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  • September 2021 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Sawiris Foundation: Elevating Education in Egypt

By: Brian Trelstad and Alpana Thapar
Founded in 2001 by the Sawiris family, one of the wealthiest families in Egypt, the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD) invested in human capital and provision of basic social services for the most marginalized Egyptians. In 2015, Noura Selim’s (MBA 2013)... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Development; Social Enterprise; Education; Social Issues; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; Egypt
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  • October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

Dulcie Madden (A)—Growth or Exit?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Christopher Payton and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Family; Family Conflicts; Founders' Agreements; Growth And Development; Hardware; VC; Scaling; Start-up; Female Ceo; Risk Assessment; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Equity; Cash Flow; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Information Technology; Valuation; Family and Family Relationships; Information Infrastructure; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting

By: Michael Webb, Nick Short, Nicholas Bloom and Josh Lerner
Patenting in software, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence has grown rapidly in recent years. Such patents are acquired primarily by large U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, and HP, as well as by Japanese multinationals such as Sony, Canon,... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; United States
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  • 2016
  • Report

How Do People Pay Rent?

By: David Hao Zhang
Households still pay rent primarily with paper methods, even though electronic methods are featured more prominently among high-income, high-education, and high-rent households. These patterns may be explained either by the lack of landlord acceptance of electronic... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Payments; Rent Payments; Money Order; Credit Card; Checks; Credit Cards; Online Technology; Consumer Behavior; Cash; Leasing
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Do Call Centers Promote Education? Evidence from India

By: Emily Fair Oster and Mary Bryce Millett
Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling rates, particularly in English. Existing evidence suggests the trends are broadly related. In this paper we explore how localized these impacts are;... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Education; Training; Geographic Location; Technology Industry; India
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Where Is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

By: Arthur Daemmrich
A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Disorders; Health Testing and Trials; Power and Influence; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
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  • December 2001 (Revised June 2002)
  • Case

Compensation at Level 3 Communications

Level 3's unique compensation plan rewarded managers for the firm's performance only if the firm's stock price movement exceeded that of the market. This design was intended to maximize shareholder value by tying manager's performance more closely to that of the firm,... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Telecommunications Industry
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  • TeachingInterests

Managing International Trade and Investment

By: Dante Roscini
Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) is designed for students who expect to engage directly or indirectly in commerce and in strategic or financial investments across national borders. It covers concepts that are relevant to a number of operating and... View Details

    Strategic Brew: A Market Simulation

    Strategic Brew simulates real life challenges facing the strategist. It allows users to experience and internalize the process of strategy formulation, execution, and communication in a simulated context and to see how these processes interplay with other... View Details
    • November–December 2022
    • Article

    Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now.

    By: Matthew Weinzierl, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack and Brendan Rosseau
    Space is becoming a potential source of value for businesses across a range of sectors, including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and tourism. To understand what the opportunities are for your company, the authors advise you to consider the four ways in... View Details
    Keywords: Space Strategy; Emerging Markets; Natural Resources; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Competition; Aerospace Industry
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    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    lot of other global regimes that may have problems with what Musk is doing here. There are any number of problems that could arise. Data privacy is an important issue. The other important issue is the question of content moderation.... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
    • 01 May 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

    overtake Apple and Samsung in market share within three to five years, while maintaining healthy profits. This task seemed particularly daunting given the difficulties the company had encountered in penetrating the lucrative U.S. market. What would it take for Huawei... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Nov 2010
    • HBS Case

    United Breaks Guitars

    Marketing Strategy and multiple Executive Education programs, the case depicts a new media era in which increasing numbers of people are spending as much time online as they are in front of the television and where one person can get the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    the race and gender of a new appointment to the demographics of the departing member of a group. “People are otherwise likely to choose replacements who demographically resemble their predecessors.” This preference for maintaining the demographic status quo might help... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

    people agree with the existence of non-binary gender identity—with the most common response, “strong agreement,” at 30 percent. The second-most frequent response, however, was “strong disagreement,” at 15 percent, representing a large View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 16 Jun 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

    sticker shock? 1. Understand Your Customers. There are at least four ways in which customers can respond to higher gas prices: downgrade from premium to regular; take fewer trips by car, consolidate errands, switch to public transportation; take the same View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 03 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 3, 2009

    this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609061 The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (A) Harvard Business School Case 709-024 Rising food prices threatened an unprecedented number of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Exchange: Help Wanted

    Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 30 Sep 2019
    • Book

    6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

    that prevents African Americans from ascending to leadership roles. The data is indeed bleak. While an increasing number of African Americans are earning bachelor’s and graduate degrees, the number of black... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Hiring International Students

    the past 3 for a foreign entity of a company that has a US office No numerical limit on the number of L-1 visas issued A total of 5 years is permitted for L-1B employees (specialized knowledge) and 7 years for L-1A managers/executives O-1... View Details