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  • March 2020
  • Technical Note

Intrapreneurship: Leading Innovation Efforts in Established Organizations

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
“Intrapreneurship” is the use of entrepreneurial management techniques within established companies to create new environments that foster innovation. Mature firms have consistently faced risk of elimination from competitors, shifting consumer preferences, and... View Details
Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Accelerators; Incubators; Lean Startup; Hypothesis Testing; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Framework; Disruption
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    Shirley Lu

    Shirley Lu is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Lu conducts research in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure,... View Details

    • Article

    Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Power and Influence; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Capital Markets; Capital Structure; Information Technology; Patents; Creativity; Economic Systems; Development Economics; United States
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    • March 2006
    • Course Overview Note

    International Finance: A Course Overview Note

    By: Mihir A. Desai
    Describes the International Finance course at Harvard Business School, which argues that the forces of globalization have fundamentally changed the scope and activities of firms, thereby altering the practice of finance within these firms. As a consequence of an... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Ventures; Integration; Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Risk Management; Competitive Advantage; Motivation and Incentives; International Finance; Capital Markets
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    • April 1996 (Revised September 2003)
    • Case

    Crown Cork & Seal/CarnaudMetalbox

    By: William E. Fruhan Jr. and William DeWitt
    A U.S. packaging firm acquires a French packaging firm with the objective of creating the largest global packaging firm in the world. View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; France; United States
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      Paul Hamilton

      Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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      • January 2023 (Revised January 2024)
      • Case

      Digital Transformation at Tata Steel

      By: Krishna Palepu, Das Narayandas, Radhika Kak and Rachna Tahilyani
      T.V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel, India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm, had taken concrete business and cultural transformation steps to future-ready the firm since taking over in 2013. He had deleveraged and instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses,... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Steel Industry; Asia; India
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        Carolyn J. Fu

        Carolyn Fu is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. She studies innovation strategy in the context of high degrees of social construction – where the value of an innovation is continuously redefined between firms and their... View Details

        • June 2023 (Revised August 2023)
        • Background Note

        Subscription Models: Recurring Revenues for Lasting Growth

        By: Elie Ofek and Amy Konary
        This note offers a comprehensive exposition to subscription revenue models and aims to explain their recent rise. It covers the advantages to firms of employing a subscription-based approach to monetization (as opposed to “one-off” upfront payment), as well as the... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Revenue; Product Design
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        • 12 Feb 2025
        • Blog Post

        How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)

        venture firm called The Engine. During my second internship at The Engine, I discovered cell-cultured meat. I was immediately captivated by the... View Details
        • March 2020 (Revised March 2022)
        • Case

        Wachtell Lipton: Focused Excellence

        By: Ashish Nanda and Margaret Cross
        For years, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz—a small, New York City law firm—has consistently boasted the highest profits per partner and one of the highest “prestige” ratings among U.S.-based law firms. The firm has remained loyal to a distinctive strategy ever since its... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Legal Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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        • July 2017
        • Case

        Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts: Buying from a Highly Regarded Competitor

        By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
        The case examines the March 2015 Centerbridge Partners investment decision regarding whether to acquire Great Wolf Resorts, a North American family-oriented indoor water parks and hotel operator, from a private equity (PE) competitor, Apollo Global Management. The case... View Details
        Keywords: Private Equity Financing; Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities; CMBS; Secondary Buyouts; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Cost of Capital; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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        • July 2010 (Revised January 2017)
        • Background Note

        Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis (2024)

        By: Thomas Steenburgh and Jill Avery
        Customers are increasingly being viewed as assets that bring value to the firm. Customer lifetime value is a metric that allows managers to understand the overall value of their customer base and relate it to three customer strategies firms employ: asset... View Details
        Keywords: Customer Lifetime Value; Return On Investment; Customer Acquisition; Customer Retention; Customer Churn; ＂Marketing Analytics＂; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Value
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          Daniel W. Green

          Daniel Green is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. He teaches the Finance II course to MBA students.

          Professor Green’s research focuses on corporate finance, capital markets, and financial intermediation.  His current... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; banking; private equity (LBO funds); investment banking industry
          • January 2009
          • Case

          Berkshire Hathaway

          By: Bharat N. Anand and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
          Berkshire Hathaway describes the history and strategy of one of the best known investment firms over the last forty years. The case describes the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett, its legendary chairman and CEO, the gradual diversification of its portfolio, its... View Details
          Keywords: History; Private Equity; Diversification; Resource Allocation; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Corporate Governance
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          • 2024
          • Working Paper

          The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

          By: Malcolm S. Salter
          What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
          Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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          • January 1975 (Revised April 2009)
          • Case

          Optical Distortion, Inc. (A)

          A new product, contact lenses for chickens, is to be introduced by a small firm formed to market the product. An entry strategy must be planned including price, sales force, size, and location. Allows data for computation of economic benefit to farmers. Includes... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Price; Geographic Location; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Sales
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          • 2008
          • Working Paper

          Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations

          By: Julio J. Rotemberg
          A model is developed where firms in a financial system have to settle their debts to each other by using a liquid asset. The question that is studied is how many firms must obtain how much of this asset from outside the financial system to make sure that all debts... View Details
          Keywords: Economy; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Networks
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          • 14 Apr 2022
          • Blog Post

          Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

          future in entrepreneurship as well as the greater collective, the next career move was less clear. However, when Gomih’s mentor from Bank of America came to her with the idea... View Details

            Aticus Peterson

            Aticus Peterson (apeterson@hbs.edu) is a PhD candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on how entrepreneurs and investors can... View Details