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  • February 1999
  • Case

Volant Skis

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
Volant brought innovation to the ski equipment industry in 1989 by developing a stainless steel ski. He claimed the skis could turn more easily, could hold an edge in icy conditions, and were more stable than aluminum or fiberglass skis. The company's "soft-flex"... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Quality; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation
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  • Spring 2014
  • Article

Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning

By: Jill Avery
Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous class participation is essential to achieving learning objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment... View Details
Keywords: Case Method Teaching; Marketing; Business Education; Teaching; Education Industry
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  • 08 Nov 2018
  • News

Bookshelf: November / December 2018

    How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

    High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
    • Web

    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    people do. Julian De Freitas and colleagues pit humans against machines in a video game to study AI's current limits and mine insights for the real world. Open Source Software:... View Details
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Corporation, 1975–2000 Edward G. Budd E. G. Budd Company, 1912–1946 Ralph Budd Great Northern Railroad, 1919–1932 Herbert P. Buetow Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, 1953–1963 Warren E. Buffett Berkshire... View Details
    • February 2017 (Revised May 2022)
    • Case

    The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
    In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details
    Keywords: Diamonds; Go-to-market Strategy; Secondary Market; Willingness To Pay; Pilot Program; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Marketing; Advertising; Branding; Customer Value; Pawn Shops; Jewelry; Supply And Demand; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Advertising Campaigns; Value Creation; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Namibia
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    • 21 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 21

    Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines Authors:Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr Abstract Measures of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 11

    http://hbr.org/product/multi-sided-platforms-foundations-and-strategy/an/714436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-148 Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa This case considers the strategies of Charles... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

    conversation Take Steve, a fictitious character who is almost 30 and heading to business school after a stint in private equity. Steve wants to know if he’s in line for the top job in his family’s steel... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    How to Fix ESG Reporting

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    Investors, advocacy groups, academics, and the 200 CEOs of the US Business Roundtable have asked corporations to take on an added purpose beyond a narrow pursuit of shareholder value. In response, many companies now issue ESG (Environmental, Societal, and Governance)... View Details
    Keywords: ESG Reporting; Sustainability; Corporate Purpose; Greenhouse Gas; Activity-Based Costing; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Goals and Objectives; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Accountability
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    • Article

    Doing Business with Strangers: Reputation in Online Service Marketplaces

    By: Antonio Moreno and Christian Terwiesch
    Online service marketplaces allow service buyers to post their project requests and service providers to bid for them. To reduce the transactional risks, marketplaces typically track and publish previous seller performance. By analyzing a detailed transactional data... View Details
    Keywords: Online Service Marketplace; Procurement; Auctions; Reputation; Bids and Bidding
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    • 18 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

    Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
    Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
    • 14 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

    helpful to your company.” The study’s findings also underscore the growing possibility of mining “nuanced and granular” social media data to understand how and why employee... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 07 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 7, 2016

    May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 May 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University

    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Bless this Stress

    National Geographic for Disney+/Craig Parry In the first episode of the National Geographic docuseries Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001/PhDOB 2009) and the Australian actor gaze across downtown Sydney to a skyscraper in the distance, teetering... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 27 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 27

    it and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long-term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel

      Canary Categories—Journal of Marketing Research

      Typically, past spending in a category is a positive indicator of future purchasing. In this we show that there exist categories (which we name "canary categories") in which the reverse is true -  
      When customers purchase... View Details

      • Web

      Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

      inglés. Oman Mohammed Al Barwani Founder and Chairman, MB Holding Company (Oil; Gas; Mining Exploration; Diversified) “If you can invest in brands internationally, and... View Details