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- January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Envision Group
By: Gunnar Trumbull, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Based in China, Envision was one of the world’s leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the company’s global operations and supply chain by 2022 and 2028 respectively. As part of its...
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Green Technology;
Climate Change;
Emerging Markets;
Information Technology;
Strategy;
Management;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Policy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Battery Industry;
China;
United States;
Japan;
United Kingdom;
France
Trumbull, Gunnar, Bonnie Yining Cao, and Dawn H. Lau. "Envision Group." Harvard Business School Case 722-045, January 2022. (Revised February 2022.)
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
Africa, Italy, France U.K., Germany, South Korea, Canada, China, U.S., Japan, and India) which were all in the midst of battling the novel coronavirus’s surge across the globe, to understand how consumers are responding to brand’s...
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by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in...
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- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
was the “death of distance,” a concept popularized in 1997 by Frances Cairncross’s book of the same title. A recent essay in the The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography challenges that notion, or at least deepens the argument. While...
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by Sean Silverthorne;
Transportation;
Telecommunications;
Shipping;
Publishing;
Technology
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Technology Management. 2009 Julie Battilana: Selected by the French-American Foundation as one of 20 participants (10 French and 10 American) in the 2009 Young Leader program. The French-American Foundation is the principal non-governmental organization linking View Details
- October 2021 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
SmartOne: Building an AI Data Business
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Pippa Armerding, Gamze Yucaoglu and Fares Khrais
The case opens in August 2021, as Habib and Shahysta Hassim, husband and wife co-founders of the data labeling company SmartOne, contemplate the strategy of the high growth company. Between 2016 and 2021, SmartOne had kept doubling its size every two years and now,...
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Artificial Intelligence;
Data Labeling;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Operations;
Business Model;
Growth Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
AI and Machine Learning;
Africa;
Madagascar;
Europe;
France;
United States
Lakhani, Karim R., Pippa Armerding, Gamze Yucaoglu, and Fares Khrais. "SmartOne: Building an AI Data Business." Harvard Business School Case 622-059, October 2021. (Revised September 2022.)
- Research Summary
Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level...
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- September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb
Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high...
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Business Startups;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Plan;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Trends;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Executive Compensation;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Job Interviews;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Ownership Stake;
Opportunities;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Technology Industry;
Web Services Industry;
New York (city, NY);
California;
France
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Tom Quinn, and Annelena Lobb. "On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping." Harvard Business School Case 822-033, September 2021. (Revised December 2023.)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
By Rick Zedník (MBA 2002) “Good morning,” our professor, Frances Frei, greeted us at 8:40 a.m. on September 12, 2001. Slowly pacing at the front of the lecture hall, lip quivering, she followed those two words with twenty seconds of...
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- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Former French Finance Minister Joins HBS Faculty
Thierry Breton, former French finance minister, has joined the HBS faculty as a senior lecturer and will teach the first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability course this fall. Breton is well-known in France as former chairman of...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
usual domain. A couple of months earlier, in February 2014, Viana had read an article in the newspaper Le Parisien about Biscuiterie Jeannette, a company founded in Caen in 1850 and known across France for its madeleines—the shell-shaped...
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- 04 May 2015
- News
Alumni in Paris Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Alumni young and old gathered in Paris on May 4 to celebrate and socialize. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from across France gathered in Paris on May 4, 2015 to celebrate and connect with each other as the School hosted “A...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything
Everyone knows what bad service feels like—and that’s something Frances Frei, Professor at HBS, wants to fix. Making the service experience better for everyone, from customers to employees, begins with understanding the services customers...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
for a while, but I was blown away. Just what I need: another must-read magazine in my life. God only knows where I ever found time to hold a job. —Perry Miles (MBA 1972) via alumni.hbs.edu Frozen Assets Re: French revolution Great initiative. We live in View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
dean of INSEAD: “It actually started five or six years after my return to France, in 1956/1957. Professor Georges Doriot, a French-born American WWI-veteran and one of the star professors at Harvard back then, and who wanted to create in View Details
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Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
France and is dominated by French sailors — is like no other event on this earth. In an age of celebrity “heroes” and “reality” TV shows, Wilson and his fellow Vendée participants (this year including two women) engage in a competition as...
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- 18 Apr 2023
- News
How to Turn around a Toxic Workplace Culture
- 14 Apr 2020
- News