Industry Dynamics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2007
News

Private Equity under Investigation

Medina flagged a half-century ago seem destined to be repeated. Far from being a static industry with ossified giants, private equity features brutal competition and enormous dynamism. Groups that were dominant just a few years ago, such... View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Max Reichel

says. Max did so during his years with McKinsey & Co. where he fulfilled assignments all over Germany, Sweden, and Russia. "Consulting was an excellent way to learn about various aspects of business by industry and by... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

November 2023, the Upswell Forum brought together 33 dynamic social enterprise leaders from At... Harnessing Energy, Collaboration, and Connections: A Week at the Upswell Forum Winnie Karanja 22 Jan 2024 Winnie Karanja, Founder & CEO of... View Details

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

developed a clutch system and mounted our lawnmower engine onto my 3-speed bike. My top speed was 53 mph!” he says. With an engineering degree earned at Brigham Young University, Frey worked in the defense industry during the 1980s. When... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

how viable the dream. “We tackle the problems that are faced by almost any founder no matter what industry they are in, no matter what country they are in, and no matter what time frame they are in-boom or bust.” "We tackle the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Georges F. Doriot

in promising but risky startup ventures into a groundbreaking industry that reshaped the landscape of American business. Though the terms “visionary” and “genius” are overused in today’s amped up media environment,... View Details

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitative important role in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

China—face challenges and opportunities under President Xi Jinping. We will delve into China's domestic business environment and the changing relationship between the private sector and the Chinese Communist Party. Students will gain an understanding of the View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: Price Check

application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The industry faces several challenges... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

unhappy organization is unhappy in its own way, but once we set aside the details, the fundamental dynamics of decline—and recovery from it—in these three companies turn out to be remarkably similar. Indeed, across a wide variety of... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

She'd say that he was worth 4,000 pounds a year. That's how we usually think of our standard of living." Merton says we're used to the mutual fund industry as a vehicle for getting to our retirement goal, yet few of us have a deep... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract Purpose-We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

travel stores to help the airline enhance customer satisfaction—provided insight on Mexico’s travel industry and, equally important, a new perspective on teamwork. “There were no designated leaders in the teams we were assigned to in... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

New Releases

orderly and linear way. In his new book, Technology Integration: Making Critical Choices in a Dynamic World, HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti presents a detailed analysis of what has become a vital challenge in every cutting-edge... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

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Viktor Puzakov

It seems that throughout his life, Viktor Puzakov is always digging deeper, literally and figuratively. As a young man interested in the technical sciences and in travel, he focused on fluid dynamics and rock mechanics to position himself... View Details

11 Oct 2022
News

On Balance

know that changes the dynamic of who does what in the home, in terms of unpaid labor, and facilitates women returning to the workforce,” Wooldridge adds. There are also even bigger topics Wooldridge wants to address, such as desegregating... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Hall of Fame. I hope that you are among the growing number of alumni who have discovered the latest HBS tool: HBS Working Knowledge is a dynamic Web portal that offers the latest in timely business topics, interviews with faculty and... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

does not do anything to destroy the underlying rigor." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter In his introductory remarks, Marquis cited the ever-changing health-care industry as an example of why institutional analysis is important. "It is a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

political economy of decarbonization With a focus on studying the politics of clean energy transitions and probing why some economies are moving faster than other, Meckling plans to examine the recent rise of green industrial policy... View Details

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

earned relatively high margins on products rooted in science and innovation. However, Lyons believed downstream integration would allow Alltech to better communicate with its end customers (farmers), increase sales of its supplements, and help protect the firm from... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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