Publications

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

they find most interesting and fulfilling: Do I like collaborative work? Do I tend to become the leader of groups in which I find myself? Have I ever volunteered to coach or tutor others? Do I find it intriguing to work on thorny,... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

June 2008
Case

Threadless: The Business of Community

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Zahra Kanji

Threadless.com, the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by enabling anyone to submit designs for t-shirts and... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Apparel and Accessories Industry

January 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case

eToro: Building the World's Largest Social Trading Network

By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan

Social trading platform eToro was preparing for the launch of its expanded offering in the U.S. The company faced critical decisions regarding product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, positioning and monetization. Moreover, it faced the challenge of how best to make... View Details

Keywords: Social Trading Platform; Investment; Social and Collaborative Networks; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Digital Platforms

November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
Case

Nicole M. Jones and The Hangar℠: Delta Air Lines' Global Innovation Center

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards

In 2016, Nicole M. Jones was hired to lead The Hangar, Delta Air Lines’ new innovation center in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta’s leadership had intended for The Hangar to catalyze a new approach to innovation at the company. After conducting three months of research on... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Lab; Breakthrough Innovation; Biometric Technology; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Georgia (state, US)

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who... View Details

August 2022
Case

Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action

By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen

Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Early Childhood Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Literacy; Values and Beliefs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Education Industry; India; Asia

30 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

competition vs. collaborative culture). Becoming a CEO requires increasing flexibility when facing situations one may not know how to handle with constant context switching (e.g., subject matter; the level of detail; kinds of tasks;... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

decisions can also have important unintended consequences. In the example of Airbnb to which Max is referring, my collaborators (Ben Edelman and Dan Svirsky) and I were struck by the fact that Airbnb was allowing hosts to accept or reject... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

colleagues about the roles you are best equipped to play in the new work-from-home landscape, and figure out how they fit with others’ roles to make sure you stay aligned. Then design your collaborative activities—your video and audio... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jun 2021
Blog Post

The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

able to determine the right answer by myself, and I experienced the importance of collaboration when it comes to solving complex and critical business decisions. There is a saying, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”... View Details

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HBS Global Initiative & Research Centers - MBA

growth and activities directed from their centers. For example, many of our board members have connected HBS to FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) project partners in the countries where our RCs will be heading in May! H OW MANY DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICES AROUND CAMPUS DO YOU... View Details

July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
Case

Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century

By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron

This case examines the role of Jardine Matheson, a trading company founded by two Scottish merchants, in the opium trade between India and China during the nineteenth century. The two Opium Wars fought between Western powers and China, which sought to stop opium... View Details

Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Trade; Social and Collaborative Networks; China; United Kingdom