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  • May 2025
  • Case

Windsurf and the AI Code Assistant Market

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Sudhanshu Nath Mishra and Radhika Kak
In April 2025, the founding team of Windsurf, an AI start-up specializing in code generation gathered in Mountain View, California, to assess its remarkable year of growth. The company had scaled from a niche GitHub Copilot alternative to a breakout player with over... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Venture Capital; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Competition; Business Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa

By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by... View Details
Keywords: Operations Strategy; Base Of The Pyramid; Mobile Money; Inventory Management; Competition; Currency; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology
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  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

growth but impatient for profitability. When you are willing to put up with a lot of losses before a disruptive business turns profitable, that means you are trying to lay the foundation for a huge new business. Insisting on early... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • September 2017
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • November 2013 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

A Long, Bumpy and Unfinished Road: Education Reform in Memphis, Tennessee

By: Allen Grossman, J. Puckett and Nithya Vaduganathan

In 2010 the Memphis City School District merged with the neighboring Shelby County School system under the supervision of a single board of education and superintendent. It promised much more than just administrative synergies—it was an opportunity to change a... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Public Education; Business Engagement; Public Sector; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; Tennessee
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  • November 2008 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

Omron: Sensing Society

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ethan S Bernstein
"Leading profitable growth is only part of the goal. We cannot live without breathing, but we do not live in order to take a breath,” said Omron's President and CEO, Hisao Sakuta, in 2008. Omron, a $7B global supplier of sensors, control system components, advanced... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Competitive Advantage; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Globalized Firms and Management; Innovation and Invention; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Electronics Industry
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  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

residency, including on metrics such as patients’ likelihood of recommending their specialist, write Maximilian J. Pany, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School and MD candidate at Harvard Medical School, and J. Michael McWilliams, Warren Alpert View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Ford Foundation (A) (220026) by Shawn Cole , Michael Norris and T. Robert Zochowski FEBRUARY 2020 (REVISED JANUARY 2022) Darren Walker and his staff have been preparing for months to present the final proposal for Mission Related... View Details
  • Web

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Times, a foundation that scours the world for lost Russian artifacts and helps return them. Stacks and Grille This grille was a prominent architectural feature in the Baker Library lobby before a full renovation in 2003. Designed by the... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • News

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

  • 28 May 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Fit in at HBS

and conversational mind. The cases used in each course are challenging and support the foundation of the academic rigor at HBS. But the section—the incredibly diverse group of 94 classmates, hand-picked by the administration to create a... View Details
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Companies: social responsibility

maintains a database of benefit corporations. Corpwatch.org: Provide articles, reports and data on violations by multinational corporations to activists, media, the general public and policy makers. Corporate Citizenship Awards: US Chamber of Commerce View Details
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

the MS/MBA program has given me two critical components of my professional journey: mission and means. In my first year I launched into identifying my mission. I realized that empathy provided a strong foundation for much of my life’s... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Preparing students for hands-on project work in Buenos Aires For their FIELD Global Immersion course, first-year students working with business partners in Buenos Aires discussed the case “Doing Business in Buenos Aires, Argentina” written by Senior Lecturer Nori... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

decide it makes sense to actively seek anchor investments, our results suggest that banks with CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) requirements and foundations represent the large potential allocations. Investment advisors also represent a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 20 Dec 2023
  • News

New School

In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and students who suddenly found... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

managing the investment of their assets. That being said, we also had the opportunity to advise clients on how to best achieve their philanthropic goals. To this end we were able to guide artists on establishing foundations to preserve... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

‘those’ kids. “We’re a southern, midsize city that’s still struggling with race and how that unfolds around access to opportunity,” continues Morgan. “This is the moment for public education.” With the Benwood Foundation having served as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • Web

Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Ascarza : Selected as an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Faculty Fellow by the American Marketing Association in 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. Eva Ascarza : Selected as an INFORMS Doctoral Consortium Fellow at the... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2019
  • News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

committed $10 million from their family foundation to endow the new program. The gift is in honor of Tom’s 30th and 35th HBS Reunions. A collaboration between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... View Details