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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Reinventing the Wheel

extracting carbon black from discarded models to create new ones. Cardozo first heard about the idea in 2013 while serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Dutch incubator YES!Delft. The idea of chipping away at the mountains of old... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • News

Bold Ascent

“It’s a different sort of culture that took some getting used to, but it’s really a lot of fun.” (While he’s not a hardcore mountaineer, Baka expects to be at base camp on Everest next spring and possibly at Mount Rainier this summer.) Launched in August 2010, SlingFin... View Details
Keywords: hiking; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

leadership of Henderson and Professor Forest Reinhardt, the BEI coordinates the activities of a large group of Harvard faculty members from multiple disciplines in an effort, Henderson says, "to create new business models that encourage... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

logic of interest representation. Based on empirical case studies, Trumbull develops an alternative model of interest representation involving "legitimacy coalitions" forming around narratives that tie their agenda to a broader public... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

market based on free riding produce high-quality products? Third, from a public policy perspective, does the mandatory sharing of enhancements raise or lower consumer surplus and industry profits? We develop a two-sided model of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest incremental financial resources.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

leadership and entrepreneurship, this guide covers basic concepts and pertinent issues for leaders at all levels. Two easy-to-follow models are applicable to all types of organizations. The Opportunity Model... View Details
  • May 2020
  • Case

Trust Merchant Bank

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Salim Dewji
Trust Merchant Bank (TMB), a leading bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), needs to decide whether to enter the soon-to-be-liberalized insurance industry. Since its founding in 2004, TMB has played a pivotal role in reshaping the DRC banking landscape by... View Details
Keywords: Retail Banking; Financial Services; Financial Inclusion; Turnaround; Fintech; Banks and Banking; Financial Condition; Insurance; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Business Model; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Monopoly; Banking Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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  • February 2019
  • Supplement

KITEA: Democratizing Furniture in Morocco (PowerPoint supplement)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
This PowerPoint accompanies the KITEA cases and the associated teaching note. The KITEA series of cases (A-F) details how the Moroccan furniture company KITEA prepared for the entry of IKEA into the Moroccan market and describes the outcome of that entry. View Details
Keywords: KITEA; IKEA; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Entry Strategy; Responding To Entry; Localization; Competitive Interaction; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco
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  • October 2015
  • Supplement

The National Geographic Society (B)

By: David A. Garvin
This case was written as an update to the case "The National Geographic Society," HBS No. 311-002, published in 2011. The (B) case describes the 2015 creation of National Geographic Partners, a for-profit joint venture between the National Geographic Society and 21st... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Internet; Publishing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (A)

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures, the evolution of its business model, and the organizational processes relied upon by Enron's management to drive and monitor the business. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
Keywords: Adaptation; Success; Business Model; Business History; Growth Management; Governance Controls; Innovation and Management; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States
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  • Portrait Project

Asaf Gilboa

girls are proving me wrong. Every time I pick them up and hear them giggle I know that my priorities have changed. I realize that my purpose in life is no longer to achieve wealth, power, or influence, but rather to be the best role model... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Annie Fulton

toolbox—filled with real tools—for Christmas. My project-rich childhood laid the foundation for a lifelong passion for envisioning and creating something out of nothing. With time and experience, the scale of what I could build increased. I made cardboard View Details
  • Fast Answer

Entrepreneurial Sales

Research in Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management. SAGE Journals: Relevant publications include Journal of Marketing Education, Marketing Theory. Sample search strategy: ("sales management" or "sales force") and (performance or... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • News

Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO

our opportunity there, more than anything else, is that we, the leaders—we have to be what we say we want to be. Talk is cheap and talk is easy, but from our perspective it's like we have to model the behavior we expect in this... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors believe Fink’s push toward the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Banking
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

in an ongoing effort to make that happen. Porter's presentation "Value-based Health Care Delivery" summarized the problems with the traditional health care model and the keys to creating a different one. Traditionally, he said, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

If companies are willing to embrace a new model of health coverage—one that places control over costs and care directly in the hands of employees—the competitive forces that spur productivity and innovation in consumer markets can be... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

process that comprises many small projects, that evolves to meet the emerging demands of the ever-changing marketplace, that allows for frequent experimentation, and that delivers value on an ongoing basis. "Several decades ago, we learned that manufacturing View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner