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- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises “My first job was starting a small manufacturing unit that made bicycle parts. Then I launched another business for yarn. Once I made a bit of money, it went into the next venture. A third project...
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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.)
- Profile
Paris Wallace
minimum wage. In high school, I started my first company selling bicycles and accessories online. It was 1998 and the Internet was not incredibly competitive. We got into the space early and I remember I came home from school one day and...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
bicycle with his two sons (ages 16 and 12) and his 7-year-old daughter. He also serves on the board of San Francisco's Jewish Museum. "I view Judaism as being the source code for Western civilization," Ranadivé remarks. Hindu by birth, he...
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- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Peter A. Coles, Elena Corsi, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 912-022 French advertising company JCDecaux and the city of Paris jointly developed Vélib', a wildly popular bicycle sharing system. Despite Vélib's public...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
more efficient," Pisano says. "But that's assuming manufacturing is very mobile, and that's not always the case." Sometimes manufacturing won't move because the process requires suppliers or specialized skills already located in an area. Pisano cites the View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts. By 2016, the company had grown to 27 employees and was able to produce its product in small volumes. While much had been...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
meaningful revenue for them.” As an example, Trainor cites High Maintenance, a Vimeo-produced web series created by husband-and-wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld that follows a nameless pot dealer (“The Guy”) as he delivers his wares by View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 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
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
outdoor coverage with vehicles and bicycles and connected infrastructure—you can really reimagine our society taking advantage of the connectedness of all things surrounding us. That’s a really key reason why there’s so much focus on 5G...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
cities, the state of the dirt roads had scarcely changed. But as the new century dawned, pressure for improvement began to mount from several sources. The bicycle had been an immediate hit with the American public since its introduction...
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
get going. I call this the “bicycle theory”—much easier to direct a bicycle that’s moving than a bicycle that stands still. Celebrate the early wins. If something is not working, by the way, just say it....
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Cyclists In 2012, Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, co¬founders of the Hövding company, reflect on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. Since 2005, Haupt and Alstin had been working on a new type of bicycle helmet—an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 2011
- Article
Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation
By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices...
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Keywords:
Dynamic Capabilities;
Strategic Change;
Jazz;
Jazz Mindset;
Improvisation;
Innovation;
Change Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Leading Change;
Leadership Style;
Leadership;
Management;
Management Style;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizations;
Creativity;
Strategy;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
United States;
Japan;
Taiwan;
Europe;
Asia
Bernstein, Ethan S., and Frank J. Barrett. "Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation." Research in Organizational Change and Development 19 (2011): 55–90.
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
infrastructure for the twenty-first century? Are they ensuring competitive conditions for businesses, and opportunities for people to find/get to jobs and enjoy a high quality of life? Are there new models for mobility within cities (e.g., car or View Details