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  • July 2019
  • Case

Instabeat—One More Lap?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
This case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Manufacturing; Prototyping; Female Protagonist; Business Startups; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Design; Organizational Culture; United States; Lebanon
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  • Article

Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal

By: James K. Sebenius
Prior to the "interim deal" reached in November 2013, Iranian nuclear negotiators could—and did—play for time while the regime rapidly added more centrifuges and increased production of enriched uranium. That is no longer the case. For the first time in years, the... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Iran; United States; Iran; United States
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Team - Case Method Project

and has been passionate about pedagogy from a young age, always reflecting on her own educational experiences. She is excited to enrich those of other students through promoting adoption of the case method. Outside of work, she spends as... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in US Communities

Keywords: by András Tilcsik & Christopher Marquis
  • June 2025
  • Case

From Single Stock to Diversified Portfolio: Mastercard Foundation's $42 Billion Asset Management Launch

By: Luis M. Viceira and Justin Cohen
This case examines the decision of the Mastercard Foundation in 2023 to divest its holdings of Mastercard stock, its only asset since inception in 2006 and worth $42 billion in early 2024, and to invest the proceeds in a newly designed diversified portfolio. To this... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Selection and Staffing; Risk Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 03 May 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Stephanie Cheng & Ran Song, Harvard University & Harvard Law School

  • Portrait Project

Selamile Dlamini

women are meek, respectful, and silent. Somewhere along the line, I began to silence my inner voice, my intuition. When I had a feeling that I shouldn’t take the first job I landed in corporate America, I ignored it. Many times, I knew it was time to leave – many... View Details
  • Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

widely. Some participants spend more time on the platform to enhance their understanding of course concepts and share insights with peers. This time includes all coursework on the platform, including written reflections and quizzes, as... View Details
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

whether to change career paths. At one point, he put his decision in a larger context: Life is surfing a wave. It carries you forward. You spend most of your time adjusting and trying to stay on the wave and riding it. It may not be the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

consumers in the dining area. On average, restaurants spend 30 percent of their revenue on labor. With increasing focus on fair wages and legislated wage increases, restaurants may easily exceed that average. Moreover, restaurants View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 05 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

curriculum itself, I realized that pursuing an MBA still aligned with my future career aspirations of building and growing companies. What job(s) did you work during your deferral? After gaining admission in June 2019, I had planned on View Details
  • 12 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

customers, and how operational choices affect customer behaviors and firm performance. We all spend a surprising amount of time waiting our turn; by one estimate, Americans wait in line 37 billion hours a year—118 hours for every person.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service
  • 28 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

that person’s role for more people. That might create congestion effects,” he says. “You don’t want the boss overseeing 100 people if they can only spend 5 minutes a day with each person.” Overall, however, the effects of their study... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

platforms and programs to test the skills of applicants for various jobs, rather than spending time checking applicants’ college credentials and grade point averages, according to the case study. For instance, hiring managers could try... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • Web

Impact - Health Care

Impact Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School Influencing the Industry With global health care spending greater than $8.5 trillion, there is no shortage of opportunities to make an impact in this demanding sector. HBS... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the network of relationships between... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

Keywords: by R. Gibbons & R. Henderson
  • Profile

Katie Sadler

become life-long mentors. What is your favorite childhood memory? Every summer, my mom would pile our family, including two dogs, into a minivan and we would drive from Michigan to Maine to spend the summer with my grandparents. We spent... View Details
  • Web

Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

drugs, devices, and diagnostic tests that improve outcomes and/or lower total costs will find their products incorporated into the treatments used by effective and efficient providers. Payers (private insurers, corporations, governments, or self-pay individuals) will... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct moments—ideation, incubation, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne