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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
bicycle shop, Get a Grip, in Chicago. On the weekends, he and his buddies traveled to barbecue festivals around the country, camping out and staying up all night smoking ribs, brisket, and pulled pork. “I’m pretty competitive,” Corsello...
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April White
- September 2008 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Columbus Tubing: Steel is Real
By: Daniel C. Snow, Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi and Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir
Columbus Tubing must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing power of carbon fiber...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Resource Allocation;
Production;
Research and Development;
Information Technology;
Bicycle Transportation;
Asia;
Italy
Snow, Daniel C., Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi, and Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir. "Columbus Tubing: Steel is Real." Harvard Business School Case 609-042, September 2008. (Revised August 2009.)
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
develop a folding bicycle with the look and feel of a traditional bike," Tripsas remarks. "But if you mention a folding bicycle, most people conjure up an image of a small-wheeled, oddly shaped vehicle that they wouldn't...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
Spring 2005 Reunion photo galleries Open the gallery Photography by Stuart Cahill, Thomas J. Fitzsimmons, and Neal Hamberg. View the reunion photo gallery archive Like climbing aboard a bicycle for the first time in many years, alumni...
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- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
ingredient is central to the functional performance of the final product. Think Shimano gear systems on performance bicycles or Monsanto's Nutrasweet, added to Equal sweetener. 3. The final products are not well-branded themselves, either...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an established industry. “Montague’s creative insight was to develop a folding View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
reception at the Fogg Art Museum. Women from the Class of 1971 held a breakfast in the Cumnock Conservatory, and the Class of 1966 bicycled through the fall foliage in suburban Lincoln. A Reunion first was an industry-specific networking...
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- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
learning experience,” she said), briefly retired in her mid-30s for a stint as a snowboard bum in Colorado, and headed up Wisconsin’s Commerce Department as Secretary in Governor Jim Doyle’s administration. In addition, she worked in various capacities for her family’s...
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- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More...
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- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
inefficient: We built this expensive track only to leave it vacant most of the time. PRT offers a different approach. With much lighter vehicles, the guideway can be proportionally slim—above ground in many areas, with a visual intrusion as small as an elevated View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
temperature drops to ninety degrees by evening. DD and I make about $600 a month between us and pay $90 in rent. We have bicycles that we ride to work and shopping. One of our schools is about six miles away, so we occasionally take a bus...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
enjoyed cricket more than books, and after graduating from Panjab University at the age of 19, he and a friend set up a small bicycle-parts manufacturing business. Gradually he expanded the operations, moving from bicycle parts to wool...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to...
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- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
work—rather than a sporadic trip to the office could prove invaluable in designing flows in and out of a city’s center. Another example: Designers developing new infrastructure for electric vehicles might benefit from knowing driving routines in a geographic area. Even...
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- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
of an Italian design based bicycle manufacturer evaluates if reducing costs by outsourcing would impact its brand. The company was founded in 2005 in Italy by three friends, and in its first five years it had enjoyed steady growth and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
BC; Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s a way to see where we are. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a bike trail in Napa.” The push for a cycles-only pathway had been attempted before, in part because Napa has the ninth-highest bicycle...
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- May 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Haibo Zhao
This case address pacing issues – how fast does a company need to scale? It also examines the role of investors in determining company strategy and exit.
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
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Information Technology;
Venture Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Competition;
Value Creation;
Governance;
Economics;
Business Startups;
Strategy;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Entrepreneurship;
Infrastructure;
Transportation;
Bicycle Transportation;
China
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Haibo Zhao. "Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)." Harvard Business School Case 819-135, May 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Bernstein, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Yi-Ling WeiHarvard Business School Case 610-096 Few CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony Lo, CEO of Giant Manufacturing Co....
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Yi-Ling WeiHarvard Business School Case 610-005 Tony Lo, the CEO of Giant Manufacturing, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, finally realized that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers when even his wife...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
support and progress in person. After fighting fearlessly for seven years, she passed away in 2011. But MSK has taken steps to ensure her presence continues to be felt. At every Cycle for Survival event, for example, organizers designate a stationary View Details