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  • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Company History; Family Business; Transformation; Volatility; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cash Flow; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Travel Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Utah
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  • October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Rock Health

By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
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  • June 2011
  • Article

Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Djorjiji Petkoski
The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their constituencies' well-being. To do that effectively, you must understand the nuances of people's daily lives, say... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Human Needs; Income; Poverty; Profit; Relationships; Economics; Segmentation
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    Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Estée Lauder, Chanel, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us.... View Details

    • June 2010
    • Case

    Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)

    By: Anette Mikes
    An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Canada
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis

    By: Joseph E. Aldy, Forest Reinhardt and Robert N. Stavins
    There is growing recognition of the relative importance of anthropogenic emissions of methane as a contributor to global climate change. An important source of such emissions in some countries, including the United States, is the oil and gas (O&G) sector. This points... View Details
    Keywords: Emission Reduction; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Pollutants; Energy Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Mattias E. Fibiger
    Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

    Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
    • November 2020
    • Case

    Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • May 2014
    • Case

    Building a High Performance Culture at IDFC

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Vidhya Muthuram
    IDFC was set up in 1997 to direct private finance to infrastructure projects in India. Over the years, it expanded its capabilities to become a 'complete solutions provider' offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage and asset... View Details
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    • 2012
    • Article

    Organization Design for Business Ecosystems

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

    The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are... View Details

    Keywords: Modularity; Business Ecosystems; Distributed Innovation; Problem Solving; Property Rights; Organization Design; Networks; Integration; Competition; Organizational Design; Innovation and Management
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others

    By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
    This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Behavior
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    • 16 May 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Jared Curhan, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • 6 PM – 7:15 PM EST, 28 Feb 2022
    • Virtual Programming

    A Blessing and Little Black Library at Harvard Business School presents a virtual author chat to celebrate Black History Month

    HBSs iconic Baker Library is the largest business library in the worldand its collection expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time in its 95-year history, Baker brought in non-business books, over 170 titles (to date) organized by Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA... View Details
    • 30 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

    Patients and physicians increasingly turned to digital platforms, like patient portal messaging, when COVID-19 made contact risky, but a new study of how providers managed the messaging surge suggests an uncomfortable downside: What if the color of a patient’s skin... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
    • Web

    Being on Boards - Alumni

    Careers Being on Boards Careers Being on Boards Resources for joining your first board, finding additional board roles, increasing effectiveness as a board member, and finding qualified, diverse candidates for your board seats. Becoming a... View Details
    • 25 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Collaborating Across Cultures

    doubt that the confluence of diverse cultures can create opportunities for innovation—think of the Crusades and the Renaissance, or of Japan revolutionizing the auto industry. "To the extent that creativity is about the recombination of... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 10 Feb 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

    After sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein ignited the #MeToo movement on social media, Hollywood producers began hiring more female film writers than they did before the scandal, new research finds. What's more, producers who had collaborated with... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting
    • 18 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

    Most companies rely on artificial intelligence-based algorithms to make a wide variety of business decisions—from pinpointing the products customers prefer to determining which resumes should go to hiring managers. The problem for companies trying to advance racial... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • Article

    Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies

    By: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy
    The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Corporation; State-owned Enterprises; State Capitalism; FDI; Internationalization; Government And Business; National Oil Companies; State Ownership; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; Energy Industry; China; India; Europe
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    • Web

    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    “anti-ESG” shareholder proposals sought to compel companies to undo diversity and environmental initiatives; and other social and regulatory changes found boards and business leaders at companies of all sizes grappling with difficult... View Details