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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Profile

Shana Hoffman

loved ones access to customized care plans and provides them with education and resources on how to provide better care with less burden and lower cost. Even in its nascent stages, CareSolver has attracted favorable interest. The i-lab... View Details
  • March 27, 2013
  • Article

Downton Abbey: Real Life Lessons for Trust & Estate Advisors

By: Josh Baron and Devin Bird
The article discusses how the TV series "Downton Abbey" reflects challenges and opportunities faced by business families. The show's storyline, centered around the aristocratic Crawley family and their estate, parallels real-world situations where business families... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Adaptation; Transition
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  • October 2007
  • Article

Grist: A Strategic Approach to Climate

By: Michael E. Porter and Forest Reinhardt
Climate change will affect everything businesses do, as government efforts to mitigate carbon emissions cause their prices to rise steeply. This special edition of Forethought takes a hard-nosed look at the risks and opportunities of climate change. Michael E. Porter... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Logistics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Climate Change; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy
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  • 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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  • Blog

Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

When you attend an HBS Executive Education program, you never know what opportunities the experience may present. In fact, you could even find yourself becoming part of the teaching team. Ask Deb Barnes, Senior Managing Director of Fund... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Reinventing the Annual Report

and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

promising them seasoned managers and top-tier business partners; recruiting people by assuring them of adequate financing and powerful partners; and securing partners by explaining the power of the customer... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

The Meaning of Ramadi

Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor... View Details
Keywords: Donovan Campbell; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

during a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS. The startup employs a system for collecting reproductive cell samples from a tampon, which the customer sends to the lab for genomic analysis. The lab then provides... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

Entrepreneurs and managers who can't adapt to the fast pace of change in the world—"a world that should be on Prozac"—are likely to miss out on opportunities in the years to come, says HBS Professor Howard Stevenson. The good... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2008 (Revised October 2010)
  • Supplement

Sara Campbell Ltd. (B)

By: Romana Autrey, V.G. Narayanan and Julia Rozovsky
Supplements the Sara Campbell Ltd. (A) case by introducing additional concerns with Holt. In January of 1999, Campbell received a certified letter written by Holt. The letter described Holt's own frustration in working for Campbell. Students are given context to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Employee Relationship Management; Management; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • April 2005
  • Module Note

Team Processes: Instructor's Overview

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer
Describes the cases and exercises that comprise the Team Processes module of the Leading Teams course. Also describes the sequence in which the materials are used, along with the connections and transitions among the materials. View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Curriculum and Courses; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 26 May 2021
  • News

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (with Frances Frei)

  • 15 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

communications readers used by Apple Pay unless consumer demand is high. First off, Apple must convince merchants to adopt its service, says Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice. “I think Apple has its... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail
  • 2022
  • Book

Les multinationales suisses dans l'arène politique (1942–1993) [Swiss Multinationals in the Political Arena (1942–1993)]

By: Sabine Pitteloud
En décembre 2020, les Suisses votaient sur l’initiative populaire « pour des multinationales responsables ». Cet épisode récent a rappelé que la régulation de l’activité des sociétés multinationales fait l’objet de luttes politiques, auxquelles participent les... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Enterprise; Multinational Companies; Multinational Corporations; Lobbying; Business ＆ Government Relations; Labor Relations; Relocation; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Corporate Regulation; Transnational Regulation; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Switzerland
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  • July 1984 (Revised September 1986)
  • Case

Daewoo Group

By: Francis Aguilar
Focuses on the entrepreneurship of Chairman Kim Woo-Choong of Daewoo Group which became one of the 4 major group companies in Korea in just 17 years. The group's overall strategies are explored in conjunction with the evolution of Korea's industrial policies. The case... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Policy; Government and Politics; Business or Company Management; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; South Korea; United States
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  • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Evan Richardson
Samir Kaul, a Partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June, 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining. Kaul was reflecting on what had been a very positive 10 months in the venture capital business. Over that span,... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships; Product Development; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing

which provides a SaaS platform for marketers to manage their presence on social networks, is a division of Google, and is among the largest acquisitions ever made by the Internet giant. Wildfire now has over 25,000 paying View Details
  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

and directly managed hundreds of employees who have grown their careers under her leadership. As part of her role, Fitzpatrick also regularly provides support to recruiting partners as they seek to recruit, hire, and retain top talent.... View Details