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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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  • 27 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch is debuting a blog on marketing issues at Harvard Business Online. HBS Working Knowledge is reprinting his first entry, which looks at the Mattel toy... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
  • June 2012 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

MF Global: Changing Stripes

By: Clayton Rose, Yasmin Dahya and Jenevieve Lee
Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. Eighteen months later, and in the wake of a massive trade in European sovereign debt, the firm filed for bankruptcy, the 8th largest in U.S. history. As the firm failed it was discovered that over $1.6 billion... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; Governance; Bankruptcy; Financial Firms; Financial Crisis; Brokerage; Asset Management; Sovereign Finance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Trade; Business Model
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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

    • December 2021
    • Case

    Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Klopfenstein
    In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his company’s transition from data company to product company. Burning Glass originated as a service that used artificial... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Expansion; Business Strategy; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Search; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Model; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

    By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr
    We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the... View Details
    Keywords: Entry; Growth; Industrial Policy; Innovation; R＆D; Reallocation; Selection; Business Ventures; Resource Allocation; Performance Productivity; Policy; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development; United States
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    • February 28, 2020
    • Article

    How Tesla Sets Itself Apart

    By: Lou Shipley
    Tesla and its flamboyant, and sometimes erratic, innovator Elon Musk have turned the more than a century old industry upside down in a mere 16 years. Traditional automakers are ill prepared to compete in today’s software-centered world. Unlike nimble Tesla, they are... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Transportation; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Disruption; Auto Industry
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    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

    building and well-being. The fellowship’s unique model provides funding for one graduating student to join an organization dedicated to creating local financial and business opportunities. The RISE Career... View Details
    • November 2022
    • Case

    Goonj: Growing in the Face of a Pandemic

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Priyank Narayan
    Founded by the husband and wife team of Anshu and Meenakshi Gupta in 1999, Goonj had quickly emerged as one of the leading disaster relief and rural development organizations in India. Their main mode of development was through providing a clothing kit to the village... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Management; Family Business; Natural Disasters; Social Issues; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business and Community Relations; Strategy; India
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      Price Bargaining and Competition in Online Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Deal Market

      The prevalence of online platforms opens new doors to traditional businesses for customer reach and revenue growth. This research investigates platform competition in a setting where prices are determined by negotiations between platforms and businesses. We compile a... View Details
      • April 2015
      • Teaching Plan

      Codecademy: Monetizing a Movement?

      By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Lisa Mazzanti
      This is a Teaching Plan for the case on Codecademy, an open-platform, online community for learning computer programming, launched in 2011. By 2014, the company had raised a total of $12.5 million in funding and was, on many fronts, an overwhelming success. However,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Open Source Distribution; Social Entrepreneurship; Education
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      • July 2022 (Revised October 2024)
      • Case

      3G Capital

      By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
      In June 2022, 3G Capital Co-Managing Partners Alex Behring and Daniel Schwartz were in a partners’ meeting. On the agenda were three potential investments. Code named “Alpha,” “Bravo,” and “Charlie” (real target companies that have been disguised), they were the... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Decisions; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts
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      • July 2004 (Revised December 2004)
      • Case

      RelayHealth

      By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
      RelayHealth provides secure, online communications for doctors, patients, and health plans. The company's services include online consultations, prescription renewals, and appointment scheduling. RelayHealth's business model derives subscription revenue from doctors... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Technology; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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      • September 2018
      • Case

      Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE Appliances

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
      Chinese appliance company Haier's 2016 acquisition of iconic GE Appliances (GEA) ushered in strategic and structural changes to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the U.S. company and to help it grow. Haier, which had a model designed to bring the company... View Details
      Keywords: Iconic Brands; Appliances; Digital; Innovation; Entrepreneur; Microenterprise; Management; Entrepreneurship; Transformation; Innovation and Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China
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      • 12 PM – 1:15 PM EDT, 14 Apr 2021
      • Virtual Programming

      Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce

      Professor?Bill Sahlman?will discuss his new case, Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for Americas Workforce, with CEO and cofounder?Rachel Carlson. Guild connects employers and universities to provide employees with education as a benefit, transforming traditional... View Details
      • 15 Jul 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

      Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key provision of the new health care law for fear its requirements... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
      • December 2019 (Revised November 2021)
      • Course Overview Note

      The Entrepreneurial Manager: Spring 2022

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Benjamin Henkes
      This is the course overview note for “The Entrepreneurial Manager,” taught in the first year at Harvard Business School. Students will learn how to be opportunity-driven managers and how to lead under uncertainty. They'll learn how to identify opportunities, how to... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Management
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      • 2009
      • Case

      What People Want (and How to Predict It)

      By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
      Historically, neither the creators nor the distributors of cultural products such as books or movies have used analytics -- data, statistics, predictive modeling -- to determine the likely success of their offerings. Instead, companies relied on the brilliance of... View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Creativity; Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Markets; Business Model; Publishing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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      • Research Summary

      The Individualized Corporation

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Christopher A. Bartlett has recently concluded (with Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School) a study of changing organizational processes and management roles in twenty diverse companies in various stages of corporate transformation. The research is expected... View Details
      • April 2006 (Revised April 2020)
      • Case

      "The Case of Leadership Inertia"

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      The CEO of an international bank has raised the bank's performance by emphasizing a new culture of leadership that empowers people at all levels. Managers are rated both on their business results and their leadership—how they model new behaviors—but 12 senior managers... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Performance Evaluation; Employee Relationship Management
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