Publications

August 2011 (Revised November 2015)
Case

CFW Clinics in Kenya: To Profit or Not for Profit

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

Ten years after having launched a chain of non-profit health clinics, its founder is now debating the merits of scaling the operation by converting to a for-profit enterprise. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Transformation; For-Profit Firms; Health Industry; Kenya

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

is an attempt to connect these two narratives. I provide early evidence that the growth of public university tuition over the previous two decades is negatively associated with movement into self-employment. Because labor market and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2001
Teaching Note

Katharine Graham TN

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel

Teaching Note for (9-801-276). View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Public Ownership; Power and Influence; Experience and Expertise; Value; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Risk and Uncertainty

12 Feb 2014
News

The Next Best Thing to a Steve Jobs

Keywords: innovation; management

February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney

Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

that as the same customers gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the field... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

choice is a complex issue, and that some conventional wisdom isn't always wise. For example, there are perfectly good reasons why a conservative long-term investor would hold more stocks View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Mar 2018
News

Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

greater overall satisfaction with their lives. One of the things we are working on now is understanding how decisions about time, money, and happiness play out in the context of romantic relationships. What... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

Doba Parushev

get an MBA, which appealed to Doba as an opportunity to "to think about my direction. What do I actually want to achieve? I wanted time to reflect. I wanted clarity." Becoming comfortable with uncertainty HBS had been highly... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

special focus is the influence that the EU accession process has on the Latvian economy and on economic policy choices in the country. Challenges students to discuss how the environment changes as EU... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2001
News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

wing and learn anything about underlying demand for the plane. Instead, you have to sink the full $12 billion into the project before learning if there is, or is not, sufficient demand.” Given the level of View Details

January 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Case

ProfitLogic

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Michael J. Roberts and Taslim Pirmohamed

Describes an "application software" company that has been through several evolutions--from consulting firm to applications service provider (ASP). The firm has received significant venture funding to pursue the ASP model but this has not worked, at least at the time... View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Decision Choices and Conditions; Balanced Scorecard; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really drive behavior View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

thinking teaches us that the best decisions often result when we reject either/or choices and instead reframe, combine, or integrate ideas. It can be hard to cultivate this... View Details

Portrait Project

Marijana Kolak

Looking back, I feel the paths worth taking were those I followed with my heart: my trip to the US eleven years ago; the long journey later from a 300-people village in the Idaho wilderness to a small Midwestern town and to the nation's... View Details

April 2010
Teaching Note

The DiagnoFirst Opportunity (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen

Teaching Note for [309112]. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Patents; Cash Flow; Venture Capital; Negotiation Deal; Health Care and Treatment; Opportunities; Law; Health Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Europe