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  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

base of decades of archival research, what remains the most convincing explanation for the growth of large firms and the emergence of modern management. Moreover this research agenda was framed in a much wider context, because he explicitly linked this story to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2023
  • News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

carbon costs were paid for by the producers. MT: Right. It strikes me that perhaps the closest analogy to what you're doing in the marketplace in the US are these opt up electricity deals that in many places around the country you can opt... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

paired student teams with technologies developed at the University, alongside an experienced industry mentor. The student teams were responsible for developing a commercialization strategy for the inventor and advancing the business plan.... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

used to characterize the jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing political powers at the IASB and own potential political power at the IASB. Based on how countries are classified along these dimensions, I offer predictions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

"structural breaks"-privatization, for example, or globalization-and assess why powerful actors across countries behaved similarly or differently in terms of network properties and corporate governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

in countries such as India, Japan, China, and Mexico, to ask about the distinctive challenges of their markets and organizations. I am developing several cases based on this research for my second-year course General Management: Processes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Harvard Business School

profitable strategy investing in communications companies targeting urban neighborhoods. The corporation's long-term investment in Radio One, a Black company that was the fastest-growing radio broadcasting company in 2000, paid tremendous... View Details
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
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  • September 2021 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Harambe: Mobilizing Capital in Africa

By: Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Francesco Tronci
Harambe was a non-profit organization whose mission was to build an ecosystem to identify promising young African entrepreneurs and provide them access to training, markets, capital, and support networks. From 2007 to 2021, Harambe had grown to a network of 367... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Model; Strategy; Organizational Structure; Business Startups; Capital; Venture Capital; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Developing Countries and Economies; Emerging Markets; Africa; South Africa
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  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

do just that. Education has many unique facets to it. As people have been quick to point out, in the United States, education is highly regulated; it is first and foremost about the future of children—and thus the future of our country as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

firms? The success and viability of China's overall growth strategy depended crucially on managing a successful urban transition. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/713037-PDF-ENG Hill Country Snack... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2021
  • Case

Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris
In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did... View Details
Keywords: Solar Energy; Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Salesforce Management; Diversification; Expansion; Energy Industry; Africa; South Africa; Malawi; Uganda
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 510-063 In January 2010, Jen McDonald, head of Bank of America Corporation's (BAC) Digital Marketing group, was discussing the bank's mobile strategy with Douglas Brown, senior vice president,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with input-output tables. In line with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

and teaching on risk management, we identify three categories of risk and elaborate on the ways companies can identify and mitigate them, with particular emphasis on strategy execution risks. Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk—Part... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses,... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

compelling story was told in anticipation of a product launch, and that became sort of the benchmark going forward for must-see TV and what brand storytelling could look like on this phenomenal platform when you've got one out of every three Americans in the View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting