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  • November 2012
  • Case

Sugar Bowl

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Alisa Zalosh
Shelby Givens, a recent business school graduate, returned home to Raleigh, North Carolina, to help rescue her family's ailing and outdated bowling alley, Westlake Lanes. Although she cut costs and addressed inefficiencies, moving the business from near-bankruptcy to... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Performance; Business Strategy; Corporate Finance; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Raleigh
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  • 30 Jan 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Summing Up: Which Schools Will Produce the Next Generation of Transformative Leaders? This month’s column featured two leaders who were able to build organizations that literally transformed the mutual fund and airline industries. In the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services
  • 2010
  • Article

We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy

By: Gautam Mukunda
Insights from Disruptive Innovation theory (DI) are often used in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of national security policy. DI explains why successful companies are sometimes defeated by new competitors with relatively unsophisticated products.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; History; National Security; Framework; Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry
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  • Program

High Potentials Leadership Program

business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend This program is designed for high-impact, top-performing individuals—from vice presidents to program managers and team leaders—with 10–20 years of experience in roles of... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

industry lines as companies increasingly bring seemingly unrelated business lines together in unconventional ways. New research by Awada, Harvard Business School Professor Suraj Srinivasan, and doctoral... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

    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

    • January 1995 (Revised March 1995)
    • Case

    GuateSalud

    Dr. Glenn Lopez, the founder and general director of GuateSalud, faces cash flow problems and some crucial choices about how to expand his innovative health maintenance organization for agricultural workers in rural Guatemala. The case describes Lopez's six-year... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; Health Industry; Guatemala
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    • 18 Sep 2014
    • News

    Entrepreneurs anonymous

    • June 1999
    • Supplement

    Conversation with Donna Dubinsky, A (Video)

    Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early mentors, strategies for building and maintaining business and personal relationships, developing her personal style and... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career
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    • 20 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

    How do you know if an MBA is worth it? We asked recent HBS alumni to reflect on their time at—and after—HBS. Here are their thoughts on the business school experience, the value of an MBA degree, and how to best prepare for HBS. Lindsay... View Details
    • 20 Nov 2019
    • News

    HBS Examines Alumni Social Impact in the World

    • 31 Aug 2016
    • News

    Obama to guest-edit Wired magazine's November issue

    • Video

    How to Read and Understand a Balance Sheet

    • 24 Apr 2015
    • News

    Learning and Leading in Space

    • 02 Jul 2013
    • News

    Dean Emeritus John H. McArthur Receives High Honor from Canada

    • 09 Apr 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: April 9

      Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jun 2012
    • News

    Stop Working All Those Hours

    • December 2004 (Revised February 2005)
    • Case

    Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project, The

    Laurie Marker, head of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is trying to form a for-profit institution, the Bush Project, to control the bush encroachment problem in Namibia. Bush encroachment not only destroys the general ecosystem, but it also has a harmful impact on the... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; For-Profit Firms; Emerging Markets; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Strategy; Africa
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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
      • 28 Feb 2018
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Master the Team Meeting

      monkeybusinessimages No matter how much we hate going to meetings, there’s a generally accepted best practice that teams should meet with their managers on a regular cadence. More often than not, unfortunately, I hear leaders and their... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Austin