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  • January 2021
  • Teaching Note

Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO

By: Tsedal Neeley
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 420-071 and 420-073. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California
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  • September 2020
  • Case

Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a pivot, investor relations,... View Details
Keywords: Legal Aspects Of Business; Startup; Teams; Pivot; Financing; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Legal Services Industry; Germany
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  • Article

The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities

By: John D. Macomber
Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development
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  • May 2008 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

IBM's Dynamic Workplace

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, job sharing, and domestic partner benefits. Its human resources portfolio included a full array of progressive policies... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Social Enterprise
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  • September 2003 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

Learning from LeapFrog: Creating Educational and Business Value

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Christopher Dede and Susan Saltrick
Explores the success factors leading to one's company's rise to the number three ranking in the aggressively competitive toy industry. LeapFrog has made the strategic decision to exploit its educational model in two industry sectors: consumer toys and educational... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decisions; Education; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Media; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Research; Value Creation
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  • 21 Oct 2013
  • News

Built to Last

Keywords: capitalism
  • 29 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at ‘Up-or-Out’ Organizations

higher proportion of peers who are similar to them in terms of gender and race, it actually increases their likelihood of exiting an organization. Bringing about the changes that are necessary to increase retention of women and minorities... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn; Legal Services
  • Web

Accelerating Innovation | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

As social entrepreneurship has taken on increasing prominence over the past two decades, HBS alumni have been at the forefront of change from starting new organizations and embedding an entrepreneurial spirit within established ones to... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2017
  • News

A 'Pillar' of Entrepreneurship

tech CEOs in town I know who have been highly successful,” says Wilcox. “I’m looking for drive, intelligence, and charisma. I also look for whether or not the person has a streak of humility and a self-awareness of their own limitations, because I don’t think any... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 17 Apr 2016
  • News

Driving Digital Expansion

Named CEO in 2011, Rozhan has overseen rapid growth at the company as it confronts a changing technological landscape with the recent launch of Tribe, an over-the-top service that allows consumers to download locally produced digital... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Top-Flight Tory

mountain climbing, and flying light aircraft — clearly not a man to mess with,” opined BBC News Online (September 29, 2005). Of his party’s future, Davis said, “Modern Conservatives will show that we are not in politics for ourselves. We are not here to defend... View Details
Keywords: Britain's Conservative Party; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • Profile

Cristiana Torres

"It changed everything," Cristiana says. "Everything I had taken for granted was over. I was forced to redirect my priorities." Cristiana resolved to "learn from the best. In previous generations," she... View Details
Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

In Memoriam

Emeritus, passed away in October at the age of 78. His work focused on exploring the strategic uses of technology by corporations and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy, as well as the social... View Details
Keywords: obituraries; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

make." In addition to process improvements, other changes had an impact on this year's dialogue. For example, this time a greater number of entrepreneurs took part, and they introduced new variables into the discussions. "While recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
  • 12 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

the researchers employed a “difference-in-differences” statistical methodology. Their study examined how legislation changed in a state the year after a mass shooting; they used states that did not have shootings as a control group, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

Beverage, Shanda, Fosun, Focus, and Tsinghua University. Purpose: Begin to comprehend some of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this. Also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS

school and listen to the speakers. One day there was a speaker that said in the 20th century if you wanted to change the world you had to go to law school, but in the 21st century if you want to change the... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

example, how well consumers were able to recall a brand name after commercials have been run—but not much more. The effectiveness of marketing investments was rarely directly tied back to sales. This has completely changed with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Inside the Revolution

center,” says Enriquez of the LSP’s central functions. “For example, we work with the Finance faculty, studying how to value assets and structure the finances of businesses as they change in the face of the life sciences revolution. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services