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- March 1999 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Keurig
By: Paul W. Marshall and Jeremy Dann
Nick Lazaris becomes Keurig's third CEO in three years, after one founder was fired and the other decided to leave the company. He inherits a company that has made several abortive attempts to launch its new coffee brewing system. Now, problems with crucial suppliers... View Details
- 2003
- Chapter
Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience
By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification. The... View Details
Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; United States
Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience." In From Principles to Practice, 57–83. Case Studies Series. Global Compact Office, 2003.
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
When Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, heard stories of the shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers faced with the coronavirus crisis, the fashion-industry leader began to research the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, knows this. “There’s nothing... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
Image by John Ritter With the rise of the online MBA and part-time programs, how do you make the ongoing case for students investing in two years at HBS? Nitin Nohria: A transformational experience takes time. Most of our students aren’t pursuing an MBA because they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
© d20/ZUMA © d20/ZUMA Governments across the globe are getting serious about weaning themselves off of fossil fuels. Denmark has pledged to be powered solely by renewable energy by 2050; Sweden pledged to reach the goal by 2040. Hawaii made the same promise, with a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
Associate Professor George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Michael E. Porter was an associate professor at HBS when he first developed his now-renowned five forces framework for strategy. Likewise, Clayton M. Christensen advanced the concept of disruptive innovation... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There aren't many people who can make... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Jennifer Lee Koss by Maureen Harmon For weeks in 2012, Jennifer Lee Koss (MBA 2008) and Kena Paranjape held early- morning meetings at La Bohème coffee shop in Toronto. The discussion centered on a possible business venture. The meeting spot made sense; it was near... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
AMABILE: A decade of research shows that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. After thirty years of research, I am still passionate about creativity,” says Teresa M. Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, head of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a few of the semifinalists... View Details
- February 2017
- Case
Aston Martin: A Second Century of Performance and Luxury
By: Vish V. Krishnan, Karim R. Lakhani and Amram Migdal
Following the March 2016 launch of DB11, Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.’s first new sports car platform in over a decade, this case discusses the future strategy of the famed British luxury auto manufacturer. Since its founding in 1902, Aston Martin has been characterized... View Details
Keywords: Luxury; Auto Brand; Luxury Auto; Growth; Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Production; Innovation and Invention; Transportation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Transformation; Management; Marketing; Auto Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England
Krishnan, Vish V., Karim R. Lakhani, and Amram Migdal. "Aston Martin: A Second Century of Performance and Luxury." Harvard Business School Case 617-033, February 2017.
- September–October 2013
- Article
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Pierce, Lamar, and Michael W. Toffel. "The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1558–1584. (Winner of the NBS Research Impact on Practice Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) and Network for Business Sustainability (NBS))
- Portrait Project
Grace Hou
powerful weapon than corporeal force. A community of supporters — from the nurse stroking my hair on the operating table, to the neighbors who sent me a lifetime's supply of lollipop trees, to the physical therapist who pushed me to walk... View Details
- Web
U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the U.S. economy. The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness In a March 2012 article of the Harvard Business Review , Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin outlined the looming challenge to U.S. competitiveness. The United States is a competitive location to the... View Details
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
Condo says, “but they also learn about business plans, seed money, and marketing.” All 100 students in each undergraduate class create and operate sustainable agribusiness ventures during their first three years of study. Condo calls... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
with giving him the courage to found Talking Dog Productions, his one-man operation in New York City that enables him to view his work as a business — “like selling shoes” — and inoculates him from the rejection that stymies many actors... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
financial advisory services. The firm, which has grown at a steady but significant pace, went public in 2004 and recently expanded operations into the insurance, financial services, and industrial markets. Today, Greenhill & Co. has 10... View Details
- Career Coach
Troy Peterson
pursue, to making choices about different opportunities or redefining priorities. Troy started his career as an Infantry & Special Operations officer in the US Army, including deployments in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Jordan as well as... View Details