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Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise Zoe Cullen Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Product Management Sara McKinley Torti Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management)... View Details
- February 2024
- Case
Does “Matter” Matter? Amazon and Open Standards in the Smart Home Industry
By: Frank Nagle
In early 2023, the smart home industry stood at a pivotal juncture. The recent launch of “Matter” version 1.0, an ambitious interoperability standard developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), promised to unify a fragmented market plagued by incompatible... View Details
Nagle, Frank. "Does “Matter” Matter? Amazon and Open Standards in the Smart Home Industry." Harvard Business School Case 724-431, February 2024.
- December 2014 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A)
By: Jeffrey Bussgang and Matthew G. Preble
The four founding members of Bazaart—a young Israeli company whose sole product was its eponymous mobile application (app) which allowed users to create collages from photographs and other images—face an important strategic decision in June 2014. Since its founding... View Details
Keywords: Growth Hacking; Customer Acquisition; Startup Marketing; Startup; Startup Nation; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Marketing; Social Marketing; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry; Israel
Bussgang, Jeffrey, and Matthew G. Preble. "Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A)." Harvard Business School Case 815-001, December 2014. (Revised May 2015.)
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino, an associate professor in accounting and View Details
- December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
General Electric's 20th Century CEOs
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and manufacture new and... View Details
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "General Electric's 20th Century CEOs." Harvard Business School Case 406-048, December 2005. (Revised April 2011.)
- May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
- Case
Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy
By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Marvin Ellison, CEO of Lowe’s, contemplated enhancements to the company’s Total Home Strategy to accelerate performance and grow market share. In the last five years since becoming CEO, Ellison had championed a turnaround of the company, completing a... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Competition; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; North Carolina
Ofek, Elie, K. Shelette Stewart, and Alicia Dadlani. "Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 524-054, May 2024. (Revised February 2025.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009
By: Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello and Rosilene Marcon
While some authors view development banks as an important tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital... View Details
Keywords: Cost of Capital; Credit; Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment; Government and Politics; Data and Data Sets; Resource Allocation; Markets; Performance; Banking Industry; Brazil
Lazzarini, Sergio G., Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello, and Rosilene Marcon. "What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-047, December 2011.
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
person’s performance be tracked, and what factors will be evaluated to determine success? Evaluation measures could include sales or revenue goals, the number of patents filed or products launched, or customer satisfaction levels. 3. Who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- November 2006 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.
By: David J. Collis and Troy Smith
The global pharmaceutical industry has gone through substantial changes in the last few decades and pharmaceutical firms face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Collis, David J., and Troy Smith. "Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc." Harvard Business School Case 707-509, November 2006. (Revised November 2007.)
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to launch an innovation initiative... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
buy your products and why, and predict when disruption will happen. The course equipped me with new ways to think about problems, products, businesses, and just everything in life. Daniella Patrick Innovation Lab View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Strategic Management Product Market Strategy By: Menon, Anoop, and Dennis Yao Abstract—Product market strategy is the collection of choices, actions, and activities of a firm that determines how it positions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2022
- Teaching Note
BTS & ARMY
By: Doug J. Chung and Kay R. Koo
Industry leaders must define a particular outcome of interest (i.e., an objective) to establish an organization’s strategy. BTS’s initial objective was to increase brand recognition and to acquire a solid fanbase. The proliferation of social network platforms... View Details
- 15 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021
surprisingly, the 10 most-read articles on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge reflected the mood swings of another challenging, complex year for managers and employees everywhere. The 10 most popular articles 1. COVID Killed the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
can benefit What business leaders might find especially interesting about the research results: Many rituals that couples perform involve some form of joint consumption of products or services. In one study, 64 percent of the rituals... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
formidable research and teaching talents on bringing business-focused solutions and perspectives to address these problems. Some examples: In Zambia, Nava Ashraf and several colleagues conducted field studies to determine if charging for the water purification View Details
- June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare
When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, Laura Winig, and Naeem Husain Arastu. "athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 810-079, June 2010. (Revised September 2010.)
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Reapplying to HBS
dinged. Life went on and, following graduation, I started working for Worthington Industries—a manufacturing company based in Columbus, Ohio. After a few years at Worthington, and a recent promotion to a Product View Details
- January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Ian McKown Cornell
The case relates to accounting quality analysis conducted by the leading research firm Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Quality; Financial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis; Accounting Fraud; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Scandal; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Earnings Management; Valuation; Crime and Corruption; Financial Statements; Energy Sources; Green Technology Industry; Accounting Industry; Energy Industry
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Ian McKown Cornell. "First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns." Harvard Business School Case 113-044, January 2013. (Revised August 2013.)