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  • January 2010 (Revised December 2012)
  • Case

Knight the King: The Founding of Nike

By: Noam Wasserman and Kyle Anderson
It had taken Phil Knight 16 long years to build Nike into the number one athletic-shoe company in the country. When Knight had first conceived of the company for an MBA class project, Adidas had had more than 80% market share, but Knight's marketing approach had... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • Teaching Interest

Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

By: Christopher T. Stanton

The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts.  HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

  • September 2019
  • Supplement

pymetrics (B)

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In March 2013, pymetrics CEO Frida Polli visited Harvard Business School to listen to a section of MBA students from the class of 2013 discuss her business plan and provide feedback on the tests they had taken to identify career opportunities. Polli had developed a... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Hiring; Hiring Of Employees; Recruiting; Personality; Personality Traits; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Employment; Strategic Evolution; Psychodynamics; Psychology; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Personal Characteristics
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  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • Teaching Interest

United States in the World 39 - History of American Democracy

By: David A. Moss

For Harvard College undergraduates and MBA students

Today we often hear that American democracy is broken - but what does a healthy democracy look like? How has American democratic governance functioned in the past, and how has it changed... View Details

  • 2008
  • Working Paper

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder's 'How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?'

By: Troy Smith and Jan W. Rivkin
In a 2007 working paper, Alan Blinder assessed the "offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations and estimated that between 22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs were potentially offshorable. This note reports the results of an exercise in which members of Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Wages; Research; United States
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  • 19 Feb 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

to $10 in 2016 (it hit $11 per hour in early 2018). Yet in 2015, announcement of a wage increase resulted in a share price drop the following day of 10 percent, on news that the increase would cut earnings... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Jul 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Evolution of Apple

constant," says Yoffie, noting that the case is used as part of the MBA required curriculum in the Strategy course and in numerous Executive Education programs. It can also be taught with a video... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology
  • 17 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

in crypto’s popularity The heart of the paper sought to answer a fundamental question: Who invests in crypto? Among the findings: Booming interest in Bitcoin in 2017 drove new investors into cryptocurrency... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 19 Mar 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten's Tokyo headquarters and dropped a bomb: all 7,100 workers would have two years to become... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

director Gustavo Herrero [HBS MBA '76] are the book's co-editors, with Research Associate Brooke Barton.) The 2005 conference was followed that spring by an MBA elective, Business and the Bottom View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 30 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

intuitive about the process” Emotions such as satisfaction and elation can be quite rare in negotiation, says Andy Wasynczuk, MBA Class of 1953 Senior Lecturer View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

keep Tony in his world of busy, helpful, but emotionally empty achievement. Tony has become a virtuoso performer in a role created by the people and society around him. In this respect, he resembles an increasing number View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

discussion from one point to the next—are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
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  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

Richard S. Tedlow, MBA Class of 1949 Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • June 1988
  • Supplement

General Electric Co.: Jack Welch Question and Answer Session, October 28, 1987, Video

By: James L. Heskett
Jack Welch updates an MBA class on events which have taken place since 1984. Answers questions about his job and the task of leading a global company. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Leadership; Globalized Firms and Management
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  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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