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  • 07 Jul 2022
  • HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

filing for bankruptcy? And more importantly, how did Smith and Cuscuna rebound from their first failed venture to open another successful ice cream shop? The startup, like many others, was a victim of its own success, says Harvard Business View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Research Summary

Non-Financial Incentives

My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

revenue, we asked senior staff to take a 50% pay reduction until we reopen. Our CEO took a 100% pay reduction.” On the positive side of the spectrum, CEOs report that their teams are eager to be motivated, to find meaning at work during... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

revenue, we asked senior staff to take a 50% pay reduction until we reopen. Our CEO took a 100% pay reduction.” On the positive side of the spectrum, CEOs report that their teams are eager to be motivated, to find meaning at work during... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

each player. Yet some managers felt the technology was a distraction, an investment too expensive for a team that was not yet cash-flow positive. The team finished the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • TeachingInterests

The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (MBA)

By: Anita Elberse
This second-year MBA course is primarily designed for students pursuing a career in the entertainment, media and sports sectors -- including film, television, music, publishing, video games, the performing arts, sports, fashion, and advertising -- or who plan to work... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

By: Tarun Khanna

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

  • 11 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology
  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions - Doctoral

tool. If I have an MBA degree, will that make a difference? Some students have an MBA or another master’s degree before entering the program. However, an MBA or another master’s degree is not required for admissions. What are you looking for in an applicant? Students... View Details
  • July 2020
  • Supplement

Sesame Workshop (B): Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In 2019, Sesame Workshop celebrated its 50th anniversary while on a winning streak of social impact, innovation, and peak media and financial results. Over the past four years, CEO Jeff Dunn and his turnaround team exhibited values-driven leadership, instituted... View Details
Keywords: Social Impact; Children; Media; Television Entertainment; Education; Innovation and Invention; Change Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Education Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • October 1984
  • Case

NIKE (F): The Apparel Division

Deals with challenges confronting a new divisional manager of Nike's apparel division, David Chang. The teaching plan would focus on a diagnosis of the division's current strategy and what future strategic moves might be considered. View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Business Divisions; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
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  • Research Summary

Strategy, Governance and Valuation

By: Krishna G. Palepu
Professor Palepu's current research focuses on strategy and governance. In the area of strategy, his recent focus has been on the globalization of emerging markets, particularly India and China, and the resulting opportunities and challenges for western multinationals... View Details
  • June 2020
  • Supplement

Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details
Keywords: Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California
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  • 17 Sep 2019
  • News

Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life

  • 04 Jul 2019
  • News

How immigrant entrepreneurs get their start in the U.S. economy

  • September 2016
  • Case

Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic resources like heating assistance, job training, and childcare... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Social Enterprise; Scaling Social Impact; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Reform; Nonprofit; Nonprofit Scaling; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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  • January 2017 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Sales Razor Technologies

By: Paul Gompers and Noam Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry
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  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk? Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Dalia RahmanHarvard Business School Case 411-024 Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, business leaders should look for locations that gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Latin America - Global

greatly increased the volume of in-depth research and course materials that focus on business management issues specific to Latin American companies. This has also enabled HBS to strengthen its relationships with important companies and... View Details