Going Public - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

discuss her research and the enduring power of Adam Smith's ideas. Ann Cullen: How did you and your coauthors come to be interested in this lesser known publication of Adam Smith? Nava Ashraf: Several years ago while taking a graduate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

simple: Why? Why do you do this? Why do you do things in this way? Just keep asking “why?”—every subsequent “why?” will go deeper. Asking “why?” five times is a strategy pioneered by Toyota to track down the root cause of mistakes.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

illness in June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin's Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. "I was clueless View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

both raise and burn cash. Its only asset was Mr. Ma, its charismatic and dynamic founder. After we wrote our first case study about the company in 2000, we were afraid it would go bankrupt before we could teach the case for the first... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

28 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

BATNA?” reflect misconceptions. Although savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. This article offers robust correctives to these misimpressions and relates these to three... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

as quite possibly record numbers of businesses (and individuals) default on their debt, restructure, or go bankrupt. The number of US business bankruptcy filings in the first quarter of this year is already up substantially over prior... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

18 Apr 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. There, I collaborated with both private and public sector clients across various industries in Africa, focusing on speeding up private sector growth and thereby contributing to the wider... View Details

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Banks are the principal source of outside capital for... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

Most of us have experienced the power of networks. There's the job found through a friend's sister's boyfriend, or the lifelong partner met through a neighbor's cousin. But how do networks play into business—particularly the relationship-rich industry of venture... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

No one can be an effective leader in a crisis by attempting to go it alone. Leaders must be the first to recognize this reality and plan accordingly." The seven leadership lessons include: Face reality, starting with yourself. Don't... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?

being the real culprit. While social networks claim to be enabling great social causes, users are starting to understand they're being milked indirectly for money. There's a sense of betrayal, a feeling that "you didn't tell me what you were View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton & Sunil Gupta; Publishing; Financial Services

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

you’re the kind of company that is left behind." “Either you’re the kind of company that's in the lead on this, and that will become a self-perpetuating advantage, or you’re the kind of company that is left behind, and you’re going to set... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

newspaper column, he wrote, “No matter how much feeling of public obligation the executive staff of any corporation might possess, the corporate entity is involved in maximizing short and long run profit .The old yardstick is deadly but... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

institution whose mission is to expose the public to art, this aggressive digital marketing and selling raises uncomfortable questions about the difference between disseminating artwork and profiting from it. "Museum marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

07 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

this tool to optimize impact and financial performance going forward. This case was designed to be taught alongside Root Capital’s Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation exercise. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

way and that these could possibly affect OPET’s loyalty program, in which the company had invested heavily. How should Guler go about revising OPET’s marketing strategy so as to keep up with and possibly foresee further regulatory... View Details