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  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108012 GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project Harvard Business School Case 907-048 In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2017
  • Chapter

Entrepreneurship in Larger Companies

By: William R. Kerr
Entrepreneurship in large and established companies is vital for their long-term success. Incumbent firms face many challenges ranging from global competition to digitization. In times past, being caught flat-footed might have set a company back several years, but it... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship
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  • 09 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

changes that businesses across sectors will have to make in order to confront challenges from climate change. Energy & Environment Club: Energy and Environment in the New Economy Leading off the week was the Energy & Environment... View Details
  • Article

Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust

By: Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
One of the toughest challenges leaders face is managing diverse perspectives—and given heightened tensions over politics and movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, that’s more difficult today than ever before. At the same time, productive disagreement and... View Details
Keywords: Polarization; Employees; Perspective; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Trust
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    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • January 2023 (Revised December 2023)
    • Case

    OhmConnect: Energizing the Future

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Founded in 2013, OhmConnect was a free consumer web app that alerted customers about peak hours of electricity demand, and paid them to lower their energy use at home during these periods. The company sold the aggregated reductions generated by thousands of households... View Details
    Keywords: App Development; Renewable Energy; Electricity Usage; Regulations; VC; Technology; Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC); Scalability; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business Model; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; California; Texas; Europe
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    • 27 Sep 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data

    Keywords: by Tomomichi Amano, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler; Retail
    • September 2024
    • Case

    XYZ Robotics

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Brian Mao Fu, Shu Lin and Jamie Gong
    Founded in 2018, XYZ Robotics was a China-based startup specializing in robotic picking solutions and 3D machine vision products. Amid an economic downturn and intense competition, the company faced considerable financial challenges and needed to determine the best way... View Details
    Keywords: Robotics; 3D Systems; China; Resource Allocation; Business Startups; Competition; Product; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Technology Industry; China
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    • June 2024 (Revised October 2024)
    • Case

    Equifruit

    By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Annelena Lobb
    Jennie Coleman, president of Fairtrade banana company Equifruit, considered how best to position her firm and brand to increase sales of Fairtrade bananas in the U.S. and Canada. She saw her biggest challenge as convincing retailers that consumers would be OK spending... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Goods and Commodities; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Ecuador; Guatemala; Canada; United States
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    • 2017
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Financial Accounting Reading: Revenue Recognition

    By: David F. Hawkins
    The overarching goal of the revenue recognition chapter is to help students better understand the substance and implementation challenges of the joint FASB/IASB revenue recognition standard. This Reading includes four Interactive Illustrations: "Time Value of Money for... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Revenue Recognition
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    • September 2006 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    QuickBase

    By: Clayton M. Christensen and Mark Szigety
    Describes the challenge that engineers and marketing executives at Intuit Corp. faced when finding markets and applications for their QuickBase product. The breakthrough occurred when they abandoned their conventional modes of market segmentation, and instead strove to... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Engineering; Product Marketing; Segmentation; Jobs and Positions; Consumer Behavior; Information Technology Industry
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    • May 2000 (Revised October 2001)
    • Case

    Dell Ventures

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
    Describes the rationale behind the strategy and structure of Dell Computer Corp.'s VC arm, Dell Ventures. While Dell Ventures had a phenomenal year one, it faced a number of challenges including dealing with market risks, finding and retaining talent, maintaining... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives; Risk Management; Organizational Structure; Interests; Business Strategy; Computer Industry
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    • 2014
    • Book

    Great Power, Peace, and American Primacy: The Origins of a New International Order

    By: Josh Baron
    This book explains the period of great power peace in the last fifty years and outlines the path to perpetuating it. Drawing on the Realist tradition and challenging conventional wisdom about the causes of American primacy, Baron explores contributions to peace made by... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; International Relations; Power and Influence; Conflict and Resolution; United States
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    • December 2014 (Revised April 2016)
    • Module Note

    Responsibilities to Employees

    By: Nien-he Hsieh
    The note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal and ethical considerations. The note frames the central ethical challenge for managers as exercising power in a fair manner. The fair exercise of power... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Legal Aspects Of Business; Responsibility; Ethics; Fairness; Employees; Decision Making; Leadership; Jobs and Positions; Labor; Law
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    • 04 Jan 2013
    • News

    B-school curriculum is now covering legal, ethical issues too: Prof Rohit Deshpande, Harvard Business School

    • 27 Sep 2019
    • Video

    Ronnie Screwvala

    Ronnie Srewvala, who founded the Indian media conglomerate UTV in 1990 and The Swades Foundation, a non-profit in 2013, which aimed to lift a million people out of poverty, discusses the strategy pursued in... View Details
    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    (e.g., bundle payments), integrated practice units (IPUs), and outcomes measurement. Insight into time-driven activity-based costing, or TDABC, and the use of innovative digital health solutions are also touched upon. Leadership View Details
    • April 2019
    • Case

    Coup or Crime? The Case of Carlos Ghosn

    By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Puneet Brar
    This case explores the interplay of global corporations, management styles, and local traditions through the high profile arrest of auto industry icon, Carlos Ghosn, in November 2018. The case allows students to debate opposing theories that led to the arrest and... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Globalized Markets and Industries; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Governance Controls
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    • August 1998 (Revised June 2000)
    • Case

    FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jack Wieland and Chad M. M Raube
    On February 20, 1997, FairMarket, an Internet-based business-to-business auction site, was launched. CEO, founder Scott Randall, drew on his experience building Internet businesses at NECX Direct, Yahoo, and Internet Shopping Network to build his business. This case,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Debates; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Management Style; Product Launch; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • December 2019 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    Ray White

    By: Boris Groysberg and Tricia Gregg
    Ray White is an Australian real estate business that has been owned and operated by the White family for four generations. The business has expanded and prospered. However, as the industry faces new challenges and opportunities, how should the White family respond?... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis; COVID-19; Pandemic; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Disruption; Information Technology; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Real Estate Industry; Australia
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