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  • August 2012 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

EnerNOC: DemandSMART

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice
EnerNOC is an energy company with an innovative business model: it serves as an intermediary between electric utilities and electricity users. It contracts with electricity users willing to reduce demand during periods of peak energy demand, and sells this as excess... View Details
Keywords: Production Planning; Productivity; Environmental Protection; Energy; Environment; Business Government Relations; Laws And Regulation; Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain Management; Production; Energy Conservation; Energy Industry
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  • March 1987 (Revised April 1987)
  • Background Note

Specialties vs. Commodities: The Battle for Profit Margins

By: Benson P. Shapiro
Explains the differences between commodities and specialties and defines four different types of specialty products. The analysis is customer oriented. Special attention is given to the distinctions between functions (product- ) and relationship (vendor-oriented)... View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities
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  • 2002
  • Case

3M Corporation

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Julie Lang
3M's strategy was rooted in innovation. 3M's 30 Percent Rule, where 30 percent of revenues must come from products introduced in the last four years, clarifies and drives its innovation mentality. Selected policies and philosophies helped to institutionalize a... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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  • 2020
  • Book

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

By: Rebecca Henderson
Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top.... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Society; Environmental Sustainability
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  • Teaching Interest

Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship

By: John Jong-Hyun Kim

This course is designed for students who want to understand the central role that education plays in our economy and society and who may want to play an active role (e.g., as entrepreneur, board member, etc.) in shaping the future workforce, bringing about a more... View Details

Keywords: Education Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry

    Allison H. Mnookin

    Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently is the co-chair of the first-year MBA Technology and Operations Management course. In addition, she... View Details

    • January 2021 (Revised October 2021)
    • Case

    eToro: Building the World's Largest Social Trading Network

    By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan
    Social trading platform eToro was preparing for the launch of its expanded offering in the U.S. The company faced critical decisions regarding product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, positioning and monetization. Moreover, it faced the challenge of how best to make... View Details
    Keywords: Social Trading Platform; Investment; Social and Collaborative Networks; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Digital Platforms
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    • 29 Jun 2017
    • News

    Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

    • 03 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3

    modules in conjunction with the firm's organizational boundaries and property rights. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2512209 Markets with Price Coherence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—In View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    in much the same way that historical perspectives helped to shape the first generation of endogenous growth theories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55039 September 21, 2018 Harvard Business Review View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • June 2023
    • Case

    Launching Egypt’s First Digital Banking Platform: QNB Bebasata

    By: Mark Egan, Billy Chan and Ahmed Dahawy
    The leadership team at QNB Alahli, Egypt's second biggest private bank, looked back on their efforts to create a brand-new, fully digital banking platform since 2019. A digital-only banking service was unprecedented in Egypt, a country where over 90% of financial... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Transformation; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Competitive Strategy; Business Model; Product Launch; Finance; Banking Industry; Egypt
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    • Research Summary

    Firm and aggregate volatility

    US publicly traded companies have become more volatile over the postwar period. This trend has been the result of increased competition in product markets through deregulation, through more intensive innovation activity, and through easier access to capital markets.... View Details

    • December 2014 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Hanoch Feit, Edward A. Minasian and Brandon Van Buren
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
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      Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

      How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.

      Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly... View Details

      • July 2022
      • Case

      Yinglan Tan: Scaling a Venture Capital Firm in Southeast Asia

      By: Josh Lerner and Richard Zhu
      Yinglan Tan considered the future of his young Singapore-based venture capital firm. On the one hand, the intuition that was behind the initial creation of Insignia in 2017 had been proven correct. The venture capital market in Southeast Asia had grown rapidly, driven... View Details
      Keywords: E-commerce; Scalability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Venture Capital; International Finance; Growth and Development; Expansion
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      • June 1995 (Revised February 1997)
      • Case

      Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry in 1994 (A), The

      Ready-to-eat breakfast cereal has historically been a stable and highly profitable industry, dominated by the Big Three of Kellogg, General Mills, and Kraft General Foods (Post). In 1994, private label cereals are making significant market share gains, and promotional... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Food; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      • September 2003
      • Case

      Driving Change at Seagate

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Lyn Baranowski
      A new CEO, Steve Luczo, together with COO Bill Watkins, have led a turnaround of Seagate, raising productivity dramatically and increasing innovation through teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and other transformations in the culture of this manufacturer of disk... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development; Transformation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Performance Productivity; Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Information Technology Industry
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      • June 2023
      • Case

      Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart

      By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
      Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of deaths globally. The company's approach was a single shot treatment to permanently lower cholesterol, thus reducing... View Details
      Keywords: AI; Genetic Engineering; Medicine; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Innovation Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Medical Specialties; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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        Tarun Khanna

        Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

        • May 2013
        • Case

        Altius Golf and the Fighter Brand

        By: Robert J. Dolan and Sunru Yong
        Altius Golf is the clear leader in the golf ball market despite a long-term decline in the number of golfers and a drop in sales following the financial crisis. The firm has maintained its position by introducing generations of advanced, super-premium golf balls that... View Details
        Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Competitive Advantage; Decision Choices and Conditions; Distribution Channels; Sports; Financial Crisis; Brands and Branding; Segmentation; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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