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  • March 2022 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

John F. Kennedy: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer
This case traces the rise of John F. Kennedy from a wealthy family in Boston to president of the United States. The case describes how Kennedy, as a young man, lived a privileged life in the shadow of his older brother, Joe. When Joe was killed in World War II, Jack... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Business And Government; Legacy; Leadership Development; Personal Characteristics; Business and Government Relations; Success; Power and Influence; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; United States
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  • February 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Freeport Mine, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, The: "Tailings & Failings" - Stakeholder Analysis

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Arthur McCaffrey
Chronicles the development of Freeport's nearly 30 years of mining operations in Indonesia. Building on a mining concession awarded by the country's government, headed by General Suharto, in 1973, Freeport steadily built its mining output to nearly 200,000 cubic... View Details
Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Private Sector; Economic Growth; Power and Influence; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Mining Industry; Indonesia
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  • 28 Jul 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online covering 6.5 million hotels,... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

started developing them have ceased to exist as independent entities. In those cases in which the skills and capabilities that characterized new ecosystem domains were distinct enough to justify a truly focused strategy (for example, personal financial accounting or... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • Web

Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

Lucena (MBA 2012) in a BDN webinar: “How to Join Your First (or Next) Board.” You can watch the recording of this webinar HERE (HBS alumni need to login to watch the video) Reflecting on their experiences joining multiple boards, all three speakers spoke to the View Details
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 18 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump

CEOs are public figures, with responsibility to uphold their company’s mission and values. When these values are violated, even by someone as powerful as the president of the United States, they are obliged to take a clear stand. In this... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • April 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Drexel Burnham Lambert (A): "The Smartest People on Wall Street Can be Had"

By: Boris Groysberg, Anahita Hashemi and Brendan Reed
In February 1990, Drexel Burnham Lambert declared bankruptcy amid a slew of scandals. Equities chief Arthur Kirsch hoped to keep his high-performing 600-person team intact. Could he find a company that would take on such a massive group hire? Competitors were already... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Negotiation; Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Society
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia

Associate Professor Meg Rithmire The dynamic relationship between a country’s political system and its business environment is a topic that intrigues Meg Rithmire, the F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration. An... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Research | MBA

Professors often build relationships with students through office hours and advising students on start-up ideas and career goals. A Commitment to Teaching In an HBS classroom, faculty lead 90 individuals from all over the world in case... View Details
  • Web

The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

narrative guides investor-company alignment for social value video Play Video duration: 5:07 Beyond profit: How narrative guides investor-company alignment for social value Play Powering progress: CEOs highlight the role of industry in... View Details

    Platform for Dialogue

    across specializations and to build relationships with inspiring MBA students from all over the world. While the School’s fostering of big ideas challenged me to learn and develop new vocabularies, the vibrant community of scholars... View Details
    • 06 Apr 2023
    • Blog Post

    How to onboard recently graduated MBAs

    fostering normative behaviors becomes more complex. To reduce tensions and increase mutual satisfaction in the workplace, Brennan suggests a variety of policies and perspectives that can make onboarding more successful: In-person View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

    Short Takes

    herbicides, reducing risk.) In general, Reinhardt asserts, it is market leaders who, by virtue of their power to shape the nature of competition in their industries, can force other firms to follow. Flexing similar muscle are firms with... View Details
    • September 2008
    • Case

    Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (A)

    By: David A. Thomas and Lauren Barley
    The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and tension as Adobe prepares to launch Creative Suite 3, the biggest software release in the company's 25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program... View Details
    Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Launch; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Power and Influence
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    • 30 Jan 2006
    • HBS Case

    The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

    As a longtime authority on marketing communications, HBS professor John Deighton has analyzed the consumer-product relationship from every angle. But when he heard the best-selling author James Patterson address a meeting of the Direct... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
    • 21 Jul 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

    With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details
    Keywords: by Jean Ayers
    • Profile

    Marco Crespo

    students themselves." Likewise, Marco believes, public-school education has to be "tweaked to be more relevant" to a world in which students have greater control. "Kids in our K-12 classrooms have more power in their... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2009
    • News

    Inside the Partnership

    became a high-volume, high-level matchmaker who was discreet, got things done quietly and effectively, and was remarkably successful. More than anything else, the power and stature Weinberg accumulated during the war years — plus his... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • 11 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

    complex and multiple contingencies to reflect the factors that caused a particular transaction to be either fast or time-consuming to process. Q: What is the relationship between TDABC and enterprise resource planning? A: We probably... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert