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  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

relationship between changes in the structure of the executive team, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through corporate-wide coordination by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a public good among platforms and therefore the equilibrium level is lower than the one that would maximize joint View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

durations, and dispatch it as electricity on demand. Cal's role prior to HBS was an Aerospace Industry Application Engineer at Mathworks. Aditya Desai (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Summer Intern at Natron Energy Natron... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

  Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Industrial customers prefer to see products and services unbundled and priced separately. Gimmicks are out; reliability, durability, safety, and performance are in. New products, especially those that address the new consumer reality and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002

Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,... View Details
Keywords: Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Education; Business Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Seattle
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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

tick — putting structure to chaos and solving problems from big to small.” Before discovering what truly excited him, Wu was on a more traditional course. After graduating with an accounting degree from the University of Connecticut in... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2014 (Revised March 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2011, Telecom, the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies. In connection with this split, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley worked with the chairman of Telecom New Zealand, Wayne Boyd, to create two new boards of... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Women's Empowerment; Governance; Leadership; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Human Resources; Diversity; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand
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  • May 2008 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Handheld Graphics Organization (HGO) was an internal start-up under Intel's New Business Incubator program. The unit designed a graphics co-processor for the handheld PDA market, to be sold with Intel's Xscale processor. Though NBI ventures were designed for a high... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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  • November 1999
  • Case

Interactive Minds (B)

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong, Christina L. Darwall and Scot H. Landry
Two recent Harvard Business School graduates start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet. View Details
Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Consulting Industry
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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

New Releases

Iansiti spent eight years studying more than a hundred development projects in four computing-related industries - particularly turbulent and complex environments in which making the right technology choices is essential for success. In... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 16 Sep 2024 Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Looking around a Harvard Business School... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

the industry you compete in, the market segments where you do (and do not) choose to play, and the nature of the customers that you sell and service. These factors help to determine required sales tasks—that is, what your go-to-market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market principles. View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

coastal regions. Structures built with these cements can withstand saltwater erosion and extreme weather conditions better, leading to longer lifespans and reduced maintenance costs. As typical with many green View Details
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2020
  • News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently.... View Details