Publications

2005
Article

Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung

While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details

Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States

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April 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal

In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details

Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil

November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger

This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

individuals, response to disruptive technological changes, and regulatory design in competitive environments. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-070 Keystone XL... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

strategy, the balanced scorecard, venture capital, entrepreneurship, and disruptive innovation, among others. "Now is the time for us to make sure that we do not lose our intellectual ambition," said Nohria. "I can't tell... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

these marketplaces is that they mitigate one of the biggest problems borrowers and lenders face: search costs. Typically, these marketplaces earn revenue by charging a small fee on top of the loan if the borrower gets funded and accepts the terms of a loan from its... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

populations. The authors call it "catalytic innovation." Based on Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation model, catalytic innovations challenge organizational incumbents by offering simpler, good-enough solutions aimed at underserved groups. Unlike View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

crunch. Could the eurozone survive the storm? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/713034-PDF-ENG Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption Shih, WillyHarvard Business School Case 613-039 Ulrich Simon, the head of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

Janisse Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2012). Abstract We examine the internal supply chains at two service organizations to discover the source of disruptions that erode employees' efficiency. Through... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

PublicationsThe Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Authors:Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract Some people are just natural... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu

By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210021-PDF-ENG ZINK Imaging: Zero InkTM William A. Sahlman, and Sarah Greene FlahertyHarvard Business School Case 810-050 "ZINK Imaging" describes the issues confronting CEO Wendy Caswell as she uses a partnership model... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
Case

Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn

Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details

Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas