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  • January 2021 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Aptiv’s board must decide whether a joint venture with an auto maker is the right next step in the company’s efforts to develop and commercialize a production-ready autonomous driving system. While many commentators believed that Aptiv’s self-driving technologies had... View Details
Keywords: Automotive Industry; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; Corporate Boards; Innovation And Strategy; Legal Aspects Of Business; Spin Off; Strategic Alliances; Strategic Change; Strategic Evolution; Supplier Relationships; Technological Change; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Innovation Strategy; Going Public; Joint Ventures; Leadership; Restructuring; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Auto Industry; Europe; United States
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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, that focuses on organizational transformation through major shifts, including those... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology

      Christina R. Wing

      Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

      • February 1993 (Revised June 2011)
      • Case

      David Fletcher

      By: Linda A. Hill and Melinda B. Conrad
      David Fletcher, manager of the Emerging Growth Fund at a New York investment management firm, decides to assemble a team of analysts to which he can delegate part of his workload. The case explores the challenges of being a producing manager and Fletcher's efforts to... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Investment Funds; Management Style; Selection and Staffing; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      • September 2001
      • Background Note

      Financial Reporting Environment, The

      By: Paul M. Healy, Amy P. Hutton, Robert S. Kaplan and Krishna G. Palepu
      Provides a framework for understanding the role of financial reporting and various intermediaries as mechanisms for reducing both adverse selection and moral hazard problems in capital markets. Financial reports reduce adverse selection by providing basic information... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Corporate Disclosure; Conflict of Interests
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      • Career Coach

      Kelsey Young

      Kelsey worked in impact roles for five years prior to business school and switched careers from traditional finance to impact investing in 2022. Kelsey can help student navigating various recruiting... View Details
      • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
      • Case

      OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)

      By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Kyle Todd Doherty and Maarten W. Bos
      The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social influence to successfully encourage consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex... View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Attitudes; Entrepreneurship; Energy Conservation; Power and Influence; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; United States
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      • 05 May 2020
      • News

      What if You Don’t Want to Go Back to the Office?

      • February 2024
      • Case

      Shore Capital Partners: The Next Ten Years

      By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
      Private equity firm Shore Capital Partners is at an inflection point, after 12 years of phenomenal growth and success. Now, as the partners consider options, should Shore remain micro-cap focused, or move into more mid-cap investments? Should Shore hold investments... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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      • Career Coach

      Yanzhan Wen

      Yanzhan has four years of management consulting experience within the industrials, chemicals, and healthcare industries. Recently, he made a career pivot into investment banking, interning at Lazard over the... View Details
      • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
      • Case

      Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG

      By: Rebecca Henderson, George Serafeim, Josh Lerner and Naoko Jinjo
      In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of GPIF, the Japanese Government Pension Fund, was reflecting on his efforts to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged... View Details
      Keywords: Pension Funds; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Governance; Leading Change; Economy; Performance Improvement; Japan
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      • 2020
      • Book

      The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World

      By: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman
      Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of changes to an... View Details
      Keywords: Experiments; Randomized Controlled Trials; Organizations; Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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      • 06 Nov 2012
      • News

      Election 2012: Corporate America gets feisty

      • December 2020
      • Case

      Urban Company

      By: Krishna G. Palepu
      Urban Company is an India-based market platform that helps customers book home services and at home beauty services. The company differentiated itself by investing heavily in building customer trust. Rather than merely positioning itself as a lead generating... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Strategy; Service Delivery; Trust; Technology Industry; Service Industry; India
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      • December 2016 (Revised December 2018)
      • Case

      From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem

      By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
      In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “startup nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
      Keywords: Israel; Israeli Start-up Nation; Innovation Economy; Entrepreneurial Mindset; Scaling-up; Unicorns; Innovation Clusters; High-tech; Innovation Management; Multinational Corporation R＆D Centers; Social Equality; Two-tier Economy; Liberalizing An Economy; Foreign Investment; Military Service; Quality Of Human Capital; Socioeconomic Gaps; Labor Force Participation; Government Initiatives; Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Education; Resource Allocation; Globalization; Israel
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      • 10 Dec 2010
      • News

      Tax U.S. companies to spur spending

      • 08 Aug 2018
      • News

      Why Are Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated By Female MDs?

      • August 2017 (Revised January 2020)
      • Case

      PFA Pension: Expansion of Alternatives Portfolio

      By: Victoria Ivashina, Federica Gabrieli and Jérôme Lenhardt
      PFA Pension was the biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark. At the end of 2015, the company had decided to boost its investments into the alternative asset class, an area where it was lagging behind its competitors. The aim was to privilege direct investments... View Details
      Keywords: Asset Management; Private Equity; Investment; Denmark; Europe
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      • April 2016
      • Case

      Detroit: On the Right Track?

      By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
      As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The case covers the rise of Detroit, the city’s devastating fall, and the ongoing potential... View Details
      Keywords: Urban Development; Rail Transportation; Infrastructure; Transportation Industry; Michigan
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      • 04 Apr 2024
      • Blog Post

      Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

      River and encircled Ojibwe Territory. For Tim Murdoch (HBS MBA 1990), a semi-retired independent consultant, water and climate change are new passions. He took a “gap year off” in 2020, View Details