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  • September 2008 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

Ocean Tomo: Building a Market for Intellectual Property

By: Peter A. Coles, Andrei Hagiu and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Ocean Tomo's management team sought to turn the company into the leading intermediary for intellectual property. Despite its increasingly important role in the global marketplace, IP remained a notoriously illiquid asset—difficult to value, harder to trade, and often... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Intellectual Property; Resource Allocation; Auctions; Market Design; Service Operations
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  • February 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega

By: Ethan Rouen, Suraj Srinivasan and James Barnett
At its headquarters in Attendorn, Germany, Viega’s chairwoman Anna Viegener gathered the company’s leadership team to discuss their progress on formalizing purpose-driven leadership as a strategic driver within the organization. Viega manufactured and distributed... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Measurement and Metrics; Germany
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    Paul Hamilton

    Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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    • March 2024
    • Supplement

    Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

    By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn
    In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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    • June 2001
    • Case

    Bedrock Productions

    By: Michael J. Roberts and Michael L. Tushman
    Describes a young Web consulting firm going through a very rapid period of growth in late 1999 and 2000. The founder/CEO sees himself as a strategist and marketer who is less well-suited to the operational details, that are expanding as the firm grows. A president is... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Management Teams; Change Management; Managerial Roles; Consulting Industry
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    • January 2011 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    Marvel Enterprises, Inc. (Abridged)

    By: Anita Elberse
    The management team of Marvel Enterprises, known for its universe of superhero characters that includes Spider-Man, the Hulk, and X-Men, must reevaluate its marketing strategy. In June 2004, only six years after the company emerged from bankruptcy, Marvel has amassed a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Intellectual Property; Rights; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    $15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

    of gifts over time. So many in the nonprofit and philanthropy world wondered how Scott’s nonconforming principles would be expressed in her actual giving. Scott, whose net worth has been estimated to top $40 billion, established the organization Yield Giving in 2022 to... View Details
    Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
    • March 2015
    • Case

    Pearson Affordable Learning Fund

    By: Michael Chu, Vincent Dessain and Kristina Maslauskaite
    An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investment; Low Cost Private Schools; Investment Fund; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Transition; Investment; Development Economics; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; Education; Education Industry; Asia; Africa
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    • Research Summary

    Overview of Research

    My research examines approaches to improving the performance of our health care delivery system with a primary focus on health information technology. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of my program, my dissertation draws upon theories and insights from... View Details

    • 22 Aug 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Master the One-on-One Meeting

    Whether you’re a CEO or a line manager, your team is just as important as a group as its members are as individuals. Today’s tech companies offer many perks to attract and retain the best employees. We offer competitive salaries, training... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
    • Program

    Strategic Marketing for Driving Growth

    wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Senior marketing executives, including established or emerging CMOs, directors and agency leaders, especially those taking on new responsibilities General View Details
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    Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise

    responsibility to society? This program focuses specifically on the choices facing the rising generation in the context of a successful family enterprise. Some members of the new generation will decide to pursue leadership roles in View Details
    • 29 Sep 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Pride Goeth Before a Profit

    At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no... View Details
    Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
    • 20 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 20

    effect dissipated. Finally, we show that labor increases valuation for both "do-it-yourselfers" and novices. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20mochon%20ariely.pdf A Global Leader's Guide to Managing... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
    • Case

    MTN: Unlocking Value While Driving Socioeconomic Progress

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
    On March 10, 2021, Ralph Mupita the new CEO of MTN Group, Africa's largest telecommunications company, presented the group’s 2020 annual results and unveiled a new strategy to “drive growth and unlock value.” Despite MTN’s leadership in most of its markets, the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Valuation; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Financial Management; Information Technology; Corporate Finance; Telecommunications Industry; Africa; South Africa; Ghana; Nigeria
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    • 06 Oct 2023
    • Book

    Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

    solve difficult problems. Denouncing Mark Zuckerberg’s informal Facebook motto, “move fast and break things,” partners Frei and Morriss combine their decades of consulting experience—Frei as the UPS Foundation Professor of Service View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Program

    Families in Business

    strengths of your family business and implement practices that enable high performance, shareholder loyalty, healthy family relationships, and broad social impact. Key Benefits In this family enterprise management program, you’ll learn... View Details
    • June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
    • Case

    Lana Ghanem: Pushing the Boundaries of Health Care Through Venture Capital

    By: Joshua D. Margolis and Ahmed Dahawy
    Lana Ghanem, managing director of Hikma Ventures, the corporate venture arm of larger pharmaceutical group Hikma, is considering how to grow the venture arm as well as progress her own career. Over the past few years Hikma's executive team had been pressuring the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Corporate Governance; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Venture Capital; Personal Development and Career; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan
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    Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

    building a lasting competitive advantage to outsmarting competitors, capturing opportunities, and expanding into new markets and geographies. This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits... View Details
    • November 2012
    • Case

    Tracy Palandjian at Social Finance US (A)

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Catherine Clark and Beth Bafford
    It had been eighteen months since Tracy Palandjian had left her position as a managing director at The Parthenon Group to start an ambitious venture called Social Finance US. With a mission "to mobilize investment capital to drive social change," her new organization... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
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