Publications

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

a virus the company had not seen before and start the timer. Bancel was eager for the chance to show off the company’s agility. The organizations settled on the spring of 2020 for this “outbreak”; the first quarter of the year was just... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

18 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Recruiting HBS MBA Students in 2017-2018

organization forward. Quality over quantity – With a population as big as HBS’, it can be tempting to measure success based on how many students apply to your job or attend your presentation. We have found that over 80% of our students... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

October 1959 (Revised May 1983)
Case

Sunshine Builders, Inc.

By: Arch-Richard Dooley and Wickham C. Skinner

Production setup of a successful home builder. View Details

Keywords: Production; Success; Business Processes; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry

August 1997 (Revised June 1999)
Case

Providian Trust: Tradition and Technology (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey

A major trust company attempts to implement a major software system while simultaneously reengineering business processes. Providian Trust, a previously non-IT intensive organization, must completely reposition its management of technology to deal with IT's new... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Financial Institutions; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Financial Services Industry

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

investors said at the time,” Baer recounts, “ ‘The good news is we just bought the team. The bad news is we just bought the team. What the hell do we do with it?’ ” As a business, the Giants organization was losing around $15 million a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

May 2020 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Justice-as-a-Service at RightNow

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani

The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as minimal viable product, defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a... View Details

Keywords: Legacy Business; Teams; Startup; Business Models; Pivot; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Germany

October 2016
Case

Malenti Strings: Intrapreneurship within FLG, Inc.

By: David A. Garvin and Rachel Gordon

This case follows Jenica Fletcher as she rebuilds her company's guitar strings division from the ground up. Convinced that she could turn the division around if given complete independence from corporate headquarters, Fletcher relocated the group, rebranded it as... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Consumer Products Industry

August 2008
Teaching Note

The Blackstone Group's IPO (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [808100]. View Details

Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Public Ownership; Initial Public Offering; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Financial Services Industry; China

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how they’ve overcome everything from... View Details

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

thrown around range from the federal government borrowing and investing that money directly to instead providing incentives such as tax credits to encourage private industry to participate. The method and the final amount will be debated.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

Web

AI Enhanced Learning: HBS IT and Faculty Collaborate on Research Navigator Bot | Information Technology

business contexts, the course places student teams in real-world consulting scenarios with global partners. Some teams remain in Boston, but most travel abroad for “Immersion Week,” engaging directly with local organizations to consult on... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

All Hands on Deck

start dates delayed, and those interested in hard-hit industries like hospitality and entertainment had to broaden their searches,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of Career and Professional Development (CPD).... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Mar 2008
News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

CEO about as tough as it ever has been. Companies need world-class efficiency, constant innovation, and a customer orientation. This requires a group of talented, dedicated people working as a team across business units and country boundaries. To get that kind of View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Apr 1997
News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

General Manage-ment unit. With the growing importance of the Internet and the fact that the daily operations of most organizations now rely heavily on computer technology, IT "has moved to the top of the agenda of most CEOs," notes Nolan.... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

neither find any markers of significant NPE pass-through to end innovators nor of a positive impact of NPEs on innovation in the industries in which they are most prevalent. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2020 (Revised February 2023)
Case

Performance Management at Afreximbank (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi and Josh Steimle

Based in Cairo, Afreximbank was founded in October 1993 as a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the worsening external debt situation of many African... View Details

Keywords: Performance Management; Balanced Scorecard; Performance Expectations; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Banking Industry; Africa; Egypt