Publications

16 Sep 2015
News

Creating more effective content across all media

Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media. Thales draws upon data to inform the... View Details

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Jul 2014
News

Fostering connections with business leaders in India and South Asia

world's population. HBS faculty and student interest has heightened in particular with India's growth as an economic power. Under Raina's direction, the IRC has furthered the development of more than 90 case studies, several of which... View Details

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

expectations. “I was a strategy consultant before I came to HBS,” says Sarah. “I thought this could be a great opportunity to apply my strategy experience to the role.” After an initial phone screening,... View Details

Profile

Rocio Parra

says. In fact, she completed a couple of high-tech consulting internships while attending Stanford. But her senior project led to a major change in plans. "I was part of a team that conducted marketing strategy for a digital... View Details

September 2000 (Revised November 2002)
Case

Amazon.com: 1994-2000

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura

Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry

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18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

evaluate business development opportunities. Driven by cash needs, they may call this "experimentation," but in effect they tell salespeople to "go forth and multiply!" By selling to anyone, though, ventures fragment... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Making Sense of Capitalism

organized—“Capitalism and the Senses”— was an invaluable experience for me to develop scholarly networks and to revisit my own research, which examines the sensory experience of food marketing in the early twentieth century. I also... View Details

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

developments are important. Our study provides the first serious evidence that file sharing cannot explain the decline in music sales in the last couple of years. In addition, in the last two quarters, music sales increased while file... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the competition from imitating or... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract— Traditional innovation models... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

are “fanatically customer and employee-centric transforming leaders” and who will create organizations in which “employees live the mission in their work”? To what extent does formal business education even play a part in the development... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

March 2010 (Revised August 2012)
Supplement

WellSpace Treatment Centers for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (B) - The Marino Center

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

The Marino Center provides complementary traditional and alternative health care services. It wants to grow, but how and where? View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry

September 2010
Case

Quanta Research Institute: Rainforest or Hothouse?

By: Willy C. Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Ho Howard Yu

Barry Lam, the CEO and founder of Quanta Computer (the largest notebook computer manufacturer worldwide), has recognized for many years that he had to transform the company to decrease its dependence on producing commodity hardware for other global brands and move the... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Research and Development; Computer Industry; Taiwan

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

at an inflection point. How can the modern educational institution encourage innovation and experimentation? What are the practical steps you take? SG: I recently met with the IT Strategy Board—a governance group overseeing information... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
Case

Lana Ghanem: Pushing the Boundaries of Health Care through Venture Capital

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Ahmed Dahawy

Lana Ghanem, managing director of Hikma Ventures, the corporate venture arm of larger pharmaceutical group Hikma, is considering how to grow the venture arm as well as progress her own career. Over the past few years Hikma's executive team had been pressuring the... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Corporate Governance; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Venture Capital; Personal Development and Career; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan

01 Sep 2007
News

Where Are They Now?

HBS faculty in 1980 and teaching organizational behavior, in 1985 he decamped to Au Bon Pain, the chain of bakery cafés, serving as COO for several years before returning to HBS. At the School again until 1998, he taught, wrote books, and with HBS colleagues, View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

become more frequent as well—and technology develops to protect users from unwanted intrusions. A market in access and identity results. Property exchanges. As with Napster, Craigslist, and eBay, people participate in the anonymous... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

January 2008 (Revised February 2010)
Case

Chocolates El Rey

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Gustavo Herrero and Regina Garcia-Cuellar

In late November 2006, Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single origin... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Segmentation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Venezuela