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  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

extract maximum value from technologies such as point-of-sale scanners and customer loyalty cards. Highly readable and compelling, The New Science of Retailing is your playbook... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2016
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

the brand. They immediately seized control of the discussion by enthusiastically endorsing the name and its further use. So much for scientific inquiry by blog. On the plus side, however, the issue brought... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising
  • June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small unit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

NovoCure Ltd.

By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Collective Wisdom

according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for View Details
Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

  Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
  • 04 Jan 2022
  • News

The Elizabeth Holmes Verdict: Silicon Valley’s Reckoning or a Single Bad Apple?

  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

and fellows’ companies funding has quadrupled. It is gratifying to be a part of the program’s tremendous growth and mentor next generation entrepreneurs who contribute to society by commercializing... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Reinventing Radio Days

Kennedy Main article: Where Innovation Rules As a kid, Joe Kennedy (MBA 1985) got hooked early on the magic of radio, listening in bed at night to a crystal set he had built himself. Radio returned to his life in 2004 when—after an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; internet radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

  Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 1997
  • Chapter

Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

By: Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Disruption
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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Streamlining the Supermarket

full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró says. “You can actually give... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 22 Dec 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

public-private partnership model that increases US economic growth and helps create access and opportunity for all Americans. Related reading: Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 26 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Energy facility, when he suddenly had a brainstorm that he knew would help him as well as others solve an all-too-common problem. 1 Using the "gopher" technology that had long made the exchange of files View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner