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  • August 2016
  • Teaching Note

Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn

By: Arthur I Segel and Alexander W. Schultz
Jamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront: Industry City. The 6-million-square-foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn’s growing innovation, creative, and “maker” communities.... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Development; Shared Office Space; Coworking; Business Model; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business Offices; Leasing; Real Estate Industry
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  • February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang
In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details
Keywords: Timing; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Business Model; Organizational Design; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; United States; Canada; China
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  • Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High 1900 s 19 Model T Plastic Safety razor Widespread use of steam engine, electricity, and openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence:... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

Working with Professors at HBS

working with Anita Elberse, the famed media and entertainment professor at HBS.  I had read about Anita even before applying to business school.  She only teaches in the EC year, however, I reached out once I stepped foot on campus to... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

business world as an investment-banking associate. She was often the only woman in a meeting—a fact that was frequently commented on by colleagues and clients—and when she looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

thinking. But people aren't mind readers," Conant told a roomful of CEOs during the second Higher-Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held at Harvard Business School in January. "I had to go out on a limb and talk about my... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Action Plan: To the Letter

anywhere, forever. But the business model is changing. Chacko likens it to the evolution of music sales, from analog purchases to digital purchases, to digital streaming platforms, in which you pay for... View Details
Keywords: April White; design; typography; change management; leadership; Special Design Services; Professional Services
  • 26 Aug 2009
  • Op-Ed

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Today, let... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto
  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

layout that would optimize product flow and plant capacity — critical to reducing process time — and made extensive use of simulations to generate insights. They created Cardboard City, a three dimensional model of a manufacturing cell... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • October 2022
  • Case

Afrigen Biologics: Vaccines for the Global South

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia Comeau
The majority of vaccines used on the continent of Africa (99%) are produced offshore. This makes African nations reliant on the West for major health care needs, a problem which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Afrigen Biologics (in partnership with the WHO)... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; Vaccine; mRNA; COVID; COVID-19; Inequity; Hub-and-spoke; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Production; Social Issues; Business and Government Relations; South Africa; Africa
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  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

valid, Watts argues, why wouldn't we be able to predict the success of a strategy, a new disruptive technology, a product, or an advertisement? The reasons he gives are that these phenomena are too complex, involving so many variables... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November 2010
  • Case

Spudnik, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth A. Kind
This case describes the plan to finance a revolutionary new television set manufacturing business in late 2009. Yatin Mundkur, a venture capitalist at Artiman Ventures, has recruited a team of veteran eecutives from the optical disk drive business, to design large... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Venture Capital; Disruptive Innovation; Corporate Finance; Electronics Industry
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  • 09 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

skills, to give those people a meaningful pathway into an opportunity to have earned success.” "With OneTen’s backing, Black employees could move up the ranks and become role models for those who follow." Rometty and her team at IBM... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

business and governmental organizations for greater impact in the next 20 years. Saleh Lootah (GMP 10, 2011) “The Forum invites key government, business leaders, HBS academics, and alumni CEOs—all carefully... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53811 Do Banks Have an Edge? By: Begenau, Juliane, and Erik Stafford Abstract—We decompose bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The IT Transformation Health Care Needs

By: Nikhil R. Sahni, Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati and David M. Cutler
In recent years, health care organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of little... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Business Model
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  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for... View Details