Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (630) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 6 of 630 Results →
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • News

Best Buy 3.0? The big box reinvented

  • 13 Jun 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors Tiberius and Claudius? All Roads Lead to Rome, a one-off elective course team-taught by HBS professor Frances Frei and Harvard history and classics professor Emma Dench, juxtaposed ancient texts... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna

    William C. Kirby

    William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; wine
    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

    Wall Street to 5th Avenue Girard’s journey to launching The Sixes, a fashion brand designed specifically for tall women, may have started way back in elementary school, but the road to launching the business took many twists and turns. “I... View Details
    • 22 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

    Nneka Chime’s (MBA 2015) career path offers an alternative road map for HBS students and alumni seeking to make a difference in the world. While seeking, she aligned her professional choices with a larger mission rather than following a... View Details
    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

    Wall Street to 5th Avenue Girard’s journey to launching The Sixes, a fashion brand designed specifically for tall women, may have started way back in elementary school, but the road to launching the business took many twists and turns. “I... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
    • 06 Nov 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

    leaking out of the company" (Armstrong 1993). The committee focused on two options: (1) to begin aggressively litigating those who try to leave with new technologies and (2) to invest in people trying to leave Xerox. Owing to... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
    • 2018
    • Book

    The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

    By: Amy C. Edmondson
    The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation,... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Knowledge Economy; Teaming; Management; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Management; Learning
    Related
    • November 2022 (Revised April 2023)
    • Supplement

    HTC and Virtual Reality (B)

    By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
    In April 2023, Cher Wang, CEO and Chairwoman of HTC, reflected on her time as a leader in the virtual reality industry from her office high above Taoyuan City, Taiwan. It had been a roller coaster ride of new product introductions and unexpected challenges for HTC and... View Details
    Keywords: VR; Virtual Reality; Strategy; Metaverse; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Technology Industry; Taiwan; China; United States
    Related
    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

    innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • August 2019
    • Case

    Kazakhstan Railways: From the Middle of Nowhere to a Center of Trade?

    By: Willy Shih and Esel Çekin
    This case describes the evolution of Kazakhstan's rail connectivity strategy post-collapse of the Soviet Union and its now central role in China's Belt and Road Initiative. This meant shifting from a north-south orientation towards an east-west one, as well as the... View Details
    Keywords: Geopolitics; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Logistics; Trade; Economic Growth; Geopolitical Units; Geography; Rail Transportation; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; China
    Related
    • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 02 May 2017
    • Webinars: Career

    Finding Your Fit: The 6 Essential Elements You Need to Thrive at Work

    Research shows that only 30 percent of Americans, and an even lower percentage of employees around the world, strongly agree that they have a chance to do what they do best every day at work. There is much talk about organizational culture, authenticity and well-being,... View Details
    • 12 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

    When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map.... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Technology; Nonprofit / Government
    • 28 Apr 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

    When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map.... View Details

      Krishna G. Palepu

      KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; banking; financial services; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing
      • January 2023 (Revised December 2023)
      • Case

      OhmConnect: Energizing the Future

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
      Founded in 2013, OhmConnect was a free consumer web app that alerted customers about peak hours of electricity demand, and paid them to lower their energy use at home during these periods. The company sold the aggregated reductions generated by thousands of households... View Details
      Keywords: App Development; Renewable Energy; Electricity Usage; Regulations; VC; Technology; Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC); Scalability; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business Model; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; California; Texas; Europe
      Related
      • 23 Jun 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: June 23, 2015

      Experimentation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—The fundamental uncertainty of new technologies at their earliest stages implies that it is virtually impossible to know the true potential of a venture without learning... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • April 2002
      • Case

      In vivo to in vitro to in silico: Coping with Tidal Waves of Data at Biogen

      By: Juan Enriquez-Cabot, Gary P. Pisano and Gaye Bok
      Biogen is a successful biotech company facing a critical juncture. CEO John Mullen ponders how technological changes introduced into the research function will shape larger corporate decisions. This world in which biotechnology companies operated had changed... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Decisions; Product Development; Research and Development; Expansion; Technology; Biotechnology Industry
      Related
      • 02 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      10 Trends to Watch in 2024

      The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 18 Oct 2016
      • First Look

      October 18, 2016

      2016 New York: HarperBusiness Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice By: Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne