Publications

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20 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College

20 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

participants were randomly assigned to a high- or low-power pose group. No one was told what the study was about; instead, each participant believed it was related to the placement of ECG electrodes above and below his or her heart. Subjects in the high-power group... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Profiles - MBA

those of others within this space to fruition. Find Shruthi on LinkedIn . ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (SB) ELIOT 2021 Cohort 2 Daniela Villafuerte "Integration of disciplines and expansion of perspective are both crucial to effectively make a... View Details

November 2011 (Revised December 2012)
Case

Rent the Runway

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Laura Winig

Two months after a successful launch in November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether to grow their startup at a measured pace and focus on improving operational effectiveness, or raise a new round... View Details

Keywords: Lean Startup; Electronic Commerce; Fashion; Expansion; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Fashion Industry

2016
Book

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

By: Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism... View Details

Keywords: History; Development Economics; Ethics; Social Issues; United States

Find at Harvard

August 2020 (Revised August 2023)
Case

Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services

By: Michael Chu, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo

Nubank, a wholly-digital solution created to disrupt Brazilian banking, with 6 million clients and a $4 billion valuation after five years, must decide whether to expand to Mexico. The company was founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Colombian-born David Vélez to seize what... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Financial Inclusion; Digital Banking; Credit Cards; Banks and Banking; Disruption; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; South America; Brazil; North America; Mexico

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

the national expansion of his nonprofit organization is feasible. He must take into account his organization’s goals, the clients and communities that will be impacted, and the already depleted staff who will help him lead this effort.... View Details

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

full-service hospitals. Traditional geographic expansion has been focused on acquiring health care facilities that merely reproduce the same services in the different areas without regard to value. In these expansions, care remained... View Details

August 2010 (Revised October 2010)
Case

Patagonia

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Hyunjin Kim and Forest L. Reinhardt

Patagonia was deeply committed to the environment. This commitment, at times, conflicted with the company's goal to create the most innovative products in its industry. Patagonia's founder and executives welcomed imitation of both its environmental commitment and its... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Business Model; Business Strategy; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry

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Business History - Faculty & Research

and heightened ambition. By 2023, Hakluyt had transformed into a £113.1 million business, boasting 196 employees spread across 13 strategic international offices. However, this rapid expansion and evolving identity engendered some tension... View Details

12 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

short of transformative. Far from your garden-variety "search and evaluate" teams common in Big Pharma, our team operated on a more expansive playbook. We had the exhilarating task of not only evaluating opportunities from companies... View Details

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

natural gas market. Diversification into water utilities and broadband soon followed, as did expansion to other countries that promised to deregulate and privatize energy production and distribution. Unfortunately, applying the company's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

03 May 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan

10 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

took place around the same time as #MeToo and, of course, any industry-level impact of #MeToo.” “Producers were also not merely hiring a ‘token’ woman writer,” Zhang stresses. The change is not because of an expansion of the size of the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

they can trust the company, say the authors. Hsieh wrote the original case and its 2021 revision and expansion with Henry McGee, senior lecturer of business administration at HBS; Christian Godwin, a researcher in the HBS case writing... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry