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- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Groupon speeds up rollout of hyperlocal strategy
- December 2018
- Case
DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports
By: Robert F. Higgins and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2012, DraftKings helped change the fantasy sports landscape by popularizing daily fantasy sports (DFS), or short-term fantasy sports tournaments that offered big cash prizes to winners. The company’s valuation exceeded $1 billion by 2015, but DraftKings soon... View Details
Keywords: Fantasy Sports; Daily Fantasy Sports; DraftKings; FanDuel; Supreme Court; Sports Betting; Sports Gambling; Sports; Business Model; Government Legislation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Higgins, Robert F., and Julia Kelley. "DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports." Harvard Business School Case 819-074, December 2018.
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
What should business people in particular know about the pros and cons of attempts to treat and control diabetes—or indeed other chronic diseases? That was the focus of a... View Details
- 2023
- Book
How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History
Lorsch, Jay W. How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations. Business Expert Press, 2023.
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
social-pressure campaigns and legal challenges to the team’s trademark had not been enough to bring about a change. Dan Snyder, the team’s owner of 20 years, dug in. “We will never change the name,” he told... View Details
- Web
Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Business School has vast holdings documenting many aspects of the history of the railroads and growth of big View Details
- November 1972 (Revised December 2000)
- Background Note
Note on Forms of Real Estate Ownership
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Thierry Liverman
Examines the legal forms of ownership of real property. Included are the corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, real estate investment trust, sole proprietorship, and joint venture. Tax factors and business management considerations are... View Details
Stevenson, Howard H., and Thierry Liverman. "Note on Forms of Real Estate Ownership." Harvard Business School Background Note 373-148, November 1972. (Revised December 2000.)
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
observed in governmental and legal records. The contribution of this book is to explore the coevolution of business enterprises with the better... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller — gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased oversight and antibig business sentiment. I think such moments are part of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
approaches for opening and structuring the classes as well as techniques for handling classroom challenges. While case teaching is definitely an art, there are many technical aspects that can be taught, and that is one View Details
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
Think of Harvard Business School's recently launched the Digital Initiative (D/I) as a giant laboratory, where leading scholars and practitioners convene to research, teach, and put into practice new... View Details
- Web
Policy - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder’s Journey
- Web
Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment
business, policy, law, etc.) to form teams around new technologies emerging out of several of MIT’s labs. Over the course of the semester, students will work with their team to... View Details
- August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
Economic Evidence on the Globalization of Markets
Presents the systematic evidence in the context of the microeconomic model of market integration. Market integration is just one (economic) aspect of globalization; this is one of the particular interests to business managers. View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Economic Evidence on the Globalization of Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 701-015, August 2000. (Revised July 2002.)
- Article
In Search of the Hybrid Ideal
By: Julie Battilana, Matthew Lee, John Walker and Cheryl Dorsey
In the first large-scale, quantitative study of nascent social entrepreneurs, researchers from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face as they... View Details
Battilana, Julie, Matthew Lee, John Walker, and Cheryl Dorsey. "In Search of the Hybrid Ideal." Stanford Social Innovation Review 10, no. 3 (Summer 2012).
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
business. I had often felt that my interests were non-traditional and I had sometimes doubted how I could carve out a path that would fit these disparate parts together, but HBS showed me how much opportunity is out there. For one, Professor Anita Elberse’s View Details
- January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Describes Russia's troubled economic transition since 1991, highlights the problem of institutional development, and surveys the challenges President Vladimir Putin faced in 2000. The first section provides a brief synopsis of liberalization, stabilization, and... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Public Sector; Privatization; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Russia
Abdelal, Rawi E. "Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?" Harvard Business School Case 701-076, January 2001. (Revised May 2001.)