Publications

March 2006
Module Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 3: Expanding Diversity

By: Alan D. MacCormack

Describes the third module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Projects; Risk and Uncertainty; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Opportunities; Perspective; Expansion; Goals and Objectives

13 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

various leaders and staff members to unpack the systemic barriers to their growth and create an actionable framework to support their expansion in the low-income and mixed affordable housing space. Learning about racial injustice in a... View Details

Web

Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog

parallel with the classroom sessions. You will learn how to book appointments, run the first sales meeting, demonstrate your product and service, close large complex deals, and run renewal and expansion calls. In addition to the course... View Details

March 2023 (Revised August 2023)
Case

Majid Al Futtaim: Adapting the Shopping Mall to the Digital Era

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in August 2022, as Ahmed Galal Ismail, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Properties and Fatima Zada, digital and omnichannel director at Majid Al Futtaim Shopping Malls, go over the plans to roll out the omnichannel mall offering for the Mall of the Emirates they... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; United Arab Emirates

March 2015 (Revised September 2016)
Case

Terrapin Laboratory

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Joseph B. Fuller

Describes the formation and rapid growth of a drug testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. The associated teaching materials provide students the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategy; Market Entry; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Expansion; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry

February 2014 (Revised August 2014)
Case

The Michelin Restaurant Guide: Charting a New Course

By: Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi and Jerome Lenhardt

Created in 1900 by the tire manufacturer Michelin, the Michelin Restaurant Guide was widely considered the international benchmark of food rating, and, by 2013, boasted paper editions in 23 countries, and had recently expanded to the United States and Asia. Paper sales... View Details

January 2011
Supplement

Vodafone in Japan (C)

By: Juan Alcacer, Mary Furey and Mayuka Yamazaki

An update to Vodafone cases A and B, describing Softbank's acquisition of Vodafone and its performance in Japan. View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Knowledge Acquisition; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Adaptation; Diversification; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; Japan

Keywords: NGO; Development

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Harvard Business School Supplement 807-030 No abstract available. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807030 Lightspeed Venture Partners—International Expansion Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Diane Esber

region's incredibly expansive growth." Additional activities have included the annual Marketing Conference, the Middle East/North Africa Conference and the technology-oriented Cyberposium 13. Managing technology Dianne's summer... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

workforce from 50,000 to 5,500 employees and the sale of all of its non-oil-related assets. By the end of this eighteen-month phase, two-thirds of the company was sold. In Stage II, YPF took advantage of expansion opportunities by... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

into account in-season coaching changes, strike-shortened seasons, league expansions and reorganizations, the introduction of a salary cap, drag on team performance due to divisional rivalries, player-selection skew due to a team’s draft... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

possibilities and for spreading the risk on those selected. Does this not furnish a sound business basis for trying new methods of applying development capital? We cannot depend safely for an indefinite time on the expansion of our old... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

business to fund an aggressive expansion into the premium wine business. Cross-subsidization (beer to wine in this case) only makes sense if there are sizeable scope economies. Without them, cross-subsidization does not prove optimal,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

“After 66 countries, I’m a firm believer in the Visited app, which allows you to easily plot and plan the expansion of your horizons.” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Kwame Jackson (MBA 2000), speaker, entrepreneur, and consultant MUST... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

are not opposed to international expansion if that’s where the wealth is,” Blank said, “but this deal gives us concerns and we may be blinded by the good price.” “I think you’ve made a really clear case,” said Dewey. With the business... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

a search in the context of a single well-known case: the Federal Radio Commission's (FRC) 1927 decision not to expand the broadcast radio band. The standard account of this decision holds that incumbent broadcasters opposed expansion (to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2015 (Revised December 2015)
Case

Mauboussin

By: Anat Keinan, Sandrine Crener and Audrey Azoulay

Mauboussin is a French jewelry brand founded in 1827 in Paris. In the 1920s, the company earned a huge notoriety for capturing the aesthetic and emotional dimension of the Art Deco movement in its design and gained a worldwide reputation for innovation and expertise in... View Details

January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Grupo Bimbo: Growth and Social Responsibility

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Regina Garcia-Cuellar

Bimbo, headquartered in Mexico with 2008 sales of $7 billion, was one of the largest bakery companies in the world. Even as it had grown spectacularly in the last several decades, the company had earned a stellar reputation for its corporate social responsibility... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Reputation; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico