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  • 31 Oct 2019
  • Video

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Chair of the Philippines-based Ayala Group, with interests in real estate, public infrastructure, insurance, and banking, discusses how the government’s liberalization program in... View Details

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 15 Dec 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

    David LaneHarvard Business School Case 210-016 Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The High Risks of Short-Term Management

    Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new research findings suggest that... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 01 Feb 2022
    • Book

    Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

    What if more managers at big corporations channeled some of the same magic that helped Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lead their startups to great success? Large companies are actually fertile ground for innovation; they just need to know how to... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
    • Case

    Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

    By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
    Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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    • Winter 2023
    • Article

    Moral Firms?

    By: Rebecca Henderson
    Building a new political economy requires transforming our markets, our institutions, and our policy and regulatory regimes. In this essay, I argue that it also requires transforming the purpose of the firm: from a singular focus on maximizing financial returns to the... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Mission and Purpose; Economy
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    • February–March 2013
    • Article

    The Mobile Banking and Payment Revolution

    By: Sunil Gupta
    Mobile technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in developed countries and reach a large population of unbanked customers in emerging markets.... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • March 1992
    • Case

    Merv Griffin's Resorts

    Discusses a management team that used computer-based information to micro market and provide superior products and service in a highly competitive market. The company is a leading firm in the gaming industry, and their extensive internal systems allowed them to track... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Marketing
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    • Article

    Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies

    By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
    Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Strategy; Repositioning; Cost-cutting; Intra-firm Learning; Multi-Sided Platforms; Cost Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Journalism and News Industry
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    • 16 Jul 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
    • 25 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

    average it led to 15 new business partners and 6.5 more devices in the short term, or about 6 years, Greenstein says. Viewed another way, firms that became more open experienced a 37 percent increase in... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
    Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
    Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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    • August 2018
    • Case

    Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
    This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Capital Markets; Transition; Strategy; Peru
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    • 21 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 21

    by 5%-7% per year in risk-adjusted stock returns. In sum, our results document a surprisingly large impact of immigrants' economic role as conduits of information for firms in their new countries. Download... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Editorial

    Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale

    By: Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim
    You’ve seen the headlines about the growth in environmental, social, and governance funds. Many investment professionals might read these and believe that launching a new ESG investment firm or ESG offering will be an automatic success. Our analysis of the data shows... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Investments; Investment Fund; Sustainability; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Finance; Growth and Development; Failure
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    • January 1990 (Revised September 1994)
    • Case

    Cray Research, Inc.: Preparing for the 1990s

    By: Francis Aguilar
    Describes the major changes Cray Research faced from 1985 (the time of the original case) to 1990. The dramatic decision to divide the company into two separate firms sets the stage for an analysis of the major strategic and organizational challenges facing senior... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Management Systems; Change Management; Technology Adoption; Business Units; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Management Teams; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology
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    • 28 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 28

    Pierce, Jason A. Snyder, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Competition among firms can have many positive outcomes, including decreased prices and improved quality. Yet competition can have a darker side when View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2012
    • Case

    Polar Sports, Inc.

    By: W. Carl Kester and Wei Wang
    Polar Sports, Inc. is a fashion skiwear manufacturing company in Littleton, Colorado. The company has a unique design for skiwear using a special synthetic material that improves insulation and durability. The ski apparel industry is highly competitive and the best way... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Colorado
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    • July 2010
    • Supplement

    Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis (CW)

    By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
    Customers are increasingly being viewed as assets that bring value to the firm. Customer lifetime value is a metric which allows managers to understand the overall value of their customer base and relate it to three customer strategies firms employ: asset acquisition -... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Framework; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Value
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