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- March 2014
- Supplement
School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn (B)
By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
This supplements the "A" case. Joel Rose and Chris Rush decide to spin-off from School of One to found New Classrooms Innovation Partners. Rose and Rush navigate the strategic complexities of the spin-off process to make their mission-driven product a reality. The case...
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Keywords:
Education Technology;
Ed Tech;
Classroom Innovation;
Entrepreneurs;
Entrepreneurship;
Patents;
Spin-offs;
Non-profit Management;
Scaling Ed Tech Products;
Strategy
Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-115, March 2014.
- Profile
Ed Rogers
goals. I want to help design systems and products that give people deeper insights into factors that improve their quality of life. How are you pushing yourself? I’m trying as much as possible to expose myself to things I wouldn’t have...
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- January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Susan Seligson
After hitting an all-time low in 2008, Domino’s Pizza underwent a vigorous rebranding, product development, and embraced innovative technologies to become the world’s leading international fast-food retailer. Domino’s considered itself as much a tech company as it was...
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Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Digital Technology;
Innovation;
Scaling;
Data Analytics;
Turnaround;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Strategy;
Management;
Marketing;
Operations;
Human Resources;
Entrepreneurship;
Change Management;
Analysis;
Performance;
Customers;
Growth and Development;
Competitive Advantage;
Employees;
Training;
Leadership Development;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah L. Abbott, and Susan Seligson. "Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top." Harvard Business School Case 421-057, January 2021. (Revised February 2021.)
- October 2018
- Case
Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance
By: Ramana Nanda, Raffaella Sadun and Olivia Hull
Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising its second fund in November 2017. Since 2009, the firm has followed a seed-led investment model, investing in tech companies at the earliest stages, often when products and business models are...
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Keywords:
Early Stage Finance;
Seed Finance;
Scouts;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Private Equity;
Investment Portfolio;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Networks;
Adaptation;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology;
Financial Services Industry;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
Cambridge;
United States
Nanda, Ramana, Raffaella Sadun, and Olivia Hull. "Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance." Harvard Business School Case 719-403, October 2018.
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
before and during the MBA program. McKenzie Jones (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Gainesville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Technology, Product Marketing Manager at Google. At what point did you...
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- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
investors.” Roman IgnatenkoLaunching Tech Ventures Participant Equip yourself with the skills to join an early- or growth-stage startup in a product management, business development, sales, or marketing...
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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few...
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- 26 May 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth
struggled to manage its finances in order to scale up. Those two jobs spurred Sweeney to join the M.S./M.B.A. program in order to add entrepreneurship to her engineering skills. “I realized I didn’t want to just assume that if someday I...
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- Web
Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
commercialization frictions and apply a set of strategies to overcome those challenges and successfully lead these ventures to scale in order to generate financial returns and deliver the intended impact. Key Learning Objectives...
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
all costs” to profitable growth, in placing particular emphasis on how ventures scale by achieving not just product-market fit, but profit-market fit, too. Classes cover a diverse array of tech sectors,...
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- December 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In 2005, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone was a sensation. After its launch in 1999, the groundbreaking BlackBerry had captured the hearts and minds of corporate America through its secure wireless email service. The device was so addictive and...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Management Style;
Product Development;
Managerial Roles;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Canada
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
To succeed in academia, professors often feel the pressure to “publish or perish.” But in evaluating professors’ productivity based on total published studies and grant funding, are institutions overlooking other factors that affect a...
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- Teaching Interest
Launching Technology Ventures
This course takes the perspective of founders struggling to achieve product market fit in their early-stage startups. Our cases focus on founder decision during this search and discovery phase, both in the experiments that they design and run as well as the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
hired. The data is consistent with horizontal differentiation of CEO behavioral types and firm-CEO matching frictions. We estimate that 17% of sample CEOs are mismatched and that mismatches are associated with significant productivity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a...
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- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
a product of the international Communist movement’s model of revolution in the developing world that envisioned new states following a “non-capitalist path of development.” In Iran, this was compounded by the use of Allende-era Chile as a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
suppliers. Highlights Fixed and Variable Costs How Big Banks Get Bigger Teaching Your Suppliers Good Management ShowHide Details Concepts Measuring Productivity Economies of Scale Teaching and Learning Good...
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- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
applications present opportunities for job creation by broadening the scope and scale of a company’s product portfolio. Conversely, internal-facing applications are more likely to affect knowledge workers’...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
valued at over $12 billion. At Underscore VC, she invested in fast growing B2B software startups, including life sciences tech products used by leading biopharma companies across the drug development cycle...
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- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
empowerment. But for hardware companies also in the tech sector, it is possible that there’s going to be a lot less of that,” Zhang suggests. Climbing the career ladder The trend toward collaboration may make work more enjoyable and View Details
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by Ben Rand