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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
earlier research: Star performers flame out when they change firms. “This goes against the popular belief that we control our own destiny,” says Groysberg, who credits Dean Nitin Nohria and HLS professor Ashish Nanda (PhDBE 1993) as... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
according to the research. One reason might be that costs are lower for companies that moved production offshore, and the resulting, more efficient firms developed higher-skilled service work, like computer... View Details
- February 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Moving Science: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
By: Maria P. Roche
Set in 2022, this case describes the considerations involved in organizing the physical relocation of the Rowland Institute at Harvard (RIH), a research institute established in 1980 by Edwin H. Land, the founder of the Polaroid Corporation, for the advancement of... View Details
Keywords: Optics; Engineering; Higher Education; Strategy; Science; Buildings and Facilities; Research and Development; Real Estate Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Roche, Maria P. "Moving Science: The Rowland Institute at Harvard." Harvard Business School Case 724-441, February 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Crossroads Wayne Ferrari has bridged the gap between being an independent entrepreneur and a "professional manager." After selling his business to a Private Equity (PE) firm, Ferrari takes on the role of CEO View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2007
- Case
Wal-Mart Mexico: Managing Multiple Formats
By: Rajiv Lal, Mark Rennella and David Lane
"On February 1, 2007, Wal-Mart Mexico (Walmex) CEO Eduardo Solorzano was preparing for a well deserved, two-week vacation on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Things were going well. Wal-Mart Mexico, which consisted principally of six different retail formats, had been... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry; Mexico
Lal, Rajiv, Mark Rennella, and David Lane. "Wal-Mart Mexico: Managing Multiple Formats." Harvard Business School Case 507-063, June 2007.
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
field course offering taught by Professors Archie Jones, Henry McGee, and Jeff Bussgang and developed during the summer of 2020 in partnership with fellow classmates Allie... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
an acquisition is to fundamentally change a company's growth trajectory. In those deals, the acquirer uses the target's business model as a platform for growth. Because the business models with the most transformative potential are often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit
entrepreneurial spirit. After graduation, I entered strategy consulting to learn how companies run – from developing pricing strategies to winning customers – then joined a... View Details
- Article
La Nueva Ruta: alianzas sociales estrategicas (The New Path: Strategic Social Alliances)
By: James E. Austin, Gustavo Herrero and Ezequiel Reficco
Austin, James E., Gustavo Herrero, and Ezequiel Reficco. "La Nueva Ruta: alianzas sociales estrategicas (The New Path: Strategic Social Alliances)." Harvard Business Review América Latina 82, no. 12 (December 2004).
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
by focusing on bigger films that require a bigger commitment." Jeff Robinov believes in blockbusters and his strategy is to create more of them. The pharmaceutical and... View Details
- April 2016 (Revised February 2018)
- Teaching Note
Riot Games: Can Culture Survive Growth?
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Norris
This teaching note gives instructors a guide for a discussion of Riot Games, a fast growing videogames firm with a strong, player-centric culture. It also offers references to research on culture that will allow students to decide whether or not Riot Games’ culture... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Authors:Diego A. Comin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
HKS toolkit After my first year in the joint degree program at HKS (MPA/ID Program) with leading development economists such as Professors Lant Pritchett and Dani Rodrik, I View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Web
Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Develop and continually adapt go-to-market strategies Distinguish between marketing- and sales-led... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
product idea that gets rejected or that gets approved and then bombs will damage the middle manager's career. "As a consequence of this natural process of deciding what to carry forward, the ideas that get View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- February 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
Ant Financial (C)
By: Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu and Anthony K. Woo
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Zhu, Feng, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, and Anthony K. Woo. "Ant Financial (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 618-042, February 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
- 05 May 2015
- Blog Post
See What's New on our Site
recruiting dates and events including: Recruiting strategy sessions in a city near you - see the schedule here Career and summer internship hiring dates -Brittany Sullivan,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
opportunities, but also created challenges throughout their organizations. At the Multi-Channel Retail panel, speakers from three retail companies, all heavily invested in multi-channel selling, talked about how they were tailoring their View Details