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  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on the Danish words for "play well" (and, as it... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

UFIDA (F) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Guo Jia
As an extension of UFIDA (A-E), UFIDA (F), using early 2012 as the time node, looks at UFIDA's major steps taken during 2010-2011, accomplishments, and major future opportunities and challenges. The case focuses on the new market development of Cloud Computing and... View Details
Keywords: China; Strategy; China
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    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

    • Research Summary

    Time Varying Expected Returns, Stochastic Dividend Yields, and Default Probabilities: Linking the Credit Risk and Equity Literature (with George Chacko and Jens Hilscher)

    In standard structural bond pricing models, the firm defaults once the market value of assets has fallen below a threshold. Expected returns, or at least dividend yields, are assumed to be constant, which implies that any asset value movement is permanent and has the... View Details
    • 23 Nov 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

    Keywords: by Ufuk Akcigit & William R. Kerr; Technology
    • 21 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

    continued after experiencing same market/same technology competitor failure news enjoy a better success rate than continuing projects that did not experience such news," Krieger says. "That implies... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • August 2019 (Revised March 2022)
    • Case

    Lemonade: Disrupting Insurance with Instant Everything, Killer Prices, and a Big Heart

    By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan
    Launching its first products in the fall of 2016 in New York, insurtech startup Lemonade was on a mission to disrupt the insurance market by using AI and behavioral economics principles. The company offered renters, homeowners, and condo insurance and mainly targeted... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Business Startups; Insurance; Technological Innovation; Business Model; Disruption; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Decision Making; Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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    • February 2024
    • Article

    Archetypes of Product Launch by Insiders, Outsiders, and Visionaries

    By: Shane Greenstein
    What archetypes emerge from prominent episodes of product launches? This essay examines a set of episodes in information technology history that led to significant changes in industry leadership. It highlights that, in all of these instances, there is an example of a... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Leadership; Market Entry and Exit
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    • 24 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

    as do those who narrowly focus on short-term financial gain. In the excerpt below, Jensen describes a new scorecard to help business leaders and managers keep pace. A firm cannot maximize value, Jensen writes, if it ignores the interests... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
    • 04 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Meet the HBS Tech Club

    At HBS, the Tech Club aims to educate the community on the latest technology trends and skills, to facilitate recruiting opportunities, and to foster social and professional networking within HBS, greater Harvard, and the Boston area. The... View Details
    • 17 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

    Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. Bradley and coauthor Nancy Bartlett are in the midst of writing a book looking at how broadband technologies are reshaping industries. We asked him to take a few minutes to talk about the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
    • April 2021
    • Teaching Note

    GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In June 2020, after ten years of effort, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) demonstrated its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™. While conventional geothermal electricity only supplied 0.5% of US demand, the new technology promised to increase this... View Details
    Keywords: Green Energy; Geothermal; Entrepreneur; Renewables; Geothermal Electricity; Green Technology; Renewable Energy; Energy Generation; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Commercialization
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    • 27 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

    It’s the new way of comparison shopping in the age of large language models (LLM): Tapping into AI-driven search engines for research and advice on which products to buy. But can consumers trust the recommendations to be impartial? View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology
    • 09 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

    is whether the business can afford to spend the required resources—especially when it means siphoning time and attention away from an existing successful business. "When you open a new operation, it... 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,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 11 Jun 2007
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

    You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
    • Research Summary

    The Process of Managing Business Transformation

    By: Richard L. Nolan
    Richard L. Nolan is examining the process of business transformation, which he characterizes as the creative destruction of industrial economy management principles and the evolution of a set of workable management principles for the information economy. According to... View Details

      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
      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

      By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
      Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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      • August 2022 (Revised October 2023)
      • Case

      Bajaj Finance: Building an Omnipresent Financial Services Firm

      By: Das Narayandas and Rachna Tahilyani
      Bajaj Finance, India’s largest consumer finance firm with $20.9 billion of assets across 50.5 million customers, is on a journey to transform itself from a traditional firm that sells loans and other financial products through brick-and-mortar outlets to an omnipresent... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Institutions; Transformation; Financial Instruments; Customer Satisfaction; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; India
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