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  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the company received for its Series C round. The case then describes iyzico’s origins and provides a detailed overview of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

previous CEO role. “But it is important. Business needs gender diversity.” Eberle Walker first recognized the gender imbalance in the business world as an investment banking associate. She was often the only... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

thinking. But people aren't mind readers," Conant told a roomful of CEOs during the second Higher-Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held at Harvard Business School in January. "I had to go out on a limb and talk about my... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

innovate the business models of the traditional higher education industry. In a little over a year, Coursera had grown at a rapid rate to emerge as a leader of the MOOCs in terms of the number of student... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2019
  • Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

scale might actually be an advantage for innovation motivated me to write this book. Lagace: As you say, innovation is a broad term. What does it mean to you? Pisano: Innovation means change that creates economic value. Innovations can be about technological change,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

YouTube and creators’ sites. On the surface, YouTube’s business model appears to be the work of genius. But it has posed problems. One problem was lack of profitability. Wojcicki, who got to know Google’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

Working with Professors at HBS

working with Anita Elberse, the famed media and entertainment professor at HBS.  I had read about Anita even before applying to business school.  She only teaches in the EC year, however, I reached out once I stepped foot on campus to... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

business world as an investment-banking associate. She was often the only woman in a meeting—a fact that was frequently commented on by colleagues and clients—and when she looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

Arts). The case explores questions related to designing the school model, interpreting early results, and assessing the team's ability to disseminate their model to other schools. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions, and what can be done about it? That's the basic question contemplated in a book of essays called, The Difference "Difference" Makes, edited by Debra L. Rhode. In the book, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • November 2014
  • Case

BRAC in 2014

By: Tarun Khanna, Rachna Tahilyani, Reeti Roy and Aldo Sesia
In the early 1970s BRAC was a startup nongovernmental organization (NGO) working in Bangladesh. By 2014, it was the world's largest NGO. It had a strong presence in Bangladesh and had begun to deliver social development programs in nine other countries. Its founder and... View Details
Keywords: BRAC; Bangladesh; NGO; Strategy; Business Model; Business Organization; Social Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Bangladesh
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  • November 2009 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

AME Learning Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ann Leamon
Justin Joffe is about to graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small consulting... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Age; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Family and Family Relationships
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  • 08 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

analogy for vicarious learning is the photocopier,” says Christopher G. Myers, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. The idea: Watch what other people do, make copies of the good things and dispose of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

therapy innovations. To bolster Medtronic's near-term prospects, he has supported creative product and business model innovations aimed at overcoming adoption barriers in emerging economies. Ishrak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

remote work during this bizarre time, with so many people scrambling to get their work done while sharing close quarters with shut-in kids, spouses, and pets, is certainly not business as usual, even for work-from home veterans. While... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

much too modest. She is an excellent role model for how to manage our careers if we hope to move into ever more important managerial positions. From her story, we see that leadership can be an exciting but arduous journey of... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 03 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

Janelle Teng is from the Harvard Business School Class of 2020 and a proud member of Section C. While at HBS, Janelle was on the leadership team for the Venture Capital and Private Equity Club and the Women in Investing Club. She is... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

the same rate as non-Indigenous students. The case concludes as JMB contemplates taking his successful, sophisticated model to the United States. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919411-PDF-ENG Harvard View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had rapidly expanded sales to $100... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail