Publications

29 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

force for quite some time.” Beckham (right) and Authentic Brands CEO Jamie Salter (middle), pictured walking with Elberse, shared business insights with MBA students during a visit in October. (Image credit: Evgenia Eliseeva) Authentic Brands Group, a multinational... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Transparent Value LLC

By: Sharon P. Katz, Krishna G. Palepu and Aldo Sesia, Jr.

Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with Transparent Value LLC, the creator of a new fundamentals-based valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation

October 2007
Article

The Art of Designing Markets

By: Alvin E. Roth

Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Internet and the Web

Find at Harvard

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts the development and initial stages of this project and the tradeoffs inherent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Curriculum - Case Method Project

Commission with the power to license radio stations. Coverage: 1890 – 1927; President Coolidge; radio; political significance of mass communication technology; regulation; interest groups; Herbert Hoover The Pecora Hearings (1932-34) This... View Details

22 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

you'll see, increasingly, companies like OpenAI are now licensing data to get around that concern. In all of these cases, we might want to then remove the influence of that data from our trained model. Now, in a world where models were... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

23 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 23

this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111085-PDF-ENG Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate George Serafeim and Kyle WelchHarvard Business School Case 112-011 The case describes the challenges that Ultimate Fighting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Duolingo: On a 'Streak'

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Nicole Tempest Keller and Nicole Luo

In December 2024, Severin Hacker, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duolingo, reflected on the remarkable evolution of the language-learning app he helped launch in 2011. As the #1 most downloaded education app in the world, Duolingo had over 100 million... View Details

Keywords: Learning; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Diversification; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Technology Industry; Education Industry; United States

Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details

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Research Computing Services

statistics, machine learning, biology, & business. Faculty Project Examples (login required) Read about how the RCS team has assisted with HBS faculty research projects. Software Licensing (Login Required) HBS has View Details

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FAQs - Alumni

hotel. During your reunion, complimentary parking is available on campus in the Soldiers Field Parking Garage. Attendees with a disability license plate or placard may park for free in the Spangler Parking Lot - enter from Batten Way off... View Details

26 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

inferences on behalf of Black and Latinx and Native American software engineers.” “I could imagine a context where people use this argument even though they don't really mean it, because they know it's the more morally licensed or... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

— John Heard referring to the hong merchants, from his diary, 1891 10 The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System During the period known as the Canton trade system (1757–1842), hong merchants acted as exclusive liaisons between American traders and the Chinese.... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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California - Global

the brand license to extend into adjacent subjects? Which areas were the best fit for the app’s growth, and how quickly should they roll out? And what were the long-term benefits and risks to new subjects within the flagship app? January... View Details

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

top of their license and training can substantially reduce the costs of care without adversely impacting outcomes. Cost measurement begins by mapping all the processes involved in patient care for a condition, (or primary care patient... View Details

September 2020
Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry