Filter Results
:
(4,908)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(4,908)
- People (23)
- News (1,764)
- Research (2,286)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (1,181)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(4,908)
- People (23)
- News (1,764)
- Research (2,286)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (1,181)
Ranjay Gulati
Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details
- April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Buro Happold
By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman
Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each...
View Details
Keywords:
Training;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Skills;
Organizational Culture;
Programs
Eccles, Robert G., and Kerry Herman. "Buro Happold." Harvard Business School Case 409-021, April 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- May 1983 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
Technical Data Corp.: Business Plan
Contains materials extracted from a business plan developed by the company in 1980. The purpose of the business plan was to raise $100,000 to finance the commencement of operations. The firm intended to provide analytical services to bond market traders. The product...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Plan
Sahlman, William A. "Technical Data Corp.: Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 283-073, May 1983. (Revised November 1987.)
- 06 Jan 2015
- News
Digital Business Models Should Have to Follow the Law, Too
- Career Coach
Michele Biamonte
Michele (HGSE, Adult Development '05) combines her professional experience in finance, talent management and higher ed admin to help students and alumni optimize their self-assessment, career exploration and personal branding process. She...
View Details
Benjamin C. Esty
Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Kaspi.kz IPO
By: Victoria Ivashina and Esel Çekin
This case follows Kaspi.kz, a private equity (Baring Vostok) co-owned retail bank in Central Asia that evolved into a fintech, payments and e-commerce company. It provides insights into private equity financing, portfolio company management, and initial public offering...
View Details
Keywords:
Finance;
Private Equity;
Initial Public Offering;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Central Asia
Ivashina, Victoria, and Esel Çekin. "Kaspi.kz IPO." Harvard Business School Case 220-007, October 2019.
- Article
The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs
By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
The debate in economic policymaking about the drivers of innovation and job creation has long centered on manufacturing versus services. The predominant view is that manufacturing drives innovation, wages, and growth, and that services provide less innovation and...
View Details
Keywords:
Supply Chain Industries;
Supply Chain;
Economy;
Policy;
Innovation and Invention;
Jobs and Positions
Delgado, Mercedes, and Karen G. Mills. "The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs." Economía Industrial, no. 421 (December 2021).
- December 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (C): The Internet Changes the Game
Investigates how the rise of the Internet as a vehicle for renting and buying movies has disrupted the video rental industry and how market leader Blockbuster Inc. can and should respond to these developments. Explores how the emergence of e-commerce affects the degree...
View Details
Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Decisions;
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Change Management;
Service Industry;
Service Industry
Coughlan, Peter J., and Jenny Illes. "Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (C): The Internet Changes the Game." Harvard Business School Case 704-462, December 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- 09 Sep 2015
- HBS Seminar
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University
- April 2008 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.
By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane
As CEO of leading executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles for the past 18 months, Kevin Kelly was pleased with his accomplishments so far but concerned about threats he perceived to Heidrick's position at the highest levels of the executive search business. In...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Model;
Recruitment;
Disruptive Innovation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Service Industry;
Service Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and David Lane. "Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 408-066, April 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
- June 2012
- Case
Buro Happold (Abridged)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Ryan Johnson
In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold, passed away, and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current...
View Details
Keywords:
Learning And Development;
Managing Growth;
Organizational Design;
Diversification;
Client Management;
Leadership Skills;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Leadership Development;
Management Skills;
Training;
Programs;
Customer Relationship Management
Eccles, Robert G., and Ryan Johnson. "Buro Happold (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 412-123, June 2012.
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its...
View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Mixed Source
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes
We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm that sells software and complementary services and a free open source competitor. We examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Model;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Monopoly;
Open Source Distribution;
Quality;
Competition;
Information Technology Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes. "Mixed Source." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-022, September 2009. (Revised October 2010.)
- October 2008
- Case
Hrad Technika
Examines a struggling IT outsourcing project from the perspective of the IT services provider-Hrad Technika. When used in conjunction with "Tegan c.c.c." (9-609-038), it provides an opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create...
View Details
Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Projects;
Information Technology;
Wales
Upton, David M., and Bradley R. Staats. "Hrad Technika." Harvard Business School Case 609-039, October 2008.
- October 2000 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Cost of Capital at Ameritrade
By: Mark L. Mitchell and Erik Stafford
Ameritrade Holding Corp. is planning large marketing and technology investments to improve the company's competitive position in deep-discount brokerage by taking advantage of emerging economies of scale. In order to evaluate whether the strategy would generate...
View Details
Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Asset Pricing;
Cash Flow;
Cost of Capital;
Investment;
Marketing;
Mathematical Methods;
Competition;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Financial Services Industry
Mitchell, Mark L., and Erik Stafford. "Cost of Capital at Ameritrade." Harvard Business School Case 201-046, October 2000. (Revised April 2001.)
- 14 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when medical professionals need to...
View Details
- October 2021
- Case
Sparking Growth at Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports (CR) is a nonprofit organization that traditionally provided independent testing and research on consumer goods. With the need to diversify its audience and revenue streams CR partnered with market research firm Spark No. 9 to identify potential...
View Details
Keywords:
Nonprofit Management;
Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Marketing;
Social Media;
Innovation and Management;
Nonprofit Organizations
Wallace, Christina. "Sparking Growth at Consumer Reports." Harvard Business School Case 822-035, October 2021.
- March 2024
- Case
Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, considered how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of climate change. Along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing, the Insurtech used technologically...
View Details
Keywords:
Fintech;
Underwriters;
Big Data;
Insurance Companies;
Global Warming;
Business Model Design;
Weather And Climate Change;
Weather Insurance;
Earnings;
Business Model;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Natural Environment;
Natural Disasters;
Weather;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Business Earnings;
Insurance;
Social Issues;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
California