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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
world you have 50,000 entrepreneurs and hundreds of VCs, funding a wide variety of ideas, and out of that chaos come genuine breakthroughs. We really didn’t have that in the ASD field.” Plus, he figured, with so much time and money... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
Companies that outsource merely to shuffle off commodity work to save costs might be missing important opportunities to work with vendors and significantly improve the final product. "When it comes to the outsourcing of many complex... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
as a group, offering them business and technical advice until they are able to prove themselves and grow to a size that a VC is willing to invest more time and money into ensuring their success. Another worry with the spray and pray... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
time each test cost $999; today the company charges one-tenth that—$99—for its ancestry-focused testing. In its earliest days, 23andMe targeted both the health-conscious consumer and those interested in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
2017 CA: BVT Publishing Global Marketing Management: A Casebook By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—During the last quarter century, international business was shaken by a revolution in global competition unlike any previously experienced. As View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
For companies to redeem credibility with investors, argue Harvard Business School professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu, "fundamental and even radical reforms must be made to the way America's markets process the flows of... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
at scale. Win-win. Conversely, someone with a lot of startup experience may have a hard time adjusting to a mature company. A hiring manager at a mature company may question whether a candidate with only... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509029 Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi Harvard Business School Case 708-033 In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
holding group], for example, runs his companies closely and is planning to pass the leadership of his firms to his two sons. Similarly, the heads of some of America's largest firms, both publicly held and private, are the scions of the... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- May 2024
- Supplement
gWorks (B)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Growth Management; Applications and Software; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "gWorks (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-722, May 2024.
- Fast Answer
Stock prices: current & historical
hit GO for historical prices. LSEG Workspace is good for downloading a time series: Type a company name or ticker into the main search bar and select the appropriate View Details
- May 2024
- Supplement
gWorks (A)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Growth Management; Applications and Software; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "gWorks (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-721, May 2024.
- Blog
Take Control of Your Personal Brand
emotions, attitudes, and expectations others have about you. Let's say you’re in a high-stakes situation—you're applying for a new job, seeking a raise, promoting your company to investors, or trying to engage a new client. Whether you... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
require frequent redirection. What are the things that will help those redirections occur, both in large company settings as well as in new start-up settings? There are very interesting interactions in terms of how resources are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
rerouting, according to their recent working paper “Exports in Disguise: Trade Rerouting during the US-China Trade War?” The added value of imports only becomes clear by looking at trade data at the company level. On that basis, just 1.8... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World
our way to Shad, we struck up a conversation about recruiting as most RCs do around that time of year. Dan knew that I was trans because I had done a MyTake earlier in the semester on National Coming Out Day, organized by the PRIDE Club.... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- February 2024
- Case
Innovation Strategy at Stanley Black & Decker: Setting the Direction for Growth
By: David L. Ager and Antonio Manuel Oftelie
On July 1, 2022, Don Allan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Stanley Black & Decker (SBD). Although Allan had been with the firm for 23 years, most recently serving as President and Chief Financial Officer, he recognized that he was stepping into his new role as... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Growth Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Ager, David L., and Antonio Manuel Oftelie. "Innovation Strategy at Stanley Black & Decker: Setting the Direction for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 924-301, February 2024.
- 2012
- Case
Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao, and Hong Zhang. "Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation." Tsinghua University Case, 2012.