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- October 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)
It is 1995 and Steinway & Sons has just been purchased by two young entrepreneurs. For 140 years, Steinway has held the reputation for making the finest quality grand pianos in the world. The past 25 years have proven to be a challenge, however. First, the company has... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Crisis Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Quality; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; New York (state, US)
Gourville, John T., and Joseph B. Lassiter III. "Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)." Harvard Business School Case 500-028, October 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 18 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Video: Unleashing courage in tomorrow’s leaders
Abby Falik (MBA 2008), founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is rethinking the traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates. In ten years, Global Citizen Year has supported nearly 1,000 fellows in experiential,... View Details
- Article
Contextual Intelligence
By: Tarun Khanna
The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of... View Details
Khanna, Tarun. "Contextual Intelligence." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 9 (September 2014): 58–68.
- January 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing
By: Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin and Eric Lonstein
TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Two-Sided Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Software; Technology Industry
Lakhani, Karim R., David A. Garvin, and Eric Lonstein. "TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing." Harvard Business School Case 610-032, January 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
- 02 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Strategic Foresight as Dynamic Capability: A New Lens on Knightian Uncertainty
Keywords: by J. Peter Scoblic
- 29 Jan 2014
- News
Joe Biden’s Latest Challenge: Closing the Workplace “Skills Gap”
- 17 Sep 2010
- News
Something for the weekend
- 19 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices
- June 2019
- Case
Athena Bancorp
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Sarah Abbott
Athena Bancorp was founded in 2016 by Beth Daniels, a banking professional with 15 years of experience in the industry. Daniels took advantage of what she perceived as a gap in the market caused by recent industry consolidation, a decreasing industry focus on branch... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Strategy; Service Delivery; Banking Industry
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Sarah Abbott. "Athena Bancorp." Harvard Business School Brief Case 919-517, June 2019.
- 2014
- Article
Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men
By: Alison Wood Brooks, Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray
Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney, and Fiona Murray. "Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 12 (March 25, 2014): 4427–4431.
- Program
Strategic Negotiations
leaders with cross-border negotiating experience who are in the process of realigning corporate strategy, undertaking a sizable deal, settling a major dispute, or juggling multiple constituencies Complementary Program Advance your... View Details
- 30 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Big Media, Big Business! Inside scoop on the upcoming Entertainment & Media Club Conference
Each year, the Entertainment & Media conference at the Harvard Business School brings together hundreds of students, alumni, faculty, and industry leaders to share experience and insight and, most importantly, to learn from each... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 05 Jun 2012
- News
Inspections Improve Bottom Lines, Study of Cal/OSHA Results Finds
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Business School Professor Examines 'Cheater's High'
- 05 Oct 2010
- News
The more the murkier
- 15 Mar 2019
- Video
The Confidence to Apply
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers
One of the most important aspects of a Harvard Business School education is the experience HBS students get from learning among a diverse and international group of peers. Of the Class of 2024, 38% come from abroad, representing 160... View Details
- November 2022
- Article
Shared Electric Scooters and Electric Bikes Can Reduce Traffic in Urban Centres
By: Omar Isaac Asensio
Evidence from a policy experiment shows that public safety bans on electric scooters and electric bikes can generate unintended traffic congestion in city centres. The studied ban is found to increase travel times by 9–11% for daily evening commutes and by 37%... View Details
Asensio, Omar Isaac. "Shared Electric Scooters and Electric Bikes Can Reduce Traffic in Urban Centres." Nature Energy 7, no. 11 (November 2022): 1013–1014. (Summary of Impacts of Micromobility on Car Displacement with Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Geofencing Policy.)