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  • October 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Lovepop

By: Robert F. White, Ramana Nanda and Olivia Hull
As they prepare to graduate from Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an angel group and the other from... View Details
Keywords: Accelerator; Incubator; Seed Financing; Convertible Debt; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States
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  • Web

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • February 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Huawei: How Can We Lead the Way?

By: Elie Ofek, Tian Tao, Eden Yin and Nancy Hua Dai
On September 12, 2017, just as Apple’s Tim Cook was unveiling the iPhone X, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group (CBG), and Glory Cheung, his Chief Marketing Officer, were discussing some key strategic issues regarding Huawei’s smartphone business.... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Communications; Price; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy
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    ShotSpotter

    SST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on... View Details
    • Web

    It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You! - MBA

    Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

    In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries from economics and management. Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may... View Details
    Keywords: Complementarity
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    • 08 Jun 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal

    Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
    • 17 Jan 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

    the issue because the US Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2017 adopted a rule stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rule mandates that companies disclose the ratio View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    A More Accommodating Approach

    Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 20 Aug 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

    increasingly by individuals. People who use Facebook and Twitter are for all practical purposes running little media houses, and face the problem of their much larger brethren, where will the next story come from? Originality is too... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton
    • 2011
    • Book

    Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    By: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Failure; Performance Evaluation; Sales; Consumer Products Industry
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    • August 20, 2024
    • Article

    Sexual Assault Victims Face a Penalty for Adjacent Consent

    By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
    Across 11 experimental studies (n = 12,257), we show that female victims of sexual assault are blamed more and seen as less morally virtuous if their assault follows voluntary sexual intimacy, a factor we term “adjacent consent”. Moreover, we illuminate a... View Details
    Keywords: Perception; Prejudice and Bias; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption; Social Issues
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    • 07 Nov 2023
    • News

    Love and Money

    swiping for you. And their goal is just fine tune the top of funnel. Because it's so much work to correspond with people in the beginning stage, a lot of people drop off, and they just want to convert the... View Details
    • 11 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

    resource capacity that are necessary to fulfill the sales and production needs of the strategic plan. Without this coupling, operational plans either provide too little or too much capacity for the strategic plan. A third challenge is... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • July–August 2013
    • Article

    Building Sustainable Cities

    By: John D. Macomber
    By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; City
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    • 27 Jul 2020
    • Book

    Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

    Many of us feel time-pressured, tethered to our smartphones so we can stay on top of work and home responsibilities. It can be tough to step off the daily merry-go-round, put our phones, laptops, and to-do... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 28 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

    headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • November 2000 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Airbus A3XX: Developing the World's Largest Commercial Jet (A)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
    In July 2000, Airbus Industries' supervisory board is on the verge of approving a $13 billion investment for the development of a new super jumbo jet known as the A3XX that would seat from 550 to 1,000 passengers. Having secured approximately 20 orders for the new jet,... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Valuation; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Product Positioning; Air Transportation Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 17 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

    Spring 2018 Journal of Cold War Studies The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article examines... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman