Publications

23 Jun 2015
News

Governance reforms add significance to being a public company

28 Apr 2023
News

Know Your HBS Staff: Corey Tolbert

Shirley Huang

Shirley Huang is a doctoral student at the Technology & Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests include data-driven decision making and human AI collaboration. Shirley graduated from Cornell University with a dual... View Details

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

CEO and the senior management team believe the firm should focus on. The second is bottom-up, "emergent" strategy, which is established by the actual decisions and behaviors in the organization.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

February 2006 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brooke Barton and Ezequiel Reficco

Located in the highlands of Peru, the Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Conflict Management; Mining Industry; Australia; Peru

June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker

This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Business Offices; Customer Relationship Management; Design; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Service Industry; San Francisco

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June 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Domestic Auto Parts

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Describes a meeting of an executive team to discuss strategy for a company turnaround. The exercise is to construct a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to capture the new strategy. View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Business Strategy

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

note:http://hbr.org/search/312091-PDF-ENG Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility Christopher Marquis and Laura Velez VillaHarvard Business School Course Overview 412-121 The note... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

How Financial Aid Makes All the Difference

Josue Zapata, MD/MBA 2012, wanted to be a doctor as a little kid of loving parents – his mom a Spanish teacher, his dad a manager in Riverside County, CA – who emigrated to the U.S. from Colombia. Financial aid at HBS made his dream... View Details

October 2014
Article

The Transparency Trap

By: Ethan Bernstein

To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. Employees perform better when they can try out new ideas and... View Details

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March 2007 (Revised March 2009)
Case

Cherrypicks

By: William R. Kerr

Cherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Communication Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Communications Industry; China; Hong Kong; South Korea

06 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

ventures being started in every corner of the globe. These ventures can raise money locally or globally. They can disperse talent in many countries. Take a company like Skype. When I visited Skype several years ago, it had 125 employees from 23 countries. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Publications - Faculty & Research

Capital ; Management ; Macroeconomics ; Governance Controls ; Mathematical Methods Citation Read Now Related Acosta-Henao, Miguel, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández. "Sticky Capital Controls." Art. 104104. Journal of International... View Details

February 2020
Case

Drift: The First Sales Hire

By: Mark Roberge

David Cancel and Elias Torres, the co-founders of Drift, scaled their business to thousands of users and hundreds of thousands in revenue. However, they were falling short of the annual revenue target they communicated to the board of directors. Having scaled the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Salesforce Management; Selection and Staffing