Publications

March 2024
Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo

In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
Case

H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?

By: Debora L. Spar, Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao and Julia Comeau

At the end of 2023, the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel was mid-way through construction on an integrated steel plant in Northern Sweden that would use abundant local hydro power to create Europe’s first commercial-scale green steel. Their goal was to help European... View Details

Keywords: Steel; Green Business; Green Technology; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Renewable Energy; Steel Industry; Sweden

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

hiring more workers. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/oDesk.pdf May 2015 HR Certification Institute Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

profit implications for the entrant of inventing a new business model and for the incumbent of responding with business model reconfigurations could be substantial. In particular, the value of business model... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

non-cooperative core lower bounds. On the other hand, the cooperative core may be empty. Furthermore, the downstream incremental distribution satisfies all core lower bounds for all connected coalitions if and only if each agent's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2018
First Look

March 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54087 February 2018 Management Science Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2005
Article

Importation as Innovation: Transposing managerial practices across fields

By: Eva Boxenbaum and Julie Battilana

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Management; Practice

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April 2004 (Revised October 2005)
Teaching Note

Marketing of Innovations, The: Course Overview Note for Instructors

By: John T. Gourville

Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Teaching

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

Apple Card marked another significant innovation in access to financial services. Fast forward two months, and Apple Card may now find its place in history for a less positive reason—the dark side of the... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

June 2011
Teaching Note

Zespri (TN)

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Mary Shelman

Teaching Note for 511001. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Strategy; Patents; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia; New Zealand

May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Supplement

Palm (B): 2001

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kevin Boudreau and Jordan Mitchell

This case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the... View Details

Keywords: History; Decisions; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Rights; Competition; Computer Industry

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

published field studies of men doing dangerous work, to induce a model of how organizational cultures equip men to "do" and "undo" gender at work. Breakthrough Inventions View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. “Disruptive innovation” is a term you’ve used in your analyses of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

need to hear about their company's fitness to compete, and employees lose trust in those leaders and become less committed to change. In Fit to Compete, Beer presents an antidote to silence—principles View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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

February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Aquion Energy

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Kiron

Leaders at Aquion Energy, a Pittsburgh-based battery start-up, are deciding on a market entry strategy. Should they pursue the large but unproven grid utility market or a smaller, but higher margin market? View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Production; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Capacity; Energy Industry

February 2021 (Revised September 2021)
Case

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: Global Leadership in Chipmaking

By: William C. Kirby, John P. McHugh and Noah B. Truwit

Keywords: Semiconductors; Geopolitics; Industrial Policy; Information Technology; Innovation Strategy; Competition; Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan