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  • March 2021
  • Supplement

Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (B)

By: Meg Rithmire and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in November 2020 as Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, co-founders of Iran’s first and leading ride-hailing platform, Snapp, eagerly await the results of the U.S. presidential elections.
The case takes us through the challenging times between... View Details
Keywords: Sanctions; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Health Pandemics; Transportation Industry; Middle East; Iran
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  • July 2013 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Annelena Lobb
By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing U.S. law firm to a significant global player. The firm's uniquely collaborative organizational culture, which featured a transparent, data-driven compensation system, practice-group... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firm; Collaboration; Performance Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance; Cooperation; Globalized Firms and Management; Compensation and Benefits; Volatility; Growth and Development Strategy; Legal Services Industry; United States
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  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve cooldown. To prevent the disaster experienced up north, the site superintendent, Naohiro Masuda, and his team had to connect them to the plant's surviving power sources. In a volatile... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

rate. In addition, the real rate forecasts returns on the low-minus-high volatility portfolio, though it appears unrelated with measures of the quantity of risk. Our results suggest that precautionary savings motives, and thus the real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

faster, cheaper, and better, but we avoid the expensive & volatile transportation hurdles. NorthPawSophie Levin, MBA 2022NorthPaw will sell sustainable pet food, featuring cultivated meat, to eco-conscious pet owners. If cats and dogs... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

Navalny the right figure for business leaders in Russia to organize around? What were the risks of getting involved with a politically volatile activist? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112033-PDF-ENG McKesson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

destination in advance. Whether you're designing a new product, running a business in volatile conditions, operating a process that might encounter unforeseen inputs, or just trying to figure out what to do with your life, the journey... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • January 2025
  • Case

Negotiating a Legacy at Sustainable Harvest (A)

By: Jillian Jordan, Julian Zlatev, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter
The specialty coffee importer Sustainable Harvest was the first certified B Corp in the coffee industry due to its investments in building coffee farmers’ capacity and livelihood. But in 2022, after coffee prices plummeted and the company’s bank declined to extend its... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Trust; Ethics; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Volatility; Futures and Commodity Futures; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Business Model; Credit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe
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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Micro Management

often rely on informal working capital loans at exorbitant interest rates. Vendors have volatile cash flows, and the one-size-fits-all microfinance repayment model is not a good fit. We are developing a loan product that matches their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Also, people are more attuned to the knowledge that geopolitical strife is influenced by environmental issues, such as how American dependence on Persian Gulf oil colors its behavior in that volatile region. It is only in recent years... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Profile

David A. Frankel

was possibly the worst year in recent memory to be fundraising. But in hindsight, it was a brilliant time to be investing, Frankel said. Early on, they bifurcated their strategy: they continued to make smaller angel investments of $100,000 to $200,000 in more View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

Dreyfus Commodities (LDC or Dreyfus) is the D of the ABCD grain-trading giants. The case describes how their business works and details the strategy by which management turned the company around in recent years. The case presents a number of issues facing the company:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

assembled an experienced staff during a highly volatile period for such start-ups itself seemed a milestone, and a symbol of the enterprises that might be imagined and attempted in an American economy with deep reserves of risk capital... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

programs on preparing teams to function in a VUCA world, with rapidly changing customer, competitor, and stakeholder needs. Ideally, this means moving on from a fear of VUCA to embracing what I call VUCAgility, the move in mindset, backed by action, that overcomes... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

the trial? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-089 Investing in Volatility at Evanston Capital Management No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water consumed, waste removed, and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Company History; Family Business; Transformation; Volatility; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cash Flow; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Travel Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Utah
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  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman