Publications

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn of the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

security services to companies in South Africa, other African countries, and parts of Europe. In the case, Gray has recently undergone a financial restructuring with the help of private equity firm Brait... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2007
News

Got Global?

IT services company based in Secunderabad, India, Raju launched the country’s first emergency response service in his home state of Andhra Pradesh two years ago. The equivalent of dialing 911 for emergency... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

differences in the price of capital across countries. Our strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment (from a small number of industrialized countries). We find the price of imported... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

small, regional employment agencies have existed in the space for decades. But Nomad’s digital marketplace is an innovation, allowing clinicians to advertise their availability and health care institutions... View Details

Keywords: April White

November 2002 (Revised May 2007)
Case

Charles Schwab in 2002

By: Lynda M. Applegate, F. Warren McFarlan and Jamie Ladge

Details the evolution of the Charles Schwab business model, from its founding in 1975 to October 2002. The protagonist, David Pottruck, is faced with re-inventing the firm as a full-service brokerage at a time of tremendous industry instability as the industry reels... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business Model; Business or Company Management; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Services Industry

April 2019
Supplement

OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (B)

By: Juan Alcacer and Emer Moloney

During the period 2011-2016, CEO and Chairman of Greek telecommunications company OTE Michael Tsamaz guided the company through a much needed transformation with a multi-pronged strategy. View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Transformation; Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry

April 2000 (Revised June 2001)
Case

DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)

By: John A. Deighton

By acquiring Abacus, DoubleClick won the power to serve ads with unprecedented precision, because it brought together Web surfers' online and offline identities. Several competitors had developed advanced systems for serving ads on the web, but DoubleClick had the... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Competitive Advantage; Social Issues; Customer Focus and Relationships; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

Find at Harvard

18 Jul 2014
News

Team Players

interesting challenge, because you have a limited amount of time to build the brand. Then it disappears. We had to develop a marketing plan that was all-encompassing, but that still got the right information to the people who needed it." From the start, the View Details

February 1998 (Revised August 2006)
Case

House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Danielle Melito Wu

The Tata Group began the 1990s as a confederation of loosely coupled firms. This case considers the rise to prominence of the new CEO of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, and his attempts to strengthen the inter-relationships among the group companies at a time when critics... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Conglomerates; Organizations; Corporate Strategy; Consolidation; Business Strategy; Alignment; Service Industry; Service Industry

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

the value chain framework to define the set of activities through which products and services are created and delivered to customers.6 Once activities are defined, it is then... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

heavily on the sustainability of everything from energy sources to low-cost sources of products and services to security, it is not particularly surprising that for some of the most interesting thinking... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 2007
News

A Juicy Story

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 presentation by John... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

04 Sep 2019
News

A Wide Screen Approach

content business,” says Wilson. “We’re now digital and we’re creating—and monetizing—1,500 hours of content every year.” And all of that digital... View Details

October 2018 (Revised April 2019)
Teaching Note

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble

Teaching Note for HBS No. 418-011. View Details

June 2024
Case

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details