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  • October 2021
  • Case

(180) Days of Quibi

By: David J. Collis and Terrence Shu
Mobile streaming app Quibi was ready to take the entertainment world by storm at its April 2020 launch. Backed by $1.75 billion, influential investors from Hollywood to Wall Street eagerly anticipated early success for this brainchild of Meg Whitman, former CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Strategy; Business Model; Business Startups; Mobile Technology
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  • 22 Jul 2021
  • News

China’s Push to Purge Organized Crime Casts Shadow Over Private Businesses

  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

Iyoha are assistant professors in the Business, Government, and International Economy and Entrepreneurial Management Units, respectively. Meg Rithmire: Prepare to adapt to the policy backlash For at least a generation leading up to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

hours of operation, merchandising displays, and pricing. By contrast, the span of control for managers at corporate headquarters who oversee merchandising and other core operations is set at "wide." They are responsible for... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

The best and brightest executives in the world are common visitors to the MBA classrooms at Harvard Business School, giving students a personal opportunity to talk to the likes of Ann Fudge, Lou Gerstner, Meg Whitman, and Jack Welch.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 13 Sep 2019
  • News

Hollywood Ending

“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

management. Meg Garland makes this case when she writes, "Of course it (business management) should be regarded as a profession, but certified and registered? Probably not. Such paper shuffling and submission certainly hasn't... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 16 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

nearly sinking CNET by diverting essential resources into Snap!, "Know your limits. Only enter markets where you have a strong competitive advantage. Don't ever risk your core, unless you have to." "Singularity of... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
  • Web

Strategy - Doctoral

Rigol Meg Rithmire Jan W. Rivkin Charlotte L. Robertson Maria P. Roche Clayton S. Rose Raffaella Sadun William A. Sahlman George Serafeim Willy C. Shih Christopher T. Stanton Jorge Tamayo Jo Tango Sara... View Details
  • Web

Business Economics - Doctoral

Joseph Pacelli Vincent Pons Matthew Rabin Sophus A. Reinert Forest L. Reinhardt Natalia Rigol Meg Rithmire Clayton S. Rose Benjamin N. Roth Raffaella Sadun David S. Scharfstein Joshua R. Schwartzstein Ishita... View Details
  • December 2023 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Generative AI and the Future of Work

By: Christopher Stanton, Matt Higgins, Shira Aronson and Meg Shriber
Generative AI seemed poised to reshape the world of work, including the higher-wage, white-collar jobs typically pursued by MBA graduates. Informed by the latest research, this case explores generative AI's potential impacts on work, productivity, value creation, and... View Details
Keywords: AI; Future Of Work; Labor Market; AI and Machine Learning; Labor; Value Creation; Performance Productivity; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Party-State Capitalism in China

By: Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee Tsai
The “state capitalism” model, in which the state retains a dominant role as owner or investor-shareholder amidst the presence of markets and private firms, has received increasing attention, with China cited as the main exemplar. Yet as models evolve, so has China’s... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; State Capitalism; Economic Systems; China
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  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research

Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure Paula C. Rettl Assistant Professor of Business Administration Meg Rithmire James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration Charlotte L. Robertson Assistant... View Details
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Those Close to the Regime Get Permits and Oil Revenues, the Educated Get No Jobs: Jeremy S. Friedman Re: Jeremy Friedman 19 Jun 2025 World Unpacked Party-State Capitalism: China's Communist Party and Rule by Market Re: View Details
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation Sophus A. Reinert , Dante Roscini January 2026 J 3.0 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing International Trade and Investment Meg... View Details
  • April 2021
  • Case

The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In May 2019, amidst of an ever-worsening trade war between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump added Chinese telecom giant Huawei to the Department of Commerce’s “entity list,” essentially forbidding American firms from doing business with the company. Huawei,... View Details
Keywords: 5G; Telecommunications; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Trade; Competition; International Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China
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  • 2018
  • Chapter

Will Urbanization Save the Chinese Economy or Destroy it?

By: Meg Rithmire
The Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping has announced its intentions to transition the economy from one driven by investment and exports to one driven by domestic demand. The main strategy to achieve this transformation involves massive state-led urbanization. This... View Details
Keywords: China; Urbanization; Economic Development; Urban Development; Economic Growth; China
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  • Fall 2022
  • Article

China's Political Economy and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Security Dilemma Dynamics

By: Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee Tsai
Contrary to expectations that economic interdependence might lessen security conflict between China and the U.S. and its allies, much of the contestation between China and several OECD countries has focused on firms and economic links. This paper explains the... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government and Politics; Information Technology; China
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