Publications

05 May 2022
News

Like-Minded

anyone access to content; US-based Jupiter, the leading provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk and resilience; and Unifa, which provides AI technology that helps childcare providers track intellectual growth among children and facilitates the View Details

February 2021
Teaching Plan

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to the case “Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?” HBS 820-098. The case explores the tension between two different financing and expansion plans for a startup, and explores issues related to business model pivots and industry... View Details

October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
Technical Note

Flight: Now without Humans Aboard

By: Mitchell Weiss, Karim Lakhani, HT Kung and Kerry Herman

This note provides an overview of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) industry in September 2015. UAVs offered many potential applications in industries as diverse as aerial imaging and photography, agriculture, construction, infrastructure inspection and... View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Drones; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Product Design; Research and Development; Technological Innovation; Rights; Ethics; Strategy; Transportation Networks; Market Entry and Exit; Innovation and Management; European Union; Asia; United States

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-029 Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A) In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 2012
Case

Edison Schools, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren Barley

Edison Schools, Inc., a pioneer in the for-profit management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public... View Details

Keywords: Charter Schools; Conflict of Interests; Initial Public Offering; For-Profit Firms; Public Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Education; Business Startups; Education Industry

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

diversifications are relatively unusual by Western standards, especially into technologies and markets that have relatively high entry barriers and where there is no deep-rooted national technological or... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

which reduced air loss and prevented compression, resulting in greater protection. This saran "barrier coating" had been a key sales point that Sealed Air emphasized to its customers. Low-cost competitors had begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment management and capital View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that threatened to take market share away from Sealed Air. Should the company abandon its exclusive commitment to coated bubbles in order to fend off this challenge? Says Robert Dolan, the author of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 2013 (Revised December 2015)
Case

Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira R. Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice

Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial... View Details

Keywords: Groom Energy Solutions; Jon Guerster; Salem, MA; Energy Management; Energy Efficiency Paradox; Sustainability Management; Manufacturing; Cold Storage; Commercial Real Estate; Enterprise Smart Grid; Carbon Accounting; LED Lighting; Sustainability Research; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Energy Entrepreneurship; Energy Services; Electricity; Startup; Expansion; Growth; Sustainability; Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Conservation; Revenue; Geographic Location; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Delivery; Strategic Planning; Science; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Society; Social Issues; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; Boston

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

across medicine. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52286 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long-Run Survival By: Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

of U.S. managers.— Geoffrey Jones Unilever was one of the world's earliest and most widespread multinational firms, and already had a large U.S. business by the interwar years. During the research, I was surprised to discover that the company experienced decades of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Urbi and the City Licensee Managers

By: John D. Macomber and Regina Garcia-Cuellar

A leading low income housing builder in Mexico decides which prospective new local partner best extends its advantages in managing twin production lines of homes and clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches... View Details

Keywords: Mortgages; Government and Politics; Housing; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Supply Chain; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Real Estate Industry; China; India; Mexico; United States

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the main mechanism driving the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Unraveling the Process of Creative Destruction: Complementary Assets and Incumbent Survival in the Typesetter Industry

By: M. Tripsas

When radical technological change transforms an industry established firms sometimes fail drastically and are displaced by new entrants, yet other times survive and prosper. Drawing upon an unusually rich data set that covers the technological and competitive... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Transformation; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; History; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Processes; Competency and Skills; Assets; Perspective; Disruptive Innovation