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  • 25 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

Sloan. As the case shows, Walker herself reflected on her path before an audience in 1912 at the National Negro Business League convention in Chicago: "I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

    Peter Tufano

    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games

      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

      • 22 Mar 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

      figure. Without open source software and their ubiquitous code-creation networks, firms would pay an estimated 3.5 times more to build the software and platforms that run their businesses, or roughly $8.8 trillion, say Harvard View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

        Jan W. Rivkin

        Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

        Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
        • 16 Apr 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Strategy and the Internet

        If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet, it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves apart from the pack—to be more profitable than the average performer.... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
        • 17 May 2024
        • Blog Post

        Blending Heritage and Innovation: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025)

        dreams at Harvard Business School. “For me, being Chinese American means blending old heritage with new meaning. My middle name is also my Chinese name, Mintao (敏涛), meaning ‘clever wave’. In Chinese culture, it’s common View Details

          Christopher A. Bartlett

          Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). 

          As a practicing manager prior... View Details

          Keywords: consulting; health care; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; wine
          • 30 Apr 2024
          • Book

          When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

          In the 1990s, when Harvard Business School Professor Lynn S. Paine was researching and writing about examples of corporate misconduct, she hoped more businesses would take decisive action View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

            Iavor I. Bojinov

            Iavor Bojinov is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the co-PI of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and the Harvard Data Science... View Details

            • December 2022 (Revised August 2023)
            • Case

            Circles.Life at a Crossroads of Growth

            By: Juan Alcácer and Adina Wong
            In June 2022, the founders of Singapore mobile operator Circles.Life had a crucial decision to make. Circles.Life developed a new business model in mobile telecommunications—a digital telco—built around its proprietary operating system. After expanding its brand in... View Details
            Keywords: Business Model; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Singapore
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            • 19 Dec 2023
            • Research & Ideas

            The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

            reshape how work gets done. The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023Need a book recommendation for your summer vacation? HBS faculty members share their reading lists, which include titles that explore spirituality, design,... View Details
            Keywords: by Danielle Kost
            • 12 Dec 2023
            • Research & Ideas

            COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

            United States. But appearances can be deceiving. What may look to more casual observers like the end of globalization—or, at least, a major step back—is anything but, suggests a new working paper. Call it instead the “great reallocation,”... View Details
            Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
            • December 2011 (Revised July 2013)
            • Background Note

            Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup

            By: Thomas Eisenmann, Eric Ries and Sarah Dillard
            Firms that follow a hypothesis-driven approach to evaluating entrepreneurial opportunity are called "lean startups." Entrepreneurs in these startups translate their vision into falsifiable business model hypotheses, then test the hypotheses using a series of "minimum... View Details
            Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups
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            • 07 Jul 2022
            • HBS Case

            How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

            filing for bankruptcy? And more importantly, how did Smith and Cuscuna rebound from their first failed venture to open another successful ice cream shop? The startup, like many others, was a victim of its own success, says Harvard View Details
            Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
            • 21 Dec 2022
            • Blog Post

            Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy

            near the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago, she dreamed of being a physicist. Instead, she has focused her career on executing “pro climate business solutions.” As the COO of Fermata Energy since March 2022, Claire... View Details
            • 08 Dec 2021
            • Blog Post

            The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

            in Toronto, so my thought was ‘let's see if I can add some tools to my toolkit and market myself better to other industries.’” For Memme, the best way to way View Details
            Keywords: Venture Capital
            • 18 May 2015
            • News

            Having a Working Mother Is Good For You

            • Web

            Managing the Future of Work

            Managing the challenges posed by the changing nature of work Managing the challenges posed by the changing nature of work Multiple forces of change – demographics, technology, automation, globalization – are coming together at an unprecedented pace and scale. How can... View Details
            • 08 Mar 2021
            • In Practice

            COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

            A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
            Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman