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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

as original equipment, therefore, that was the signal for tire companies either to insist on higher prices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- prices that would not be easy to obtain, or to sell their assets and get out of the industry. But people who make... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2016
  • News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

in a remote area of Tunisia, near the border with ISIS-occupied territory in Libya. “We’re coaching civil servants there on developing agriculture—the production of cork and essential oils—for international... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Making Markets, which focuses on marketplace design; Launching Technology Ventures; Scaling Technology Ventures; Entrepreneurial Sales & Marketing; Product Management 101, in which students specified and supervised View Details
  • November 1998 (Revised July 1999)
  • Case

Merrill Lynch's Acquisition of Mercury Asset Management

By: Andre F. Perold, Imran Ahmed and Randolph B Altschuler
In the Spring of 1998, Merrill Lynch faced an array of challenges and opportunities related to its global asset management business. The firm had recently completed its $5.3 billion cash acquisition of U.K.-based Mercury Asset Management, a transaction that made it one... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Asset Management; Currency; Financial Strategy; Global Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retirement; Japan; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • October 2005 (Revised February 2006)
  • Case

Reactivity: A Case of Re-Invention

By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper
By the time Glenn Osaka joined Reactivity as its new CEO in January 2001, the Internet bubble had burst, the financial markets had turned, and the company's core businesses were drying up. He was not hired to lead a turnaround, but Osaka found that the firm's future... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Venture Capital; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Leadership Style; Product; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 11 Mar 2020
  • News

Making It Rain

ClimaCell is pushing to get this information into the hands of residents through its data partners and its mobile apps in the hopes of serving much of the developing world. Elkabetz adds that among ClimaCell’s plans for the future is... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • 28 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

to consumers—and fairer to the businesses they review. “What this does is reduce the noise. We're trying to extract more information from the reviews.” Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, believes a review framework View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage
  • 24 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security

Security Insurance. I joined the company as its first MBA intern. It was a truly transformative experience for me and for the company itself! It was exciting to work and develop in such a dynamic environment. My background in consulting... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change? Using a cost-based theoretical framework of bundling due to Evans and Salinger (2005, 2008),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Tech for the People

Box to archive videos of city council meetings, and a registry designed with IBM to monitor rent-control compliance. “It’s incredible how much I learned about ways that tech companies can develop products... View Details
  • Profile

Tiffany Pham

“Ultimately, the MOGUL platform leverages technology to connect women and empower them to learn from each other as well as support themselves.” What have been the best and most challenging parts about launching the company? “The best part of launching MOGUL has been... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entertainment / Media; Technology
  • April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
  • Case

Verge Software (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Scott Rozic, CEO of start-up Verge Software, has just told his board that he is taking the company in a totally new direction, moving from enterprise knowledge management software to Internet direct marketing. This case covers the start-up of the business, and Rozic's... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • Portrait Project

Smriti Jayaraman

arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

differentiation is difficult in retail as well because development of such advantages takes time and is difficult to execute. All the while, low-price players are constantly looming to pounce. Can low-margin retailers afford customer... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 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 itself in its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the 1930s, investments were generally targeted for trusts, pensions, and other conservative funds rather than emerging industries. 32 The urgent military needs during World War II had fostered the rapid creation of new View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Books

Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems and the ways in which they evolve... View Details