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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation
Artificial intelligence promises to greatly increase the efficiency of the economy. But it may have an even larger impact on the economy by serving as a new general-purpose “method of invention” that can reshape the nature of the... View Details
- August 2018
- Case
Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru
By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle...
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Jeffrey Boyar. "Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru." Harvard Business School Case 219-030, August 2018.
- December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
The Metropolitan Opera (A)
By: Anita Elberse and Crissy Perez
In April 2007, the New York City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program has received...
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Arts;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing Strategy;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Competitive Advantage;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Crissy Perez. "The Metropolitan Opera (A)." Harvard Business School Case 509-033, December 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
- Career Coach
Erika Osterling
Erika (HBS '09, ITESM '00) brings 20 years of experience as an operating leader and advisor. She has spent most of her career within Energy & Industrial, with additional roles in Consumer View Details
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Transforming Customer Experiences
operating models and strategic service mission with changing consumer needs, shifting market demands, and an evolving competitive landscape. Details Design effective service...
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- November 1978 (Revised October 1989)
- Case
Amicon Corp. (A)
Amicon holds a patent on a new process for the separation of blood plasma from whole blood. It has to decide whether to pursue a direct entry, joint venture, or licensing strategy. If it chooses licensing, there are many sub-issues to consider.
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Capon, Noel. "Amicon Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 579-093, November 1978. (Revised October 1989.)
- Article
Build It, Buy It, or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services
By: Alvin J. Silk and Marta M. Stiglin
This paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to...
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Silk, Alvin J., and Marta M. Stiglin. "Build It, Buy It, or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services." International Journal of Marketing Studies 8, no. 1 (February 2016).
- June 1997
- Case
Olympic Financial Ltd.
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Sarayu Srinivasan
Olympic Financial is a sub-prime lender in the auto financing industry. Several other financing companies have been wrought with accounting fraud and business mismanagement. Olympic's debt has been downgraded, and its stock has been denigrated although the company is...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Crime and Corruption;
Valuation;
Financial Reporting;
Credit;
Financial Services Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., and Sarayu Srinivasan. "Olympic Financial Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 197-081, June 1997.
Jeffrey F. Rayport
Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details
- June 2012
- Supplement
Foro Energy (B)
By: Joseph B. Lassiter, William A. Sahlman and James McQuade
Foro Energy developed proprietary and patent-pending fiber-laser technologies that could disrupt existing processes and services for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. These breakthrough laser technologies were protected by a strong intellectual...
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Keywords:
Disruptive Technologies;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Development Stage Enterprises;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurs;
Petroleum;
Natural Gas;
High Technology;
Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Energy Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., William A. Sahlman, and James McQuade. "Foro Energy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 812-163, June 2012.
- October 1998 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
Amazon.com--Going Public
By: William A. Sahlman and Laurence E. Katz
Amazon.com, an early pioneer in electronic commerce, prepares its initial public offering in the face of turbulent market conditions. Joy Covey, Amazon.com's CFO and the case protagonist, discusses the risks and opportunities of going public and the nature of...
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Keywords:
Going Public;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Model;
Financial Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Initial Public Offering;
Electronics Industry;
Retail Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Laurence E. Katz. "Amazon.com--Going Public." Harvard Business School Case 899-003, October 1998. (Revised August 1999.)
- 20 Feb 2024
- Video
Admissions Info Session for College Students
- March 2017
- Teaching Note
Sales Compensation Vignettes
This Teaching Note supports the case study comprising two vignettes about startup companies considering whether and how to change their sales compensation plans. The case allows students to compare and contrast the objectives, structure, and process of sales incentives...
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- February 2007 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
Edelnor (A)
By: Jordan I. Siegel
Fernando del Sol, president of F. S. Inversiones in Chile, had just bought himself a headache as a New Year's present. On December 31, 2001, he purchased a Chilean electricity generation and transmission company called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Investment;
Courts and Trials;
Business Strategy;
Energy Industry;
Chile
Siegel, Jordan I. "Edelnor (A)." Harvard Business School Case 707-473, February 2007. (Revised June 2009.)
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential
In the 1990s, after drugmaker Eli Lilly spent more than a decade and millions of dollars developing the new drug Alimta to treat lung cancer, the medication came up short in effectively treating cancer in expanded trials. While the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
What Environmental Ratings Miss
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by Auden Schendler & Michael Toffel
- November 1982 (Revised February 1985)
- Case
Ruth M. Owades
By: Howard H. Stevenson, Richard O. von Werssowetz and Robert W. Kent
Ruth Owades developed a concept for a new mail order venture offering gardening products. Her current employer turned down the idea, so with permission to try it independently, she has begun the process of raising funds and preparing for a separate operation. She still...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Borrowing and Debt;
Resignation and Termination;
Operations;
Risk and Uncertainty
Stevenson, Howard H., Richard O. von Werssowetz, and Robert W. Kent. "Ruth M. Owades." Harvard Business School Case 383-051, November 1982. (Revised February 1985.)
- March 2003 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Threshold Sports
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Todd H Thedinga
Describes the sales, marketing, and operating issues facing Threshold Sports, a small cycling event management company that produces the Pro Cycling Tour. Examines the issues facing the company as it approaches breakeven and attempts to grow the business substantially....
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Keywords:
Growth Management;
Bicycle Transportation;
Service Delivery;
Sports;
Bicycle Industry;
Service Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Todd H Thedinga. "Threshold Sports." Harvard Business School Case 803-134, March 2003. (Revised January 2006.)
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Scratching the surface
It’s amazing to think that already a month has passed since the school year started. Things have finally reached a solid level of familiarity, even as other things (notably internship recruiting) are only now warming up. Prior to HBS, I worked in management consulting...
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Entrepreneurship