Publications

October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Club Med (C): The "Re-New" Plan

By: Frances X. Frei, Daniel Rethazy and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Industry Structures; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Culture; Cost; Customer Satisfaction; Accommodations Industry; United States

September 2000 (Revised November 2000)
Case

GetConnected.com

By: Rajiv Lal, Nilanjana R. Pal and Jodi L. Prins

Describes the situation faced by GCI.com in April 2000, soon after raising $12 million for their new venture. After hiring an advertising agency, management needs to decide on the nature of the advertising campaign to target the right set of customers with the right... View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Business Startups; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Strategy; Web Services Industry

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Lisa Skeete Tatum

Previously, Lisa was a General Partner for over a decade with Cardinal Partners, a $350M+ early-stage healthcare venture capital firm. She also worked for Procter & Gamble. Lisa serves on numerous high growth, public, and nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Employment, Recruiting, & Workforce Development;#60;#Services;#64;#Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

receive credits for emission reductions related to new nuclear power plants - including both those under construction and those still in prototype stages. Harvard Business School Professor Joe Lassiter believes nuclear power is an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

15 May 2020
News

New Menu

the next 10 years deploying everything I've learned—the mistakes I've made, the experiences I've had—on making this world a better place." For Ive, that meant turning all his business know-how toward addressing climate change and other... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

The kids in Ms. Gubler’s fifth-grade science class are watching Juan Enriquez’s every move — they can’t quite believe that this visitor from Harvard Business School has just denuded a floppy disk. (One girl, Diana, is not so surprised —... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Driving economic growth and job creation

"Our focus was first on stabilizing the economy for small business, and then on creating an ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to do what they do best—grow and create jobs," said Mills, a long-time View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Social Enterprise Pioneer

HBS professor Kash Rangan talks about a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists who are experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises. And they are insisting that these enterprises operate with greater transparency... View Details

November 2012
Case

Edison Schools, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren Barley

Edison Schools, Inc., a pioneer in the for-profit management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public... View Details

Keywords: Charter Schools; Conflict of Interests; Initial Public Offering; For-Profit Firms; Public Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Education; Business Startups; Education Industry

March 1990 (Revised November 2004)
Case

O.M. Scott & Sons Co. Leveraged Buyout

By: George P. Baker III and Karen Wruck

Documents the organizational changes that took place at O.M. Scott & Sons Co. in response to their leveraged buyout. Provides the opportunity for students to discuss the effects of high leverage on management decision making, and the differences between operating as a... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Borrowing and Debt; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management; Business Conglomerates; Cost of Capital; Financial Services Industry

07 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

companies and venture capital investors to hearing stories of different founders, was important to me. The program is tailored for technical entrepreneurship and exploring the various issues entrepreneurs can be faced with. I don't know... View Details

Portrait Project

Kari Gerster

I am opportunistic – I figure it out as I go along. In high school, I did not predict that I'd spend college studying art and literature in the Berkshire Mountains. In college, I never guessed that I'd work in venture capital in New York... View Details

September 1996 (Revised July 1997)
Case

Grupo Sidek (A)

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Alberto Moel

A large Mexican conglomerate, active in tourism, real estate, and steel, is faced with difficult macroeconomic conditions beginning with the Peso crisis of December 1994. The conglomerate had extensive dollar-indexed liabilities and was caught in a crunch when the... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Exchange; Real Estate; Debt Policy; Tourism; Steel; Business Conglomerates; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Crisis Management; Valuation; Mexico

Forthcoming
Article

FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

By: Pulak Ghosh, Boris Vallée and Yao Zeng

Borrower's use of cashless payments both improves their access to capital from FinTech lenders and predicts a lower probability of default. These relationships are stronger for cashless technologies providing more precise information, and for outflows. Cashless payment... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Lending; Payments; Data Sharing; Financing and Loans; Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Business Model