Publications

10 Dec 2015
News

Harvard study finds people with black-sounding names have a harder time booking on Airbnb

20 Dec 2020
News

Incorporating the Arts to Create Technical Leaders of the Future

22 Jan 2018
News

When a Japanese Company Adopted English as a First Language

Video

Live from Klarman Hall - 6/10/2022 - Dean’s Welcome Address

28 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Leverage Baker Library to Inform Your Job Search Every Step of the Way

Whether you are creating a target list of employers, preparing for an interview or exploring new industries, research is a critical part of any successful job search. As an HBS alumna/us, you have a wealth of resources available to you... View Details

March 31, 2020
Article

Reinventing the Direct-to-Consumer Business Model

By: Len Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Shaye Roseman

Over the past decade, a new breed of “direct-to-consumer” (DTC) startups, including Warby Parker and Casper, helped forge a new business model. But lately that business model is faltering as the advantages that early entrants enjoyed have evaporated. To retool, DTC... View Details

Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Omnichannel; Business Model; Change; Strategy

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September 2014 (Revised November 2014)
Case

Marketing Marijuana in Colorado

By: John A. Quelch and David Lane

Colorado's 2014 legalization of marijuana for adult recreational (not just medical) use created a new market that entrepreneurs rushed to enter, channeled by regulations that aimed to minimize marijuana's access to minors while not stifling the emergent new industry.... View Details

Keywords: Public Health; Regulation; Marijuana; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Health Industry; Colorado

September 2005 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Bain & Company's IT Practice (A)

In late 2001, the consultancy Bain must decide whether to launch information technology as a practice area within the firm. The senior executives who are Bain's clients have been asking more and more IT-related questions of the firm's partners, who find themselves... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Information Technology; Experience and Expertise; Consulting Industry

November 1999
Case

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (B)

DuPont must decide whether to launch a new non-GM (genetically modified) soybean that is tolerant to chemical sprays. In the face of rapid introductions of GM products by competitors, DuPont faces the challenge of ensuring the identity preservation of its new product... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Genetics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

11 Jun 2013
News

For companies to grow, they have to sell you more

23 Feb 2011
News

The Traits of Advanced Leaders

3 PM – 8 PM EDT, 30 Oct 2017

HBS Alumnae Circles Open House and Training 2017: Washington, D.C.

HBS Alumnae Circles are taking new members - are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

apartment, a car, a boat—now has an easy way to advertise and share it. And anyone with the time and skills—driving, running errands—can find customers who need these services. But new research shows how online marketplaces can work in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

2014
Case

Yonyou 2013

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao

The case describes how a leading Chinese management software provider Yonyou (formerly known as "UFIDA") disrupted its value chain-based business model to transform itself into a platform provider. The case describes Yonyou's past success, the market forces and... View Details

Keywords: Business Models; ERP; Platforms; Strategy; Transformations; China; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; China

June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Case

The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis

By: Robert C. Pozen and Benjamin Greff Schneider

The Southeast Bank of Texas, like most other financial institutions in the U.S., has fallen on hard times during the financial crisis of the past year. Now, in March 2009, the bank is faced with several choices as a result of the new reforms spawned from the financial... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Banking Industry; Texas

September 1986 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Solagen: Process Improvement in the Manufacture of Gelatin at Kodak

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey

Kodak must decide whether to make a major investment in a production facility designed around a new technique for producing the gelatin critical to so many film and paper products. Currently, gelatin making is an arcane art, unchanged in 150 years and heavily dependent... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Buildings and Facilities; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Experience and Expertise; Engineering; Investment; Time Management; Production; Research and Development; Semiconductor Industry