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Curriculum - MBA
Manager Building & Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Business at the Base of the Pyramid Creating Shared Value: Competitive Advantage through Social Impact Developing Mindsets for View Details
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By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Growth Management;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Technology Platform;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States;
China;
Southeast Asia;
South Asia
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
some coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL." As his doctoral work progressed, Light became "more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program." He found mentors in Raiffa and finance...
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- January 2004
- Article
Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test
By: Geoffrey Jones and Alison Kraft
The relative ability of different sizes of firm and organisational designs to develop and sustain dynamic capabilities in innovation and create new businesses remains a matter of contention. While Chandler among many others has emphasised the pre-eminent role of large...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Organizational Design;
Technological Innovation;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Brands and Branding;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Product Development;
Product Launch;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Alison Kraft. "Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test." Business History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 100–122.
- July 2021
- Case
Y Combinator
By: John R. Wells
Y Combinator (YC) was a business startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California. Originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2005, by 2021, YC listed 2,830 companies amongst its alumni. More than 80% of these companies were still active, had been...
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Wells, John R. "Y Combinator." Harvard Business School Case 721-498, July 2021.
- Program
Real Estate Management Program
right opportunities Identify and analyze emerging opportunities across real estate sectors from housing to commercial space to mixed-use space and beyond Employ industry innovations for competitive advantage Effectively lead projects and...
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- 22 Oct 2012
- News
The case study: When founders step aside
- November 2023
- Case
Axie Infinity: Video Game Meets Blockchain
By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
The narrative unfolds from the perspective of Sky Mavis's leadership team, facing a high-stakes, rapidly evolving digital frontier. They navigate the exhilarating yet tumultuous journey of Axie Infinity, balancing innovation with sustainability. It explores the game's...
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Keywords:
Blockchain;
Business Model;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Currency;
Innovation and Management;
Business Strategy;
Video Game Industry
Di Maggio, Marco, and Wenyao Sha. "Axie Infinity: Video Game Meets Blockchain." Harvard Business School Case 224-021, November 2023.
- March 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
ACCION International: Maintaining High Performance Through Time
By: Michael Chu
ACCION International has been a major innovator in microfinance for 30 years. Reviews organizational context under which key industry-shaping concepts were developed (from peer group lending, guarantee funds, equity investment funds, and regulated commercial banking...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Equity;
Microfinance;
Employee Relationship Management;
Non-Governmental Organizations
Chu, Michael. "ACCION International: Maintaining High Performance Through Time." Harvard Business School Case 304-095, March 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- January 2016 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Blackstone at Age 30
By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
Since its IPO in 2007 and following the global financial crisis, Blackstone largely outpaced its alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A....
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Asset Management;
Private Equity;
Financial Services Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Lerner, Josh, John D. Dionne, and Amram Migdal. "Blackstone at Age 30." Harvard Business School Case 816-013, January 2016. (Revised November 2019.)
- May 2007
- Article
Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers
By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung
Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function of locations' knowledge activity, their own capabilities, and...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
For-Profit Firms;
Knowledge Management;
Research and Development;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Five Forces Framework;
Cost Management;
Technology;
Competition;
United States
Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers." Management Science 53, no. 5 (May 2007): 760–776.
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
analysis suggests a need for caution: while information facilitates transactions, it also facilitates discrimination. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50258 Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents...
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Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Intermountain Health Care
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making...
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Keywords:
Ethnicity;
Innovation Strategy;
Cost Management;
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Technology Adoption;
Performance Improvement;
Problems and Challenges;
Adoption;
Change Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Utah
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Laura Feldman. "Intermountain Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 603-066, October 2002. (Revised March 2013.)
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Enterprise Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development By: Alfaro, Laura, and Jasmina Chauvin Abstract—Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment affects host economies. This paper reviews the...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track. Introduction to Entrepreneurship Essentials Entrepreneurship Essentials $1,850 Next 4-week session starts May 8th Apply Master a proven framework for building and View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Shawn Cole, Xavier Gine and James Vickery
Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. We find that...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Production;
Weather;
Insurance;
Emerging Markets;
Agribusiness;
Insurance Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
India
Cole, Shawn, Xavier Gine, and James Vickery. "How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-080, March 2013. (Revised September 2014.)
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Harvard Business School Leading AI-nization: Fueling Growth with Data and AI Join Mickey Mikitani and Professor Tsedal Neeley to discuss how Rakuten continues to set the pace as a global innovation leader. They will discuss building an...
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Turning Waste into By-Product
By: Deishin Lee
This paper studies how a firm can create and capture value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced....
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Keywords:
Value Creation;
Innovation and Invention;
Cost Management;
Opportunities;
Market Participation;
Framework;
Profit;
Competition;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Product;
Business Processes
Lee, Deishin. "Turning Waste into By-Product." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 1 (Winter 2011).
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track. Introduction to Launching Tech Ventures Launching Tech Ventures $1,850 Next 5-week session starts August 14th Apply Build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably...
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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online
Management Business Essentials Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation Finance & Accounting Marketing 90% are more self-assured at work, 10x return on investment, 84% have more confidence making business...
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