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June 2019
Supplement

KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

This (B) case describes the changes in the organization’s strategy from one of Building Playgrounds to Influencing Play. It describes the implementation of the strategy and the challenges it faced internally and externally. It goes on to describe how the organization... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Social Enterprise; Scaling Social Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Nonprofit Scaling; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States

June 1991 (Revised July 1992)
Case

Standard Oil Co.: Combination, Consolidation, and Integration (Abridged) (A)

By: Thomas K. McCraw

The rise of Standard Oil and its relation to the development of the American oil industry and new form of business organization. View Details

Keywords: Business Organization; Business History; Industry Growth; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United States

June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Standard Oil Co.: Combination, Consolidation, and Integration (Abridged) (B)

By: Thomas K. McCraw

The rise of Standard Oil and its relation to the development of the American oil industry and new form of business organization. View Details

Keywords: Business Organization; Business History; Industry Growth; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United States

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

universities. It is an ongoing tragedy when even the states most historically supportive of public higher education, such as California and Michigan, fail to reinvest in their extraordinary flagship institutions. As the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

April 2004 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Showdown on the Waterfront: The West Coast Port Dispute (B)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Dina R. Pradel

New technology underlies a protracted dispute between West Coast longshoremen and their employers. Severe economic consequences lead to government intervention in the dispute. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Negotiation Process; Business and Government Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Shipping Industry; Western United States

December 2001
Case

iSteelAsia-2001

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Iris T. Li

Presents a follow-up one year later. Shows how this online steel distributor has now reached breakeven. Focuses on the new challenges for the future. View Details

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Economy; Goods and Commodities; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Problems and Challenges; Steel Industry; China; United States

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

by harnessing a new business model. The bold approach worked. Gilead, one of the world’s leading antiviral makers, would sell its branded Hepatitis C medicines while offering local manufacturers voluntary licenses to produce generics,... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

September 2020
Case

Uber at a Crossroads (2017)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman

This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its... View Details

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

improve their chances of finding a partner? Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) is a celebrity matchmaker, an executive fellow at HBS, and a New York Times bestselling author of two books about love and... View Details

26 Jul 2016
First Look

July 26, 2016

behavior translates to truly macroscopic levels, and what its consequences may be, remains unknown. Here, we use call detail records (CDRs) to examine the population dynamics and manifestations of social and spatial homophily at a macroscopic level among the residents... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Events - Business & Environment

address the complex sustainability challenges of our global economy. The career fair will be taking place on February 28th at Columbia University. This year, the Salata Institute is thrilled to sponsor a Climate and Sustainability Alumni and Student Networking Session... View Details

Web

A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

recognition of the remarkable generosity of George Fisher Baker, Sr. (1840-1931) whose extraordinary 1924 gift funded the construction of the original campus. A prominent financier, philanthropist, and president of the First National Bank of View Details

18 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

23 Sep 2008
Other Presentation

Strategy for Social Enterprises

By: Michael E. Porter

Strategy presentation at the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York. Topics include: strategy for museums and social enterprises. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Society; United States