Filter Results
:
(4,234)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(4,234)
- People (10)
- News (733)
- Research (2,605)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (2,013)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(4,234)
- People (10)
- News (733)
- Research (2,605)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (2,013)
- September 2019
- Case
Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Stephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their...
View Details
Keywords:
Behavioral Analytics;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Banking Industry;
Consulting Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
United Kingdom
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Weber. "Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations." Harvard Business School Case 120-006, September 2019.
- Web
Our Team - Impact Investments
Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial...
View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
"reserve requirement" to back up supply commitments. Enron had a major advantage over competitors as a middleman between producers and consumers because it operated one of the nation's largest natural gas pipeline networks. These innovations enabled Enron to...
View Details
- November 2000
- Case
FireDrop
By: William A. Sahlman and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the evolution of FireDrop, a new venture-backed company that has developed a new platform for e-mail communication. The FireDrop application--called a Zaplet--allows for e-mails to be continually updated so they are current when read (rather than when sent)....
View Details
- July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated...
View Details
Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Investment Return;
Measurement and Metrics;
Welfare;
Ghana;
United States
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana." Harvard Business School Case 310-025, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
- December 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Annelena Lobb
Muñoz Group, which supplied supermarket chains and food distribution chains around the world with fruit, flowers, juice and ice cream, was at a strategic crossroads in 2014. CEO Alvaro Muñoz had to choose the best way to achieve profit goals and provide his company...
View Details
Keywords:
Innovation;
Supply Chain;
Retail;
Agribusiness Industry;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Vertical Integration;
Profit;
Innovation and Invention;
Retail Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
North and Central America
Alvarez, Jose B., and Annelena Lobb. "Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 515-011, December 2014. (Revised August 2015.)
- Web
The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
View Details
- Web
How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS? - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
View Details
- 2003
- Article
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview
By: Josh Lerner
This paper describes a course exploring the private equity industry, "Venture Capital and Private Equity". The goals of this article are two-fold: to make the structure and content of the class available to a broader audience beyond the audience of MBAs and executives...
View Details
Lerner, Josh. "Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview." International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education 1, no. 3 (2003): 359–384.
- September 2016 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
MyTime
By: Juliane Begenau and Robin Greenwood
Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book appointments with local merchants throughout the...
View Details
- March 2000 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Thomas Weisel Partners (A)
Thomas Weisel, longtime leader of Montgomery Securities, realizes that the sale of Montgomery to NationsBank was the biggest mistake of his life. After his exit from NationsBanc Montgomery Securities, Weisel develops a business plan for a new merchant bank, Thomas...
View Details
Keywords:
Competitive Strategy;
Business Plan;
Financial Institutions;
Management Teams;
Financial Services Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, Boris Groysberg, Matthew C. Lieb, and Scott D Landry. "Thomas Weisel Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-215, March 2000. (Revised February 2005.)
- May 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
LOOP: Driving Change in Auto Insurance Pricing
By: Elie Ofek and Alicia Dadlani
John Henry and Carey Anne Nadeau, co-founders and co-CEOs of LOOP, an insurtech startup based in Austin, Texas, were on a mission to modernize the archaic $250 billion automobile insurance market. They sought to create equitably priced insurance by eliminating pricing...
View Details
Keywords:
AI and Machine Learning;
Technological Innovation;
Equality and Inequality;
Prejudice and Bias;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Customer Relationship Management;
Price;
Insurance Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Alicia Dadlani. "LOOP: Driving Change in Auto Insurance Pricing." Harvard Business School Case 522-073, May 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- Web
The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
View Details
- Article
Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We compare the liquidity that six developed countries have built into their employer-based defined contribution (DC) retirement schemes. In Germany, Singapore, and the UK, withdrawals are essentially banned no matter what kind of transitory income shock the household...
View Details
Keywords:
Saving;
Financial Liquidity;
Retirement;
Canada;
Germany;
Australia;
United Kingdom;
United States;
Singapore
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 420–425.
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations....
View Details
Keywords:
by Stuart C. Gilson
- February 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, Marco Iansiti and Akiko Kanno
Ricoh, the Japanese copier manufacturer, is committed to reducing its environmental impact to one-eighth of its 2000 levels by 2050. It has already introduced three stages of environmental awareness to its operations, and its recycled copier business broke even in...
View Details
Keywords:
Environmental Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Investment;
Operations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, Marco Iansiti, and Akiko Kanno. "Ricoh Company, Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 610-053, February 2010. (Revised December 2011.)
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Issues in Technology Strategy TN
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Provides instructors with an overview for the module in the Managing Innovation course, Issues in Technology Strategy. Provides an overview of the frameworks introduced in the module that can help managers in their efforts to formulate strategies relating to several...
View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The Financing of R&D and Innovation...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- August 1997
- Case
Orbital Sciences Corporation: ORBCOMM
By: Das Narayandas and John A. Quelch
In late 1993, Orbital Communications Corp. (OCC), a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp., is developing a global two-way wireless data communications system, called "ORBCOMM," based on a 26-satellite constellation in low earth orbit. Service is scheduled to begin in...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Price;
Global Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Partners and Partnerships;
Salesforce Management;
Telecommunications Industry
Narayandas, Das, and John A. Quelch. "Orbital Sciences Corporation: ORBCOMM." Harvard Business School Case 598-027, August 1997.
- August 2008 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Nantero
By: William A. Sahlman, Dan Heath and Caroline Perkins
This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have competing visions for the company, and its business model. Some...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Model;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Product Development;
Production;
Technology;
Semiconductor Industry
Sahlman, William A., Dan Heath, and Caroline Perkins. "Nantero." Harvard Business School Case 809-031, August 2008. (Revised December 2009.)