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    Driving Digital Strategy

    Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype, and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted entire industries and incumbents have often struggled in this new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve... View Details

    • 30 Aug 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

    over the next several years. For example, I just finished a case on a recent construction of an office tower in Rio de Janeiro with a particular focus on financing issues. The View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Construction
    • Research Summary

    The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

    The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details
    • March 2023
    • Case

    Moderna

    By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer, Kerry Herman, Allison J. Wigen and Dave Habeeb
    This multimedia case follows the story of Moderna and its entry into vaccine development in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In summer 2020, Stephane Bancel, CEO of biotech firm Moderna, faces several challenges as his company races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.... View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Research and Development; Digital Transformation; Health Testing and Trials; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • January 1997 (Revised June 1997)
    • Case

    Southwire: Beyond 2000

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
    Southwire, based in Carrollton, GA, was the leading producer of aluminum and copper rod, wire, and cable for the transmission and distribution of electricity. In one decade, CEO Roy Richards, Jr. grew annual sales from $500 million in 1985 to $1.9 billion in 1995, an... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Growth Management; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of entrepreneurial imagination. Pioneering entrepreneurs faced little... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Consumer Goods; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Food; Globalization; Business History; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America
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    • 2022
    • Article

    Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium

    By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
    Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Equality and Inequality; Wages; Recruitment
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    • 18 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

    knowledge inflows into the multinational subsidiary, the literature is rooted in how subsidiaries inherit knowledge from the headquarters (HQ). In this paper we take the first step to liberate the construct View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Business History - Faculty & Research

    Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history... View Details
    • August 2022 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough's Rise

    By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
    In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise. Maynard had... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • September 2011 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Brightcove, Inc. in 2007

    By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
    Brightcove, a technology and services provider to content owners in the Internet television field, aimed to become a media distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Diversification; Digital Platforms; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Distribution; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies

    By: Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Jérôme Schäfer
    In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Policy
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    • 25 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

    steeped in their church communities. As a black woman, no matter how wealthy she was, she would not have been welcome or even allowed in any respectable hotel. Her church connections also formed the basis of her agent network and helped... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • Profile

    Soltan Bryce

    to connect. Soltan served as Head of Growth from the company’s seed stage through a $15 million Series A led by top-tier investors. When asked about working while in school, he shared, “when COVID-19 hit, my immediate thought was: how can... View Details
    • 21 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects

    Keywords: by Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats
    • Research Summary

    The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

    By: Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
    We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
    Keywords: Real Exchange Rate; Firm Level Data; Innovation; Productivity; Exporting; Importing; Credit Constraints; Currency Exchange Rate; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity
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    • 12 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12

    selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

    focused on the mobility and energy sectors. Lambert is backed by multi-billion-dollar private funds seeking to build innovation hubs in underserved markets and expand their portfolio in the global energy and mobility ecosystems. Lambert... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • 09 Apr 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: April 9

    http://hbr.org/search/113088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-125 Plastiq The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne