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  • November 2016 (Revised July 2018)
  • Case

Selling on Amazon at Tower Paddle Boards

By: Thales S. Teixeira and David Lopez-Lengowski
By June 2012, Stephan Aarstol felt that he had successfully passed the first critical stage of his ecommerce business. As the founder and CEO of a standup paddleboard (SUP) business, he had built a strong relationship with Asian manufacturers, built a small warehouse... View Details
Keywords: Tower Paddle Boards; Amazon; E-commerce; Online Shopping; Distribution; Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Marketing Channels; Distribution Channels; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 517-047 Selling on Amazon at Tower Paddle Boards By June 2012, Stephan Aarstol felt that he had... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2014 (Revised July 2015)
  • Case

Indus Towers: From Infancy to Maturity

By: Ranjay Gulati, Maxim Sytch and Rachna Tahilyani
Indus Towers, the world's largest telecom tower company, is a joint venture between three telecom rivals in India. These rivals—Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, and Idea Cellular—combined their telecom towers to provide "shared telecom infrastructure" to wireless telecom... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Judgments; Customer Focus and Relationships; Management; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Infrastructure; Telecommunications Industry; India
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  • March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine
On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details
Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco
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  • 13 Sep 2006
  • Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

Indus Towers, the world's largest telecom tower company, is a joint venture between three telecom rivals in India. These rivals-Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, and Idea Cellular-combined their telecom towers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

community members know where they are going. On average, some 70 percent of students reside on campus. Second-year students are slightly more inclined to live off-campus than first-year students, but many remain on-site. In executive-education programs as well, most... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

over their own needs)." Mark Isaac pointed out that "Succession plans, open communication, and knowing that the company cares, create a learning environment." Gerald Nanninga's reference to findings of the biennial Global Workforce Study by View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

scientific-driven process. So corporations made enormous investments to create ivory towers where scientists would think great thoughts. At first it seemed very appealing, but as the fifties moved into the sixties and the sixties moved... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

that some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones that have moral or ethical stakes. For example, while on the board of a nonprofit, I was approached by an employee—a whistleblower—who accused the program director of manipulating... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

effectiveness of service profit chain relationships. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition Author:Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2008 Abstract For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

and autocratic, generating a heavy flow from the top downward. Your research on Thyssen contradicts this notion. In general, what did you discover about German management that is in opposition to what we thought we knew? A: This stereotype has always irked me. I don't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

Big Business in Japan Authors:Anthony J. Mayo and Mayuka Yamazaki Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 30. (Conversation) Abstract At age 74, Yoshiko Shinohara is a towering figure in Japanese business. She has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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