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Coming Through When It Matters Most
All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Tackle the First 90 Days of Your Next Role: A 5 Step Process for Success on the Job
of visualization that athletes have been using for decades.” Furthermore, when sharing your goals, make sure they are supported by defined action items to will work in service of those goals, as well as a... View Details
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Employment | Harvard Business School
event and interacting with longer service colleagues. “The stories they share are priceless, the memories are heartfelt, their affection for the School is infectious, and the laughter reminds you of what a... View Details
- March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
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Resident
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
Launched in 2016, Resident was a leading player in the direct-to-consumer bed-in-a-box mattress market, where it was one of at least 175 venture-backed companies competing in the space. By late 2020, it had realized over $500 million in revenue, profitability in the... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Cash Flow; Demand and Consumers
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Thomas O. Jones. "Resident." Harvard Business School Case 821-090, March 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
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Current working papers
Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details
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M.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for MS Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, Chief of Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital Douglas Melton, Ph.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical price competition, we allow firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Platform Envelopment
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
with Neeru Paharia, Jill Avery, and Juliet B. Schor. Says Keinan, "Through a series of experiments, we show that underdog brand biographies are effective in the marketplace because consumers identify with the disadvantaged position of the underdog and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Meet the Latino Student Association
The Latino Student Organization (LASO) at the Harvard Business School is dedicated to fostering a collaborative community of aspiring Latino business leaders who wish to pursue a career in the United States. We provide resources and View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in the Music Industry
From the time I arrived at HBS, I knew that my path to finding a summer internship wouldn’t be very traditional. Although I’ve managed to find others that share my career interests, working in the music industry remains an uncommon path... View Details
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy
finished giving, but with more than $15 billion granted to nearly 2,000 organizations, some meaningful patterns have begun to emerge. We parsed all the Yield Giving donation information available to date and matched it with Internal Revenue View Details
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Managing Networked Businesses
Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
- January 2022 (Revised December 2022)
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TotalEnergies’ Investment in Hyzon Motors
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and David Lane
In November 2021, Girish Nadkarni, the head of TotalEnergies’ corporate venture capital arm (TEV) was considering whether, and on what terms, to exit an investment in Hyzon Motors, a start-up supplier of hydrogen-powered trucks. TEV had invested $4 million in Hyzon,... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Communication Intention and Meaning; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Design; Standards; Commercialization; Investment Portfolio; Market Transactions; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; New York (city, NY)
Gandhi, Vikram S., and David Lane. "TotalEnergies’ Investment in Hyzon Motors." Harvard Business School Case 822-019, January 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling FDI to promote growth through backward linkages. Using realistic parameter values, we quantify the response of growth to FDI and show that an increase in the share of FDI leads to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Case What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders by Avery Forman What can corporate leaders learn from executives who served their country during wartime conflicts? Drawing on a series of case studies, Robert Simons View Details
- March 1993 (Revised June 1995)
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Singapore TradeNet: The Tale Continues
By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Boon-Siong Neo
Continues the story of Singapore Network Services Pte. Ltd. (SNS), which was created to initiate and manage the creation of value-added networks for trade and other aspects of commerce in the island nation of Singapore. SNS built on its TradeNet experience to develop... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Profit Sharing; Partners and Partnerships; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Web Services Industry; Singapore
Applegate, Lynda M., John L. King, and Boon-Siong Neo. "Singapore TradeNet: The Tale Continues." Harvard Business School Case 193-136, March 1993. (Revised June 1995.)
- August 2000
- Case
Monster.com
Jeff Taylor, founder and CEO of Monster.com, ponders how his online site, the leading career site on the web, can continue its dominance (60% share in 1999) and growth on the Internet. Monster.com had just launched a nationwide branding campaign on television and... View Details
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "Monster.com." Harvard Business School Case 801-145, August 2000.
- 06 Oct 2023
- Book
Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week
solve difficult problems. Denouncing Mark Zuckerberg’s informal Facebook motto, “move fast and break things,” partners Frei and Morriss combine their decades of consulting experience—Frei as the UPS Foundation Professor of Service... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz