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  • 01 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

because they all look the same. I want something more distinct.” But how often do you use Airbnb? Maybe once, twice, or three times a year at most. Because Uber has a very frequent relationship with its customers, it’s easier to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

reduce risk, though the effectiveness depends upon the role of capital structure in volatility. To address this question, we build a statistical model of equity volatility that accounts for leverage. Our approach blends Merton’s insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2013 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Demarketing Soda in New York City

By: John A. Quelch, Margaret L. Rodriguez, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Christine Snively
In 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried and failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat of... View Details
Keywords: Soda; Public Health; Business And Public Policy; Obesity; Business and Government Relations; Public Sector; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Health; City; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies. Gompers recently coauthored two books: Entrepreneurial Finance and The Money of Invention. His Harvard degrees include... View Details
Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Sam Hayes

course, affects investor confidence. Given that fragility, what rules and enforcement are appropriate? The capital markets are so complex and fast-moving that their integrity must in the end rely on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Blackout: August 14, 2003

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ryland Matthew Willis
On August 14, 2003, an electricity blackout cascaded throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. Describes the structure, technology, and economics of the electric utility industry and how gradual deregulation beginning in the 1970s placed unprecedented, and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Infrastructure; Energy Sources; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Emerging Markets; Failure; Economics; Utilities Industry; Canada; Northeastern United States
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  • 15 Dec 2011
  • News

An HBS gift guide

football, repair capitalism Business lessons for a global century Chocolates for a cause Safe water for millions Nature belongs to everyone Capitalize on the network The world at home Quiet your mind (Images... View Details
Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

existing. Likewise, through its Executive Education Program and HBS Online, the School is educating business leaders about the latest technologies and how to capitalize on these new capabilities. The course she took, says Hopkins, covered... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • May 2020 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Gavi and COVID-19: Pandemic of the Century

By: Tarun Khanna and Sid Misra
Gavi has helped immunize over 760 million children in the world's poorest countries over the past 20 years saving 13 million lives. How should Gavi respond to the need for a vaccine for the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic? View Details
Keywords: Vaccine; Pandemics; Healthcare; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Emerging Markets; Crisis Management; Alliances
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites?

By: Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh
Keywords: Business Ventures; Groups and Teams; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to penetrate the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

House version of the CHOICE Act were passed into law, an individual investor in Exxon Mobil would need to own at least $3.49 billion of stock in order to be permitted to submit a proposal for shareholder consideration, based on the company’s View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • January 1998
  • Case

Frontgate Catalog

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
Frontgate is a high-end, Lebanon, Ohio-based catalog business. The decision makers are trying to determine how much financial and personnel resources to invest in the development of a Web site. The decision is being made in light of branding issues and competitor's Web... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Competition; Internet and the Web; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; Ohio
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  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

president of its Americas division, a post he’s held since 2005. Believed by many to be on course to be Ford’s next CEO, Fields has had a rich apprenticeship. After graduating from Rutgers University, he joined IBM in sales and marketing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

the sweet spots. A systematic application of such a method also helps create a credible signal to the other side of the market that provides entrepreneurial capital. Such signals are essential for the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience

approaches like parametric insurance and community catastrophe coverage. Barney Schauble (AB ’95), Senior Advisor at Nephila and Principal of Greenthread, brought a global capital markets perspective to the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

America the Difficult

States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S. outbound FDI — the developed markets of Europe and Japan and the emerging markets of China and India... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

capital market and regional development. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411081-PDF-ENG Carl Icahn and Clorox Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen DuranteHarvard Business School Case 412-078... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

Management Science The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Even though epidemiological evidence links specific... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel