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  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

under these conditions. After describing these foundational perspectives and more recent work that addresses this paradox, we outline several promising directions for research in this domain. We encourage researchers to develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2016 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

JPMorgan Chase after the Financial Crisis: What Is the Optimal Scope of the Largest Bank in the U.S.?

By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
When Jamie Dimon took over as CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) in 2005, he reaffirmed the commitment to pursue a "universal bank" strategy—providing a full range of products and services to both retail and wholesale clients. Yet the merits of the universal... View Details
Keywords: Scope; Regulatory Reforms; Universal Banking; Synergy; Optimization; Simplification; Finance; Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • January 2008 (Revised November 2009)
  • Case

Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry

Linear Air is an air taxi start-up established to take advantage of the emergence of Very Light Jets, which incorporate new technology that cuts jet operating costs by about 40%. Air taxis could make use of the 5400 smaller regional airports throughout the US,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Industry Structures; Competition; Air Transportation Industry
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  • December 2023 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Manufacturing Moderna's Future

By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks
In 2019, Moderna faced long odds of survival having failed to develop a successful clinical program out of the vast platform technology they had built around mRNA. Nearly overnight, the company skyrocketed to success with a vaccine for COVID-19, leading to an extremely... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Production; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 17 Sep 2019
  • News

Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life

  • 18 Oct 2018
  • News

Why Global Talent Clusters Around Cities

    Joseph L. Bower

    JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

    Keywords: banking; chemical; electronics; financial services; home appliances; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; insurance industry; private equity (LBO funds); retailing
    • Article

    Targeting Weather Insurance Markets

    By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
    The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen... View Details
    Keywords: Index Insurance; Labor Markets; Self-insurance; Self-protection; Weather; Insurance; Markets; Household; Risk Management
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    • Spring 2021
    • Article

    Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19

    By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim and Hui (Stacie) Wang
    The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Crisis Response Plans; Crisis; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Big Data; Machine Learning; Investor Behavior; Institutional Investors; Corporate Performance; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Human Capital; Supply Chain; Operations; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Institutional Investing; Performance
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    • 12 Aug 2018 - 14 Aug 2018
    • Conference Presentation

    Abstraction, Knowledge Flows, and the Rapid Dissemination of Emerging Technologies

    By: Willy C. Shih
    Many emerging technologies are remarkably complex and embody high levels of technological sophistication, and they often are key enablers for new products and services. Yet the speed of dispersal of the know-how required to employ these technologies and foster... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination
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    • Research Summary

    "Modeling B2B Exchanges" (with Gabor Fath)

    B2B exchanges are revolutionizing the way businesses will buy and sell a variety of intermediary products and services. It is estimated that most of the roughly $7 trillion worth of business transactions are likely to go through these new institutions within the next... View Details

      Sunil Gupta

      Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy

      Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and  co-chair of the executive program on Driving... View Details

      Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products

        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government

          The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

          While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
          • August 2011
          • Case

          Martha Rinaldi: Should She Stay or Should She Go?

          By: Linda A. Hill and Mark Renella
          Martha Rinaldi has been an assistant product manager at leading beverage company Potomac Waters since graduating from business school. Rinaldi is frustrated by her relationships with her boss and a close co-worker. Even though she works hard to please her manager, she... View Details
          Keywords: Interpersonal Relations; Management Styles; Managing Up; Career Planning; Conflict; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Food and Beverage Industry
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          • Article

          Why Build in Web3

          By: Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers
          A major change is coming to the internet. While today’s dominant platforms have guarded their troves of user data and maintained an advantage through network effects, new companies—working in what they're calling a “Web3” model—are proposing a new value proposition to... View Details
          Keywords: Blockchain; User Experience; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Competition; Web Services Industry
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          • January 2011
          • Case

          Masdar and Tianjin: Eco-Cities

          By: John D. Macomber
          Compares Masdar City and Tianjin Eco-City, two high profile "sustainable cities." Each showcases technological and financial innovation. Is it real? Is it replicable and defensible? The case is intended to introduce main concepts and tradeoffs with respect to rapid... View Details
          Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Model; Development Economics; Urban Development; Cash Flow; Project Finance; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; City; Infrastructure
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          • January–February 2020
          • Article

          Give Your Colleague the Rating He Deserves—or the One He Wants?

          By: Anthony J. Mayo, Joshua D. Margolis and Amy Gallo
          The article presents a case study on business friendship and its possible effect on employee ratings. It mentions a hypothetical case where one member of a team didn't meet his deadlines on the development of a new product, the use of a peer-to-peer employee rating... View Details
          Keywords: Groups and Teams; Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Decision Making
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          • December 2012 (Revised May 2013)
          • Case

          Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite): Plus ça change…

          By: Ray A. Goldberg, Arthur I. Segel, Elie Ofek and Carin-Isabel Knoop
          For centuries Lafite has been the most admired wine Estate in the world. How does Baron Eric de Rothschild protect this crown jewel in a conservative manner while DBR develops other Chateaux blending wine programs, reaches out to new areas such as China and begins to... View Details
          Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Global Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; China
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          • 15 Nov 2010
          • News

          Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives