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  • May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model on Its Head

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the construction industry by the premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 2000. Following its customers’ needs, Hilti moved from selling power tools to leasing them as a service. The introduction of the new... View Details
Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Decision Making; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Japan; Hong Kong
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  • September 2013 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

PepsiCo, Profits, and Food: The Belt Tightens

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble
The case describes the issues facing Indra Nooyi after five years of PepsiCo's new and controversial nutrition strategy. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Ethics; Leadership; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 09 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."

Many MBAs approach their internships seeking new industries to explore. But Jon Wofsy, MBA 2018, remained eager to stay in his field, clean energy, while testing a new role. “I... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • January 2015
  • Teaching Plan

Residencial Los Andes

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Lisa Strope
In 2011, Mauricio Levitin and Josef Preschel, Managing Directors of Peninsula Investments Group (Peninsula) are deciding whether or not to recapitalize an equity investment in Residencial Los Andes, a residential development project in Santiago, Chile, or exit and take... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Property; Real Estate Industry; Chile
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  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

In a new book on the origins and impacts of globalization, Harvard Business School's Geoffrey Jones focuses on the role played by a vital but often ignored actor in this conversation: business entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • April 2014 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

Tapestry Networks

By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
Tapestry Networks assembled industry leaders and their regulators in small, private meetings to build new frameworks for pressing regulatory challenges. Tapestry's motivating principle was to reimagine solutions to complex problems (e.g., drug-approval standards) in... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Government And Business; Strategy; Consulting Industry; United States; European Union
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  • Program

Private Equity and Venture Capital

a deal. By examining critical issues related to industry infrastructure, portfolio management, and negotiation strategies, you will be well equipped to overcome emerging investment challenges, find View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance

    The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

    A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
    • Summer 2018
    • Article

    Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor

    By: Daniel P. Gross
    Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Diffusion; Spatial Technology Diffusion; Farm Tractors; R＆D; General-purpose Technologies; Technology Adoption; Agribusiness; Transportation; Research and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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    • 2018
    • Book

    Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our own lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides... View Details
    Keywords: Green Business; Sustainability; Business History; Eco-tourism; Organic Wine; Organic Food; Waste Management; Sustainable Finance; Ethics; Finance; History; Entrepreneurship; Accommodations Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Energy Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Europe; Asia; Latin America; North and Central America; New Zealand
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    • January 2015
    • Supplement

    Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards. An Interview with Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley

    By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
    In 2011, Telecom, the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies. In connection with this split, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley worked with the chairman of Telecom, Wayne Boyd, to create two new boards of directors for... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Women's Empowerment; Governance; Leadership; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Human Resources; Diversity; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand
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    • 05 Nov 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

    Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
    • Working Paper

    The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-Enabled Entrepreneurship

    By: Innessa Colaiacovo, Daniel P. Gross and Jorge Guzman
    Using data on nearly all U.S. business registrations since the turn of the twentieth century, and a set of 386 major technologies invented over this period, we study the level, composition, and dynamics of entrepreneurial activity around new technology. We find a... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Technology Industry
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    • November 2007
    • Case

    The 1995 Release of the Institutional Investor Research Report: The Impact of New Information

    By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Derek Haas
    In 1995, Institutional Investor magazine began selling a complete ranking of the best equity research analysts. This report allowed research firms to assess the relative quality of each analyst across the industry, and this enabled firms to know nearly as much about... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Investment Banking; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry
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    • June 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Komatsu and Smart Construction

    By: David J. Collis
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-042. The case describes the introduction by Komatsu, the Japanese earth moving equipment manufacturer, of a new business model—Smart Construction. This replaces the one-time sale of a capital good with a software platform that... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption; Construction Industry
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Tort Reform and Innovation

    By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
    Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that the... View Details
    Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • January 1999
    • Case

    Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
    The last in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the various outcomes of the partnership called Project Explore, from the perspective of Bell Atlantic managers and... View Details
    Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Outcome or Result; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; New Jersey
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    • November 2006 (Revised November 2007)
    • Case

    Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.

    By: David J. Collis and Troy Smith
    The global pharmaceutical industry has gone through substantial changes in the last few decades and pharmaceutical firms face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • 05 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

    • May 2014
    • Article

    Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

    By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell
    We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find... View Details
    Keywords: Women; Female; Political Reservations; Development; Informal Sector; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; India; South Asia
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