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    Dutch Leonard

    Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
    • 16 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

    Rule Five: Face The Music Finally, many judo strategists begin with good intentions but end up exhausting their resources on losing battles—especially in the Internet era, as new technologies and competitors... View Details
    Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 08 Feb 2024
      • Blog Post

      African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

      as joint degree students, sharing insights from their time before and during the MBA program. Swanee Golden (MBA/MPP 2025) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Princeton, New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA... View Details
      • 16 Jun 2015
      • News

      Michael Porter on America's Historic Energy Opportunity

      • July – August 2011
      • Article

      Evolve (Again)

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      Frenzy over social networks and interactive media can produce equally overhyped predictions that everything will change, not to mention money-losing investments in silly ventures. Separating enduring strategic lessons from the hype can help avoid a new crash. Hint: the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships
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      • 13 Jul 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Strategies for Underdogs: How Alibaba’s Taobao Beat eBay in China

      Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Technology; Technology
      • Program

      Real Estate Management Program

      succeed in a complex market by taking a holistic approach to real estate projects and addressing challenges from a cross-disciplinary perspective. As you examine sustainability goals, design considerations, financing strategies, industry... View Details
      Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate
      • 2017
      • Chapter

      Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This study examines the geography of the global wind energy industry before 2000. Between 1980 and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the... View Details
      Keywords: Wind Power; Business And Government; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Geography; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Business History; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
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      • 06 Dec 2017
      • Blog Post

      The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

      from tech giants Tencent (China) and Paytm (India) along with speakers active in Africa as well as Latin America, thus offering a true worldview of the technology and start-up landscape outside of the U.S.... View Details
      Keywords: Technology
      • November 2015
      • Case

      Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work

      By: Feng Zhu, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti and Aaron Smith
      Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online... View Details
      Keywords: Platforms; Employment; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Business Processes; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Job Search
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      • 26 Sep 2011
      • HBS Case

      HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

      right. As revenues from recorded music steadily declined from 2004 to 2008, concert revenues steadily rose, according to data presented in the case. "Advances in digital View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850

      By: G. Jones
      This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details
      Keywords: Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; Wealth and Poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Service Industry; Latin America; Asia; North and Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
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      • 18 Aug 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

      theory of disruptive innovation, often applied to a variety of other industries, such as technology and health care. Christensen's theory was first explored in his two New York Times bestsellers, The... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
      • 06 Feb 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

      line and realized that all the significant pieces used to make Kodak's digital cameras—lens, shutters, electronic screen displays—were manufactured far from the factory floor in Rochester, New York, largely... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
      • May 2020
      • Article

      Scalable Holistic Linear Regression

      By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
      We propose a new scalable algorithm for holistic linear regression building on Bertsimas & King (2016). Specifically, we develop new theory to model significance and multicollinearity as lazy constraints rather than checking the conditions iteratively. The resulting... View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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      • 02 Sep 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      The Role of Government When All Else Fails

      In When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, David A. Moss explores government's role as insurer of last resort in everything from crafting consumer protection law to bailing out airlines after September 11th. He... View Details
      Keywords: by Laura Linard
      • Research Summary

      Railroads and the Making of Modern China

      My current book project is entitled Railroads and the Making of the Modern China and explores China’s economic and socio-political transformation from the last decades of the empire to the present using railroad infrastructure as a focus. Based on a large... View Details

      • March 2021 (Revised August 2022)
      • Case

      Seeding and Selling Asana

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Susie Ma and Amram Migdal
      In December 2019, Oliver Jay, Asana’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), was reconsidering his go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Asana was cloud-based work management software that enabled users to break up projects into discrete tasks that could be assigned, scheduled, and... View Details
      Keywords: SaaS; Customer Journey; Business Model; Business Organization; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; United States
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      • 22 Mar 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: March 22

      511-070 As Ireland's third largest beef processor, Kepak faces new opportunities as well as significant challenges from the collapse of the "Celtic Tiger." The government has identified food and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne