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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
even apply through our many events, outreach at fairs, office hours, blogs, and other digital channels. In addition, we’re working with groups such as Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an organization John Rice (MBA 1992) founded, which... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
with encouragement from faculty mentors, pursued his growing interests in markets and investment. During his tenure at the School he has served as chair of the Finance unit and taken on a number of key administrative roles, including... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
collection and privacy. Finally, we discuss emerging challenges surrounding software-driven medical devices, including open regulatory questions, advancements in underlying digital technology, and the likely necessity of new payment and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the design and deployment of View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto... View Details
- February 2017
- Case
BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
Lakhani, Karim R., Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud, and Caroline Caltagirone. "BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead..." Harvard Business School Case 617-050, February 2017.
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start his own business and create a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
markets, if a trader wants to purchase a bundle of shares, the market should tell the trader how much to pay. “We should think about how we can design interactions to achieve system-wide goals in social computing,” she said. Existing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of The Business Insider, disagrees saying, "You can't just wave your magic wand and make something of nothing." This short case is designed to support a discussion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
as environmental challenges evolved, Swedish universities assumed leadership in creating environmental knowledge, while conventional management consultancies entered the market of environmental management. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with Digital Equipment Corp., for instance-was a way to make it big in this business," explains Elfers, who was in charge of the first investment portfolio. "But I felt that if Greylock were to be successful in the long run, we should be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres), AMC has 345 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens across the United States, with about 20,000 employees hosting some 200 million moviegoers each year. (AMC has the largest market share in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
2018, the organization announced a new ethics policy, so Culver Humphrey came forward with her story once again. Leadership rebuffed her a second time, so she met with the Oregonian. Team members were stunned by what they read. For many, including the NGO’s managing... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
the Dutch IT outsourcing market and regularly wins high customer- satisfaction marks. The growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the pressure on its non-hierarchical teams of engineers, as well as the hiring speed,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
1834 and 1839. The correspondence details the trade of silk, tea, and spices; business conditions including market fluctuations and business climate; financial affairs and the marketing of goods; and the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
competitive pressures in a saturated market. As 2018 dawned, all parties were assessing the deal’s implications. Had the stock market overreacted to news of the deal? Why was Amazon buying Whole Foods? What were the long-term implications... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education. Choosing College strips away the noise to help you understand why you’re going to school. What's driving you? What are you trying to accomplish? Once you know why, the book will help you make better... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details