Publications

22 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Competing with Privacy

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Andres Hervas-Drane; Publishing

Program

Managing Innovation

Reevaluate your portfolio of products and services as market conditions evolve Design a strategy for deciding which projects to pursue Bring new offerings to market faster and more efficiently Create new opportunities for innovation Build... View Details

January 2005 (Revised November 2009)
Case

Tata Consultancy Services

By: Rohit Deshpande and Seth Schulman

As CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), S. "Ram" Ramadorai had grown the company into an emerging IT services powerhouse, with marquee clients such as General Electric, offices in 32 countries, and revenues of nearly $2 billion dollars. Now, he was about to steer... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Labor; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Consulting Industry; India; United States

July 2019
Case

Instabeat—One More Lap?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar

This case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Manufacturing; Prototyping; Female Protagonist; Business Startups; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Design; Organizational Culture; United States; Lebanon

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

offers subscription services for creators and virtual reality gamers. For consumers, subscriptions help spread out costly payments over time, allow people to choose flexible usage and product-feature options at different price levels, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

September 2015
Article

(UN)Tangled: Exploring the Coevolution of VC Firm Reputation and Status

By: Timothy G. Pollock, Peggy M. Lee, Kyuho Jin and Kisha Lashley

We explore the relationship between status and reputation, examining how its dynamics change over time as these two intangible assets coevolve and how reputation and status are influenced by participation in highly visible events. Using a sample of more than 400... View Details

Keywords: Underpricing; Intangible Assets; New Firms; Status and Position; Reputation; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering

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09 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

companies that have so much capital find these initiatives to be so costly? And why do the small entrants with much less capital find them to be straightforward? The answer lies in their approach to marginal versus full costs. Every time... View Details

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Help - Alumni

Qualified graduates from the MBA Class of 1999 onward are eligible to apply. Learn more . You can learn about other opportunities for alumni offered by the Social Enterprise Initiative at Alumni for Impact .... View Details

May 1998
Teaching Note

Development Relationships TN

By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy

The final class of the Career Development module of the Self-Assessment and Career Development course (SACD) uses the topic of mentoring and developmental relationships to encourage students to think beyond the point of finding and accepting a suitable job offer. The... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Strategy

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Executive Education - Leadership

Executive Education Executive Education We offer programs that strengthen the leadership capacity of individuals and their organizations. Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation HBS Campus | 08–13 DEC 2024 Unleash your organization’s... View Details

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

product planning strategy? No matter how radical a new product is, it will always be perceived initially in terms of some frame of reference.— Gerald Zaltman A: The insights offered by methods that probe the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

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MBA Experience - Health Care

by faculty and includes the latest facts and figures about where students are securing internships and full-time positions. Health Care Career Days Offers panels and presentations designed to introduce students to diverse health care... View Details

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The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

elements in the business environment fit together and interact is critical for improving productivity. HOW Locations COMPETE Locations compete to offer the most productive environment for business. Quality of the Business Environment Firm... View Details

Research Summary

Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
Case

National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision

By: Charles F. Wu, Max de la Bruyére and Gregory D. Himmel

In 2015, two years after founding National Storage Affiliates (NSA), Arlen Nordhagen and Tamara Fischer had an important decision to make. Should they proceed with NSA’s IPO? Although they had targeted to receive $15–17 a share, it was now apparent that the figure was... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry

October 2013
Article

Corporate Venturing

By: Josh Lerner

For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention

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The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details

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Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship

Info Session on December 3rd . Rock Accelerator The Rock Accelerator track within the Rock Summer Fellows program is offered to students in the summer between their RC and EC year, supporting student founders in the development of their... View Details

1999
Other Unpublished Work

Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists

By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers

We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details

Keywords: Equity; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Venture Capital; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation