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  • 30 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr; Technology
  • July 2021
  • Case

Amazon HQ2

By: James K. Sebenius and Ben Cook
Amazon’s failed bid for a second headquarters location (“HQ2”) in Long Island City, New York offers many lessons for negotiators looking to avoid similar high-profile defeats in strategically important deals. The company’s project – which promised to bring billions of... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Negotiation; Public Opinion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Problems and Challenges
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  • 06 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion

Keywords: by Henry Chen, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner & Josh Lerner

    Cultural Entrepreneurship in NYC

    During weeklong January-term trips to New York City in 2013 and 2014, students from across Harvard University studied cultural entrepreneurship: new ventures in fashion, food, fine arts, and design. Students explored how such ventures are launched, and how proximity... View Details

    • February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Shake Shack's Playbook for the Digital Era

    By: Christopher Stanton, Allison Ciechanover and George Gonzalez
    This case examines Shake Shack’s journey from a single New York City hot dog cart to a global fast-casual restaurant chain renowned for both premium quality and a culture of “enlightened hospitality.” As the company expands worldwide, it pilots digital ordering... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Customer Satisfaction; Technology Adoption; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry
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      William C. Vrattos

      Bill Vrattos is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Investment Strategies, a course on public market investing in the elective curriculum. He also co-teaches Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems, where he mentors student groups on... View Details

      • April 2018
      • Article

      We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding

      By: Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark Conley and E. Tory Higgins
      Male entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates with a gender bias in the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Finance; Gender; Prejudice and Bias
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        Alvin E. Roth

        Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

        Keywords: e-commerce industry; education industry; health care; information; internet; legal services
        • 14 May 2013
        • Blog Post

        Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…

        HBS alum, Matt Segneri, MBA 2010, provides an update on his career post-HBS. Check out his original profile at graduation. Current Position: Government Innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies Current Location: New View Details
        Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
        • July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
        • Case

        Propel

        By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
        In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details
        Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Food Stamps; EBT; Mobile App; User Research; Financial Services Referrals; Grocery Marketing; Customer Discovery; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Model; Research; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Welfare; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
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          Arthur C. Brooks

          Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details

          • 19 Nov 2014
          • HBS Case

          Marketing Marijuana

          companies—perhaps the existing "big tobacco" powerhouses—muscle their way in and perpetrate "The Bud Light-ification of Bud," as the New York Times suggested? Those pursuing answers need... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
          • April 2019
          • Case

          American Ballet Theatre

          By: Anita Elberse, Tsubasa Nakajima and Melissa Rodman
          Kara Medoff Barnett, executive director of American Ballet Theatre (ABT), widely regarded as one of the world’s premier ballet companies, faces several challenges. It is June 2018. Despite its prestige, the company’s $45 million annual budget and $22 million endowment... View Details
          Keywords: Performing Arts; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; Non-profit; Contracts; Labor Economics; General Management; Arts; Entertainment; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing; Strategy
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            Juan Alcacer

            Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within... View Details

            Keywords: consulting; management consulting; telecommunications
            • Profile

            Michael R. Bloomberg

            the most important to me is that life expectancy in New York City has grown three years since I took office in 2002 and is now 2.2 years greater than the national average.” As... View Details

              Jeffrey J. Bussgang

              General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

              Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

              Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

                Rosabeth M. Kanter

                Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

                Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; airline; apparel; arts; automobiles; banking; beauty products; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; chemical; clothing; communications; computer; consulting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; industrial goods; information; information technology industry; insurance industry; internet; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retail financial services; retailing; semiconductor; soft drink; software; sports; state government; telecommunications; textiles; tourism; toy; transportation; travel; utilities; wine
                • 27 May 2009
                • First Look

                First Look: May 27, 2009

                Tepperberg is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his New York City nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one-and-a-half years, Tepperberg has... View Details
                Keywords: Martha Lagace
                • Research Summary

                Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

                The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details
                • 08 Feb 2016
                • Research & Ideas

                The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

                learning to analyze images. Using these techniques, he took some 3,600 images of New York City blocks, obtained from the Google Street View Image API, and “taught” the computer... View Details
                Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products