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  • 04 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

The First Alumni of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

influential technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Waymo, or starting their own technology-based companies. This broad support network enables students to liaise with both executive-level alumni advisors on high-level strategy or View Details
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

the business models of traditional incumbents and those of potential innovative MSP entrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55341 Oral History and Writing the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

does marketing link the producer, the seller, and then the consumer? That's a standard paradigm in advanced Western societies. Some of the stakeholders don't seem to have a voice because we don't seek their voice.— Kash Rangan The kind of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

evolved and adapted in order to meet new business challenges. This ability—to rapidly update, improve, remove, replace, and reimagine the software applications that underpin a firm’s competitive position—is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2020
  • Case

Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age

By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta
In late 2017, Kate Ryder, the founder and CEO of digital women’s health telemedicine company Maven Clinic, faced an important decision. Maven offered both a direct to consumer (D2C) product that anyone could use to book virtual appointments with health practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys

Enterprise Track provides an opportunity for eligible graduate students across Harvard University to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous and supportive environment. Social Enterprise Track entries may include nonprofit,... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, business leaders vowed to change organizational culture to increase diversity and inclusion. Some companies established more robust employee affinity groups, others diversified the voices on... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
  • March 2007 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

Cherrypicks

By: William R. Kerr
Cherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Communication Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Communications Industry; China; Hong Kong; South Korea
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  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, U.K., Japan, U.S., and Chile), the paper describes the differences among countries and then applies a model of the factors determining the size of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

grants. Explores the detailed history and business models of both organizations. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716468-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2014
  • Book

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Industrial Policy; Development Banks; Capitalism; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance Theory; CEO Effects; Public Sector; Economic Systems; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Emerging Markets; Banking Industry; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

  Working PapersDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers Authors:John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly influenced the lives of most people on the planet. It has changed daily activities; something as simple as a walk in the park is perceived very differently now. The same is true for businesses. Many View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009) Abstract Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history is any guide, staffing will become a front-burner issue once the economic upheaval... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2016
  • Case

The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price... View Details
Keywords: Asda; Costco; David Glass; Convenience Stores; Discount Retailing; Dollar Stores; Doug McMillon; E-commerce; Online Retail; General Merchandise; Grocery; Lee Scott; Mike Duke; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Neighborhood Market; Sam Walton; Sam's Club; Store Formats; Supercenter; Supermarket; Warehouse Clubs; Merchandising; Walmart; Wal-Mart; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Banks and Banking; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Global Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Wages; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Web; Web Sites; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Arkansas; Bentonville
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  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

large required up-front payments to help make insurance coverage more affordable. Legacy insurers are often using systems that evolved from the traditional approach of hand-processing contracts and checks, which makes adapting to the... View Details
Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance