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  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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  • September 2021
  • Case

Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Higher Education; Decision Making; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Geographic Scope; Growth and Development; Leadership; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Identity; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Expansion; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

digital transformation an even more urgent need, companies must also morph iteratively to keep up with the speed of emerging technologies. It’s a process of continuous learning and pivoting to adapt to an evolving competitive landscape.... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

practices, routines, and technologies. Some of these tools have the potential to become part of the bank's decision-making processes, others do not. Then the team looked at ways that the tool-makers could expand their influence. They used... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

impairment reporting and that its effect is better understood in the context of upper echelons theory and agency theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-088.pdf Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

employees, and how difficult was that process to manage? A: We wanted to do what few researchers have ever attempted: "trap creativity in the wild" in organizations, by observing it as it was happening within View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

makes entrepreneurial leaders tick, the answers are far from clear. In fact, most studies present conflicting findings. Entrepreneurs, it seems, are still very much a black box waiting to be opened. A Harvard Business School research team... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

with others. They don’t hide behind their flaws; instead, they seek to understand them. This lifelong developmental process is similar to what musicians and athletes go through in improving their capabilities. How leaders develop their... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

live.” “It helped me process the possibility that the time at the company I had started could be finished, and that could be OK.” Even as he was feeling fulfilled by helping people, he felt himself crashing. “I didn’t think you could burn... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

Learning and the Harvard Alumni Association. "What can we all do so that disagreement turns out to be productive rather than damaging?" Gino opened the evening with an example of such constructive sparring. Sharing video of the Pixar creative View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

  Working PapersNone available this week   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Company Sale Process Author:William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Note 206-108 Lays out the steps, timeline, and process by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Authors such as Adler (2006), however, note that an increasing number of companies are abandoning the notion that art practice within business signifies a problem; they've embraced artistic processes in approaches to strategic and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • What Do You Think?

How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

one with a PhD. and unbridled curiosity. With Jack Welch, one experienced an idea a minute. Some hit home, some didn’t. He and his team tried a lot of things—many of them were ideas developed elsewhere—and presumably kept most of what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • May 2020
  • Teaching Note

Talismark

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 211-097. Talismark negotiated waste hauling contracts for small and medium size companies. Its owners, Charles Muszynski and Marshall Staiman, were able to grow the business by more than 30% per year since it was founded, but believed... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Small Business Administration; Infrastructure; Restructuring; Business Processes; Information Management; Sales; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Wastes and Waste Processing
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  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and fellow researchers compared the outcomes of flexible work arrangements at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The team found that employees with liberal “work from... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
Captain Michael Davidson of the container ship SS El Faro was determined to make his planned shipping trip on time—but a hurricane was approaching his intended path. To succeed, Davidson and his fellow officers must plot a course to avoid the storm in the face of... View Details
Keywords: Power Dynamics; Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Failure; Groups and Teams; Rank and Position; Decision Choices and Conditions; Shipping Industry; United States
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  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

require digital transformations to be more iterative than other forms of corporate change. Leaders need to catalyze change rather than plan for it. That means creating the initial conditions for the organization to achieve its ambitions and guiding their company... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

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