Publications

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

Rwanda. In 2008, the government of Rwanda changed the language of instruction from French to English, which presented a problem, he says, because many of the instructors did not speak English, including the teacher whose class he visited.... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

October 2022
Case

EducationSuperHighway 2.0

By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean

In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

presented itself to take a sabbatical, I took some time off to think about, what was next? And decided that it was time for me to focus more on those more broad-based societal issues. And I concluded that climate change is, in fact, the... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Transforming the IRS

Returns is a way for me to state my deep conviction that any organization, even a tax collection agency, can serve its stakeholders at higher levels than it ever imagined — if its leaders resolutely and passionately set out to do so. What did you View Details

Keywords: Ann Cullen; IRS; Many Unhappy Returns; reform; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

have attracted substantial consumer interest. Other large merchants can also handle their own offers; the Groupon-style brand and infrastructure are most valuable to smaller firms. Q: Explain how the efficacy of Groupon will change in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Technology

June 2019
Case

Monetizing Insurance at Trov

By: Thales Teixeira, Samy Dana and Leandro A Guissoni

Trov is a disruptive startup in the insurance space (“insurtech”). It allows consumers to simply turn on and turn off insurance for each of their possessions on a mobile app with the swipe of a finger. Consumers love the simple, on-demand, single-item coverage product.... View Details

Keywords: Monetization; Decoupling; Business Startups; Insurance; Disruption; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategy; Insurance Industry

Web

Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

strategies. Wendy emphasized that while there has been tremendous growth driven by customer, employees, and investors, that there is a need for regulatory frameworks to help guide businesses in this rapidly changing landscape: “The... View Details

Web

The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog

of the development of entrepreneurship, modern management, business, technology and finance; to examine other institutions that have affected these areas such as governments, unions, and intellectual property rights; and to analyze the... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle

Airlines' AAdvantage program, Brierley pioneered a customer loyalty program that would change the way consumers would select their travel providers. "While the goal of the program was to identify American's best customers, establish a... View Details

Keywords: Charles M. Williams; Epsilon Data Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and economic inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change.... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

their final project: a set of clones, their resumes and a career strategy. Module 3: The revolution of the knowledge-service industries: We will examine the organizational and technological changes taking... View Details

25 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Because the two great disturbances that are shaking the world economy are the cyclical downturns in the United States, and especially in the information and communications technology sectors, and the global supply networks. That double... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih

This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology

February 2024
Supplement

Seeds of Innovation: GALY’s Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab

By: George Serafeim

In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Entrepreneurial Finance; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo

01 Mar 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider

Before he launched Harley-Davidson in India, Anoop Prakash (MBA 2001) held business development roles in technology and was a consultant at McKinsey. He also had experience in the public sector and in the US Marine Corps. But he hadn’t... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

programs. “Those funds,” says Cox’s Camargo, “are drying up.” The Chinese market is evolving quickly in the face of sun-setting subsidies. Shen, for example, is using technology developed by a German firm he acquired to produce two basic... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

January 2020
Case

The June Oven

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Christian Godwin

The June Oven was a smart oven which was capable of identifying food and cooking it accordingly. This type of smart oven represented the next step in the long history of oven and stove development. Due to the widespread use of traditional ovens, the market for the June... View Details