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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • February 2007 (Revised March 2012)
    • Compilation

    John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil

    By: Nancy F. Koehn and Katherine Miller
    Reconstructs the entrepreneurial journey of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and one of the most famous business figures in history. Traces his early career as a retailer in Cleveland through his decision to enter the oil industry in the early 1860s to his... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Competitive Strategy; Energy Industry
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    • September 2011 (Revised May 2012)
    • Case

    GoodGuide

    By: George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles and Tiffany A. Clay
    GoodGuide, a high-technology start-up company, founded by University of California Professor at Berkley Dara O'Rourke is at a critical junction. The venture capital funded company has yet to find the business model to monetize a very promising product that provides... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Goods and Commodities; Business Model; Information Technology; Knowledge; Education Industry; California
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      Eva Ascarza

      Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit.  She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the D^3 institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Marketing core in the MBA required... View Details

      Keywords: telecommunications; e-commerce industry; entertainment; financial services; retailing
      • 31 Jul 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

      When Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever prepared to write The Capitalist's Dilemma for the June issue of Harvard Business Review, they took an approach rarely tried on the same scale: They outsourced it with 150 Harvard View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Apr 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda

      Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Peter Tufano
      • April 2011
      • Case

      The Sandbox: Creating a Bottom-Up Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

      By: Shikhar Ghosh, Lynda M. Applegate, Rhea Ghosh and Amar Kumar
      Discussion of new model of Social Enterprise that applies the venture capital model to social enterprise. View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Non-Governmental Organizations; Venture Capital; Business Model
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      • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
      • Case

      Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

      By: Francois Brochet
      This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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      • November 2001
      • Case

      Korea-Tender

      By: Das Narayandas and Kate Attea
      Korea-Tender is a closed-bidding auction company trying to break even and must select the best opportunity to increase membership and revenue. It can continue its current model with heavy advertising, try to modify its costs, or develop an additional business model... View Details
      Keywords: Auctions; Business Model; Advertising; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Marketing Strategy; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy
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      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      The State of Open Source Server Software

      By: Shane Greenstein and Klaus Ackermann
      The study assembles new data to construct a census of worldwide web server use across the globe. We document a large concentration of investment in the United States, and a wide dispersion across scores of countries. We find tens of billions of dollars of unmeasured... View Details
      Keywords: Internet; Open Source; Internet and the Web; Policy; Open Source Distribution; Internet and the Web; Global Range
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      • 25 Jun 2014
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

      The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
      • March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
      • Case

      Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

      By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
      In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details
      Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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      • 27 Jan 2020
      • News

      Think Outside the Building

      • August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
      • Background Note

      Economic Evidence on the Globalization of Markets

      Presents the systematic evidence in the context of the microeconomic model of market integration. Market integration is just one (economic) aspect of globalization; this is one of the particular interests to business managers. View Details
      Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries
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        Sara McKinley Torti

        Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details

        • 30 Oct 2019
        • Video

        Kutayba Alghanim

        Kutayba Alghanim, Chairman of Kuwait-based Alghanim Industries, a highly diversified business group, discusses how to create a corporate culture which motivates employees of many different nationalities to be... View Details
        • January 1996 (Revised March 2000)
        • Case

        R.R. Donnelley & Sons: The Digital Division

        By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March
        In June 1995, Barbara Schetter, VP and general manager of R.R. Donnelley's Digital Division, is struggling to gain acceptance from other groups and divisions at the printing giant. The Digital Division employs radically new technology--digital printing presses and... View Details
        Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Model; Business Plan; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Technology Adoption; Value Creation
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        • June 2024
        • Teaching Note

        Major League Baseball: Changing the Rules of America's Pastime

        By: Stephen A. Greyser, Mac Levin and Brent Schwarz
        Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 924-307. The Teaching Note offers suggestions for using the case as a “product innovation” for different levels of students and their knowledge of baseball. Discussion plan questions for instructors are provided in the context of MLB’s... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Media; Product; Sports Industry
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        • 24 Jul 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

        kayaking was a wonderful example of how "user innovations" evolve and eventually become commercial products. Hienerth is a professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, while von Hippel is a professor... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
        • February 2006 (Revised March 2008)
        • Case

        ChoicePoint (A)

        By: Lynn S. Paine and Zack Phillips
        The CEO of ChoicePoint, a leading company in the rapidly growing U.S. personal data industry, must reexamine the company's business model after a serious breach of data security affecting some 145,000 U.S. citizens. He must decide on steps to strengthen data protection... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Ethics; Information Technology; Information Industry; United States
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