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- October 2011 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Ensighten
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Michael J. Roberts
Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur must weight legal and business issues vs. his desire to land the key customer.
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Contracts;
Information Technology Industry
Goldberg, Lena G., and Michael J. Roberts. "Ensighten." Harvard Business School Case 812-050, October 2011. (Revised October 2013.)
- April 2005 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Pegasus Capital: The Musimundo Decision
By: Michael Chu and Barbara Zepp Larson
The five managing directors of Pegasus Capital were meeting in June 2003 to make a go/no-go decision regarding the investment of Musimundo, one of the largest entertainment retailers in Argentina. Just four days before the planned closing of the sale, Pegasus' 50%...
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Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- January 2013 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Affinity Labs: Valuing Customer Growth
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Demand and Consumers;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Online Technology
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Elizabeth Kind. "Affinity Labs: Valuing Customer Growth." Harvard Business School Case 813-147, January 2013. (Revised April 2015.)
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
of passengers transported every year,” says Stuart Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studied Carnival’s predicament. He points out that in...
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- 09 Mar 2016
- HBS Seminar
Katja Seim of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Web
Interviewing - Alumni
Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your approach. Remember, the path of...
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- July 2004 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Beacon Lakes
By: Arthur I Segel, Robert Barlick Jr and Jose Gonzalez
In September 2001, Armando Codina, the CEO and chairman of Codina Group, is facing the decision of whether to go ahead as planned with its $220 million Beacon Lakes project, a 6.6-million-square-foot warehouse and office park in Miami's Airport West submarket. Although...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Urban Scope;
Business and Government Relations;
Natural Environment;
Expansion;
Environmental Sustainability;
Real Estate Industry;
Everglades National Park;
Miami
Segel, Arthur I., Robert Barlick Jr, and Jose Gonzalez. "Beacon Lakes." Harvard Business School Case 805-023, July 2004. (Revised May 2008.)
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The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
things fast when you know that the business has serious structural problems. So it is wise to get bad news on the table early and to lower unrealistic expectations. Be careful to assess your new organization's capacity for change before...
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by Michael Watkins
- November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
China's Rural Leap Forward
By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
Collectively owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) played a pivotal role in China's rapid growth during the 1980s and 1990s. Although they originated in the policies and institutions of the Maoist era, TVEs thrived only after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms...
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Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Public Sector;
Public Ownership;
Development Economics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Macroeconomics;
Emerging Markets;
China
Scott, Bruce R., and Jamie Matthews. "China's Rural Leap Forward." Harvard Business School Case 703-024, November 2002. (Revised June 2003.)
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
a book about immigrant entrepreneurs from the 1790s to the present day, and planned to begin with Alexander Hamilton. It turns out that he was more of a policymaker than an entrepreneur, but if I had to single out one person as the most...
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- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
registered nurses. The statistical evidence suggests that medical teams tended to prioritize messages from white patients, says Ariel Stern, a visiting professor at Harvard Business School and one of the study’s authors. As mobile...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Partnerships;
Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth Management;
Chicago;
Idaho
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-050, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- Web
Our Values | About
East. Shock has given way to deep pain and grief, sadness, and anger. Many in our community are afraid: uncertain whether they are welcome at Harvard Business School, unsure how to engage in class discussions, and even feeling physically...
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
accolade, the Distinguished Service Award, in 1993. He held honorary degrees from Babson College and the University of Montreal. The Academy of Management’s Business Policy and Planning Division bestowed on...
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- August 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
One of six cases that describe the roles and responsibilities of managers at each of the hierarchical levels of management within the U.S. Stores business unit of Staples, the world's largest office supply company. Together, the cases form a complete integrated...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Leadership;
Management Practices and Processes;
Managerial Roles;
Operations;
Performance Effectiveness;
Strategic Planning;
Perspective;
Retail Industry
Garvin, David A., and Lynne Levesque. "Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization." Harvard Business School Case 307-037, August 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
- October 2014
- Background Note
Leader-as-Architect: Alignment
Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational strategy, shaping organizational identity, and then managing four organizational components—formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical...
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Keywords:
Organization;
Resource Management;
Leadership;
Business Processes;
Design;
Organizational Design;
Identity;
Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Strategic Planning;
Alignment
Bernstein, Ethan, Ryan Raffaelli, and Joshua Margolis. "Leader-as-Architect: Alignment." Harvard Business School Background Note 415-039, October 2014.
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Eligibility - New Venture Competition
embryonic businesses. The Business Track of the NVC welcomes all ideas across all sectors. However, plans to create hedge funds, investments, private equities or venture capital funds are generally not...
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