Publications

March 2009
Case

Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A)

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Toby E. Stuart and James Weber

A venture capitalist must decide whether to invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

work done in less time. But only under certain circumstances! There two basic ways to use multiple cores: implicit parallelism built in to your application or library, and explicit parallelism that you program and manage yourself.... View Details

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

managers from 20 firms to gather best practices of the companies that do collaborative innovation correctly. They also charted how global teamwork can misfire. The research built upon expertise developed in Wipro's own collaboration... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

the implementation of the CRC 6S management system in all of CRC's 19 profit centers. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107015 'Doer's Profile' Bill Gates (William H.) (1955 - )... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
Case

Chai Point: Disrupting Chai

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani

Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea... View Details

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

and forming R&D partnerships in Europe and North America. As the company continues its growth in the context of a slowing Chinese economy, how can Yili integrate its new global resources and supply chain... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

learned first-hand about this inequity as a child in Philadelphia’s public schools. During a recent interview with Manny Maceda, Bain & Company’s worldwide managing partner, Frazier reflected on his experience: “My younger sister and... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

sales growing from 11 million in 1995 to 185 million in 2011. And it offers important insights on supply chain management, innovation, and risk-taking. But it also provides lessons to anyone selling a... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

chief supply-chain management officer, chief human resources officer, and CEO. It offers a road map for ambitious managers who want to know which skills they should focus on developing in order to rise up... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2003 (Revised May 2008)
Case

AFP Provida

By: Michael E. Porter, Arturo L. Condo and Andrea Prado

Describes the evolution of AFP Provida, one of the early entrants into the Chilean pension fund system established in 1981. By 1999, AFP Provida was not only the largest pension fund administrator in Chile, but also the largest in Latin America in terms of number of... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Chile

13 Jan 2021
News

Stress Test

Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) 2020 was the year everybody learned what a supply chain is. The first lesson came in the form of a toilet paper shortage in the earliest days of... View Details

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

periodically raises concerns about audit-industry concentration and suggests ways to boost growth of smaller firms. The consolidation raises the issue of how the surviving big auditors and the nation's accounting regulators will manage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

frontline employees' experience with internal supply chain problems. However, extensive research has established that employees rarely speak up to managers about problems. They... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

January 2025
Case

A Tiger in The Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber

In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details