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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Business School." McInnes: Dean Hall was not supportive of our playing rugby, and his reasoning was admirable. He was concerned, knowing it's a fairly physical game, that it might lead to students getting injured, missing classes, and flunking out. IN ACTION: A Spring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That’s now a couple of years in the rearview mirror, but you can’t... View Details
- 17 Mar 2016
- News
The 124-Year-Old Startup
in the internet of “really big things”—think locomotives and jet engines. Attracting software engineers to a company known for making microwaves was a challenge, but the... View Details
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
in the mid-nineteenth century. The company was active from 1840 to 1877 under the direction of Augustine Heard and his nephews John, Augustine... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
thousands of facilities of publicly listed firms, Heese identified the towns where the local newspaper presses permanently came to a halt. Heese found that after a newspaper shuts down, violations at... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- August 1983 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Honda (A)
Describes the history of Honda Motor Company from its beginning through its entry into and subsequent dominance of the U.S. market. The history is explained primarily in terms of strategic factors and quoted from two sources: an earlier case and Boston Consulting Group... View Details
Christiansen, Evelyn T., and Richard Pascale. "Honda (A)." Harvard Business School Case 384-049, August 1983. (Revised March 2011.)
- August 2006 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
SUN Brewing (A)
The Khemka family of India, founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing, faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the rouble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN Brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Emerging Markets; India; Russia
Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "SUN Brewing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-022, August 2006. (Revised June 2010.)
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
international conservation organizations in 2004. "It goes way beyond the stock price of the companies they lead. It means solving the biggest... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
people to buy into a new vision or better way of doing things is my favorite kind of challenge.” Today, as CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a Massachusetts-based tech-intensive company focused on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
earlier. In 1607, the settlers at Jamestown arrived under the charter of the Virginia Company of London. Puritans founded View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
and humidity. If high-achievement types want to be as effective as they can be, they have to tune themselves up every day and be aware." DeLong says he didn't write the book to create organizations "that feel good or that are... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Web
After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
and later founded their own enterprises. 25 Augustine Heard retired from his role as active head of the company in 1844. He would never return to China. In June 1844, the firm... View Details
- June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business
Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
Spear, Steven J. "Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business." Harvard Business School Case 601-081, June 2001. (Revised May 2002.)
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Akamai Technologies: Expanding the Talent Pipeline
By: Christopher Stanton, Lynda M. Applegate, Allison Ciechanover, Emily Grandjean and Sophie Beck
In 2022, senior executives of Cambridge, MA-based Akamai Technologies met to consider whether and how to scale a successful technical training program. The program, Akamai Technical Academy (ATA), was launched in 2016 to address a key challenge at Akamai and in the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry; United States; Boston
Stanton, Christopher, Lynda M. Applegate, Allison Ciechanover, Emily Grandjean, and Sophie Beck. "Akamai Technologies: Expanding the Talent Pipeline." Harvard Business School Case 823-101, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
research rethinks what academics and practitioners have simply called the supply chain—a loose federation of individual suppliers that feed companies with the goods and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
people who make their living studying things like monetary policy and market design? So she called her old friend and colleague, Stephanie Hurder (PHDBE 2013), who was ready for a change after spending three years at Boston Consulting... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
company. "An executive there told me that you can't buy this kind of publicity," says Deighton. The New Rules But what does this all boil down to for companies that want to be successful in this relatively... View Details
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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic, 20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have profound technological, social, and... View Details