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  • November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Deutsche Bank: Structured Retail Products

By: Boris Vallée and Jérôme Lenhardt
Describes how Deutsche Bank, a leading European bank, is deciding whether or not to launch a new structured retail product in Germany: an autocallable note. Will this product find a market and how does it fit into the bank’s product portfolio? The case investigates how... View Details
Keywords: Structured Products; Structured Retail Products; Germany; Auto Callable Note; Financial Product; Financial Product Development; Financial Product Marketing; Financial Product Launch; Financial Product Positioning; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Asset Management; Capital Markets; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Commercial Banking; Financial Instruments; Annuities; Bonds; Stocks; Financial Management; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Investment
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  • 2014
  • Discussion Paper

Do High Feed-in Tariffs for Solar PV Panels Hinder Competition (Japanese)

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
In Japan, feed-in-tariffs (FIT) are a key policy tool that has been deployed to produce the mass diffusion of photovoltaices (PV). In this study, we argue that this policy is unlikely to induce sustainable economic growth, which some use as a justification for FIT. We... View Details
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  • 11 Oct 2011
  • News

The rise of online education

    What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential

    Professor Kaplan's book is published by the Harvard Business Review Press, May 2013.

    Drawing on his years of experience, Rob Kaplan proposes an integrated plan for identifying and achieving your goals.  He outlines specific steps and exercises to help you... View Details

    • Article

    Contextual Intelligence

    By: Tarun Khanna
    The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of... View Details
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    • May–June 2021
    • Article

    Why Start-ups Fail

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    If you’re launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School set out to discover why. Based on interviews and surveys with hundreds... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Failure
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    • June 2015
    • Article

    You Need an Innovation Strategy

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy
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      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • 2013
      • Tool

      Harvard Business Review's Go to Market Tools: Market Sizing

      By: Jill Avery and Thomas Steenburgh
      Market size matters. On the hook to launch your division's next great product or service? Need to convince higher ups that your product will fit that gaping revenue hole—and is worth the team's scarce marketing and product development resources? You need hard data to... View Details
      Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Tools; Go To Market Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Marketing
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      • January 2023
      • Case

      Proday: Calling the Right Play

      By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
      Sarah Kunst knew the elements of a successful startup from her tenure at venture capital firms. In April 2018, however, her own app – Proday, a home fitness platform featuring exercises filmed by professional sports stars – was floundering. Kunst theorized that... View Details
      Keywords: Social Media; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Product Launch; Social Marketing; Failure; Sports; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Technology Industry; United States
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      • April 2006
      • Case

      Managing a Public Image: Cheri Mack

      By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas
      Cheri Mack, an African-American woman, has just arrived at Harvard Business School after working for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of... View Details
      Keywords: Management Style; Race; Reputation; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Gender; Massachusetts
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      • May 1997
      • Teaching Note

      Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note

      By: Marco Iansiti
      Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Competition
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      • 12 Nov 2020
      • News

      Commutes

      • January–February 2018
      • Article

      The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture: How to Manage the Eight Critical Elements of Organizational Life

      By: Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
      Executives are often confounded by culture, because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors, mindsets, and social patterns. But when properly managed, culture can help them achieve change and build organizations that will thrive in even the most trying times. In... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      • June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
      • Teaching Note

      Rose Electronics Distributing Company

      By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
      Itamar Frankenthal (HBS ’13) wanted a $4.5 million bank loan to partially finance his planned acquisition of a small company, Rose Electronics. He received nine proposals which varied widely in term, interest rate, amortization schedule, and covenants. Frankenthal had... View Details
      Keywords: Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Decision Making; Electronics Industry
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      • 15 Nov 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

      Keywords: by Mihnea Moldoveanu
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Interest-Rate Risk and Household Portfolios

      By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, James Paron and Natasha Sarin
      How are households exposed to interest-rate risk? When rates fall, households face lower future expected returns but those holding long-term assets—disproportionately the wealthy and middle-aged—experience capital gains. We study the hedging demand for long-term assets... View Details
      Keywords: Portfolio Choice; Social Security; Interest Rates; Investment Portfolio; Equality and Inequality; Welfare
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        "Using Models to Persuade"

        We present a framework where "model persuaders" influence receivers’ beliefs by proposing models that organize past data to make predictions. Receivers are assumed to find models more compelling when they better explain the data, fixing receivers’ prior beliefs.... View Details

          Large Shocks Travel Fast

          We leverage the inflation upswing of 2022 and various granular datasets to identify robust price-setting patterns following a large supply shock. We show that the frequency of price changes increases dramatically after a large shock. We set up a parsimonious New... View Details
          • October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
          • Case

          Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.

          Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of nondurable, mass-market consumer goods with suppliers located all over East Asia who manufacture products according... View Details
          Keywords: Networks; Marketplace Matching; Supply Chain Management; Trade; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; United States; Europe
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