Publications

June 1995
Case

Bright Horizons: "Caring for Tomorrow" Videotape

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

Keywords: Entertainment; Media; Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

June 2025
Case

Accounting for OpenAI at Microsoft

By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, Nicole Zelazko and Michael Norris

In early 2025, Microsoft was evaluating the impact of its $14 billion investment in OpenAI. As OpenAI’s computing needs expanded, Microsoft positioned Azure as the exclusive provider for training and inference of their large language models. Despite the scale of the... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Revenue Recognition; Corporate Finance; Capital; Investment; Revenue; AI and Machine Learning; Valuation; Governance; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

recreates itself in response to new technologies and consumer needs, this major player is considering focusing on its principal business of concert booking and related revenue or moving forward with its efforts to take advantage of new... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2019
Teaching Note

SeatGeek

By: Robert F. Higgins and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-013. View Details

Keywords: Event Ticketing; Sports Ticketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Model; Decision Making; Digital Platforms; Sports; Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; New York (city, NY)

March 2020
Case

Aereo

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jacey Taft

Aereo aimed to disrupt television program distribution by providing consumers access to local broadcast TV programming using offsite antennas, cloud-based DVRs, and an Internet connection. With Aereo, consumers could “cut the cord” and avoid the high cost of a cable TV... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Failure; Lawsuits and Litigation; Internet and the Web; Media; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
Case

Los Grobo

Los Grobo, a grain farming company based in Argentina, must decide whether to expand internationally to neighboring Paraguay and Uruguay. Los Grobo has built an IT-facilitated network with hundreds of participants who work together to produce corn and soybeans. Los... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Information Technology; Supply Chain Management; Global Range; Globalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Paraguay; Argentina; Uruguay

Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Global Steering Group Impact Summit: Catalyzing the Impact Investing Market Caitlin Reimers... View Details

06 Dec 2012
News

New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to take their problems to the sites... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

at it through different lenses.—F. Warren McFarlan Q: What is some of your basic advice for helping companies align their portfolios? A: Understand your portfolio by looking at it through different lenses; try to benchmark yourself against best View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library

Polaroid Corporation Collection Edwin H. Land demonstrating Polaroid Land Instant Film, April 1947. Polaroid Corporation records. The Polaroid Corporation was among the most creative and technologically innovative companies of the... View Details

Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Conformity and Nonconformity Peter Glick , Lawrence University Organizational Culture as Masculinity Contest: Developing and Validating a Climate Measure Kortney Ziegler , Founder of Trans*H4CK Making Trans Visible With Technology... View Details

17 Apr 2014
News

Striking a Balance

as well as a mentor to working women, Wilson knew how difficult those challenges could be. “Diane was a great advocate of dealing with the barriers that prevent or discourage women from moving ahead,” says Silk, an authority on the economics of the advertising View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Faculty Books

Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems and View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

provides rich insights into how contracts between labels and artists are structured and how advances in technology are impacting the music industry and its players. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
Case

Boston.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust

How aggressively should an incumbent move when developing an online business that threatens its core product? With Internet competitors taking direct aim at the traditional print newspaper business model, the Boston Globe fought back with its own web initiative,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Change Management; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Strategy; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; United States