Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (6,105) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (6,105) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 63 of 6,105 Results →
  • 22 Jul 2021
  • News

Three Keys to Unlock Lasting DEI Change in Organizations

  • 16 Jan 2020
  • News

How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems

  • 02 Apr 2019
  • News

The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

  • 28 Jun 2018
  • Video

Improving Health Care Through Research

  • February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang
In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details
Keywords: Timing; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Business Model; Organizational Design; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; United States; Canada; China
Related

    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • Program

    Building a Legacy

    solutions to your wealth management challenges Develop an action plan for initiating an intergenerational transfer Implement best practices for separating operating assets and family office assets Make key hires or use outsourcing to... View Details
    • 26 Aug 2009
    • Op-Ed

    Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

    and Chrysler are using taxpayer bailout money to advance dealers the refund money they are waiting for from the U.S. government! In the end, administration expenses might well reach 10 percent of total program costs. The Federal government should not be in the business... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto
    • January 2024
    • Case

    Post-Wirecard: BaFin under Mark Branson

    By: Jonas Heese, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    In November 2023, Mark Branson, the head of Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), reflected on the efficacy of the reforms initiated since the Wirecard scandal. BaFin had been discredited after Wirecard’s downfall in 2020. The press had derided it... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Failure; Trust; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; Germany
    Related
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry

    By: DG Park, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
    We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the interactive media and services industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact... View Details
    Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Media; Technology Industry
    Related
    • September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
    • Supplement

    Keroche (D): Transforming the Core Business

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
    This case describes Keroche co-founder Tabitha Karanja’s decision to exit the wine business following the Kenyan government’s 2007 increase in excise taxes on wine. In August 2007, Keroche introduced the vodka drink Viena Ice as a replacement for its fortified wines,... View Details
    Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Beverages; Alcoholic Drinks; Beverages; Drinks; Wine Industry; Wine; Fortified Wine; Viena; Viena Ice; Beer; Beer Market; Premium Beer; Manufacturing; Summit Lager; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
    Related
    • 23 Jan 2018
    • Video

    Dr. Marlene Krauss: Health Care Visionary

    • December 2001 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: The Conoco Split-off (A)

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan
    After taking 30% of its Conoco oil and gas subsidiary public in the largest domestic initial public offering (IPO) in U.S. history, management of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) is considering divesting its remaining interest in Conoco. This goal is to be... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Non-Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Assets; Initial Public Offering; Business and Shareholder Relations; Diversification; Value; Chemical Industry; United States
    Related
    • 24 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

    these extremes. Moreover, obtaining strategic value from principles-based guidelines requires attention to the business itself. Values and principles may be invoked to shape approaches, but a "business case" is also important. To be strategic, an View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • Web

    Hiring Organizations

    Benchstrength Berkeley Research Group LLC Berkshire Partners BHP Biogen BJ's Wholesale Club Blackhorn Ventures BlackRock Blackstone Blank Street Blitzy AI Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership View Details
    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    companies that have so much capital find these initiatives to be so costly? And why do the small entrants with much less capital find them to be straightforward? The answer lies in their approach to marginal versus full costs. Every time... View Details
    • January–February 2022
    • Article

    Operational Disruptions, Firm Risk, and Control Systems

    By: William Schmidt and Ananth Raman
    Operational disruptions can impact a firm's risk, which manifests in a host of operational issues, including a higher holding cost for inventory, a higher financing cost for capacity expansion, and a higher perception of the firm's risk among its supply chain partners.... View Details
    Keywords: Operational Risk; Operational Disruptions; Information Asymmetry; Control Systems; Operations; Disruption; Risk Management
    Related
    • February 2012 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis Yao, Britta Kelley and Lizzie Gomez
    In response to growing concern about childhood obesity, in February 2006 the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) announced an initiative to examine its self-regulatory program on children's advertising. The existing program was a voluntary cross-industry program... View Details
    Keywords: Food; Advertising; Ethics; Food and Beverage Industry
    Related
    • June 2025
    • Supplement

    Transforming a Titan (B)

    By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
    After a global search the board appoints Marcel Cobuz—ex-LafargeHolcim executive with deep innovation experience—as TITAN’s first non-family CEO. Cobuz co-creates a four-pillar roadmap: sharpen the core cement portfolio, accelerate low-carbon products and aggregates,... View Details
    Keywords: CEO Succession; CEO Role; Family Business; AI and Machine Learning; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Selection and Staffing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy
    Related
    • Article

    Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

    By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano and Pian Shu
    Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Production; Trade; Competition; Innovation and Invention; United States
    Related