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- 02 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
The Benefits of a Residential Campus
for all of the first year and the first semester of the second year before moving off campus to live with my partner in Back Bay (about a 10 minute drive from campus, a 50+ minute public transportation ride door to door). First, if you’re... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
- May 2022
- Case
Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro Pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Fares Khrais. "Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!" Harvard Business School Case 722-399, May 2022.
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details
- February 2022 (Revised May 2025)
- Case
Resident 2020
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
Launched in 2016, Resident was a leading player in the direct-to-consumer bed-in-a-box mattress market, where it was one of at least 175 venture-backed companies competing in the space. By late 2020, it had realized over $500 million in revenue, profitability in the... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Cash Flow; Demand and Consumers
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Thomas O. Jones. "Resident 2020." Harvard Business School Case 822-114, February 2022. (Revised May 2025.)
- 29 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Patent Trolls
- February 2019
- Article
Bounded Ethicality and Ethical Fading in Negotiations: Understanding Unintended Unethical Behavior
By: McKenzie Rees, Ann E. Tenbrunsel and Max Bazerman
The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic in far greater numbers, and the study of ethical decision-making... View Details
Rees, McKenzie, Ann E. Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman. "Bounded Ethicality and Ethical Fading in Negotiations: Understanding Unintended Unethical Behavior." Academy of Management Perspectives 33, no. 1 (February 2019): 26–42.
- 07 Nov 2013
- HBS Seminar
Shawn Cole, Harvard Business School
- 2023
- Working Paper
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences
By: Hendrik Döpper, Alexander MacKay, Nathan H. Miller and Joel Stiebale
We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States
from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more
than 100 distinct product categories to estimate demand systems with flexible... View Details
Keywords: Market Power; Markups; Demand Estimation; Consumer Products; Retailers; Product; Price; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior
Döpper, Hendrik, Alexander MacKay, Nathan H. Miller, and Joel Stiebale. "Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-025, October 2021. (Revised March 2023. Direct download.)
- 10 Oct 2023
- News
HBS Responds to the Attacks on Israel
MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR Dear members of the HBS community, I wanted to follow up on the message I joined with Harvard’s leadership in sending last evening, and on the statement issued by President Claudine Gay earlier today. Over the past few days, I have... View Details
- Research Summary
Identity Work, Itinerant Careers, and Management Education
I investigate how and where individuals develop, revise and consolidate identity narratives that afford them some degree of self-esteem, a sense of direction and purpose, and social legitimacy, in the context of careers that feature discontinuities, mobility and... View Details
- January 2018
- Article
Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants
By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been... View Details
Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton. "Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants." Journal of Labor Economics 36, no. S1 (January 2018): S133–S181.
- 15 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead
job. While I knew this was an overstatement of my performance, it meant a lot to me that she was so supportive. This moment boosted my confidence for the rest of the semester. The cold calls didn't get any more fun, but I knew that my... View Details
- January 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved
By: John J-H Kim and Amram Migdal
In fall of 2015, the Toronto, Canada–based education technology nonprofit Rumie had distributed thousands of computer tablets preloaded with collections of thousands of pieces of curated educational content to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in some of the most... View Details
Keywords: Edtech; Education Technology; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit; Education Startup; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business Startups; Education Industry; Canada; Africa
Kim, John J-H, and Amram Migdal. "Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved." Harvard Business School Case 316-140, January 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- 06 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Brandon Lovell (MBA 2020) Talks Growing Up in the South Bronx, Year Up, and the Value of a Supportive Community
Brandon Lovell (MBA 2020) grew up in the South Bronx with no clear path set before him. After graduating from High School, Brandon spent a few years searching for his next step when one day, he was introduced to Year Up and his path... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
family but not everyone can accomplish great things.” Often, when decline kicks in, people like her are too addicted to success to make a change. Finding a new calling For Brooks, the lightbulb went off when... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
workers do not find meaning in their work. A shockingly low 25 percent of employees feel connection to their company's mission. (Contrast that to the 84 percent of Medtronic employees who feel aligned with the company's mission.) In my... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Blog
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
Bill Gates' How to Avoid a Climate Disaster to Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith. But even grounded books such as The Disposable City by Mario Alejandro Ariza make the challenges seem... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
create a customized car if they could not find what they were looking for on the Web site. However, GMBuyPower.com faces significant challenges. First, there are many people who believe that the public may... View Details