Publications

Educators

01 Jun 2016
News

A Roundabout Path

To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without the support that a fellowship provided him.... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Orientation Teamwork

FIRE AWAY: Each Learning Team built a catapult that was intended egg at a target 25 feet away without breaking the payload. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL It may have looked like all fun and games, but the MBA Class of 2008 orientation in late August had a serious purpose —... View Details

Keywords: orientation; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
News

MD/MBA Program Launched

Harvard’s new five-year, MD/MBA joint-degree program was formally launched at an HBS reception in November. Keynote speaker and Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989), who holds an MD degree, told his audience, including the seven students currently enrolled in the... View Details

Keywords: MD/MBA joint-degree program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2013
News

Faculty Research Online

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century Today's teams are not well designed for getting work done in the 21st century, argues Professor Amy Edmondson. One starting point: learn the skill of "teaming." See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7122.html. Altruistic Capital: Harnessing... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Getting Smart About Philanthropy

Seven HBS alumni are among more than 50 philanthropic leaders who share their strategic thinking, insights, and wisdom in a unique set of video interviews being showcased on the new GiveSmart.org website. The "Conversations with Remarkable Givers" series was created by... View Details

24 Mar 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Video Game; Web Services

Spring 2020
Article

The Future of Platforms

By: Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie and Annabelle Gawer

Platforms power the world’s most valuable companies, but it will get harder and harder to capture and monetize their disruptive potential. View Details

Keywords: Platform Businesses; Platform; Strategy; Digital Platforms

June 2016
Article

Understanding Online Hotel Reviews Through Automated Text Analysis

By: Shawn Mankad, Hyunjeong "Spring" Han, Joel Goh and Srinagesh Gavirneni

Customer reviews submitted at Internet travel portals are an important yet underexplored new resource in obtaining feedback on customer experience for the hospitality industry. These data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for... View Details

Keywords: Hotel Reviews; Natural Language Processing; Information Technology; Service Operations; Accommodations Industry; Moscow

2011
Teaching Note

Kingdee

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jin Zhang and Ziqian Zhao

Keywords: Business Ethics; Competitive Strategy; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Venture Capital; China; Applications and Software; China

2011
Teaching Note

UFIDA (D) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ping He, Xiohua Wu and Lijuan Liu

This case describes the financing decisions of a software company at difference stages of its development. Started from 1988 as an individual business, along with the "Reform and Open" policy of China, the firm has experienced tremendous growth, and has become a... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Financial Strategy; IPO; Investments; China; Applications and Software; China

2011
Teaching Note

UFIDA (C) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia and E. Chen

This case documents the evolution of UFIDA's management control system over a decade as it grew five-fold from a 325 million RMB to a 1.66 billion RMB company, while its staff grew by more than three-fold. View Details

Keywords: Budgeting; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Management Controls; Performance Management; Planning; China; Applications and Software; China

2011
Teaching Note

Beyondsoft Co., Ltd. (A) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang

In the past two decades, along with China's rapidly growing economy and its integration into the world economic system, the Chinese software outsourcing industry has also risen from zero to being fairly significant in the world IT market. It is currently growing much... View Details

Keywords: Business Models; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Outsourcing; Strategy; China; Applications and Software; China

Book Review

Review of Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms edited by Anna Grandori. Oxford University Press, 2004

By: A. Zelleke

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Information; Organizations

December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Supplement

The Metropolitan Opera (B)

By: Anita Elberse and Crissy Perez

In April 2007, the New York City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program has received... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Arts; Fine Arts Industry

December 2002
Case

Putnam Investments: Work@Home

Putnam Investments uses technology to enable many of its frontline service providers to work routinely and permanently from their homes. This case explores issues related to this strategy, from conceptualization to implementation and highlighting continuous... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Service Delivery; Financial Services Industry

Educators

2004
Book

Modern Project Finance Teaching Notes

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Keywords: Projects; Finance; Teaching; Information

February 2000
Article

How the Incumbent Can Win: Managing Technological Transitions in the Semiconductor Industry

By: Marco Iansiti

Keywords: Management; Information Technology; Transition; Semiconductor Industry