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  • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market). This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the... View Details
Keywords: Rapid Growth Stage; Green Energy; Start-up; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth Management; Finance; Decision Making; United Kingdom
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    Yoonjae Shin

    Yoonjae Shin is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. His primary interests are labor market, corporate governance, and social inequality. Prior to beginning his PhD, Yoonjae worked in the project team at Seoul National... View Details
    • 18 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 18

    encourage excessive risk. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110005-PDF-ENG From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys Harvard View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The High Risks of Short-Term Management

    themselves and their investors. There's another surprise in the research: short-termism might not be as widespread as we think, and a substantial number of corporations are rising to the challenge. "One important takeaway is that firms with long-term horizons exist,"... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 12 Jan 2018
    • News

    The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

    • Article

    Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

    By: Edward Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers and Michael Luca
    The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to... View Details
    Keywords: User-generated Content; Operations; Tournaments; Policy-making; Machine Learning; Online Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; City; Infrastructure; Business Processes; Government and Politics
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      Leaders Can Move Fast and Fix Things

      The assumption embedded in Silicon Valley’s famous “move fast and break things” ethos is that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. A certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to... View Details

      • 20 Aug 2008
      • Op-Ed

      The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

      capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities." Harvard View Details
      Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
      • 15 Jun 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Remembering Alfred Chandler

      Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Mar 2019
      • What Do You Think?

      What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

      peterhowell Summing Up: Can Single Nations Counter the Threat of Surveillance Capitalism? We’re on our own, with the possible support of government, in any efforts to counter the effects of surveillance capitalism. It’s only natural that View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products
      • 09 Oct 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: October 9

      organization wishing to profit from big data. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/ Great Leaders Don't Need Experience Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Mar 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research, March 7

      Business School Case 717-431 Elon Musk's Big Bets Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and scope of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 17 Apr 2022
      • Book

      How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

      personally profit by violating the law or by harming or misleading others. The stakes can be enormous, especially when a big transaction or career-making decision is involved. This means people in business... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert
      • January 2010
      • Background Note

      In the Spotlight: The Market for Iron Ore

      By: Aldo Musacchio, Tarun Khanna and Jenna Bernhardson
      This note discusses the structure and functioning of the market for iron ore. This market has traditionally functioned using a benchmark pricing mechanism, in which large steel mills in Japan (now in China) negotiate the benchmark price with the largest of the big... View Details
      Keywords: Industry Structures; Mining; Price; Valuation; Business Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry; China
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      • 06 Sep 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

      With more than 23 million copies in print, Spencer Johnson's allegorical tale Who Moved My Cheese? is one of the best-selling business books of all time. Even 13 years after its initial publication, the book, whose characters include mice... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 04 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 4

        Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 20 May 2020
      • News

      How Will COVID-19 Change Demand for Office Space?

      • 29 Oct 2019
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Robots in the Boardroom

      the businesses they deal with. Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small BusinessArtificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data is transforming financial services for small-business. Companies... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 01 Nov 2016
      • First Look

      First Look - November 1, 2016

      social enterprise to address issues of scalability and sustainability. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-020 chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 25 Feb 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: February 25

      employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it was detected, and how the firm responded after detection are all associated with the impact... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne