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  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic theories to understand... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • January 2018
  • Supplement

Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details
Keywords: Games; Gaming; Acquisitions; Exits; Private Sector; Decision; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Emerging Markets; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Value Creation; Leading Change; Management Teams; Technology Industry; Turkey
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  • Web

Creating the Modern Financial System - Course Catalog

cases highlight the introduction of new financial markets (such as the Dojima futures market in early modern Japan) or the creation of new instruments (such as mortgage-backed securities), others trace the emergence and maturation of... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy

How are the models of strategy that have been developed for business organizations being applied in the nonprofit world? What new strategy models are emerging that reflect the distinctive characteristics of nonprofit organizations? These... View Details
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details
  • Web

Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

management and strategic thinking tools in the social sector,” he recalls. In that class, however, Nicolette grappled much more deeply with the challenges and injustices faced by urban school districts in America. “That realization... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

of innovative plan.” Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and the host of an HBS conference last summer that examined Massachusetts’s health-care reforms, says hordes of curious officials from across the country have come to see... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

overview of property and casualty insurance, the Chinese insurance market and the challenges that foreign-based insurers have in entering an emerging market. Students are asked to decide what Chubb's China strategy should be moving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider

native knew an icon—and a challenge—when he saw one. In 2009 he stepped into the role of managing director, Harley-Davidson India. Entering the Indian market had plenty of challenges related to tariffs, accessibility, and brand... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • December 2003 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

High-Definition TV: The Grand Alliance

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
Describes political and economic forces that influenced the development of an all-digital, high-definition television (HDTV) standard in the United States between 1986 and 1996. Outlines the stakes for various government and industry participants in the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Emerging Markets; Standards; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; Europe; United States
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  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Reporting Advances Integrated reporting is an emerging management practice that involves the integration of a company's required financial report with its voluntary (except for a few countries) corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

  Working PapersDiffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision Authors:Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel Abstract A key role of corporate managers is to encourage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Making History, Starting Over

British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology
  • Web

Navigating a Career in Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015)... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 1998 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III and Martin Calles
Features the challenges facing an entrant in the New Zealand telecommunications market during the period 1989-1994. Clear Communications Ltd. (CCL), a joint venture owned by Bell Canada, MCI, New Zealand Television Corp., and Todd Companies, begins offering long... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Monopoly; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Strategy; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Law; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand
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  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

successfully increase immigrants' political participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53575 November 28, 2017 athenaInsight The No-excuses Way to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

process better, they looked at the emergence of modern Indian art as a category in the international fine art market between 1995 and 2007. Before 1995, fine art was produced in India but there was little demand largely because Indian art... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne