Publications

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

classmates and many of her teachers, and making it a challenge to find clothes that fit. In the years that followed, Girard grew into “the sixes” now standing proudly at 6’1’’ and the idea for the business she would one day start, a View Details

January 2022
Teaching Note

Mobileye 2021: Robotaxi and/or Consumer AV?

By: David B. Yoffie

The Mobileye 2021 case is a strategy case developed for the Strategy & Technology course, which is a second year elective at Harvard Business School. The primary purpose of the case is to teach the framework, “Look Forward, Reason Back,” which is described in David... View Details

Keywords: Technology Companies; Robotics; Autonomous Vehicles; Strategy; Decision Making; Transportation; Technological Innovation; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Israel

16 Jun 2015
News

Michael Porter on America's Historic Energy Opportunity

13 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

company's superior productivity and market share gain in Brazil's cosmetics, fragrances, and toiletries (CF&T) industry. By 2009, Natura's direct sales business model generated income for over 1 million... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

college knowing, based on conversations with mentors and looking at my role models in business, that I wanted to go to business school,” he said. HBS was also always his top choice. “I chose ICV (as my next... View Details

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

company. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718403-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-033 BeiGene BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2013
News

Who Will Radically Disrupt American Health Care?

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810123-PDF-ENG Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration Karim R. Lakhani and Paul R. CarlileHarvard Business School Case 610-074 This case presents the Myelin... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Case

Affinity Labs, Inc.

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind

In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology

September 2023
Case

Diamond Standard

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Zhaoheng Gong and Grace Headinger

Cormac Kinney, Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard, was on a mission to transform the U.S. diamond market through unlocking the precious gems as market-traded assets. As a serial FinTech entrepreneur, he hoped to add an additional service to his vault: Carats. The... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Entrepreneurial Management) Rohit Deshpande Henry McGee Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Regina... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

Manhattan. "I am very proud of what she has accomplished," he says. "After working when I was in business school and then raising the kids, she pursued a goal that most people would have thought unattainable. She loves practicing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

March 2007 (Revised February 2010)
Case

Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd.

By: Mukti Khaire and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman

Fabindia is a for-profit Indian retail company with the stated mission of providing employment to weavers and traditional handicraft artisans in rural India. Established in 1960 as an exporter of home furnishings, Fabindia has grown as a consumer-facing retailer of... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Retail Industry; India

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not? That was one of the research questions posed by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues in what has turned into a penetrating study... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

college knowing, based on conversations with mentors and looking at my role models in business, that I wanted to go to business school,” he said. HBS was also always his top choice. “I chose ICV (as my next... View Details

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

but is also necessary to use tie-breaking for schools whose capacity is sufficient to accommodate some but not all students of a given priority class. We analyze a model that encompasses one-sided and two-sided matching models. We first... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
Case

Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko

For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; United States