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  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

process at every level happens in ways that are not always intuitive to people who think about strategy as a top-down planning process. For example, customers can capture what gets considered in a formal budgeting meeting because the pricing and margin implications... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2014
  • Book

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Industrial Policy; Development Banks; Capitalism; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance Theory; CEO Effects; Public Sector; Economic Systems; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Emerging Markets; Banking Industry; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 21 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

Investing: Emerging Trends in a Changing Landscape," a recent panel discussion hosted by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative. They also touched on growing trends including venture philanthropy and social impact... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience

how Alibaba’s Taobao got started as a B2B platform, or what Uber’s highly profitable business model was, or that the now very popular Swiss watches were seriously struggling for a while until Jean-Claude... View Details
  • December 2010 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
After investing $9 million of venture capital, Cake Financial had failed to reach critical mass. In early 2010 Cake's assets were sold and the company was dissolved. Founded in 2006, the San Francisco-based Internet company allowed users to monitor their investments... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Internet; Financial Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49361 May-June 2015 European View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2008 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

McDonald's Plan to Win (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karla Ingrid Gravis and Annette Kristine Rodriguez
As of 2007, McDonald's had made significant progress on its “Plan to Win,” and the company was rewarded by reaching an all-time high share price. However, McDonald's competitors had expanded beyond the typical fast food giants, such as Wendy's and Burger King, as... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Complexity; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 09 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 9

  Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists using a venture capital model—the money comes with guidance and governance. Artists receive money as milestones are reached and also receive guidance on managing their lives and business to increase their... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Services Industry
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  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

Exploring Langerian Models Understanding Confidence: Its Roots and Role in Performance By: Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Fox Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51716 October... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • fall 2008
  • Article

Typosquatting: Unintended Adventures in Browsing

By: Benjamin Edelman
"Typosquatting" is the practice of registering domain names, identical to or confusingly similar to trademarks and famous names, in hopes that users will accidentally request these sites—whereupon they will receive, typically, advertisements. This piece presents the... View Details
Keywords: Web; Advertising; Business Model; Lawsuits and Litigation; Profit; Practice
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  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education
  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

she cannot transfer her bag, that the company will not transfer her bags, and all she wants to do is go see her grandkids, and she can't move very fast at this advanced age and he responds very clearly. And he says, I would really like to help you out, but then the... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology undermined the company’s manual drafting tools in the 1980s. With each new threat the Count had to decide... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

mistake. Sandra Cha of McGill University and Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School discuss what to do when values backfire. Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Competitive positioning and sustainable competitive advantage for corporations, business units, and leaders. Learn more about Strategy Key Frameworks & Concepts Value-based Health Care Delivery Drivers of Competiveness The Diamond View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Competing in the Age of AI

others.” LEADING WITH AI: EXPLORING BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY FRONTIERS To help business leaders think through the vast technological changes happening around them, HBS and the Digital Data View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

business community was swift and dramatic. Deutsche Bank froze the creation of 250 jobs in Cary. More than 100 business leaders, many from well-known companies, signed a letter to Gov. McCrory opposing the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • January 2024
  • Case

National Football League and Private 5G

By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Shuoyu Chen
On September 9, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) designated Verizon as its official 5G partner in a 10-year deal, committed to enhance the experience for NFL teams, players, and fans in stadiums. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Verizon will help us... View Details
Keywords: Football; National Football League; 5G; Verizon; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sports Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

model for integrating diverse values offers some grounds for thinking about parallel virtues in the business case. Our goal is not to offer any general prescription for organizational democracy at this stage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel