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  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

217-082 Cambridge Franchise Partners Two partners commence a rollup in the quick-service restaurant segment. They focus on operating improvements and spinning-off real estate. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2008
  • News

The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

the additional risk and legwork involved in making an independent film can pay off in creative control over the final product—even after a studio accepts a film for marketing and distribution, executives can’t demand that the ending a film be changed at a View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • News

JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity

more tangible, meaningful way.” The release notes that the firm’s commitment will focus on promoting and expanding affordable housing and homeownership for underserved communities; growing Black- and Latinx-owned businesses; improving... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • News

Pathfinder

adapt to a lower growth environment and still perform well, to improve productivity, to take on the digital challenges in their specific business and industry, and to build and strengthen their organizations.” Doing that work requires a partnership culture, Lesser... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Action Plan: Role-Play

When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting
  • February 2016 (Revised August 2016)
  • Case

Chilli Beans: Peace, Love, and Sunglasses

By: José B. Alvarez, Robert Mackalski and Andrew Otazo
This case illustrates how Chilli Beans became the most popular sunglasses retailer in Brazil and the issues it faced when expanding into the United States. View Details
Keywords: Sunglasses; Brazil; Sao Paulo; Chilli Beans; Watches; Fast Fashion; Supply Chain; Retail; Franchise; International Expansion; Culture; Middle Class; Fashion; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Design; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Goods and Commodities; Leadership; Marketing; Operations; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Brazil; China
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

Business schools have sometimes taught that shareholder-value maximization is the holy grail, the sole proper focus of corporate managements. So I ask, should managements be focused solely on a company’s share price, which itself is... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the company's different View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

U.S. Multinational Firm Activity Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

toward gunfire, where they certainly would be needed. Southwest Airlines famously provides structure to staff built on culture and an aligned operating model. In the field, staff members know what levers they can pull to respond to... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
  • November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

PureCircle

By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In December 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that high-purity Rebaudioside A (Reb A), a natural and calorie-free product that a young company named PureCircle manufactured from the Stevia plant, could be used in beverages, foods, and as a... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Investment; Globalization; Leadership; Risk Management; Product Launch; Production; Performance Productivity; Business and Shareholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

areas of focus to help move the needle on climate action.   The initiative is especially active on the curriculum front through facilitating the development of innovative cases, teaching notes, and other materials, both for use in the HBS... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract more hosts, and vice versa—and... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

ago," he said. Sean Dalton (HBS MBA '98), general partner at Highland Capital, said that dire predictions for VC were nothing new. Rather than worrying about the flow of capital into and out of the industry, however, he counseled a simple, head-down approach:... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Summit Sound Bites

Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc.; Founder, HBS Social Enterprise Initiative “Focus has always been Job One in my success. Globalization goes against that. International operations can create a real lack of View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business became more and more competitive, GTCR decided to View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

see some of the traditional historic sites and provided a unique perspective on business issues. Our alumni had the opportunity, while in China, to participate in three case studies and to visit joint ventures between Western companies and their Chinese partners and... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?

high-level management in top-tier organizations and are able to use their MBA skills immediately to tackle projects with far-reaching, measurable outcomes.    Launched in 2001, the Leadership Fellows program has placed 190 Fellows with 77 organizations, with a View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government