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  • June 2004 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Cox Communications, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jonathan Gibbons
Cox Communications, the third largest U.S. cable television system operator, is confronting strategy decisions in mid-2004. Cox managers must decide whether to speed its deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which offers capital and operating costs savings... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Information Technology; Competition; Product Development; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    Narayana Murthy

    Keywords: IT; Software; Consulting; Outsourcing

      Howard H. Stevenson

      Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

      Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
      • 10 Jul 2015
      • Blog Post

      Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

      Professor Jeffrey Bussgang has played a critical role in expanding Harvard Business School’s entrepreneurial offerings over the last few years. A Senior Lecturer at HBS and a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, he is an expert... View Details

        Christina R. Wing

        Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

        • January 2004
        • Article

        Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

        By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
        We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details
        Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry
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        • November 2021 (Revised December 2022)
        • Case

        Babban Gona: Great Farm

        By: Kristin Fabbe, Tarun Khanna, Caroline M. Elkins, Zeke Gillman, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Thomaz Teodorovicz
        In 2020, Babban Gona was one of the world’s largest farming operations with over 140,000 acres of maize farms, an area over ten times as large as Manhattan, and over 80,000 member-farmers in Nigeria. According to the company, the average Nigerian farmer’s net income... View Details
        Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Value Creation; Agribusiness; Capital Budgeting; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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        • June 2010 (Revised July 2011)
        • Case

        China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good

        By: Christopher Marquis and Nancy Dai
        In early 2010, cleantech investment pioneer Tsing Capital was planning for the China Environment Fund IV and considering how to maintain its commitment to social and environmental practices. Tsing Capital embraced its philosophy of "Doing Well by Doing Good" and... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Balance and Stability; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Business Organization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; China
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        • April 2020
        • Teaching Note

        Glossier: Co-Creating a Cult Brand with a Digital Community

        By: Jill Avery
        Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-022. Flush with cash from its Series C fundraise, cult beauty brand Glossier considers its next phase of growth, facing critical decisions on how to allocate its capital to support various marketing communications and distribution... View Details
        Keywords: Digital Marketing; Crowdsourcing; CRM; Startup; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Customer Relationship Management; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Social Media; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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          Julian De Freitas

          Julian De Freitas is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit, and Director of the Ethical Intelligence Lab, at Harvard Business School. He earned his PhD in psychology from Harvard, masters from Oxford, and BA from Yale. He teaches... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; automotive; consumer products; e-commerce industry; insurance industry; marketing industry; nonprofit industry; software; transportation; video games
          • 2024
          • Working Paper

          Hidden Risk

          By: Daniel Barth, Phillip Monin, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam
          Since 2013, large U.S. hedge fund advisers have been required to report risk exposures in their regulatory filings. Using these data, we first establish that managers’ perceptions of risk contain useful information that is not embedded in fund returns. Investor flows... View Details
          Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return; Communication Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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            David Ager

            David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

            • 21 Aug 2006
            • Research & Ideas

            How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

            1998 as part of its management of an apparently ongoing crisis. The reaction of the international financial community—and some of my students—was severe. The capital controls were labeled... View Details
            Keywords: by Ann Cullen
            • 2024
            • Article

            Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

            By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
            We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
            Keywords: Military Service; Personal Development and Career; Transformation; Power and Influence; Learning; Human Capital
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              Reader in Gender, Work, and Organization

              This reader uses an alternative approach to gender at work to provoke new thinking about traditional management topics, such as leadership and negotiation.
              • Presents students with an alternative conceptual approach to gender in the... View Details
              • 29 May 2013
              • Research & Ideas

              Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

              going on at the School. This year the presentation topics included the human tendency toward dishonesty, the use of crowdsourcing to solve major scientific problems, and the impact of private equity investments. Understanding Dishonesty... View Details
              Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
              • 15 Dec 2011
              • News

              Chasing the New Angel Investors

              • 14 Nov 2023
              • What Do You Think?

              Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

              (AdobeStock/Kostiantyn) There are numerous studies of character traits in leaders. Human resource experts have advised us on what to look for in those who would be potential leaders. Management development... View Details
              Keywords: by James Heskett

                Arthur I Segel

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                Keywords: federal government; real estate
                • 07 Feb 2023
                • Research & Ideas

                Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

                If it seems like everyone is a manager these days, you may be onto something. Not only is there a profusion of assistant managers, there are also now carpet shampoo and food cart managers, directors of first impressions, assistant bingo... View Details
                Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis