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  • September 2009 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (A)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Faaiza Rashid
Describes Autodesk's engagement in Integrated Project Delivery—a new model of risk management, inter-firm teamwork, and multi-objective (aesthetic, cost, and sustainability) optimization in building projects. In 2008, Autodesk, Inc., the world's largest design software... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Design; Risk Management; Business Processes; Projects; Groups and Teams; Partners and Partnerships; Cooperation; Construction Industry; Service Industry
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  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

article, “Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence-Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting,” is co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Karim R. Lakhani and seven colleagues with expertise in radiation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • May 2010 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Data.gov

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi
This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to rapidly develop the website and to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Management; Information Management; Public Administration Industry; Information Industry; United States
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  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

more granular control over what they share and with whom. According to studies, however, very few users have changed their privacy settings, and those who do often end up sharing more data by opening up some... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • 11 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

In early May, I embarked on a journey to Seoul, South Korea, accompanied by 70 fellow Harvard Business School classmates. Our purpose? To culminate our first-year studies through the FIELD Global Immersion program. Throughout this... View Details
  • December 2014 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Hanoch Feit, Edward A. Minasian and Brandon Van Buren
In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
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  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

a piece of intellectual property that was designed purposely to be co-opted by others wishing to incorporate it into their advertising. Organizations such as Apple, Gap, and American Express have promoted... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • October 2011
  • Case

Levendary Cafe: The China Challenge

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Arar Han
Just weeks into her new job, Mia Foster, a first time CEO with no international management experience, is faced with a major challenge at Levendary Cafe, a $10 billion US-based fast food chain. Strategically, many of her corporate staff have become concerned that the... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; International Management; Foreign Subsidiaries; General Managers; Strategy; Management Style; Strategic Planning; Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Adaptation; Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Standards; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China; United States
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  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

store," he said. As the first conference in what is planned to be an annual event, the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3 was organized by two HBS student clubs, the Retail & Apparel Club and the Luxury Goods &... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail
  • 25 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

user community is a great example of how a company can gain competitive advantage by tapping into its user community. LEGO allows its users to create their own designs and share them with other users. They... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost

    Frank Nagle

    Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

    • November 2005
    • Case

    Inventec Corporation

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Ingrid Vargas
    Inventec Corp., with $4.5 billion in annual revenues, was one of Taiwan's leading original design manufacturers (ODMs). Inventec designed and manufactured electronic products such as computers, servers, MP3 players, PDAs, and cellular telephones for client companies... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; China; India
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    • 17 Nov 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Up on the Corner

    six-story, mixed-use building will soon rise above the dirt and gravel. The ground floor will feature an Afrocentric bookstore-café where customers can peruse books by African authors while sipping hibiscus tea and baobab juice. (Dlodlo,... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate
    • 07 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

    through a few months, when normalcy would resume. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—government-funded forgivable loans designed to help businesses pay their employees—would help them weather the storm. Six months later, there’s still... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
    • 05 Mar 2019
    • Blog Post

    HBS Interns: Making an Impact

    Internships by design are just ten to twelve weeks, but the impact that HBS students can make in that time can influence an organizations' success long-term. Learn about the projects that students worked on... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail
    • 12 Jun 2017
    • Video

    The Fusion of Management and Technology

    • 19 Mar 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

    iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
    • 19 Dec 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Public Education Goes to School

    task, but one necessary for achieving high performance. The design and implementation tasks are complicated by the fact that schools across large districts have wide variation not only in performance, but... View Details
    Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
    • January 2017
    • Case

    TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme

    By: William R. Kerr, Danielle Li, Mathis Wagner and Alexis Brownell
    TalentCorp Malaysia runs the "Returning Expert Programme" (REP), a government program designed to encourage Malaysian professionals abroad to return home through use of various incentives. The REP is intended to combat the "brain drain," caused by highly educated... View Details
    Keywords: Malaysia; Diaspora; Brain Drain; Migration; Diasporas; Government and Politics; Immigration; Human Capital; Programs; Malaysia
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