United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Apr 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

many of the artists that Joyner and her husband, private equity investor Alfred Giuffrida, collect are enjoying increased visibility. Major museums in the United States (and beyond) are reevaluating the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

information, connected car services, and analytics, founded by Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995). The figures aren’t much better in the United States, where Los Angeles tops the list at 81 hours. And in the rankings of nations, the US, with an... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

United States required a much stronger domestic intelligence service, and Mueller believed that that service should reside within the FBI. Critics, however, called for the Bureau to narrow its scope, focus... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

panic rise, his wife, sitting in the passenger seat, said calmly: “It’s going to be fine. Just relax. Exhale. Keep your eyes on the road.” The scare was eye-opening for Margolis, perhaps because it occurred when the United View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

their former oppressors. Instead, Mandela invited the warden of his Robben Island prison to his inauguration as South Africa's first black president. Modern South Africa, for all its problems, is a democratic state with a growing economy.... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

04 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

and the HBS conference as a major step forward in his water journey, even though, he said, specific discussion about water issues were limited. During a lively case discussion led by HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, he came away thinking: “Miami is the most at-risk... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

Commodity Trading Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen StorliHarvard Business School Case 813-020 Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

examined video recordings of 90 randomly selected pitches from three real-life entrepreneurial pitch competitions, held in various United States locations over a three-year period. In each case, a panel of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

Web

Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Bibliography | Manuscript Collections | Trade Publications Manuscript Collections Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Records, 1870–1919 . Baker... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Case Study: Glass Half Full

can be turned into usable products. The company ships the glasses in carbon-neutral packaging, with an additional carbon offset to guarantee the product’s neutral environmental impact. The market for glassware in the United View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

04 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 4

http://hbr.org/search/513015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-037 Business and Government: Campaign Contributions and Lobbying in the United States This module note on business-government relations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

motivated by the fact that many scholars in business schools had offered no real policy prescriptions for how the United States could get out of the Depression. Moreover, so many businesspeople had been seen... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Profile

Nikki Skovran

In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble — and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Consulting; Entrepreneurship

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

Healthcare Michael Porter is considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. He discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way the United States delivers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report

driven some backlash in the United States against DEI efforts, especially after the 2022 Supreme Court decision eliminating affirmative action in admissions. Some, like Larry Cabaldon, CEO and founder of... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

status quo isn’t working for those without power and privilege, Mendu, a 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow, believes “the more fortunate among us have a deep obligation to disrupt it.” Her HBS mentors included former United View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

countries in our globally linked economy have barely begun to address the problem. Even if substantial progress is made in the United States by century's end, the global fallout from the explosion of the Y2K... View Details

October 2022
Supplement

Beam Dental (A): Pitch Deck Supplement 1

By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani

Early pitch deck (one of two). This case is a supplement to Beam Dental (A) 723-355. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Insurance Industry; United States; Kentucky; Ohio

Citation

Purchase

February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney

Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details