Publications

09 Mar 2016
HBS Seminar

Katja Seim of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching & The Case Method Impact on... View Details

August 2014
Case

Netflix in 2011

By: Willy Shih and Stephen Kaufman

Reed Hastings founded Netflix to provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encountered challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a business model... View Details

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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

Research Summary

Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

so this was a quintessential supplement. Anastassia Nefedova Working on a cloud-based product expansion in Central and Eastern Europe for Microsoft and based in Munich, Germany BSc,International Hospitality Management, Marketing Major... View Details

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

June 2020
Teaching Note

Brand Storytelling at Shinola

By: Jill Avery, Giana M. Eckhardt and Michael Beverland

Detroit, Michigan, aka “The Motor City,” is known as the birthplace of most of the American classic automotive brands. It is a city filled with the rich history of the industrial age, the pride of American manufacturing, and of the soulful sounds of Motown music. It is... View Details

Keywords: Brand Storytelling; Brand Management; Brand Management Of Places; Luxury Brand; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Luxury; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States

01 Dec 2023
News

Rounding the Bend

COO but also runs the company’s engineering efforts as the former CTO. The company expects secondhand clothing to develop into a $90 billion market in the next decade and grow faster than any other channel. Part of that may also be fueled by the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

and hold an expansive definition of social enterprise.” Marlíse Arellano-Sutton. Marlíse comes from Boston Children's Hospital’s Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator, where she led sourcing, launch, and scaling of digital health... View Details

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

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Events - Business History

Marie Favereau, Paris Nanterre University 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Nov 23 23 Nov 2020 Business History Seminar The World's Biggest Landlord: How the U.S. Military Built its Arsenal of Houses A. J. Murphy, Brandeis Nov 16 16 Nov 2020 Business History Seminar 'Funk Money': The... View Details

April 2022
Case

NIO: A Chinese EV Company's Global Strategy

By: William C. Kirby, Shu Lin and Noah B. Truwit

Founded in November 2014 and based in Shanghai, NIO designed, jointly manufactured, and sold premium “smart” EVs. Its mission was to “shape a joyful lifestyle by offering high-performance smart electric vehicles and being the best user enterprise. At NIO Day 2021,... View Details

Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Expansion; Technological Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Green Technology; Auto Industry; China; Europe; Norway