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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling Harvard Business School Case 808-087 Montague has developed a major innovation that creates a new sub-category in the bicycle industry: a full-sized, high-quality View Details
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Martha Lagace
- January 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
COFIDIS
An offspring of French catalog marketer 3 Suisses, and a popular sponsor of Tour de France, Cofidis sells consumer credit over the phone, defying conventional banking with a product policy and a communication strategy that perfectly fits the company's comparative...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Marketing Communications;
Competitive Advantage;
Product;
Credit;
Financial Services Industry;
France
Wathieu, Luc R. "COFIDIS." Harvard Business School Case 501-055, January 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
- January 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Peloton Interactive (A)
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and David Lane
Early in February 2022, the board of Peloton Interactive faced some knotty challenges. Immense pandemic demand for its stationary exercise bicycles and treadmills had prompted the firm to scale up production rapidly. But as gyms reopened and the virulence of the virus...
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Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Growth Management;
Investment Activism;
Leadership;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Sports Industry;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, Lynn S. Paine, and David Lane. "Peloton Interactive (A)." Harvard Business School Case 323-005, January 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- April 2008
- Case
Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2008)
An updated "Four Products" case. This 2008 version includes: sliced peanut butter, foldable bicycle tires, high-end wooden puzzles, and artificial dirt for thoroughbred race tracks. These four products form the basis to assess the drivers of new product adoption. In...
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Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Marketing;
Demand and Consumers;
Adoption
Gourville, John T. "Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2008)." Harvard Business School Case 508-103, April 2008.
- February 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Case
Hövding: The Airbag for Cyclists
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emilie Billaud
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 "airbag for cyclists." What had begun as a thesis...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Transition;
Leadership;
Conflict Management;
Bicycle Industry;
Sweden;
Europe
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emilie Billaud. "Hövding: The Airbag for Cyclists." Harvard Business School Case 315-056, February 2015. (Revised September 2016.)
- Web
Hiring Organizations
Workforce, The Propeller Prospect Capital Management Providence Equity Partners PSG PUBLIC Pyer Moss Q Quona Capital R RA Capital Management, L.P. Rain - rain.ai Raine Group, The red Bicycle Media REDF Relari Related Companies Remitly...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
Luther King, Jr. Miller makes a ‘horrible’ mistake As Miller got older and his neighborhood grew rougher, he stopped looking for approval from his parents and teachers and began looking up to kids who got in trouble on the street. At age 12, police caught Miller...
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- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
Few companies create an entirely new consumer market and reach icon status—and then set out to reinvent themselves. But that’s the hill the at-home, interactive-exercise firm Peloton is now climbing. Peloton was one of the freewheeling successes of the first year of...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
bicycle can cut their risk of having another heart attack in half, says Lee, a cardiologist and behavioral scientist at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “In an era of so many incredible medications, that’s pretty impressive,” she...
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- Web
Curriculum - Business & Environment
with almost $1 billion in venture capital, provided 2 billion bicycle rides, soaked up the majority of the bike manufacturing capacity in all of China, and then, in July of 2017, hit pause. The proximate reason for halting their purchase...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
John Foley was irritated with his local gym. He was constantly getting elbowed out of his favorite spin classes as other cyclists snapped up spots in sessions led by the most popular instructors. Foley’s frustration inspired him in 2012 to found Peloton, whose $2,200...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- September 2012
- Teaching Note
On Two Wheels in Paris: The Vélib' Bicycle-Sharing Program (TN)
- Web
Teams - New Venture Competition
Shah (MBA 2022), Prakrit Jena, Dan Heller Harnessing its proprietary drug discovery platform to invent a new class of medicines for cancer. The Cyclist House Francisco Barroso (MBA 2022), Dmitri Hennion, Cesar Rojas They purchase pre-owned high-quality View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
my calculator collection to pay for my rent in the halfway dorm in France. I bought myself a bicycle for 50 euros and I bicycled to university and sat with everyone half my age. And learned about space...
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- December 2011 (Revised January 2016)
- Case
On Two Wheels in Paris: The Vélib' Bicycle-Sharing Program
By: Peter A. Coles, Elena Corsi and Vincent Dessain
Coles, Peter A., Elena Corsi, and Vincent Dessain. "On Two Wheels in Paris: The Vélib' Bicycle-Sharing Program." Harvard Business School Case 912-022, December 2011. (Revised January 2016.)
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than by car. Edmondson, the...
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- February 2014 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
Strava
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Sid Misra
Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs who have been co-founders in a prior venture, and who have co-founded Strava 3 years ago. The protagonists must...
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Entrepreneurship;
Cycling;
Biking;
Running;
Sports;
Technology;
Mobile App;
Mobile;
GPS;
Motivation;
Behavioral Science;
Founders;
Term Sheet;
Investment;
Terms;
Silicon Valley;
Lifestyle;
Strava;
Financing;
Fundraising;
Angel;
Valuation;
Growth;
Forecast;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Trends;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Institutional Investing;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Management Succession;
Growth Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Timing;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
California;
New England
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
to uncover new facts about things that you do even regularly, but you're trying to find new ways of thinking about it. Lider Sucre class of 1997, MBA. The best piece of advice I ever got for business and, really, for life, I got from my father, who traveled from Panama...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
from bicycle sprockets to airplane engines relied on software produced mainly by IBM or ComputerVision, industry giants whose product capabilities addressed only part of the several-stage product development process. The union of the...
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- September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
- Background Note
Leadership and Teaming
By: Ethan Bernstein
Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail...
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Teams;
Teaming;
Leadership And Managing People;
Leadership;
Team Effectiveness;
Team Performance;
Team Design;
Team Leadership;
Teamwork;
Team Process;
Team Function;
Team Launch;
60/30/10 Rule;
Team Boundary;
Distribution Of Leadership Authority;
Self-Managed Teams;
Virtual Teams;
Unbounded Teams;
Acts Of Leadership;
Execution Teams;
Decision Making Teams;
Creativity Teams;
Team Size;
Task Design;
Team Timeline;
Team Roles;
Team Representation;
Diversity;
Team Familiarity;
Collective Intelligence;
Team Stages Of Development;
Team Coaching;
Performance Pressure;
X-Teams;
Team Focus;
Interaction;
Management Teams;
Managerial Roles;
Management Systems;
Management Style;
Management Skills;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Networks;
Social Psychology;
Behavior;
Conflict and Resolution;
Creativity;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Satisfaction;
Prejudice and Bias;
Power and Influence;
Personal Characteristics;
Familiarity;
Cognition and Thinking;
Attitudes;
Projects;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Knowledge Sharing;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Design;
Interpersonal Communication;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
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Asia;
North and Central America;
South America;
Atlantic Ocean;
Central Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
Middle East;
Oceania;
West Indies
Bernstein, Ethan. "Leadership and Teaming." Harvard Business School Background Note 414-033, September 2013. (Revised August 2015.)