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  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

to increase investment in its "off eBay" strategy; how to allocate investments between the two sides of its payment network (i.e., consumers and merchants); which consumer segments to target (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Sep 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

right. As revenues from recorded music steadily declined from 2004 to 2008, concert revenues steadily rose, according to data presented in the case. "Advances in digital technology have had a strong negative impact on recorded-music... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

image of raw serenity it presented to the world; yet it took a concerted marketing effort that highlighted these elements in an attractive way to succeed. Prepare to invest money and time. Ten years ago, South Korea set out to remove the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

  PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

navigate nascent markets but overlooks an imperative for entrepreneurial firms that pioneer in these contexts: finding a viable business model. Through an in-depth, multiple-case study of ventures in the nascent social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights

was 33.6 percent, compared with 7.3 percent in fiscal 2020. The value of the School's endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) increased to $5.3 billion, from $4.1 billion a year... View Details
  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

of remote work. On the other hand, remote work can provide an alternative to a toxic office culture resulting from management neglect. Armando Del Bosque commented, “Organizational culture helps us find what we love, love what we do and then we can overcome many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the bottom of the imaginary... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

curve,” for example, made employees in the top 20 percent of performance eligible for raises and promotions, while those in the bottom 10 percent risked being demoted or fired. Industries such as investment banking, consulting, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

the wane. "I fear that social networks may make the problem worse," commented Gamaliel Pascual. "The technology may be hardwiring a younger generation to create virtual tribes where the congregation is based on shared biases/values."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

change, the authors provide a quick and entertaining introduction to the science of climate change. It is a concise primer for anyone interested in how CO2 impacts our climate. Even knowledgeable readers will learn something new about... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
  • Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

with finding new ways to make their work impactful and useful for their target audience.” Cebisa Ncube Design Thinking and Innovation Participant Discover frameworks and techniques you can leverage to bring new and innovative products or... View Details
  • Web

Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful results. 8 weeks 5-8 hours per week 6 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of... View Details
  • December 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV)

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Lorin A. Fries
Corporate Head of Agriculture Hans Jöhr's mind raced in anticipation of the executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key opportunity to strategize far into the future, reexamining how his team's efforts in sustainable agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Value Creation; Quality; Supply Chain Management; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Health Industry
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  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate shocks has a more acute View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Exercise

Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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  • May 2024
  • Case

HarvEast

By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred
In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000... View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Natural Resources; Food; Problems and Challenges; Adaptation; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Logistics; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Trust; Human Needs; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chile; South America; Latin America; Ukraine
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  • February 1999 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Working with Shell's country manager for Nigeria, the company's Committee of Managing Directors must decide how to respond to the Nigerian government's decision to impose the death sentence on Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders of a movement for the rights of the... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Courts and Trials; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Nigeria
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  • 09 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 9

social and business goals, the company had articulated a stakeholder-centric model that benefited consumers through high-quality, fashionable, and affordable eyewear: the global community by donating, through sustainable channels, one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne