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  • February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang
In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details
Keywords: Timing; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Business Model; Organizational Design; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; United States; Canada; China
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  • January 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Case

iOpenEye: Theater and #MeToo in Nigeria

By: Caroline Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
In 2014, Ifeoma Fafunwa, an award-winning playwright and director, founded iOpenEye, a commercial production company dedicated to driving social change through performance art. iOpenEye’s flagship theatrical production was called “Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True,”... View Details
Keywords: Theatre; Social Change; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Arts; Entertainment; Social Issues; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Nigeria
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  • 10 Sep 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

Harvard Business School Professor Rohit Deshpandé often asks his marketing students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable—and should everything be brandable? So when he read a November 2010 New York Times piece on the tensions... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • Profile

Brandon Tieu

Coming to HBS is like... Arriving at HBS feels like parachuting into leadership camp where every day is a chapter from the best business book, but in an interactive format. The case discussions and conversations with peers allow you to... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

believed I was best positioned to drive innovations in business models and strategies, and bring new, world-changing technologies to market. I came to HBS to get exposure to people from different backgrounds... View Details
  • February 2018
  • Case

Redfin

By: Marco Di Maggio and Julia Kelley
Redfin, a technology-powered residential real estate brokerage, was founded in 2002 with the intention of using technology to disrupt the real estate industry. Over the next 15 years, Redfin made several changes to its business model. Initially, the company provided... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry
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  • January 2014
  • Case

Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial (Abridged)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joseph B. Fuller and Shikhar Ghosh
Steven Carpenter reflects on the successes and failures of his recent venture, Cake Financial. Carpenter had just sold the four-year-old startup and was at work on a new business plan. But first, he wanted to understand why Cake Financial, a service that allowed users... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Internet; Financial Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

changed the American marketplace. Over 240,000 miles of track laid across the country from 1830 to 1910 required the quick and efficient production of railroad equipment and supplies. This thriving new industry created the model for... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54672 July–August 2018 Harvard Business Review The Other Diversity Dividend By: Gompers, Paul, and Silpa Kovvali Abstract—Researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background

Charlotte Steel, a former political science major at Brown, was inspired to become a teacher after taking a “Politics of Education” class at her alma mater.  When applying to business school, Charlotte had concerns about whether she had... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2020
  • News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

Clayton M. Christensen Clayton M. Christensen Clayton M. Christensen (MBA 1979, DBA 1992), Harvard Business School’s Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2023
  • News

Leading the Way

Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. "I just really lacked direction, and needed to focus," says Trejo, who had a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 09 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

skills, to give those people a meaningful pathway into an opportunity to have earned success.” "With OneTen’s backing, Black employees could move up the ranks and become role models for those who follow." Rometty and her team at IBM... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
  • 12 Jan 2023
  • News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

a matter of pragmatism, cannot expect to sustain social and political advances that aren’t built on a firm economic footing,” Ballard says. “He believed this was the unfinished business of Martin Luther King Jr., and that it remains... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

layout that would optimize product flow and plant capacity — critical to reducing process time — and made extensive use of simulations to generate insights. They created Cardboard City, a three dimensional model of a manufacturing cell... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53811 Do Banks Have an Edge? By: Begenau, Juliane, and Erik Stafford Abstract—We decompose bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

former owner of the portfolio as property manager. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-016 Business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2023
  • News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley