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  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

so new product design began to be informed by market research, user feedback, and how well the toys matched the vision of quality creative play laid out by its founding fathers. Putting parameters on how people innovate had the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation

    Walter A. Friedman

    Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

    Keywords: information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry
    • March 2011 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Cree, Inc.: Which Bright Future?

    By: David J. Collis, Mary Furey and Matthew Shaffer
    After its founding in the late 1980s, Cree Inc. quickly grew into a major player in the emerging LED market. By 2007, technological improvements in LEDs had made them suitable for TV, computer, and mobile "backlighting"; and concerns over global warning led to calls to... View Details
    Keywords: Cree; LEDs; Lighting Market; Clean Tech; Energy Policy; Semiconductors; North Carolina; Business Growth and Maturation; Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption; Electronics Industry; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North Carolina; Raleigh
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    • 30 Mar 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

    researcher and consultant” identified as Cambridge Analytica used a quiz app on the platform to access personal information of approximately 300,000 Facebook users and, by extension, 49.7 million of their “friends.” The consultant... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Information Technology
    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Case

    On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

    a sale through. And if a customer didn’t buy after browsing, the team asked questions: What information was the customer missing? Was there something in the customer’s purchase history that Target should have known that would have blocked... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 26 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    HBS Lingo 101

    nonprofits, and government organizations—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real business issues—and places the student in the role of the decision maker. Students will read 500 cases during their two years... View Details
    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

    core that provides key data and administrative services. Research Programs and Labs Six research programs addressing today’s key business and societal challenges anchor the Institute. Within each program are labs focusing on a specific area of research that View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters

    By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Emilie Sartre
    Using data on the residential location and migration for every voter in U.S. states recording partisan registration between 2008–2020, we find that residential segregation between Democrats and Republicans has increased year over year at all geographic levels, from... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Geographic Location; Demographics
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    • February 2018
    • Article

    Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women

    By: Nancy R. Baldiga and Katherine Baldiga Coffman
    Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female advancement in competitive career fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making; Laboratory Experiment; Competition; Organizations; Gender; Behavior
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas

    By: Deepak Hegde and Hong Luo
    In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required US patent applications to be published 18 months... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Biotechnology Industry
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    • September 2009
    • Article

    Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry? The Formation of Alliances by Poorly Embedded Firms

    By: Gautam Ahuja, Francisco Polidoro Jr. and Will Mitchell
    Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to form alliances, because they lack informational... View Details
    Keywords: Interorganizational Networks; Interfirm Collaboration; Embeddedness; Networks; Joint Ventures; Alliances
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    • 2014
    • Discussion Paper

    The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?

    By: Dina D. Pomeranz
    The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
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    • January 2007
    • Article

    Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Retail Sector

    By: Tatiana Sandino
    Focusing on a sample of US retailers, I study the management control systems (MCS) that firms introduce when they first invest in controls, and identify four categories of initial MCS, which are defined in terms of the purposes these MCS fulfill. The first category,... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Firm Growth; Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Management Systems; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

    By: Peter Tufano
    We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Income; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Performance Effectiveness
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    • April 2005 (Revised April 2005)
    • Background Note

    Corporate Strategies in Media and Entertainment Businesses

    By: Bharat N. Anand
    In recent years, many debates in corporate strategy have centered around information goods markets, and the media and entertainment sector in particular. Vertical integration is the norm in many parts of the media sector, despite conventional wisdom that it offers no... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy
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    • October, 2023
    • Article

    Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants

    By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
    The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation Of Environmental Effects; Housing Demand; Water Pollution; Water Quality; Infrastructure; Pollution; Consumer Behavior
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    • 12 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

    a lot about the human condition, Ferguson says. “Understanding why we go to live sports tells us something more general about what makes us tick,” Ferguson says. “It tells us something about the nature of our preferences for information... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
    • May 2010
    • Article

    Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels

    By: Anita Elberse
    Fueled by digital distribution, unbundling is prevalent in many information industries. What is the effect of this unbundling on sales? And what bundle characteristics drive this effect? I empirically examine these questions in the context of the music industry, using... View Details
    Keywords: Unbundling; Bundling; Digital Distribution; System-of-equations Modeling; Sales; Distribution Channels; Framework; Mathematical Methods; Revenue; Reputation; Internet and the Web; System; E-commerce; Information Industry; Information Industry
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    • Web

    Donor Societies - Alumni

    around the world. Membership Offerings Alumni and friends who contribute $1 million or more to help advance the School’s global priorities enjoy five years of membership. Information on the impact of their giving Selection of new global... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry

    By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández
    LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since... View Details
    Keywords: Soccer; ＂Sports Organizations,; Business History; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry
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