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  • August 2023
  • Case

Quotient

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Matt Higgins
The founders of Quotient, a web-based service for onboarding new engineers, face decisions about how to bring their nascent product to market amidst a tech sector contraction. View Details
Keywords: Engineers; Entrepreneurial Management; Growth; Go-to-market; Product Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Strategy; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
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  • February 2024
  • Article

Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence

By: Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, Frank Yang and Ali Yurukoglu
Existing theories of media competition imply that advertisers will pay a lower price in equilibrium to reach consumers who multi-home across competing outlets. We generalize, extend, and test this prediction. We find that television outlets whose viewers watch more... View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Advertising; Residency; Social Media; Price; Media; Age
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  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda; Computer
  • March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Sealed Air Corporation: Globalization and Corporate Culture (A) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Karen Wruck
Sealed Air Corp.'s CEO and COO are considering what approach they should take to building a seamless corporate culture worldwide. Anticipating continuing growth and expansion, especially outside the United States, they are concerned with preserving and promoting the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Leadership; United States; Europe; Asia
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  • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

pymetrics: International Expansion

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychodynamics; Psychology; Hiring Of Employees; Hiring; Strategic Evolution; Strategy And Execution; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Entrepreneur; Bias; Rapid Growth Stage; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Strategy; Business Startups; Employment; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy
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  • 22 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no recession has materialized. Part... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

    Patent Trolls: Evidence and Proposed Solutions

     

    The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling • SCIENCE • VIDEO

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    • September 2018
    • Case

    Verisk: Trailblazing in the Big Data Jungle

    By: Andrew Wasynczuk, Francesca Gino and Karim Sameh
    This case revolves around Verisk Analytics' initiatives to drive innovation throughout the firm's many business verticals. Verisk, originally named ISO, started life as an insurance rating agency in the early 1970s, acting as an intermediary between insurance companies... View Details
    Keywords: Verisk; Argus; Wood Mackenzie; Insurance; Energy; Analytics; Data; Big Data; Acquisitions; Acquisition Strategy; Innovation; Organic Growth; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Analytics and Data Science; Insurance Industry; Energy Industry; Consulting Industry; United States; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); England
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    • February 2011
    • Module Note

    Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization

    By: Diego A. Comin
    Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization is one of the core modules in Business Government and the International Economy (BGIE), a course for the required curriculum of the Harvard Business School. BGIE teaches the economic, political and historical... View Details
    Keywords: Fluctuation; Business Cycles; Trade; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Capital; Cash Flow; Globalization; Problems and Challenges; China
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    • June 2011 (Revised August 2012)
    • Case

    Coca-Cola in 2011: In Search of a New Model

    By: David B. Yoffie and Renee Kim
    Muhtar Kent, CEO of the Coca-Cola Company, faced a critical decision in 2011 after closing a $12 billion deal to buy its troubled North America bottling operations from its biggest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises. The decision was prompted by several changes in the U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Beverage Industry; Strategic Positioning; Mergers And Acquisitions; Competition; Business Model; Vertical Integration; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Franchise Ownership; Investment; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 01 Jun 2009
    • News

    Crisis and Creativity

    from People magazine to CNN, happened during downturns, as did the growth of cosmetic companies such as Estée Lauder and Revlon. How to Deliver. A common outcome of downturns is an abundance of underutilized... View Details
    Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
    • November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
    • Case

    Nicole M. Jones and The Hangar℠: Delta Air Lines' Global Innovation Center

    By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
    In 2016, Nicole M. Jones was hired to lead The Hangar, Delta Air Lines’ new innovation center in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta’s leadership had intended for The Hangar to catalyze a new approach to innovation at the company. After conducting three months of research on... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Lab; Breakthrough Innovation; Biometric Technology; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Georgia (state, US)
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    • Web

    CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    philanthropy or corporate social responsibility. csv = social value + economic value Creating shared value is addressing societal needs and challenges with a business model. csv will drive innovation & View Details
    • 2012
    • Book

    The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

    By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
    While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Economic Growth; Research and Development
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    • July 2022 (Revised January 2023)
    • Case

    Vicky Tsai and Tatcha: Confronting Stereotypes

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Veronica Tong
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 323-007. This case examines the career of Vicky Tsai, the creator of San Francisco-based TATCHA, a Japanese-themed luxury beauty brand launched in 2009. It explores how Tsai developed the concept, assembled management, and successfully... View Details
    Keywords: Cosmetics Industry; Japan; Startup; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Product Development; Product Marketing; Acquisition; Identity; Brands and Branding; Ethnicity; Gender; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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    • Article

    CDS Trading and Nonrelationship Lending Dynamics

    By: Jung Koo Kang, Christopher Williams and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
    We investigate how credit default swaps (CDSs) affect lenders’ incentives to initiate new lending relationships. We predict that CDSs reduce adverse selection that nonrelationship lead arrangers face when competing for loans. Consistently, we find that a loan is... View Details
    Keywords: Credit Default Swaps; CDS Market; Non-relationship Lending; Debt Contracts; Adverse Selection; Lending Monitoring; Cross-selling
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    • May 2025
    • Case

    The Micro-Family Office: Aamir Rehman

    By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
    With a successful career and strong academic credentials, Aamir Rehman sought to design a life grounded in autonomy. For him, this meant serving on boards, continuing his professorship, and ensuring a secure and comfortable life for his family. While he didn’t possess... View Details
    Keywords: Family Office; Organization Design; Family And Friends; Family; Balance; Stability; Trends And Opportunities; Wealth Management; Family Business; Investment; Financial Strategy; Personal Finance; Investment Portfolio; Private Equity; Organizational Design; Family and Family Relationships; Happiness; Satisfaction; Balance and Stability; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Economy; Trends; Business Model; New Jersey; United States
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets

    By: Ishita Sen, Pari Sastry and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
    This paper studies how homeowners insurance markets respond to growing climate losses and how this impacts mortgage market dynamics. Using Florida as a case study, we show that traditional insurers are exiting high risk areas, and new lower quality insurers are... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Natural Disasters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance Industry; Florida
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    • November 2016
    • Supplement

    Uber in China: Driving in the Gray Zone (B)

    By: William C. Kirby, Yuanzhuo Wang, Shuang L. Frost and Adam K. Frost
    Starting in 2014, for two years Uber had fought an intense, costly battle for China’s ridesharing market with well-financed and well-connected domestic Chinese competitors. During this time, Uber also had to respond to an ever-shifting regulatory landscape that looked... View Details
    Keywords: China; Uber; Didi Chuxing; Start-up Growth; Regulation; Ride-sharing; Transportation; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; China
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