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  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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  • June 2022
  • Teaching Note

Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-419. On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years... View Details
Keywords: B2B Vs. B2C; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Cost Management; Business Model; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

William A.M. Burden Sr. graduated from Harvard College in 1900. (Harvard University Archives) William A.M. Burden Sr. graduated from Harvard College in 1900. (Harvard University Archives) For nearly half a century, Burden Hall served as a magnet that drew the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

increases efficiency and makes better goods and services available to citizens across the world. Why then do so many people fight free trade? A primary reason is loyalty to the short-sighted interest of a group. Groups that benefit from... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health
  • August 2024
  • Article

Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice

By: Shawn Cole, Mukta Joshi and Antoinette Schoar
There is growing evidence that business training for micro-entrepreneurs can be effective. However, in-person training can be expensive and imposes costs on the target beneficiaries. This paper presents the results of a two-site randomized evaluation of a light-touch,... View Details
Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; India; Philippines
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  • December 2023 (Revised August 2024)
  • Supplement

Microsoft Azure and the Cloud Wars (B)

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
By 2023, the global market for cloud infrastructure had consolidated into a three-horse race. As of Q4 2022, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google collectively accounted for 66% of the global market. AWS had a market share of 33%, Microsoft Azure had 23%, and Google Cloud had... View Details
Keywords: Microsoft; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Market Participation
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  • November 2021 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

EbonyLife Media (A)

By: Andy Wu, Feng Zhu, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
Founded by Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu in 2012 with a mission to bring high-quality African stories to the world, EbonyLife was the company behind many of Nigeria’s biggest films and TV shows. The company began as a television channel on the Africa-wide direct broadcast... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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  • October 1989 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

RKO Warner Video, Inc.: Incentive Compensation Plan

By: George P. Baker III
Details the design and implementation of an incentive bonus plan for video store managers. The problem for top management of the chain is to induce the store managers to "sweat the details," to keep the stores neat and well organized, and to deal courteously and... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Change; Strategic Planning; Performance Improvement; Sales; Management; Employee Relationship Management; Situation or Environment; Success; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 03 Oct 2016
  • News

Clayton Christensen On What He Got Wrong About Disruptive Innovation

  • Teaching Interest

Field Global Immerson

By: Martin A. Sinozich

The FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) is a semester-long first-year (RC) MBA course. The course is a capstone of sorts, and it requires students to build on learnings from their first-year courses and apply them to real-world business problems. At the beginning of the... View Details

  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

further forced changes to customers and hence firm-based behaviors. The outcome of customers’ health and fears has resulted not in a traditional recession but a “deaccession,” where supply and demand exist, but customer-access to products and View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Service; Service
  • Web

Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

for thinking about multiple dimensions of the environment and the way they interact. Clusters are concentrations of firms in particular fields, including suppliers, supporting services and related institutions. They enable productivity... View Details
  • Web

For Alumni - Doctoral

For Alumni For Alumni HBS is recognized as a leader in educating faculty—renowned researchers and educators who are firmly grounded in both theory and practice—for business schools and universities across the country and around the global. Stay In Touch Alumni Career... View Details
  • Web

Being on Boards - Alumni

member with HBS resources on HBS for Life. HBS Programs for Your Next Steps Find programs to help you ensure compliance, strengthen relationships with company management, and drive business success. Nonprofit Board Service Discover how to... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Field Course: Social Innovation Lab

By: Brian L. Trelstad
Co-taugh with Prof. John Kim
This course provides students an opportunity to use the discipline of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Social Enterprise
  • Research Summary

Recent Strategies in the U.S. Grocery Industry

By: Rajiv Lal
Rajiv Lal's work comparing the benefits of EDLP and Hi-Lo strategies in the grocery industry indicates that while EDLP grocery retailers may not be able to benefit from traditional costs savings associated with this strategy, these retailers still benefit from the use... View Details
  • September 2025
  • Article

Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India

By: Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna
This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India
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  • July 2024
  • Supplement

Fail Safe Testing, Inc. (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: Fail Safe Testing, Inc., founded in 1988, was the leading provider of fire hose pressure testing, ground ladder and pump... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Acquisition; Customers
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