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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
Brand New also developed the ability to identify ability in others: organizational and strategic talent, as well as commercial imagination. Lauder, Schultz, and Dell—like the three entrepreneurs in the past—shared a willingness to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
of biographical case studies for his MBA class, Changing the World, that includes several protagonists whose management chops are battle-tested. “There’s a discipline in the military that is sometimes lacking in commercial organizations,... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
From Concept to Product Left: Patent 3,142,567, July 28, 1964. Polaroid Corporation Legal and Patent Records, b. II.165, f. 12. Right: Patent 2,435,720, Feb. 10, 1948. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to Meroë Morse, b. VII.10, f. 24. In 1948, referring to its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
illicit money that flows out of developing and transitional economies. These sums — corrupt, criminal, and commercially tax-evading in origin — are staggering, estimated at some $500 to $750 billion annually. The biggest part of this is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
humor I understand. How do you become one of those brands that people want to wear on a T-shirt? There’s no one commercial that’s going to make me want to wear an Apple or a Nike T-shirt. It’s a succession of many different impressions... View Details
- July 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)
Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox 1.0, including its default browser, managing corporate partnerships, managing product development, and moving toward a revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Social Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; United States
O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Nikhil Raj. "The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 907-015, July 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
- February 2005
- Case
Mahindra & Mahindra: Creating Scorpio
By: Tarun Khanna, Rajiv Lal and Merlina Manocaran
Details the emergence of a private sector automobile manufacturer in India that has created globally competitive and cheap versions of an SUV commonly available worldwide. Asks us to think about the parent corporation's next steps in leveraging this success. In... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Commercialization; Expansion; Auto Industry; India
Khanna, Tarun, Rajiv Lal, and Merlina Manocaran. "Mahindra & Mahindra: Creating Scorpio." Harvard Business School Case 705-478, February 2005.
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
commercial avoidance through zapping along with eye tracking on 31 commercials for nearly 2,000 participants are used to calibrate the model. New, simple metrics of attention dispersion are shown to strongly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
Today, Amazon participates in so many industries that it takes a small army of researchers at HBS to track them all: retailing, cloud computing, book stores, grocery stores, digital consumer products, commercial real estate,... View Details
- Fast Answer
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
& Bradstreet, as well as demographic data including income, age, race and educational attainment from the US Census. Business Analyst Online: access to data on demographics and businesses in the USA. Business Analyst Online is intended for View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
site of the multipurpose facility, on the quad behind Aldrich Hall. When completed in the fall of 2000, the Spangler Center will provide new space for student services, dining and meeting rooms, student organizations, administrative offices, and View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
program, led the 30-minute discussion, posing executives’ questions about leadership and the business opportunities of commercial space travel—and about everyday life in space. Virts, who posts images of the earth on Instagram and Twitter... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
trying to help people make it in rural areas. We don’t want them to leave because they have no opportunities.” Admitting that there is much work still to be done, Piper noted that TechnoServe was making progress: “Business people are no longer frowning. The View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Commercializing a Diagnostic Test Harvard Business School Case 308-090 What are the barriers and opportunities to commercializing genetic diagnoses for disease? Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
discovered that others wanted to buy one." Montague's son David became interested in commercializing the innovation, and they cofounded the company in 1987. Today, Montague is the world's leading producer of full-sized folding... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
only with its own equipment. The establishment of XTV was driven by two events in 1988. First, several senior Xerox managers were involved in negotiating and approving a spin-off from Xerox, ParcPlace, which sought to commercialize an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Administration (SBA) program for minority-owned firms. But even as she marketed her company to the U.S. Navy, the Department of Agriculture, and other government agencies, Lambert also sought commercial clients. Still, when Centennial One... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
investment enabled Xerox to participate substantially in the resultant value. As Kearns stated in 1993, "XTV is a hedge against the repeated missteps of the past." 40 Armed with this new structure and the charter to hunt for View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Commercializing Science and Technology [taught by] Lee Fleming," Dawe says. "The idea behind the course was to bring together business students and graduate students from other parts of the University. It was a wonderfully creative... View Details