Publications

Winter 2021
Article

How Would-Be Category Kings Become Commoners

By: Rory McDonald and Keith Krach

Category creation is the holy grail in business, but more often than not, the very companies that establish lucrative new markets don’t end up being the category kings. Why? Many executives undermine their own ventures’ standing by misinterpreting and misfiring on... View Details

Keywords: New Markets; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Business Model

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01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

content—including no disruptive advertising. “We’re not trying to eradicate YouTube,” says Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor (MBA 2004). “We’re offering creators a different environment and business View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

January 2014 (Revised April 2025)
Teaching Note

The PGA Tour

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 714-442, 714-443, 714-444, 714-445, 714-446, 714-447. View Details

Keywords: PGA Tour; Tim Finchem; Deane Beman; Golf; Professional Golf; Business Model; Value Creation; Adaptation; Sports; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; United States

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

that by drawing attention to these potentially disruptive forces and to the strategic opportunity they represented, we could inspire business leaders to act before it was too late. This new edition was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2008
News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

though there is more complexity around managing an international venture capital firm, there are great benefits to understanding what’s happening in other geographies. A simple example is how much there is to be learned from emerging Internet View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2020
News

We Rise

change can level the playing field. Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

11 Dec 2014
News

Fashion's Retail Revolution

field trips. “Department stores were the arbiters of fashion,” says Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at HBS, whose current research looks at the uncertain future of today’s department stores. Then, you were likely to find MBAs in traditional... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210021-PDF-ENG ZINK Imaging: Zero InkTM William A. Sahlman, and Sarah Greene FlahertyHarvard Business School Case 810-050 "ZINK Imaging" describes the issues confronting CEO Wendy Caswell as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2006
News

HBS Students Mentor Kids

Boston. Manville is designed for kids from ages 5 to 15 who struggle in traditional educational settings due to emotional or physical issues. A key element of the school’s approach is the big sister/big brother concept, in which an older mentor, as a role View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

people and businesses are finding that the two things we love most in the world—cars and cash in our pockets—are totally optional. By 2017 people will be disrupting the disrupters, because the world is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

March 2000
Background Note

Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur, The

By: Robert J. Robinson and Noam T. Wasserman

Introduces students to negotiations between venture capitalists (VCs) and the limited partners who provide the VCs' capital. Also discusses negotiations between VCs and other VCs, including those within a VC firm itself. Explores interests, sources of negotiating... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Venture Capital; Capital; Negotiation Tactics; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry

23 May 2019
News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Jun 2016
News

Reinventing Pharma

2004) began her career as a research scientist. Eventually expanding her responsibilities into business development led her to HBS, where she hoped to solidify her understanding of the intersection of science and business. Following... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

Web

Commercial Videotaping & Photography | About

rpassias@hbs.edu , Director of Digital Media & Marketing Projects. Harvard Business School reserves the right to refuse to grant permission for any reason, including the potential disruption of academic,... View Details

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

hockey-stick returns. “We believe that in every technological disruption you have to have hand-in-hand capital model disruption and business... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

April 2017
Case

China Hospitals Inc.: The Growth of Private Hospitals in China

By: Kevin Schulman, Xiao Yu and Ariel Hwang

This case examines the privatization of hospitals in China. China Hospitals, Inc. has become the largest for-profit hospital company in China, purchasing government owned hospitals in Tier 2 cities. The case profiles CEO Frank Hu. To build his company, he has to... View Details

Keywords: Privatization; For-Profit Firms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Health Industry; China

01 Dec 2018
News

Ready, Set, Launch

learning-bydoing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. Topics include problem and solution finding, business model design and validation, marketing and sales, and seed... View Details

01 Aug 2014
News

A closer look at the industry of beauty

The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty... View Details

April 2007 (Revised March 2018)
Case

M-TRONICS (A)

By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynda M. Applegate

The new CEO of a small manufacturing firm pursues growth through the launch of Entrepreneurial Subsidiaries. While the firm grows revenues from $600 million to over $2 billion in 10 years, problems surface as the subsidiaries are integrated into the established... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Integration