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  • Teaching Interest

FIELD Foundations

By: Alison Wood Brooks

FIELD Foundations is a course for first-year MBA students in the Required Curriculum. As a complement to case method courses that students take in the first year of the MBA program, FIELD Foundations offers hands-on leadership practice and immersive team... View Details

  • 29 Feb 2024
  • HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

Superstar talent brings the kind of wattage that can power a business to the next level, as recent high-stakes decisions facing soccer legend David Beckham show. Two new Harvard Business School case studies examine the questions Beckham and his View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

    Author Talks: Tsedal Neeley on why remote work is here to stay-and how to get it right

    In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey’s Eleni Kostopoulos chats with Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, about her book View Details
    • May 2008 (Revised September 2009)
    • Case

    IBM's Dynamic Workplace

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, job sharing, and domestic partner benefits. Its human resources portfolio included a full array of progressive policies... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Social Enterprise
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    • October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
    • Case

    BC Partners: Acuris

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu
    This case follows Nikos Stathopoulos, Managing Partner of BC Partners, as he and his team evaluate the potential sale of one of BC Partners’ portfolio companies, Acuris. Acuris was a global financial intelligence, news, and data company that had been acquired by BC... View Details
    Keywords: Fund Management; Fund Raising; Leveraged Buyout; Buyout; Portfolio Management; Operations Improvement; Exit; Exit Strategy; Valuation Ratios; Finance; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Operations; Performance Improvement; Acquisition; Valuation
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    • 07 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: February 7

    field study of 78 audit and consulting teams from two global professional firms, revealing an irony of team life: even though motivated to perform well on a high-stakes... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
    • Case

    Zalora Philippines: From Growth to Profitability

    By: Donald Ngwe and Thales Teixeira
    In May 2015 Paulo Campos, co-founder and CEO of Zalora Philippines, found himself at a crucial turning point in his young company’s development. In just three years, Zalora had come from entering the Philippine fashion retail industry as an unknown quantity to becoming... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Sweden; Southeast Asia; Philippines
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    • May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
    • Case

    Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
    As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Digital Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    • July 2021 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade (A)

    By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira, Dean Xu and Lucas Baker
    This case explores the decision that Bill Ackman, CEO and founder of the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, was considering in late February 2020 about hedging the exposure of the fund’s portfolio from the potential financial fallout ensuing from an extreme event like... View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Financial Liquidity; Cost Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk Management
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    • Article

    Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do about It

    By: Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström and Derek Schrader
    U.S. corporations spend enormous amounts of money—some $456 billion globally in 2015 alone—on employee training and education, but they aren't getting a good return on their investment. People soon revert to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Organizational Design; Employees; Business Processes; United States
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    • September 2019 (Revised January 2021)
    • Case

    Vispera: Visual Intelligence for Retail

    By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in 2019 as Aytul Ercil, co-founder and CEO of Vispera, computer vision technology provider for retail, is contemplating the company’s agenda trying to decide how to prioritize the impeding options. The case chronicles the founding of Vispera, the... View Details
    Keywords: Computer Vision Technology; Visual Analysis; Retail; Information Technology; Business Model; Operations; Performance Efficiency; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Global Strategy; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey
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    • February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    CalPERS Private Equity 2.0

    By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Alys Ferragamo
    Yup Kim, the Head of Investments, Private Equity at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), reflected on the pension fund’s private equity strategy. In July of 2022, the fund was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround strategy with the goal to... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Retirement; Leadership; Strategy; Public Sector
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    Overview

    By: Peter Tufano
    Tufano is the convener for an innovative global doctoral reading group, The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS). This novel course, taught with professors from Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Texas, Imperial, NYU, Mannheim, and Oxford brings together... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2019
    • Blog Post

    Aspa Lekka (MBA 2020) Talks Dreams of Becoming a CEO, Handball, and Her Hometown in Greece

    Aspa Lekka (MBA 2020) was a member of the Greek National Team for handball. Upon realizing she had global ambitions of competing in a larger world, she ventured out to Berlin to join a startup as a business... View Details
    • 31 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

    Williams, a visiting fellow at Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). And perhaps even worse, DEI efforts based on the business case usually fail to address the root causes of inequality.... View Details
    Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

      Tarun Khanna

      Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

      • March 2023
      • Supplement

      Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (B)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
      In 2018, Ana Owczarzak was appointed to lead Google Ads' new innovation and accelerator team - the Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL). The purpose of SAIL was to offer testing and incubation services for individuals within Google Ads who were developing new... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; United States
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      • July 2023
      • Case

      DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome (Abridged)

      By: Ayelet Israeli
      DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals. After a first year of trial rollout in... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Nutrition; Market Entry and Exit; Product Marketing; Distribution Channels
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      • September 2020 (Revised July 2021)
      • Case

      Moderna (A)

      By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer and Kerry Herman
      In summer 2020, Stephane Bancel, CEO of biotech firm Moderna, faces several challenges as his company races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. The case explores how a company builds a digital organization, and leverages artificial intelligence and other digital... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine; Digital Organizations; Organizational Structure; Operations; Management; Health Pandemics; Research and Development; Goals and Objectives
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      • August 2006 (Revised March 2007)
      • Background Note

      Developing an Effective Living Group in the General Management Program

      By: Michael Beer and John J. Gabarro
      Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program developing into effective learning groups. The diversity of the groups is a strength, but only a conscious and concerted... View Details
      Keywords: Groups and Teams
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