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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
target="_blank">Boston, MA Cambridge, MA New York City, NY Helsinki, Finland Open Budgets India – Municipal Corporations Look at the resources above for more, or a simple Google search of town/city name and “open... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2010 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Tennant Company
By: Toby E. Stuart, Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
Tennant, a leading producer of floor cleaning equipment, must determine how to create, finance, structure, staff, govern, measure, and manage a new venture for developing a fundamentally new product line. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Product Development; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Research and Development
Stuart, Toby E., Lynda M. Applegate, and James Weber. "Tennant Company." Harvard Business School Case 810-040, February 2010. (Revised January 2014.)
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case produced by the SEKN that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Below are outtakes from the faculty roundtable discussion on the crisis in corporate America (“Bad Times for Business,” December 2002). For more information about the research and academic activities of the roundtable participants, or any... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Building New Connections
lifelong learning and advanced alumni engagement, recognizing both as critical components of the HBS experience; forged important new cross-School partnerships, particularly with Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing; and encouraged View Details
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Media
Media
This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- April 2025
- Supplement
ZEISS: Commercializing Science
By: Maria P. Roche and Richie Zitomer
Spreadsheet Supplement for HBS Case No. 725-359. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Organization; Decisions; Business Strategy; Competition; Business History; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Organizational Culture; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Commercialization; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Germany; Europe
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
for Linux to take over Windows. The questions that we address are: Is Linux's superior demand-side learning sufficient to win out? What is the effect of forced procurement by governments and some large corporations on the long-run... View Details
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
of HBS as a school for consultants and corporate management, Shana says, she recognized HBS as the perfect place for her entrepreneurial designs. “I was impressed by HBS’ recent commitments to manufacturing and health care,” she says.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
new competitive era." Breaking the Code of Change Edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School Press) With the restructuring and upheaval that has characterized life in the corporate world over the last two decades,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of the Segway Human Transporter. A Saturday morning panel... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium
space right now. While most climate solutions at scale will require a public-private partnership in the end, there is so much innovation and progress that businesses are uniquely positioned to bring, from spearheading voluntary View Details
- September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
The case describes in detail the workings of two mobile banking operators in Africa—WIZZIT in South Africa and M-PESA in Kenya. It explores the dimensions of strategy that make for success in the market for the unbanked. It raises questions regarding the portability of... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Financial Institutions; Disruptive Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Banking Industry; Kenya; South Africa
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "Mobile Banking for the Unbanked." Harvard Business School Case 511-049, September 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by product makers, had led to its initial success. In 2014, the company launched The Grommet Wholesale, a similar platform targeting retailers. Was this the best way to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture
Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching the first online newspaper site; builds a network of newspaper sites called Real Cities; and invests in... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Newspapers; Innovation and Invention; Journalism and News Industry
Gilbert, Clark. "Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture." Harvard Business School Case 803-107, March 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
business schools. The upshot was the rise to global prominence of firms based in the Rest, including Foxcomm, Huawei, HNA, Cemex, and TCS. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52975 The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
always at the back of my mind.” HBS stood out for two reasons. “It has a great network of alumni and professors in the biotech and pharmaceutical fields — both in world-leading corporations and start-ups,” says Arjun. “And HBS has a... View Details