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  • February 2002 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Battery Ventures

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Ann Leamon, Nitin Gupta and Sameer Bharadwaj
Todd Dagres, general partner of Battery Ventures, reflects on his firm's organization and its effectiveness in one particular deal. One of the perennial challenges of venture capital is the scaling of the firm. Usually regarded as a craft industry, venture firms tend... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Structure; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • Web

Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

relevance to research in advertising and marketing. Industrial Life Photograph Collection Photographs from 115 leading companies (International Harvester, Hershey's Chocolate, Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation, U.S. Steel, and General... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

industries like software. “Industry is not destiny.” Take the airline business, for example, which, over its history, has an accumulated net loss in the billions—a classic B-school example of a structurally... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

skills Students gain exposure to a diverse set of industries and functions through the case method, which makes them a great addition to startups where working across functions is part of the environment. In the first year, the HBS... View Details
Keywords: All Industries; All Industries
  • Web

Alfred D. Chandler Papers | Baker Library

lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence. It is rich in research material gathered during his comparative studies of corporate structure and its development in the United States and other... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Micro Management

studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • September 2000 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

National Logistics Management

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Mary Rotelli and Kristin Kohler
National Logistics Management (NLM), a third-party logistics company, is a successful, profitable business that provides a more cost-effective and efficient means to expedite premium freight. With the logistics landscape changing, NLM's market niche is threatened. Can... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Logistics; Industry Structures; Planning; Service Industry
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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

nurtured in different educational and institutional settings. The question, then, is this: does China have a good institutional framework for innovation? Our answer at present is no: the governance structures of Chinese state-owned... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

opportunity to represent HBS in markets around the world by building new relationships and connecting students with employment opportunities. More recently, the Energy and Cleantech industries were added to my employer relations and... View Details
  • May 1993 (Revised October 1995)
  • Case

Connor Formed Metal Products

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Donna B. Stoddard and Melinda Conrad
Connor Formed Metal Products was a small, privately owned manufacturer of custom metal springs and stampings. Since becoming president in 1984, Bob Sloss had implemented many changes to the company's organizational structure, management control systems, and information... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Organizational Structure; Production; Change; Governance Controls; Information Technology; Manufacturing Industry
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  • June 2011
  • Case

Changes to Harvard University's Governing Board

By: Rakesh Khurana and Eric Baldwin
This case examines the decision made by the governing board of Harvard University, known as the Harvard Corporation, to alter its size and operations. The case provides background on Harvard's history, its existing governance structure, and some of the issues that... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Decisions; Education Industry
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  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

during the MBA program. Giovanni Estrella (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? Jacksonville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Senior Quality Engineer for the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

New Releases

Iansiti spent eight years studying more than a hundred development projects in four computing-related industries - particularly turbulent and complex environments in which making the right technology choices is essential for success. In... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Fast Answer

HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

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Reference material that includes an "analysis of the legal, economic, tax, and accounting considerations necessary to successfully View Details
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

primarily on substitutes but copied from rivals. Next, they actively tested their assumptions and made major resource commitments to the business model they identified as the most lucrative. Finally, they deliberately maintained a loosely View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

Turner MIINT, Bridges Fund Management also participates in the Impact Investing Trek. Organized by student clubs, treks provide HBS students an opportunity to visit companies around the world as they explore industries and functional... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 05 Jan 2022
  • News

Untapped Potential

and wastewater systems of varying size, the majority of which are extremely small. Those systems—some investor owned, others government operated—have a variety of governance structures and infrastructures that are decades old. This... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Beyond the Numbers

needed to manage its operations by business instead of by country, strategically reallocating resources. "I also showed them how to look at expenses as a percentage of revenues, something that's commonly done in the packaged-goods View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey