by Ryan Raffaelli - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2020
Case

Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

06 Aug 2015
News

How to make your pricing attractive – and fair

07 Sep 2017
News

Faber-Castell Doubles Down on the Pencil

10 Aug 2018
News

The Worm Has Turned: Bookstores Beats Odds in An Amazon World

June 2023
Case

Barton Malow: Building From the Top-Down

By: Hise O. Gibson and Alicia Dadlani

In 2023, Detroit-based Barton Malow completed the first high-rise building in the U.S. built from the top-down using LIFTbuild, a patented methodology that aimed to make construction safer and more efficient. By completing building work at ground level and then... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Construction Industry

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Educators

Purchase

26 Jun 2014
News

Shifting toward Defined Contributions — Predicting the Effects

21 Nov 2021
News

How Retailers Can Improve Self-Checkout

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 May 2018
News

Columbus Bookstores Have Independent Spirit

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

hiscoauthoring a groundbreaking 1997 Harvard Business Review article "Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists." In the article Grossman and coauthors Christine Lettsand William Ryan suggest that... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

28 Apr 2019
News

How One Independent Bookstore Succeeds in the Amazon Age

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit. "It's striking how much work has gone into examining this question—including by many truly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Feb 2014
News

Raymond Weil, Whose Swiss Watches Told More Than Time, Dies at 87

12 Aug 2018
News

As Barnes & Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat

09 Mar 2018
News

Why Is A Harvard Business Professor Is Studying Independent Bookstores?

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative: Doug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox. The case was co-authored by Ryan Johnson, research associate with the Global Research Group. Rauch came up with one... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

23 Jul 2019
News

Barnes & Noble Sold. Now what?

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

Professor Ryan Buell and doctoral student Moon Soo Choi caught my eye recently. Their study of a credit card offering to almost 400,000 customers of Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s largest, found that a typical promotion mentioning only... View Details