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  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one of the most successful... View Details
  • May 2023
  • Teaching Note

Tesla’s Uncertain Fate as EV Race Accelerates

By: David Collis
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-368. The case describes the strategic position of Tesla in 2021. While the firm has been successful in driving adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) globally and has a huge market share in the segment, it faces an impending tsunami of... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Competition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Adoption; Auto Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global, competitive economy. To give MBAs... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 28 Oct 2015
  • News

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

victory from the Czech Republic. Železný somehow managed to turn the loss to his advantage and ended up a member of the European Parliament. For business managers and investors, the story of TV Nova and the joint venture that spawned it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Tata Nano The People's Car

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Bharat N. Anand and Rachna Tahilyani
The case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, developed the Nano, the world's cheapest car. The case focuses on the translation of Ratan Tata's (chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, managing... View Details
Keywords: Price; Globalized Firms and Management; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Business Processes; Quality; Competition; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

authority over its businesses in the United States. Unilever's weak performance in the United States market was an unsustainable position for a firm that aspired to be a global consumer goods player. The... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • March–April 2024
  • Article

How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management

By: David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher and Peter Tufano
Executives need guidance about managing their organizations’ engagement with societal issues—including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and racial discrimination. Success in this realm does not mean avoiding public controversy or achieving unanimous support... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Judgments; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 09 Dec 2021
  • News

How the Supply Chain Upheaval Became a Life-or-Death Threat

  • 16 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis

Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Belén Villalonga
  • 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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  • 2010
  • Book

International Differences in Entrepreneurship

By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market. As a result,... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply and Industry; Business and Government Relations
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  • April 2011 (Revised January 2015)
  • Case

The Eleganzia Group

By: Elie Ofek, Elena Corsi, Bharat Sajnani, Sorina Casian-Botez and Francesco Tronci
Eleganzia Group management faces tough decisions heading into the summer of 2010. With tourism on the decline due to the global economic recession, General Manager Giannuzzi must decide how to set prices at the Forte Village Resort, the Group's most well-known... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Customer Management; Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Price; Luxury; Business Strategy; Brands and Branding; Accommodations Industry; Travel Industry; Italy
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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

The Musts of 2023

to me because it felt there were so many lessons that we could learn today. Whether it's business or politics or just international relations I just found it very interesting. Marcus Wedner (MBA 1988): Marcus Wedner, 1988. The book is... View Details
  • June 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Supplement

CFM International (B): LEAPing Into the Future

By: Ranjay Gulati, Yves Doz and Kerry Herman
By 2017, after a long and highly successful run, the joint venture CFM’s and its parent firms’ leadership faces new challenges and must once again reconsider their commitment to the JV. CFM’s engines have come to dominate the narrow body aircraft market, but technology... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Technological Innovation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 07 Sep 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

Joshua Cooper Ramo, co-CEO and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates. Ramo’s core thesis is that today's world of networks and connectivity may be the biggest game-changer of the future, whether the game is business competition, public... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Sep 2015
  • News

‘Koreans are 34 times more likely to than other immigrants to operate dry cleaners’

  • 24 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
  • Web

Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

competitiveness, strategies for business, creating shared value, and other topics. Recent & Upcoming Events November 16-18, 2022 November 2022 Strategy for Health Care Delivery HBS Campus, Boston, MA Bringing together top management and senior physician leaders from... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

occurred. “As the decades of research on virtual work would have predicted, productivity has gone up for many organizations,” says Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding