Publications

01 Sep 2007
News

How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change

case UBS discovers that its stance on global warming lags behind industry competitors. UBS considers four options in its approach to global warming. First, it could do nothing View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
Teaching Note

Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Lauren G. Pickle and Greg Saldutte

In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelēz International’s Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) grocery business which included several leading consumer brands such as Vegemite, the iconic Australian... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

tomorrow are going to be of the unsavory variety, 30 years of experience dealing with Iran shows that neglect and isolation are ineffective strategies for managing conflict. Second, diplomacy is about... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

Linda A. Hill

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

June 2023
Supplement

Applied Intuition (B)

By: Andy Wu

Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis shares his perspective on the company's growth opportunities, the future of the autonomy industry, and his personal observations on strategy and leadership in technology. View Details

Keywords: Autonomous Vehicles; Software; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; California; Detroit

February 2015 (Revised November 2015)
Case

Building an Integrated Biopharma Company: Crucell (A)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Marianne Van Der Steen and Susan S. Harmeling

By 2009, Crucell had become the largest biopharma company in the Netherlands and a symbol of national pride. The case traces the evolution of the company from a University spin-off into a fully-integrated company. Crucell's success, particularly in the vaccine space,... View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology; Biopharmacy Company; Licensing; Licensing Agreements In Biopharmacy; Human Cell-line Technology; Vaccine; Healthcare Innovation; Global Health; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Netherlands

16 Nov 2021
Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

interesting field for me as it combined many things I like: technology, e-commerce, global markets, and APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). I eventually narrowed in on Stripe View Details

October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
Case

Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)

By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain

In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, global head of civic partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco–based home sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's... View Details

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

deliver essential services. The problems remain severe but with concerted efforts across public, private, and nonprofit sectors and the leadership of committed individuals,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

June 1983 (Revised April 1991)
Case

Dominion Engineering Works

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Dominion Engineering Works faces important strategic decisions about whether to continue its focused strategy of selling newsprint machines to the Canadian paper industry or whether recent changes in industry conditions and the emergence of three global competitors... View Details

Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Diversification

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31 Jul 2021
News

Businesses by nature are problem solvers — industry leaders hold the best climate crisis solutions: Nancy F. Koehn

09 Oct 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Towards a New Approach for Upgrading Europe’s Competitiveness

Keywords: by Christian Ketels and Michael E. Porter

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

process does not have these features, deal price should receive no weight. This approach would represent a middle ground between the competing approaches advanced by 29 law, economics, and finance professors in the DFC View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 2006 (Revised October 2017)
Case

China: 'To Get Rich Is Glorious'

By: Richard Vietor and Julia Galef

In 1978, Deng Xiaoping assumed the leadership of an impoverished China, after Mao Zedong's disastrous Cultural Revolution. During the next 17 years, Deng applied pragmatic policies to liberalize the Chinese economy gradually while maintaining the power of the Communist... View Details

Keywords: History; Leadership; Privatization; Policy; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; China

April 2022 (Revised May 2022)
Case

Mastercard Labs (A) (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill, Sunil Gupta, Emily Tedards and Julia Kelley

When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company’s competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard’s new vision of a “World Beyond Cash” distilled into a three-pronged framework: Grow the core business, Diversify... View Details