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  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

create the sense of urgency needed to perform better. An example. At a major European retailer, margins were shrinking year after year because fashionable boutiques were taking its top-of-the-line business,... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 05 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

transformative technology that solves the world’s most important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Making a World of Difference

their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade,... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

A model of service

a year on a modest budget of $100,000. She continues to volunteer at All Souls, and still manages the schools' component of the program. "My... View Details
  • 2013
  • Case

Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

By: Ramana Nanda
This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Human Capital; Wealth; Denmark
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  • May 2012
  • Case

BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division

By: Michael Beer and Rachel Shelton
Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash has adapted to an evolving and difficult marketplace, but the Mobile Division is struggling. The four groups within... View Details
Keywords: United States; Massachusetts; Morale; Human Resource Management; Technology; Leadership; Opportunities; Organizational Design; Conflict and Resolution; Product Development; Change Management; Information Infrastructure; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Massachusetts
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  • September 2018 (Revised March 2019)
  • Case

Philanthropy and Brand Building: Jeff Vinik and the Tampa Bay Lightning

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Michael Mondello
Owner Jeff Vinik and top management of the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning are reviewing their strategy and progress in achieving their goals of brand-building and community commitment. Strategic philanthropy is unusual in sport. Tampa Bay is historically a non-traditional... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Sports Industry; Tampa
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  • December 2007
  • Article

Adoption of Information Technology under Network Effects

By: Deishin Lee and Haim Mendelson
Because information technologies are often characterized by network effects, compatibility is an important issue. Although total network value is maximized when everyone operates in one compatible network, we find that the technology benefits of the users depend on... View Details
Keywords: Network Effects; Standards; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Information Technology; Technology Adoption
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  • Fall 1997
  • Article

Little Machines in Their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920

By: Brian Trelstad
“Little Machines in their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920” explores the rise and decline of the school garden movement in the United States. The paper first documents the early history of the gardens and establishes them as a national... View Details
Keywords: School Garden Movement; United States
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  • 05 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS

Germany for a number of years my wife and I also wanted an impetus to move back to the US, and we decided that my goal of getting my MBA would be that catalyst. Before arriving... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2017
  • News

Sphere of Influence

Daily Inquirer, citing the importance of mentoring and role models in her own life. Launched in 2008, Womensphere has trained more than 5,000 emerging women leaders, with plans... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

retention when compared to competitors. It was fun to find a virtuous cycle within a business model that has nothing to do with the network effects of a tech platform. The case... View Details
  • January 1992 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

The DAG Group

Chris Hackett and Val Rayzman have spent six months after graduating from business school exploring the possibility of building a chain of upscale drycleaners. This fragmented industry looked ripe for an innovative new entrant. Chris and Val have researched the... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Service Industry
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  • 21 Aug 2018
  • News

The Business Case for Curiosity

  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Matter of Opinion

the barricades against it. Navasky, who stepped down last month as publisher of The Nation magazine, is an unapologetic gadfly and afflicter of... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS

By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over local standards in the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption; Value
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  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

improves productivity. So it’s a virtuous cycle.” Shortly after the WHO study was released, the BBC World News tapped Nava Ashraf to discuss the link between mental health and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2012
  • Book

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

By: Noam Wasserman
Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Partners and Partnerships; Social Psychology; Outcome or Result
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    When the Tailwind Stops: The Private Equity Industry in the New Interest Rate Environment

    The consistent growth of long-term alternative asset managers in the past four decades coincided with the secular decline in interest rates. This has been an important tailwind for the private equity industry’s development as debt markets became increasingly... View Details