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May 2024
Teaching Note

BlackRock (D): Organizing for the Future

By: Jan Rivkin

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 717-487 and 717-407. View Details

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November 18, 2010
Article

GM's IPO: Back to the Future

By: Joseph L. Bower, Vineet Kumar and Dante Roscini

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March 2017
Supplement

Mobileye: The Future of Driverless Cars

By: David B. Yoffie

This video is a supplement to the Mobileye case. The co-founder, Chairman, and CTO, Amnon Shashua, discussed how Mobileye tries to create a sustainable advantage; how it prices its products; whether it should collaborate or not with Google; and how much of its... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Positioning; Driverless Car; Competitive Strategy; Alliances; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Israel

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July 2014
Teaching Note

Bitcoin: The Future of Digital Payments?

By: Andrei Hagiu and Nathan Beach

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November 2013
Article

Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future

By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman

Organizational ambidexterity refers to the ability of an organization to both explore and exploit—to compete in mature technologies and markets where efficiency, control, and incremental improvement are prized and to also compete in new technologies and markets where... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Ambidexterity; Organization Design; Innovation; Leadership; Organizational Design; Innovation and Invention

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March 2011
Supplement

The Future of BioPasteur -- Supplement

By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino

The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias.... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Prejudice and Bias

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March 2006
Teaching Note

Intel Research: Exploring the Future (TN)

By: Alan D. MacCormack

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

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March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Case

Massport (D): Looking to the Future

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

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September 1982
Case

Heinold Commodities: Publicly Offered Futures Funds

By: Ray A. Goldberg

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04 Jun 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

information to music in order to sell advertising. As questions are being raised about the ability of telephone service providers, newspapers, and others to sell subscriptions in the future, I recently asked readers what the future of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

June 1995 (Revised November 1996)
Case

Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (C): Future Challenges

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko

This case considers the future challenges facing the Northern Telecom joint venture in China with Tong Guang Electronics. Asks how well the start-up and transition have been managed and whether the right foundation has been laid for the future. View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Growth Management; Business Startups; Change Management; Transition; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Electronics Industry; Canada; China

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22 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Future Lock-in: Or, I’ll Agree to Do the Right Thing...Next Week

Keywords: by Todd Rogers & Max H. Bazerman

15 Nov 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Planning the Future for Harlem’s Beloved Sylvia’s Restaurant

Keywords: Re: Christina R. Wing; Food & Beverage

September 2021 (Revised May 2022)
Case

Woodside - Betting on the Future of Gas

By: Jurgen Weiss

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November 2021
Teaching Note

The Rohingya Refugee: Past, Genocide, Future

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

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June 2019 (Revised October 2019)
Technical Note

Note on the Future of Commerce

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Nathaniel Schwalb

In 2019, the retail and consumer product industries were undergoing a significant transformation. Over the past 50 years, what was once a highly fragmented industry began to consolidate, digitize, and increase convenience while lowering costs. The winning enterprises... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Transformation; Global Range; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Leading Change; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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October 2016 (Revised January 2018)
Supplement

BlackRock (D): Organizing for the Future

By: Ranjay Gulati, Jan W. Rivkin and Aldo Sesia

This (D) case is a supplement to HBS case no. 717-404 “BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?” View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Asset Management; United States

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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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