Publications

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

How do my actions in areas of concern to my employees compare to the actions undertaken for specific business metrics that tie in to my own promotions and bonuses? Why is there a disparity? Why are people leaving my organization? How... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

Web

Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

Enrollment Stories FAQs Start Anytime Key Concepts Master frameworks and tools to execute a high-quality, profitable business model Discover how to conduct experiments to determine your venture’s value proposition, go-to-market strategy,... View Details

September 2012 (Revised September 2012)
Case

Inkaterra

By: Diego Comin, Rohan Gopaldas and Diego Rehder

The case presents the unique business model of Inkaterra, a leading eco-tourism organization in Peru, and the different strategies the company can pursue to grow. Through the experience of Inkaterra the case studies two general issues. First, it discusses the potential... View Details

Keywords: Inkaterra; Ecotourism; Tourism; Environment; Peru; Informal Sector; Regulation; Economic Development; Bottom Of The Pyramid; Technology Diffusion; Competitiveness; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Natural Environment; Market Entry and Exit; Conflict Management; Tourism Industry; Peru

October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

TetraScience: Unlocking the Power of Scientific Data

By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks

After pivoting from a focus on hardware to a focus on scientific data, TetraScience, led by veteran SaaS executive, Patrick Grady and Founder Spin Wang, has embarked on a journey from nearly cash-out to a player in the scientific data management space. This case... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Information Management; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology Industry

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

entrepreneurs. Within each area, we separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 1980 (Revised February 1987)
Case

Sweco, Inc. (A)

By: Michael E. Porter and George S. Yip

Describes Sweco's decision about whether to enter the mud-processing equipment industry (used in oil well drilling). This is an internal entry decision, and the case describes Sweco's existing businesses as well as the mud-processing industry and competitors. The case... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Analytics and Data Science; Market Entry and Exit; Competition

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so well to raise the fortunes of... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

government-backed fund that saw one of the country’s first exits in 2011—an ISP called Link.net. That was one of an accumulation of tipping points, notes Ismail. “In 2012, 2013, we started getting the first attempts at incubators,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

January 2012 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services

By: David A. Garvin and Nancy Hua Dai

Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding and early growth, its expansion into multiple market segments including hotel reservations, air ticketing, leisure... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Management; Data-driven Management; Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Mathematical Methods; Business Processes; Information Management; Travel Industry; China

11 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

Working PapersGlobalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980 Geoffrey G. Jones This working paper examines the globalization of the beauty industry before 1980. This industry, which had emerged in its modern form in the United States... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 21, 2019
Article

When Tech Companies Compete on Their Own Platforms

By: Feng Zhu

One common complaint from third parties about platform businesses is that they see what succeeds on their platforms and then enter the most profitable areas themselves, often decimating third parties in the process. Studies have identified several motivations for... View Details

Keywords: Platform-based Markets; Platform-owner Entry; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Competition

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24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

Gardner, N. Anand, and Tim Morris Publication:In The International Library of Critical Writings on Business and Management: Management Consultancy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd., forthcoming Abstract How do innovative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2014 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Google Car

By: Karim R. Lakhani, James Weber and Christine Snively

By 2013, Google, while not a traditional manufacturer of automobiles, had invested millions of dollars in its self-driving cars which had logged over 500,000 miles of testing. The Google management team faced several questions. Should Google continue to invest in the... View Details

Keywords: Digital Services; Innovation; Technology; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Market Entry and Exit; Transportation; Auto Industry; United States

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

perspective of the activist, termination via merger or acquisition additionally helps solve the problem of how to exit the sizable position in the target. In a merger or acquisition, the activist exits in... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

find that changes in the local business landscape is a leading indicator of housing price changes and that the entry of Starbucks (and coffee shops more generally) into a neighborhood predicts gentrification. Each additional Starbucks... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2018
Working Paper

Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell

We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP), and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in... View Details

Keywords: Platform Design; Betting; Digital Platforms; Design; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Cooperation; Market Entry and Exit

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06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

story—Intel's exit from the memory business—illustrates this point. When discussing what businesses Intel should be in, Andy Grove asked Gordon Moore what they would do if Intel were a company that they had... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

lacked the funds necessary to build a DVD factory and exited the consumer electronic industry almost entirely at the end of the 1990s. Again, this relatively unknown story provides an intriguing opportunity for description and analysis by... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

October 1998
Case

Excite, Inc.--1998

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter

Reviews recent trends and the evolution of the emerging portal industry, highlighting the competitive position of the industry's major participants. The business model of Excite, Inc., and its major competitors are presented. In addition, the case looks at the new... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Business Model; Emerging Markets; Transformation; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Web Services Industry