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  • September 1996 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

GLSTN 1996

By: James E. Austin, Willis M. Emmons III and David Maue
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN), which aims to create respect for all within schools regardless of sexual orientation, faces significant challenges stemming from its rapid growth into a 30-chapter national organization. Issues include... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; Networks; Policy; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Leadership Development; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Education Industry
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  • May 2025
  • Teaching Note

Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This Teaching Note helps instructors teach students the HBS Case, Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City. In late 2016, Bridj was expanding its digital platform to help address urban mobility problems faced by cities across the country... View Details
Keywords: App Development; Innovation; Stakeholder Engagement; Collaboration; Ride-sharing; Entrenchment; Digital; Transportation; Urban Development; Disruption; Business Startups; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion
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  • September 1999 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Juice Guys (B)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Sharon Lee Fox and Cynthia Rushmore Kuechle
The case explores who the customers are for a new beverage product, their desires as customers for this product, and their desires when ordering this product from a local specialty store location. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Commercialization; Customer Satisfaction; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

organization. U.S. firms have typically been more centralized on the U.S., more professionally managed and [have had] more formalized bureaucracy. They have generally been seen as more aggressive and results-oriented. U.K. firms placed... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It

life in hockey, Baumgartner found a sense of security at HBS. “You know what your next day is going to be like,” he says. “It's well mapped out for you over a two-year period.” His studies have paved the way for his next challenge: an investment View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton; hockey; education; family; career paths; personal priorities; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Mining
  • February 1999 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

Cimetrics Technology (A-1)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jose Royo
Jim Lee, president of Cimetrics (a young, fast growing, software start-up) is reevaluating his small company's geographically dispersed product development model. To take advantage of talented low-cost labor in Russia, the company has relied on two software engineering... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Applications and Software; Business or Company Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Labor and Management Relations; Product Development; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology Industry; Russia; Canada; United States
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  • 09 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Climate Finance that was offered to MBAs in January 2021, and has worked to bring in more opportunities to students interested in careers related to climate change. Lynn will continue to leverage and broaden the close relationships she... View Details
  • Web

Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Shareholders' Value?

Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one shareholder to have a discernible... View Details
  • February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike

By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew Preble
For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Unionism; Craft Unionism; Welfare Capitalism; General Motors; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Working Conditions; Government Legislation; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Steel Industry; United States; Michigan
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  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

college. However, recent changes to the state's accountability system necessitated greater focus on helping Codman Academy students meet this graduation requirement. Codman Academy's founding, academic model, leadership, and partnerships (including its unique View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2022
  • News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

relationship with Harvard. HBS launched a Mid-US Research Office in 2021 to spur research into business challenges and innovations in the region. Alicia Dadlani (MBA 2003), who leads the office, joined us on our trip to West Virginia when... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Inside the Black Box of the Corporate Staff: An Exploratory Analysis Through the Lens of E-Mail Networks

The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through analysis of electronic communications. We find sharp... View Details
Keywords: Theory; Business Ventures; Internet and the Web; Communication; Employment; Management Teams; Networks
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  • 14 Jun 2023
  • News

The Labor-Savvy Leader

  • 09 Dec 2022
  • News

US Railroads and the Pitfalls of Systematic Understaffing

  • 02 Dec 2020
  • News

Havas New York CEO Laura Maness: Listen, Learn, and Lead

  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

of each segment is changing, and how the company's products and services address the needs of each segment. The product was developed by Gail McGovern, a professor of management practice, and John Quelch, the Senior Associate Dean and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Up by the Roots

revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

"safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to allocate significant assets to venture... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young