Publications

Article

The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy

By: Matthew Joseph, Jieming Mao, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth

We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in sequence, but they cannot return to... View Details

2014
Case

Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant Group

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Weiku Wu and Jia Guo

Since the establishment of the first Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant in Beijing in 1996, Wang Gang and his wife Liang Di have opened more than 100 chain restaurants in China and foreign countries, and set up the group headquarters, logistics center, R&D center and central... View Details

Keywords: Internationalization; Management; Standardization; Strategy; Restaurants; China; China

2014
Article

Framework for China's Novel Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy

By: Robert G. Eccles and Peijun Duan

China’s sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is insufficient; second, some resources and environment loads have reached their limits; third, some products affecting the... View Details

Keywords: Sustainable Development; Integrated Report; New Evaluation System; China

June 2014 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Southeastern Asset Management Challenges Buyout at Dell

By: Paul Healy, Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia

In late 2012, Michael Dell wants to take Dell Inc., the company he founded, private. Mr. Dell believes that the successful company's transformation from a personal computer (PC) manufacturer to an enterprise solutions and services provider (ESS) is dependent on going... View Details

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July – August 2010
Article

Are You Ignoring Trends That Could Shake Up Your Business?

By: Elie Ofek and Luc Wathieu

Virtually all managers in consumer businesses recognize major social, economic, and technological trends. But many do not consider the profound ways in which trends--especially those that seem unrelated to their core markets--influence consumers' aspirations,... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Product Development

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Why do some companies succeed in defeating stronger rivals, while others fail? This is a question that, sooner or later, all ambitious competitors must face. Whether you’re a tiny start-up taking on industry giants or a giant moving into markets dominated by... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

out Cole Haan from Nike and standing it up as an independent company, growing it, transforming it, and turning it around. I got to wear a lot of different hats,” Leahy recalls. From there, Leahy took on the General Manager of E-Commerce... View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

curriculum development for the Case Method Project. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (2004) and Fortune Tellers: The Story of... View Details

26 Jul 2023

Exploring HBS from a Latin American Perspective

challenges, triumphs, and unique perspectives. If you aspire to be a leader who makes a difference in the world, this event promises to equip you with the knowledge, inspiration, and support needed to embark on your own transformative... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

Malcolm P. McLean, a truck driver, fundamentally transformed the centuries-old shipping industry, an industry that had long decided that it had no incentive to change. By developing the first safe, reliable, and cost effective approach to... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Turnarounds and Transformation (also listed under Organizational Behavior) Ranjay Gulati Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Venture Capital and Private Equity Jo Tango , Archie L. Jones Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Doctoral Programs Faculty from... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

Today Apple operates iTunes as a merchant that buys music rights from publishers and then sells it itself as it pleases to users. However, it is easily conceivable that at some point Apple may wish to transform iTunes into a two-sided... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The first is through whatever opportunities for learning, problem-solving, and creativity exist in the job itself. The second is through understanding the role and value of the job within the organization. This understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Impact - Health Care

entrepreneurial opportunities and solutions. HBS research highlights business models that help some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Entrepreneurial students, faculty, and alumni are creating ventures that have the... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

credit—as the path to the American dream. Other writing identifies as transformative a radical redesign of money and finance that, during the Enlightenment, institutionalized the self-interested activity of investors as the compass for... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

PublicationsThe Coexistence of Overestimation and Underweighting of Rare Events and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron and Eldad Yechiam Publication:.Judgment and Decision Making 4, no. 6 (October 2009) Abstract Previous research demonstrates... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June, 2023
Article

Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change

By: Marissa Kimsey, Thijs Geradts and Julie Battilana

There is a growing interest in large companies pursuing a new purpose—changing their core reason for being from a singular focus on financial gain to a renewed responsibility to people and the planet alongside profit. Yet knowledge of how a large company can walk that... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Leading Change

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December 2018 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Darling Ingredients International

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

Led by CEO Randall Stuewe, Texas-based Darling Ingredients International was a rendering firm with $3.7 billion in 2017 revenues. Since 2003, Darling had transformed from U.S. focused into a global player in the processing of biological waste from meat and foodservice... View Details

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