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  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
  • Case

Komatsu Ltd.

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Reviews and updates the structure and characteristics of the earth-moving equipment industry presented in the companion case, Caterpillar Tractor Co. After revealing that CAT has suffered major financial losses during the period from 1981 through 1984, the case... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Machinery and Machining; Price; Growth and Development; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

fullest. Middle managers unlock innovation? Zhang identifies a correlation between collaborative job postings and innovation in firms. He examines research and View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand

    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on families in business, and she is the creator of Demystifying the Family Enterprise, a course that explores... View Details

    • 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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    • March 2020
    • Article

    A Revolution in Economics? It's Just Getting Started...

    By: Shawn A. Cole, William Pariente and Anja Sautmann
    We have each experienced thrills and pain while supporting the mission of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which facilitated many of the experiments described in the 2019 Nobel Prize citation. J-PAL in many ways seeks to fulfill what Angrist and Pischke... View Details
    Keywords: Randomized Control Trials; Economics; Research; Innovation and Invention
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    • April 1995 (Revised December 1997)
    • Case

    Silicon Graphics, Inc. (A)

    By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein
    Based on a Silicon Valley company that has developed the capability to compete in a rapidly growing, highly turbulent environment. This capability hinges on its flexible and rapid development process, which the case characterizes in detail. Focuses on the development... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Information Infrastructure; Product Launch; Managerial Roles; Expansion; Design; Applications and Software; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; California
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    • Research Summary

    Women Entrepreneurs

    By: Myra M. Hart
    Professor Hart is currently conducting research on women entrepreneurs pursuing high growth strategies. Hart is a member of the Diana Research Group, a team of five professors who have collaborated in an on-going investigation of the unique oppportunities and obstacles... View Details
    • 30 Nov 2023
    • Blog Post

    College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

    Dr. Youngme Moon is the Donald K. David Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Professor Moon's research sits at the intersection of strategy, branding innovation, and culture, with a particular... View Details
    • 13 Apr 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Bhaven Sampat, Columbia

    • September 1994
    • Case

    American Airlines: Object Oriented Flight Dispatching Systems

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Espen Andersen
    American Airlines Describes has organized and developed their Systems Operation Control (SOC) center in Dallas, from which the day-to-day running of the airline takes place. This case details the decision support system used by the flight dispatchers, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Development; Programs; Complexity; Technology Adoption; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • November 1994 (Revised December 1995)
    • Case

    The Domik Project

    By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
    Cameron Sawyer, CEO of Sawyer and Co., seeks financing for an office building he is developing in Moscow. The case describes the opportunities and challenges of development in Russia. Also highlights entrepreneurial opportunities in a changing world. View Details
    Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Opportunities; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Moscow
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    • 26 Oct 2020
    • News

    Great promise but potential for peril

    • 16 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

    • 28 Feb 2022
    • Blog Post

    Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA

    challenging myself. I want to be equipped for further responsibilities to create an impact on the arts and entertainment as the industry evolves. An MBA presented an incredible opportunity for me to take risks, grow View Details
    • 18 Dec 2006
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

    Finding and nurturing future leadership talent is a primary concern for most organizations. How can they identify top people, train them, and—here's the catch—retain them? And do so in the face of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • April 2004
    • Case

    Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises - A Multimedia Case Study

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    Enables students to interactively research the steps Marks & Spencer's top executives took to restore prosperity and explore in depth the major issues remaining. The perspective is that of Luc Vandevelde, who arrived at the venerable U.K. retailer in 2001, and that of... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Corporate Strategy; Management Teams; Retail Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 14 Jun 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

    offered new insight into how best to create psychologically safe workplaces, detailed in a new analysis by Edmondson and Harvard doctoral researcher Derrick P. Bransby that distills insights from 185 View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 2001
    • Working Paper

    Contextuality Within Activity Systems

    By: Michael E. Porter and Nicolaj Siggelkow
    Research on the interactions among activities in firms and the extent to which these interactions help create and sustain competitive advantage has rapidly expanded in recent years. In this research, the two most common approaches have been the complementarity... View Details
    Keywords: Value Chain; Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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    • 04 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 4, 2008

    research by judgment and decision-making scholars, psychologists have developed a detailed picture of the ways in which human judgment is bounded. This paper argues that the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace