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  • 2012
  • Case

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resource Management; Strategy; China; China
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  • May 2019 (Revised September 2019)
  • Case

Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Haibo Zhao
This case address pacing issues – how fast does a company need to scale? It also examines the role of investors in determining company strategy and exit.
Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Competition; Value Creation; Governance; Economics; Business Startups; Strategy; Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Transportation; Bicycle Transportation; China
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  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Strategy; China
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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

the implications for other firms in plants and animals and their opportunities to produce new medicines in an economical and safe fashion? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/910403-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-063 Omada Health:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2023
  • HBS Case

What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

Organizations rarely reinvent themselves in a perfectly straight line. More often than not, reinvention is like riding a roller-coaster, with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. This is true even at the best organizations, despite... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its platform is two-sided, connecting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 15 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

experiment with 803 people, the researchers also gauged preferences to ride in fully automated vehicles (level 5) specifically, on a scale from 0 to 100. Again, drivers preferred such vehicles for others (52 out of 100) more than for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto
  • June 2017 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

CJ E&M: KCON Goes Global

By: Elie Ofek and Michael Norris
In January of 2017, CJ Entertainment & Media (E&M) proudly announced that it will be holding its first ever KCON in Mexico City just two months later. CJ Group Chairman Jay Lee and Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee are pleased at the progress that KCON, a Korean-oriented music... View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Food; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

Also Like: Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right? Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm Related reading from the Working... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 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
  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

bus driver. She'd even stopped riding on his bus and got on by accident. She'd been to a number of civil rights training programs. After she was arrested, the people in the civil rights movement sat down and asked themselves, "Is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

bankruptcy proceeding can have difficulty restructuring their public bonds. If such bonds are widely held, individual bondholders may be unwilling to make concessions, preferring to free ride off the concessions of others. Thus it will be... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

office. Wu suspects some companies may even open satellite offices in an effort to shorten workers’ commutes. Wu doesn’t have a long commute himself; he lives in Cambridge, close enough to either walk or ride an electric scooter to HBS.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

were accused of sexual harassment and other abusive treatment of employees. Plus the ride-sharing service was “flat-out wrong” to try and poach drivers from its competitor, Lyft, in 2014, Sucher says. The company has made some good-will gestures, such as giving people... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 21 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

us happy and creates positive impact, each on its own still helps toward making your life seem more meaningful." “If you’re selling an electric car, make it a pleasure to ride in,” De Freitas says. On a more personal level, De Freitas... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

to change. It's so hard to monitor or fix compared to the machine. Layne: In layman's terms, how does your solution, BEAT, work? You mentioned surge pricing for car services as an example. Israeli: So, imagine we have three different variables to determine how much the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

threat of walking away becomes. In such instances, one way to make this threat more credible is to find someone else to take your place. You might delegate authority to finalize the deal to someone who has less riding on the outcome.... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

the neglect of the others. When this happens, even the emphasized drive will in time become frustrated. To maintain a reasonable balance among the drives requires hands-on steering by the leadership of the organization. Like riding a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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