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- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- May 2012 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
HTC Corp. in 2012
By: David B. Yoffie, Juan Alcacer and Renee Kim
After 15 years of remarkable achievements, Taiwan-based HTC Corp. faced difficult times by 2012. CEO Peter Chou, who drove HTC's transformation from an unknown manufacturer of PDAs for other companies to a well-known global player in smartphones, faced an uncertain and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Telecommunications; Brand Management; Economies Of Scale And Scope; Market Positioning; Intellectual Property Management; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Product Positioning; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
Yoffie, David B., Juan Alcacer, and Renee Kim. "HTC Corp. in 2012." Harvard Business School Case 712-423, May 2012. (Revised September 2012.)
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
sellers face a fundamental strategy decision: Should they be resellers (like supermarkets), acquiring and then reselling products or services? Should they operate as multisided platforms (like eBay), connecting buyers and sellers without... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Frank Nagle
Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them. His research falls into the broader categories of the futures of work, the economics of IT, and... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
because this gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though the... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
the world. The pandemic necessitated a complete pause in 2020 and 2021. In 2022, FGI resumed in 15 locations in the United States, and in 2023, more than 1,000 students traveled to 15 global locations to work with project partners on new View Details
- June 2020
- Teaching Note
Understanding the Brand Equity of Nestlé Crunch Bar
By: Jill Avery and Gerald Zaltman
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 519-061 and 519-062. In early 2018, Nestlé announced the sale of its U.S. candy-making division and a select collection of twenty of its confectionery brands, including the Nestlé Crunch Bar, to Ferrero SpA for $2.8 billion. Under the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
move in 2023 away from its signature group meetings and nutritional products to providing Wegovy prescriptions via telehealth. The interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Lane Lambert: The Weight Watchers marketing... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch on organizational integration , sparked the field of Organizational Behavior. Early work by Michael Beer on leading organizational change , Rosabeth Kanter on innovation for View Details
- November 2012 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Alex Godden
The "Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd" case series focuses on entrepreneurial selling, and is based on an older case study, "Deaver Brown and Cross River Inc." (9-394-042). It concerns two entrepreneurs, Andrew Sullivan and Hope Abasi, who have designed an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Sales; Management; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
Cespedes, Frank V., and Alex Godden. "Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 813-104, November 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
- 23 May 2014
- News
Can You Crowdsource a Big Idea?
- December 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Manufacturing Moderna's Future
By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks
In 2019, Moderna faced long odds of survival having failed to develop a successful clinical program out of the vast platform technology they had built around mRNA. Nearly overnight, the company skyrocketed to success with a vaccine for COVID-19, leading to an extremely... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Production; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry
Tadikonda, Satish, and William Marks. "Manufacturing Moderna's Future." Harvard Business School Case 824-076, December 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
Jeff told her he’d found a local professor who was letting him experiment with airplane wings and friction and drag.” Flash forward to today. Amazon is not only one of the world’s most powerful and innovative companies, but one of the... View Details
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OPM Renew
connections through cross-cohort collaboration. Details Broaden your global perspective and entrepreneurial leadership skills Learn how innovative global operators are changing buyer behavior and transforming bold ideas into new View Details
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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship
as EC) New Venture Competition — Student Business Track and Student Social Enterprise Track President’s Innovation Challenge Harvard College i3 Innovation Challenge — organized by the Harvard John A. Paulson... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
recruited 200,000 volunteers to verify the index.) The advances the 21st-century customer expects are not limited to collecting information; they also want to be able to share it, Norrington adds. “We’re accelerating product View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
the most highly valued companies in the world. But how were they able to steer their companies through the volatile ups and downs of decades of changing technologies? What did they have in common? And what can we learn from them about successful strategy? “The notion... View Details
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Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers
By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White
In a repeated game setting of a vertically related industry, we study the collusive effects of vertical mergers. We show that any vertical merger facilitates upstream collusion, no matter how large (in terms of capacity or size of product portfolio) the integrated... View Details
Nocke, Volker, and Lucy White. "Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers." International Journal of Industrial Organization 28, no. 4 (July 2010): 350–354.
- November 2012 (Revised July 2014)
- Supplement
Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd (B): Sam Cartwright of Mothercare
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Alex Godden
The "Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd" case series focuses on entrepreneurial selling, and is based on an older case study, "Deaver Brown and Cross River Inc." (9-394-042). It concerns two entrepreneurs, Andrew Sullivan and Hope Abasi, who have designed an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Sales; Marketing; Management; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
Cespedes, Frank V., and Alex Godden. "Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd (B): Sam Cartwright of Mothercare." Harvard Business School Supplement 813-105, November 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace