Publications

February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
Case

Accelerating the Accelerator: Raja Al Mazrouei at DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards and Lydia Begag

In January 2023, Raja Al Mazrouei became the Managing Director and Acting CEO of Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) in Dubai, UAE. In her previous role as the Executive Vice President of the DIFC Fintech Hive, she successfully built and led an accelerator program for... View Details

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

himself as a gastronomic ambassador of Peru; he has this mission to promote Peruvian cuisine. The question is how is that aligned with the business of profitability and growth, [and] so how does he stay authentic. Does he stay true to Peruvian cuisine or View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

ability to create value. Creating superior performance with strategies optimized for adaptation (adjusting to differences), aggregation (overcoming differences), and arbitrage (exploiting differences), and for compound objectives.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Keeping the Beat

the virtual. To actually think: How do I hold space for folks in a Zoom, in Instagram Live, on Facebook Live? How do I make my concerts and my performances adapt to meet virtual instead of desperately trying to make virtual feel like the... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

promote them. Adapted from "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry," by Alvin J. Silk, Lisa R. Klein, and Ernst R. Berndt, a paper that was presented at the Berlin Internet Economics Workshop in 1999. View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

archival research from ten countries, including new material from Russia and China, much of it no longer accessible to researchers, this book examines how China sought to mobilize Asia, Africa, and Latin America to seize the revolutionary mantle from the Soviet Union.... View Details

September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

guidance on cash flow issues, SBA loan applications, and adaptation strategies. The nonprofit is providing comprehensive support to enable these businesses to recover and prepare to reemerge. TAP, which relies on donor support, recruits... View Details

February 2017
Case

Clear Channel (A): The Rise, 1972–2003

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

At the end of 2003, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a diversified media group with revenues of $8.9 billion, could claim leadership positions in all three of its main businesses. Clear Channel Broadcasting was the largest radio-station operator in the world, with... View Details

Keywords: Clear Channel; Clear Channel Outdoor; Radio; Outdoor Advertising; Concert Industry; Lowry Mays; Federal Communications Commission; Regulation; Regulations; Regulatory Environment; JCDecaux; Media; Growth Management; Consolidation; Competitive Strategy; Fair Value Accounting; Advertising; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; For-Profit Firms; Entertainment; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Public Equity; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Business History; Laws and Statutes; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Industry Structures; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Wireless Technology; Valuation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Advertising Industry; Music Industry; United States; Texas

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

international forums as the Clinton Global Initiative, UNESCO, and the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. Guanaes needed to determine the best growth strategy, how to seize opportunities, and/or how to adapt to meet his ambitious goal.... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

best to expand abroad. In doing so, the company tackles the following universal questions: How strong and sustainable is the home-market strategy? Which markets should the company enter first? And does the company need to adapt its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

hospital emergency room and focuses on the effects of a new organizational structure, which we call a team scaffold, on teaming effectiveness and performance outcomes. Using a hybrid research design that adapts and blends quantitative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

teachers adapt and improve their classroom practices to focus on individual student needs, and to help principals spot and respond to performance problems among teachers. For example, four of our districts (Charleston, Chicago, Memphis,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

a revolving crew of geologists, biologists, and oceanographers who collect and analyze data from every dive. They are studying the forbidding environments and the biodiversity that thrives in these places and the ways in which life can View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

building trust in intercultural negotiations with an emphasis on cultural intelligence-the capacity to adapt effectively across cultures. From the Outside In: The Negative Spillover Effects of Boundary Spanners' Relations with Members of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Cesaro e Associati

By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal

This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details