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  • October 2017
  • Case

Shift Technologies, Inc.

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2017, management at Shift, an online marketplace that uses a “high touch,” concierge approach to buy and sell used cars, was formulating plans for the San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Multi-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    Willis M. Emmons

    WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004.  As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to... View Details

    Keywords: airline; infrastructure industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; utilities
    • 05 Nov 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

    Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven
    • 2018
    • Introduction

    Introduction: History and Political Economy

    By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
    This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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    • 04 Feb 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

    grown." These persistent problems seem to demand new models and new ways of thinking to crack them, and in that spirit Wei-Skillern and her HBS colleagues James E. Austin,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2024
    • Supplement

    Anker Innovations (B)

    By: Feng Zhu, Jiangyong Lu and Nancy Hua Dai
    An Amazon-native brand, Anker is the world’s No. 1 mobile charging brand and a leading consumer electronics company. Over the years, Anker developed an effective model of proving new products online first by leveraging customer insights from its proprietary Voice of... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Product; Distribution; Product Launch; Business Model; Electronics Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    • January 1996 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    R.R. Donnelley & Sons: The Digital Division

    By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March
    In June 1995, Barbara Schetter, VP and general manager of R.R. Donnelley's Digital Division, is struggling to gain acceptance from other groups and divisions at the printing giant. The Digital Division employs radically new technology--digital printing presses and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Model; Business Plan; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Technology Adoption; Value Creation
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    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Book

    Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

    Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • August 2015
    • Article

    Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

    By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley
    This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Financing and Loans; Trade
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    • 14 Sep 2007
    • Other Presentation

    Colombian Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Level

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s books and articles, in particular, “Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity,” in The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-06 (World Economic Forum, 2005); “Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Colombia
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      Stuart C. Gilson

      Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

      Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services
      • Teaching Interest

      Overview

      Since coming to HBS, my teaching interests have centered around the intersection of science and business: entrepreneurship, management, and strategy. More recently, i have become more engaged in considering the emergence of new university models for the translation... View Details
      Keywords: Science Business; Biotechnology; Pharmaceuticals; Innovation
      • Research Summary

      Time-Varying Volatility Risk Premia

      This paper provides evidence for the existence of time-varying volatility risk premia.  In doing so, it examines the evolution of the implied volatility bias in the S&P 100 from 1986-2006. Additionally, the paper proves three new results regarding the limiting... View Details
      • 04 Jun 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      The Business of Life

      of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life?... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 20 Oct 2010
      • Op-Ed

      Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

      Springer Publishing, forthcoming 2010. Ketels, Christian (2002), Export-Led Development, in: Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Charles Scribner's Sons Publishing, New York, 2002. Looney,Robert (2004), Thaksinomics: A View Details
      Keywords: by Christian Ketels
      • 10 Dec 2015
      • News

      Can Google Street View Images Predict Household Income?

      • 15 Oct 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: October 15

      Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai (B) Supplements 411-040. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-404 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • February 2007 (Revised August 2007)
        • Case

        St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision

        St. HOPE is faced with a decision concerning whether or not to expand from Sacramento to New York City. While charter schools are its largest area of activity, founder Kevin Johnson believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities--economic development, civic... View Details
        Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Urban Scope; Adaptation; Expansion; Sacramento; New York (city, NY)
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        • 25 Apr 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        The Importance of Teaming

        gel, as individual members are delegated to new projects—and therefore new teams—on a hectic as-needed basis. Professor Amy Edmondson maintains that managers should think in terms of... View Details
        Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson