silent barriers to effectiveness and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

countries like the US and Germany is that immigration has a tendency to attract those with the strongest motivation to form a new life, learn new skills, and obey the law (especially if illegal View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

non-flashy ways through data entry and recruitment, especially in such uncertain and stressful times, has been inspiring. And the degree to which it has happened was completely unexpected. While recruiting... View Details
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

The case forces students to grapple with the challenges and barriers involved in disrupting an established industry, examine alternative go-to-market strategies and the timing of implementing them, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a set of technological choices to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne