Publications

13 Apr 2021
News

Why This Harvard Professor Thinks Remote Work Is Here to Stay

September 1990
Case

Bain & Co., Inc.: Growing the Business

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Raises management issues facing Bain & Co. in formulating its future global strategy and implementation of that strategy. View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy; Expansion; Consulting Industry; Service Industry

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26 Nov 2019
News

Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

the process—that you cannot plan the path to an innovation. Instead, you have to act your way there. Other key factors that encourage innovation are the vision leaders bring to the table and the sense of purpose that those within an... View Details

November 2005 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Meisterchef.com

By: Henry B. Reiling

Two underperforming companies are seeking to combine on terms that will preserve the net operating loss of one for use against their combined future profits or at least against the future profits of the company that generated the losses. The questions are whether the... View Details

Keywords: Code Law; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost Accounting; Taxation; Corporate Strategy; Profit; Crisis Management; Financial Management; Legal Services Industry; Service Industry; United States

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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

is the author of over a dozen books, the most recent of which are Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Boards for a Complex World (with Colin B. Carter, 2003) and editor of The Future of Boards (2013). He... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

climate change. The decarbonization transition would accelerate if more governments enacted policies to price carbon, and companies have the opportunity to encourage that.” BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY Contributing to a Better... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

In their opening comments at the IS2K conference, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark called forth, respectively, the spirits of the industrial past View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2015
News

An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers

ability to attract, develop, and retain a world-class faculty. The School’s vision — and imperative — for ensuring a world-class faculty can be realized with the aid of alumni View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

that its future competitors are likely to be Facebook and Google and not BMW and Toyota." “We talk about why Google would buy Nest—a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions

focused on future direction rather than past achievements and was attended by fifty women, primarily from the 10th, 15th, and 20th Reunion classes. This new HBS lifelong... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

November 2022 (Revised September 2023)
Technical Note

SAFE Notes: An Introduction

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Jo Tango

A SAFE ("Simple Agreement for Future Equity") is a security increasingly used in seed financings. Not equity or debt, SAFEs allow founders to "get capital now and sell equity later." This Technical Note covers: 1. What is a SAFE and why use one?, 2. The key concepts... View Details

Keywords: Seed Financing; Seed Investing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financing and Loans

25 Apr 2013
News

What's Next for Starbucks?

13 Jul 2021
News

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

January 1990 (Revised March 1994)
Case

Royal Ahold NV

By: Richard F. Meyer

Contains a general description of a large international retailer. Focus is on the major financial risks facing the company: exchange rate risk and commodity price risk. This case is an introduction to financial risk management. It poses some of the major problem areas. View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Futures and Commodity Futures; Trade; Distribution; Financial Services Industry

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford Economics and Finance) Professors Groysberg View Details

April 1983 (Revised June 2003)
Case

Shouldice Hospital Limited

By: James L. Heskett

Various proposals are set forth for expanding the capacity of the hospital. In assessing them, serious consideration has to be given to the culture of the organization and the importance of preserving it in a service delivery system. In addition to issues of capacity... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Capacity; Organizational Culture; Service Delivery; Growth Management; Strategic Planning; Quality; Social Enterprise; Health Industry; Canada