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  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

room for improvement” in the process, Buell says. “I’m happy with the car, but it was a roller coaster of emotions going through the experience.” What’s the problem here? The professors agree that the industry has a structural problem:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • Web

Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

founding a company. Get coaching, panels & workshops, and job postings. More (login required) Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details
  • 12 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

build connections with members of the community that I was able to be myself with. Putting on a “straight face” all week while we discussed cases and worked on problem sets could be exhausting; it was with... View Details
  • 2017
  • Case

Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks

By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
In 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas... View Details
Keywords: Charter Schools; Nonprofit Organizations; Teaching; Talent Management; Innovation; Organization Structure; Education; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Organizational Structure; Performance Consistency; Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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  • 2008
  • Casebook

The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

By: Rawi Abdelal
This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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  • Profile

Taylor Walden

here, the invaluable connections with professors that have expanded my horizons, and the transformative challenges that have instilled in me the belief that I'm capable of achieving anything I set my mind... View Details
  • Research Summary

The Future of MBA Education

David Garvin, together with Srikant Datar and Patrick Cullen, is examining the future of MBA education and the evolving role of business schools. The research has several components: interviews with business school deans and business executives to identify the... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Leemore S. Dafny
U.S. Healthcare Strategy

The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for 17 percent of GDP, and encompasses a diverse set of industries with public, nonprofit, and for-profit buyers and sellers. There are significant concerns about high and rising spending, and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Health; Healthcare Reform; Life Sciences; Health Industry; United States
  • April 2020 (Revised May 2020)
  • Case

NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G

By: Juan Alcácer, Horst Melcher and Akiko Kanno
The case, based on extensive interviews with NTT DOCOMO’s technology leaders, focuses on the opportunities and challenges that NTT DOCOMO faces with the launch of infrastructure and services for 5G wireless telecommunication technology. With higher data rates and... View Details
Keywords: 5G; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry
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  • August 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Intel NBI: Radio-Frequency Identification

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high performance Rf fast read rate module targeted at fixed position readers that might be found in loading docks... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Failure; Diversification; Integration; Semiconductor Industry
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  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Just-In-Case: Is Excess and Obsolete Next? , Forbes, 2022. Everybody Now Wants Supply Chains to Be ‘Resilient.’ It Won’t Be Easy – Or Likely , The Wall Street Journal, 2021. The Challenge of Rebuilding U.S.... View Details
  • 19 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Search for Benchmarks: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?

Keywords: by Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma & Charles C.Y. Wang
  • March 1999 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

Network Associates: Securing the Internet

By: Debora L. Spar
Follows one company's path through the uncharted terrain of government regulation and the Internet. In March 1998, Network Associates announced it would begin selling powerful encryption software from its Dutch subsidiary. Such a move looked to the U.S. government like... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • January 2024 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

DO & CO: Crafting Luxury in the Fast Lane (A)

By: Juan Alcácer, Esel Cekin, Michael Lee and Noah Roberson
In July 2023, Attila Dogudan, the chairman of DO & CO, a renowned international catering firm, found himself in a deep conversation with his two sons about a potential new venture: catering for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, a significant step beyond their 31-year history... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Pandemics; Opportunities; Corporate Strategy; Luxury; Food and Beverage Industry; Las Vegas
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  • March 2018
  • Teaching Note

ISRO: Explore Space or Exploit CubeSats?

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
ISRO, India’s space agency, established to address domestic challenges with space technology, is one of the six largest space agencies in the world. Through its 59 missions, ISRO has launched numerous satellites for communication, disaster management, navigation,... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Management; Aerospace Industry; India
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  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

at the art, and then try to make connections to some tricky problem that you're trying to solve in your work. It’s also very useful to stimulate your thinking by talking to other people—brainstorming or... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

downside, more gains on the upside. The company's goals are the (opposite)." Claude Des Rosiers warned that "There are enough challenges to get people in an organization to work together (without compounding the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

League of Broward County in Fort Laude... DNPIV Perspectives: Erica Mitchell, United Way of Greater Nashville Erica Mitchell 01 Jul 2025 Erica Mitchell is President and CEO of United Way of Greater Nashville. Based in Nashville, Tenne...... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

reflect the predominant opportunities pursued by social entrepreneurs focused on public education in the United States over the last decade. The book offers an overarching framework for creating and evaluating social ventures as well as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper