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  • 29 Feb 2024
  • HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

for how executives should incentivize and reward talent?” How do you build an infrastructure around a star player? “Not all bets on star talent pay off in the long run,” notes Elberse, pointing to the New View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • April 2022
  • Case

Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash

By: Sunil Gupta, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley and Emily Tedards
In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Leadership; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Change; Change Management; Money; Cash; Credit; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Central Banking; Financial Instruments; Credit Cards; Financial Markets; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

in the multi-agent settings in which these decisions typically occur. In this paper, we develop a model that extends neural nets techniques to capture recognition processes in groups of decision-makers. We use the model to derive some fundamental View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2020
  • Case

Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics

By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Competition; Customers; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Macroeconomics; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Product Design; Product Development; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Issues; Social Marketing; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Venture Capital; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Advertising Industry; Public Relations Industry; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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  • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Pattern Brands

By: Sunil Gupta, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
In March 2020, direct-to-consumer (DTC) company Pattern Brands needed to decide how to allocate resources across its different brands. Pattern Co-Founders Nick Ling and Emmett Shine hoped to avoid the pitfalls faced by some DTC companies—such as inability to scale and... View Details
Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business Strategy; Diversification; Competitive Advantage; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

Centre Award in the Marketing category for “The New York Times Paywall” (HBS Case 512-077). By: Sunil Gupta, Vineet Kumar, Bharat Anand, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee The Case Centre Awards and Competitions... View Details
  • October 2017
  • Article

Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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  • August 2019
  • Case

The Allstate Corporation, 2019

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In July 2019, Allstate, the United States’ number-three property and casualty (P/C) insurer, released its second-quarter earnings, which reported first-half revenues of $22.1 billion, up 11.4% year-over-year. Shareholders cheered the top-line growth, but P/C premiums... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Insurance; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry; North America
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  • Web

Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and their establishment becomes Lehman Brothers. 1858 Lehman Brothers transitions into the cotton commodity business and opens a branch in New York City. 1861-1865 The Civil War causes devastation to the... View Details
  • June 2007 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

The CW: Launching a Television Network

By: Anita Elberse and S. Mark Young
In May 2006, Dawn Ostroff, president of entertainment of the newly formed CW Television Network, was faced with the task of choosing the final set of programs for the 2006 fall schedule, which she would present to advertisers at the annual "upfront" market in New York... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Networks; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • March 2024
  • Case

Ava DuVernay's Array: Disrupting the Hollywood Film Industry

By: Anita Elberse and Morgan Brewton-Johnson
In February 2023 acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay is filming her latest movie, Origin, a daring adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. With Origin, DuVernay is pioneering a method to finance the endeavor—through a combination of... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Intellectual Property; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Disruption; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

in. He had come to New York for an early afternoon meeting with Wall Street analysts. That [CEO Carl] Williams had chosen him for the meeting was a sign of just how well things had been going lately for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Richard G. Hamermesh

    Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

    Keywords: health care
    • July 2015
    • Case

    Uncharted Play (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie
    The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is... View Details
    Keywords: Early Stage; Female Protagonist; Value Proposition; Team Building; Founders' Agreements; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Business Startups; Sports; United States; North America; Nigeria; Africa
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    • Web

    Entrepreneurs-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

    San Francisco, CA Shirish Nimgaonkar Founder and CEO eBlissAI Carlos Reines Gonzalez Co-Founder RubiconMD Brooklyn, NY Kenneth Salas COO nuDesk Anthony Soohoo Venture Advisor AI Fund Jon Staff Getaway New View Details
    • 17 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 17

    activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    largest consumer debt in the US, trailing only mortgage loans—and surpassing car loans, credit card debt, and home equity lines of credit. Source: New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax Many people who... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 16 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

    on whether they are harming their children—because they are not.” Welcome news Three years ago, McGinn and colleagues got some pushback when preliminary findings were included in a New View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 07 Jun 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    How Important are Big Ideas?

    Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point, outweighed by methods and the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 27 Jun 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Recovering from the Need to Achieve

    deepened during the early 1990s, after he moved his family to New York from Provo, Utah for a big job with Morgan Stanley. One day he found himself sitting on a bench, immobilized: he worried whether he... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard