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  • 30 Nov 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

TikTok: Super App or Supernova?

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport; Technology
  • April 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
This case profiles the evolution of General Electric's African American Form (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's involvement in Africa. The AAF formed in 1991 to help advance GE's recruitment, retention and development of black... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Africa; United States
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  • Awards

Named one of the Top 15 People Shaping Boston's Tech Scene

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang
Named one of Mashable's Top 15 People Shaping Boston's Tech Scene. View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

John (“Bo”) Kemp

"That grew into a desire to save, invest, and make more" - a predilection that eventually led to an interest in private-equity investing. Kemp attended Yale, where he continued his entrepreneurial efforts by creating The Greek Shop, a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photograph by Webb Chappell
  • Article

Are You Suited for a Start-up?

By: Jeffrey Bussgang
Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit for you? The author advises that you first assess... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Personal Characteristics; Job Search
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  • 13 Sep 2019
  • News

Hollywood Ending

Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

professional esports players and amateur gamers streaming video game play. By year’s end, market analyst Newzoo forecasts, the online global esports audience will reach 385 million people with revenues of nearly $700 million. But if all... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

technological development, corporate strategy, and organizational change. Viewing cartels only as a "conspiracy against the public" short-circuits many important questions and obscures the great variations in objectives, type, and services provided View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

match. Consider the case of Chip Kelly and the Philadelphia Eagles. At the start of the 2015 season, team owner Jeffrey Lurie praised Kelly; according to a December 31 article by Philadelphia Daily News... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • May 2011
  • Article

Challenge the Boss or Stand Down

By: W. Earl Sasser
This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this reprint is also available in two other versions: case study-only, reprint R1105X, and commentary-only, R1105Z. Tom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Personal Development and Career; Jobs and Positions; Conferences; Service Industry
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  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Interview

Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Brian Kenny and Nicole Tempest Keller
Angel City Football Club (ACFC) was founded in 2020 by venture capitalist Kara Nortman, entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and actor and activist Natalie Portman. As outsiders to professional sports, the all-female founding team had rewritten the playbook for how to build a... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Gender; Franchise Ownership; Business Model; Sports Industry
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  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

for all enrollees) is associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54341 forthcoming Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Religious Shoppers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

Six National Football League head coaches were fired on December 31, or “Black Monday,” as it’s known in the sport. The infamous tradition begins immediately after the conclusion of each NFL regular season and represents efforts by... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

themselves moral agents with distinct moral responsibilities. To date, the debate about corporate moral agency has focused on responsibility for past wrongdoing that involves violating negative duties (i.e., duties to refrain from certain actions). In this chapter, I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

2017 CA: BVT Publishing Global Marketing Management: A Casebook By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—During the last quarter century, international business was shaken by a revolution in global competition unlike any previously experienced. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness heuristic. A decision maker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

that hold back progress in resource mobilization research. We then propose a path ahead for future research guided by two overarching goals. First, we advocate for a process perspective, focusing attention on how an individual actor’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman