Publications

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

increases demand. Results also show that small third-party sellers affected by Amazon's entry appear to be discouraged from growing their businesses on the platform subsequently. The results have... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Ishita Sen

Ishita Sen is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Unit, teaching Finance 1 to MBA students.

Professor Sen's research studies insurance markets. Her recent research examines the pricing of property insurance and the understudied... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

04 Sep 2012
News

P&G Directors Face Own Challenges While Keeping Tabs on McDonald

12 Nov 2015
News

Airbnb Pledges to Work With Cities and Pay ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes

13 Jun 2021
News

So You Can’t Find Great Women for Your Organization? Really?

09 Feb 2019
News

Priority line madness: Now even Santa’s lap has a FastPass

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

causal relationship between diversity and profitability, then management can safely argue that managing for diversity is a way to increase shareholder value. If, however, the relationship is negative, then... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 2013
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins

After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details

April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Dansko, Inc.

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Victoria Winston

For the past 18 months, Mandy Cabot had worried that the shoe business she had built into a thriving operation with $90 million in annual revenue and over 110 employees might instead be a "house of cards." The management philosophy that had guided Dansko's growth,... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Revenue; Experience and Expertise; Employee Relationship Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry

June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Case

Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics: Creating and Implementing a Sage Culture

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh, Susan J. Winterberg, Nancy Hua Dai and Shalene Gupta

Suzhou Good-Ark, a Chinese semiconductor implemented "Sage Culture" management based on traditional Chinese philosophy. Productivity doubled, turnover decreased, and employee satisfaction shot up. By 2015, more than 2,000 companies had toured Wu’s factories, and Wu had... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Philosophy; Leadership; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Performance; Semiconductor Industry; China; Singapore

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

General Management Program Harvard Business School Note 407-022 Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817080-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-106 Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery? Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2018
News

Fallout From Elon Musk’s SEC Settlement: A Big Fine, A New Chairman And A Huge Opportunity For Tesla

01 Apr 2020
News

White-Collar Job Security Exposes Huge Gap With Service Industry

December 1998 (Revised January 2001)
Case

Acer, Inc.: Taiwan's Rampaging Dragon

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Anthony St. George

Describes the strategic, organizational, and management changes that led Acer from its 1976 startup to become the world's second-largest computer manufacturer. Outlines the birth of the company, the painful "professionalization" of its management, the plunge into... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Competitive Advantage; Global Strategy; Transformation; Computer Industry; Taiwan

November 2018 (Revised June 2022)
Teaching Note

AirFox (A): Embracing the Blockchain and an ICO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Nathaniel Schwalb

Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-097. In summer 2017, Victor Santos, CEO of AirFox, considered whether to pivot his startup towards a new product built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Initial Coin Offering; ICO; Business Startups; Finance; Currency; Strategy; Decision Making; United States