Publications

02 Dec 2013
News

Colleges Can Still Save Themselves. Here's How.

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

my military background, they were intrigued by my experience in project and change management, especially while leading teams. After months of conversations and interviews, I was matched with the Human Resources team at Uncommon Schools in View Details

September 2009 (Revised November 2010)
Case

Marquee: The Business of Nightlife

By: Anita Elberse, Ryan Barlow and Sheldon Wong

In December 2008, nightlife impresario Noah Tepperberg celebrated the fifth anniversary of his New York City nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one-and-a-half years, Tepperberg has succeeded in keeping Marquee one of NYC's hottest clubs for... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost Management; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy

21 May 2014
News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On The Cashless Society

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

Story of American Business: From the Pages of The New York Times (Harvard Business Press), presents more than 100 compelling, provocative—and sometimes funny—articles published... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

29 Apr 2014
News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On Animal Liberation

September 2001 (Revised April 2002)
Case

Ocean Carriers

By: Erik Stafford, Angela Chao and Kathleen Luchs

In January 2001, Mary Linn, vice president of finance for Ocean Carriers, a shipping company with offices in New York and Hong Kong, was evaluating a proposed lease of a ship for a three-year period, beginning in early 2003. The customer was eager to finalize the... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost of Capital; Leasing; Corporate Strategy; Valuation; Shipping Industry; New York (city, NY); Hong Kong

Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration. He teaches in the Technology, Operations and Management Unit.

Encompassing a wide array of questions about computing, communication, and Internet markets, Professor Greenstein’s... View Details

Keywords: computer; information technology industry; electronics; information; e-commerce industry; internet; software

January 2017 (Revised October 2023)
Case

Classtivity: Payal's Pirouette

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull

A few months after launching a new fitness technology product, the small staff of New York startup Classtivity gathers on a Saturday in April 2013 to take stock. With one successful pivot under its belt, Classtivity is finally generating revenue and enthusiasm among... View Details

17 Dec 2013
News

Nancy Koehn on Hunting and Gathering at the Mall

Profile

Casey Gerald

to build enduring communities of support for entrepreneurial efforts. “We want to prove,” Casey says, “that entrepreneurship can succeed anywhere — you don’t have to be in New York or Silicon Valley to do... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail; Nonprofit / Government

Helene Hall

Helene Hall is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program at Harvard University. Prior to coming to Harvard, she worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and studied economics and mathematics at Williams College. Her main research... View Details

Matt DosSantos DiSorbo

I am a PhD student in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. My research focuses on helping human-AI collaborations translate sandbox performance into success in practice. My advisor is Professor Kris Johnson Ferreira. Prior to HBS, I obtained an... View Details

Emil N. Siriwardane

Emil Siriwardane is an associate professor of business administration in the Finance Unit.

Professor Siriwardane’s research studies the ways in which financial intermediaries influence capital markets, how perceptions of risk impact business cycles,... View Details

20 Aug 2015
Video

What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses that Affect America’s Competitiveness?

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412074-PDF-ENG The New York Times Paywall Vineet Kumar, Bharat Anand, Sunil Gupta, and Felix Oberholzer-GeeHarvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

NYSE vs. NASDAQ: International Competition

By: Estelle S. Cantillon and Tarun Khanna

Compares and contrasts the international strategies of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ as they looked overseas for new sources of growth in the late 1990s. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Financial Markets; Globalization; United States