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- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Successful businessmen told a roomful of students that ultimately, the world outside the classroom will be their best teacher in entrepreneurship. "If you are taking an entrepreneurship class, you want to be a venture...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- August 2021
- Case
Wymsee
By: Julia Austin, Sarah Mehta and Tom Quinn
Wymsee was a company that aimed to develop a mobile application (app) that would allow television audience members to identify and purchase clothing or accessories worn by characters in the program they were watching, with the Wymsee founders taking a percentage of...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Film Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Technological Innovation;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Product Positioning;
Opportunities;
Adaptation;
Mobile Technology;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
New York (city, NY)
- April 2008 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Visions of Web 3.0
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero
Explores the Semantic Web, a vision for the next generation of the World Wide Web in which information is stored in machine-readable formats. While the Semantic Web would make information more easily accessible, barriers to its adoption are very high because website...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and David Andrew Vivero. "Visions of Web 3.0." Harvard Business School Case 808-147, April 2008. (Revised May 2010.)
- 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...
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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;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
North Carolina
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
about investing in these companies need to understand what they bring to the table. Raman: That's very true because venture capitalists often base their evaluation of established companies on their supply chain capabilities. Shapiro:...
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by Staff
- August 2001
- Case
Finnigan Corporation
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Barbara Feinberg
Finnigan Corp., headquartered in San Jose, CA, was the world's leading producer of mass spectrometers, holding a 45% market share of instruments used for chemical analysis in pharmaceutical product development, environmental testing, genetic testing, and other...
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Keywords:
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Financial Crisis;
Machinery and Machining;
Technology Industry;
San Jose
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Barbara Feinberg. "Finnigan Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 902-045, August 2001.
- January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Intellectual Property Intermediaries
By: Andrei Hagiu
During the past 5 to 10 years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes the most prominent ones: non-practicing entities (or patent trolls), defensive patent aggregators, online IP...
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Business Model;
Intellectual Property;
Auctions;
Digital Platforms;
Information Technology;
Service Industry
Hagiu, Andrei. "Intellectual Property Intermediaries." Harvard Business School Case 711-486, January 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of...
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- January 2017 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)
By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella
Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com’s third-party Marketplace, and online sales expanded rapidly. Over time, X Fire noticed that products of which it...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Competition;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Small Business;
Retail Industry;
Canada
Zhu, Feng, and Angela Acocella. "X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 617-046, January 2017. (Revised August 2019.)
- March 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Depicts the options facing Mohammed Ibrahim, founder and chairman of Celtel International, the largest pan African wireless telecommunications provider, as he tries to position his company for further growth. Should the firm, which has reached $1 billion in revenues in...
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Business Growth and Maturation;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry;
Africa
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 805-120, March 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
A week after becoming country manager of eBay's recently acquired German auction site, Philipp Justus must steer the company through a massive technical integration with eBay's Web site. Throughout the seven-month project, Justus and his team must master the challenge...
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Keywords:
Organizational Design;
Leadership;
Internet and the Web;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Management Practices and Processes;
Auctions;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Germany
Hill, Linda A., and Maria Farkas. "Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (A)." Harvard Business School Case 402-007, October 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
- Web
Charles Ellis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Concessions Joseph O’Donnell R&R Robert Reiss Venture Capitalist Arthur Rock Extrusion Technology James Sharpe Temple, Barker & Sloane Carl Sloane C.D. Spangler Construction Co. C.D. Spangler Staples Thomas...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm of mere mortals. Headlines can confirm that otherworldly...
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- February 2013 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency
By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira R. Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice
Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial...
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Groom Energy Solutions;
Jon Guerster;
Salem, MA;
Energy Management;
Energy Efficiency Paradox;
Sustainability Management;
Manufacturing;
Cold Storage;
Commercial Real Estate;
Enterprise Smart Grid;
Carbon Accounting;
LED Lighting;
Sustainability Research;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Entrepreneurship;
Energy Entrepreneurship;
Energy Services;
Electricity;
Startup;
Expansion;
Growth;
Sustainability;
Business Startups;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Energy Conservation;
Revenue;
Geographic Location;
Human Resources;
Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Operations;
Service Delivery;
Strategic Planning;
Science;
Environmental Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Society;
Social Issues;
Technology Adoption;
Green Technology Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States;
Boston
Toffel, Michael W., Kira R. Fabrizio, and Stephanie van Sice. "Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency." Harvard Business School Case 613-054, February 2013. (Revised December 2015.)
Anthony Soohoo
he has helped enterprises embrace technology and thrive against both incumbents and new disruptive competitors. Anthony was most recently an Executive Vice President at Walmart where he was responsible for the multi-billion dollar home...
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- September 1998 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
IBM's Lotus Development in 1999
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter
Describes Lotus' acquisition by IBM, its movement from proprietary standards to open standards, and its current market position. Microsoft is gaining ground with its Exchange Server, and Lotus has received unfavorable press.
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Acquisition;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Product Marketing;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Kelley Porter. "IBM's Lotus Development in 1999." Harvard Business School Case 799-014, September 1998. (Revised August 1999.)
- July 2021
- Teaching Note
Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos
By: Tsedal Neeley
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-024. Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of multinational IT giant Atos to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global...
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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473.
In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and...
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Keywords:
Facebook;
Fake News;
Mark Zuckerberg;
Donald Trump;
Algorithms;
Social Networking;
Social Networks;
Partisanship;
Social Media;
App Development;
Instagram;
WhatsApp;
Smartphone;
Silicon Valley;
Office Space;
Digital Strategy;
Democracy;
Entry Barriers;
Online Platforms;
Controversy;
Tencent;
Agility;
Gaming;
Gaming Industry;
Computer Games;
Mobile Gaming;
Messaging;
Monetization Strategy;
Advertising;
Digital Marketing;
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Headquarters;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Trends;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
California;
Sunnyvale;
Russia
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
career in venture capital private equity to launch a global movement that has brought together governments with service providers and has attracted private investment to pay for a variety of social programs. One such program in 2010...
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- December 2020
- Supplement
VIA Science (B)
By: Juan Alcácer, Rembrand Koning, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
Via (a) captures the early days of the data analytics startup as founders Gounden and Ravanis considered which markets offer the right opportunities for their firm and what kinds of experiments will help them narrow their choice. Supplement Via (b) reveals the...
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Keywords:
Data Analytics;
Machine Learning;
Artificial Intelligence;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
AI and Machine Learning;
Telecommunications Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States;
Japan
Alcácer, Juan, Rembrand Koning, Annelena Lobb, and Kerry Herman. "VIA Science (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-368, December 2020.