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  • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market). This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the... View Details
Keywords: Rapid Growth Stage; Green Energy; Start-up; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth Management; Finance; Decision Making; United Kingdom
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  • April 2025
  • Case

Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil
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    Boris Groysberg

    Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs. He has won numerous... View Details
    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; information technology industry; investment banking industry; professional services
    • March 2017 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    CEO Activism (A)

    By: Michael W. Toffel, Aaron K. Chatterji and Julia Kelley
    This case introduces CEO activism, a phenomenon in which business leaders engage in political or social issues that do not relate directly to their companies. The case uses several examples to describe why business leaders are engaging in CEO activism and the potential... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environment; Climate Change; Gender Equality; Communication Strategy; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Law; Rights; Risk Management; Media; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Religion; Expansion; Strategy; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Indiana; North Carolina
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    • 03 Nov 2023
    • News

    Weekend Sprints: A New HBS Signature Event?

    • April 2014 (Revised January 2015)
    • Background Note

    Note on Mobile Healthcare

    By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
    Delivering health care to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for ten percent of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel and... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Mobile; Mobile App; Public Health; Startups; Hardware; Software; Telemedicine; Global; Medical Devices; Medical Services; Medical Solutions; Entrepreneurs; Government And Business; Technological Change; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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      Yiwei Li

      Yiwei Li is a Doctoral student of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He concentrates on managerial accounting research, with interest in topics like incentive scheme and management control system. He pursues the goal  of applying research output into... View Details
      • 05 Jan 2024
      • Blog Post

      Meet The HBS African American Student Union

      the Black Investment Club, AASU will host Black business leaders, professionals, and students for a 2-day conference in Boston. The conference gives admitted and prospective students an opportunity to engage... View Details
      • 13 Jul 2021
      • News

      Hate Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

      • 08 Feb 2016

      A Better Way to Teach History

      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      Return on invested capital (ROIC) is a financial measure of the profitability of a firm or business unit. If it is greater than the business's cost of capital, then reinvestment of earnings increases shareholder VALUE. The ROIC also determines a maximum self-sustaining... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Efficiency; Dupont Analysis; Financial Metrics; Schumpeterian Competition; Sustainable Growth; Competitive Advantage; Financial Strategy; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Value Creation
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      • 19 May 2021
      • News

      A Key Strategy to Double Your Profitable Growth Give your employees the right insight into the company's bus

      • 08 Feb 2016
      • News

      A Better Way to Teach History

      • 14 Jun 2022
      • Blog Post

      Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

      The Jewish Student Association (JSA) serves as a resource to develop, inform, support, and enrich Harvard Business School’s Jewish students and those interested in learning more about the Jewish faith and heritage. Open to the full gamut... View Details

        Haiyang Zhang

        Haiyang Zhang is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. He conducts research on corporate and entrepreneurial strategy.

        Prior to pursuing his PhD, Haiyang was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he served... View Details

        • 08 Aug 2022
        • HBS Case

        Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

        fan base. The effective use of social media was how they created an ecosystem." In a recent case study, “BTS and ARMY,” Harvard Business School associate professor Doug Chung and research associate Kay Koo show how BTS marshalled its... View Details
        Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music
        • 21 Jun 2024
        • Blog Post

        What Does PRIDE Mean to You?

        PRIDE is HBS's home for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning MBA students and their partners. PRIDE builds community through dedicated social and advocacy programming, and in doing so create a supportive environment for emerging leaders to View Details
        • Jan 07 2021
        • Testimonial

        Benefitting from Time in a Virtual World

        • 2022
        • Book

        Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage

        By: James Heskett
        There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership
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        • 07 Mar 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

        During a 2017 Amgen earnings call, CEO Robert Bradway began answering an analyst’s question, then turned to colleague Sean Harper and said, “Sean, I'll let you talk about the specifics.” Bradway’s simple act of calling on Harper to add insight is the type of View Details
        Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds