Publications

March 2018 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Nectar (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones

In late 2017, Nectar was a rapidly emerging player in the “bed-in-a-box” online market for direct-to-consumer foam memory mattresses. Barely a year old, it had achieved a revenue run rate of $85M and looked ahead to another year of blistering growth. The founding team... View Details

Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Growth and Development Strategy; Product; Diversification; Decision Making; Growth Management; Entrepreneurship

December 2002 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Commerce Bank

By: Frances X. Frei and Corey B. Hajim

Commerce Bank has become one of the fastest growing banks in the country, despite having defied conventional wisdom about how to grow deposits. Banks historically have grown either by competing on deposit rates or through acquisitions that expand their deposit base.... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Design; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Competition; Banking Industry

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with Input-Output tables. In line with the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

community are no exception. To give alumni the chance to sample the latest faculty thinking on some of the most pressing business issues of the day, last May the School launched Breakthrough Insights, a new Executive Education program View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

Profile

Ryu Kawano

financials and determine where value is derived from." After a year, he accepted a position with TPG Capital in Tokyo. "Part of what attracted me was the opportunity to work in my home country — I hadn't lived or worked there... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Books

provides a hands-on blueprint for adopting the core principles of e-culture: treat strategy as improvisational theater; nurture networks of partners; reconstruct organizations as online and offline "communities"; and attract and retain... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

Opportunities abound for large companies looking to expand into Latin America. But risks remain, and the development of better capital markets is needed to attract more investment, according to panelists at the "Growth Opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

21 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

President of Auditory Insight, a boutique management consultancy focused exclusively on hearing healthcare. We partner with senior leaders of device and biopharma hearing healthcare companies to develop successful commercialization... View Details

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

precious three months of my life, not what others might think that I should do,” Takatsuka shared. “I ended up pursuing two internships in developing countries in the middle of COVID-19 – no one recommended... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

23 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013
Conference Presentation

Key Drivers for Inner City Growth

By: Michael E. Porter

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) annual ecomonic summit. The 2013 theme: Transforming Urban Ecologies, What Works for Cities View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Strategy; Urban Development; Ohio

Read Now

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

School MBA Elective Curriculum. Teams of HBS students have traveled to several developing countries to research prospects for private finance and delivery of solutions in traditional energy, renewable... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

problem. If entrepreneurial interests try to skew the response, in the form of an agreement, in one direction or another, it could limit the range of possible responses to be encouraged, thereby limiting innovation. This is a debate more pertinent to View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

February 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Alphatec Electronics Pcl

By: Stuart C. Gilson, C. Fritz Foley and Perry Fagan

The newly appointed CEO of an important high-technology company in Thailand must lead the company through a complicated debt restructuring. Due to the collapse of the Thai currency, the company's debt burden, like that of most Thai companies, has skyrocketed because it... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Valuation; Management Teams; Restructuring; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; Thailand; United States