Publications

04 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann

Four years ago, I got involved with coaching and career education programs. This led me to working with students interested in industries such as consumer products, retail, sustainability, agribusiness, and hospitality. Living sustainably... View Details

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

the order management cycle? Benson Shapiro: In the late 1970s, when I was teaching the Industrial Marketing course in the MBA program at Harvard, it began to become clear to me that to really manage many businesses, one needed to deal... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

whether it’s through informational interviews or coffee meetings, can really help ‘put a face to a name’ when the job opportunity does come up.” Gandhi: “The rules of the music industry today change every... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

parts of the organization. With deficient information and knowledge, you can't put all the pieces together or understand when something might be going wrong. Jay Lorsch: There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

22 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 22

better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
Case

Cadre

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane

Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details

Keywords: ＂Cadre,＂; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

November 1992 (Revised December 1992)
Case

Deere & Co. (A): The Computer Aided Manufacturing Services Division - A Window to the World (Abridged)

By: Robert H. Hayes

The Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Services Division of John Deere has just received approval to sell their software and computer systems to external customers. These tools, initially developed for internal use, have been widely used throughout Deere. Still,... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Machinery and Machining; Technological Innovation; Markets; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Outcome or Result; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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February 1987 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Arley Merchandise Corporation

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Involves the initial public offering of a firm's stock. The offering includes a money-back guarantee to investors from the issuing firm which comes in the form of a "put" option. Option valuation is thus an important issue in this case. View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Stocks; Cases; Valuation; Stock Options; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

considerations guiding financial reporting. Financial reports produced under the positive theory of GAAP would also generate information useful for equity valuation, but equity valuation is not predicted to be the primary objective... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

stylistic diversity. The publication provides introductory text, detailed descriptive information about seventy prints from the collection, an artist index, and a bibliography for further study. New technology has made it possible to now... View Details

Web

Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

belong. Maybe you’re mission-driven with a mind to tackle a deeply entrenched social issue. The interactions we have serve as a significant source of information that can propel personal and professional change. When we put design in... View Details

12 Jan 2017
News

Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me an incredible opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

July 2001 (Revised December 2001)
Case

WeServeHomes.com

ServiceMaster, a Fortune 500 supplier of home services such as Terminex, Trugreen (lawn care), and MerryMaids, has a 50% interest in an Internet start-up designed to attract new customers to its services and help service providers improve quality and lower costs.... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Service Industry

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

at the time that the company is redesigning its business processes, organization, and information technology infrastructure to support aggressive growth and increased complexity. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Private 5G Networks

By: Andy Wu and Maggie Yang

In the late 2010’s, 5G emerged as a new standard in communication technology. 5G was designed to enable ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), massive machine-type communication (MMTC), and enhanced mobile broadband (EMBB) (see Exhibit 1 for a detailed... View Details

Keywords: 5G; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Telecommunications Industry