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- 19 Jul 2019
- News
How To Innovate Inside Large Organizations
- April 2021
- Case
Transforming BlackBerry: From Smartphones to Software
By: Ranjay Gulati and Nicole Tempest Keller
On the verge of failure, BlackBerry brought in John Chen as CEO in 2013 to orchestrate a bold turnaround of the company. Once an iconic leader in the smartphone market, BlackBerry was best known for its tactile QWERTY keyboard, strong security, and a focus on business...
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Keywords:
Pivot;
Managing Change;
Turnaround;
Smartphone;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Transformation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Digital Platforms;
Change;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Competitive Strategy;
Cybersecurity;
Technology Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Canada
Gulati, Ranjay, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Transforming BlackBerry: From Smartphones to Software." Harvard Business School Case 421-052, April 2021.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? - Companion Paper
By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
This companion paper contains several extensions of the model presented in our main paper - Hagiu and Jullien (2009).
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Keywords:
Market Intermediation;
Search;
Two Sided Markets;
Platform Design;
Demand and Consumers;
Motivation and Incentives;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Distribution Channels;
Business Strategy;
Retail Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? - Companion Paper." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-092, February 2009.
- June 2013
- Supplement
Multiasistencia: Redefining the Relationship with its Service Professionals. Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Multiasistencia, a major Spanish BPO of insurance repairs, is changing the relational contract with its service profesionals from a referral model to a guaranteed workload one.
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- April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Western Governors University: 10x Vision
By: William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma
Western Governors University (WGU) was a nonprofit institution of higher education whose online learning model served more than 100,000 students in 2019 and was scaling rapidly. President Scott Pulsipher wanted to expand WGU’s reach to millions more with a plan called...
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Keywords:
Online Education;
Enrollment;
Scaling;
Higher Education;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Education Industry;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Susie L. Ma. "Western Governors University: 10x Vision." Harvard Business School Case 819-093, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
Competing in the Age of AI
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From... View Details
- February 2000
- Case
E2M Health Services
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Naomi Atkins
Outlines the growth of an innovative diabetes disease management organization from 1994-99. Having demonstrated the success of their model in managing diabetes populations in Texas and New York State, the CEO and president must decide the future strategy of the company...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Markets;
Revenue;
Innovation and Invention;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Internet;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Naomi Atkins. "E2M Health Services." Harvard Business School Case 600-077, February 2000.
- June 2012 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
MF Global: Changing Stripes
By: Clayton Rose, Yasmin Dahya and Jenevieve Lee
Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. Eighteen months later, and in the wake of a massive trade in European sovereign debt, the firm filed for bankruptcy, the 8th largest in U.S. history. As the firm failed it was discovered that over $1.6 billion...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Leadership;
Governance;
Bankruptcy;
Financial Firms;
Financial Crisis;
Brokerage;
Asset Management;
Sovereign Finance;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Borrowing and Debt;
Trade;
Business Model
Rose, Clayton, Yasmin Dahya, and Jenevieve Lee. "MF Global: Changing Stripes." Harvard Business School Case 312-105, June 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
In early 2016, Stanley Litow, IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and President of the IBM International Foundation, made his travel arrangements for still another flight from New York to discuss possibilities for application of a new...
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Keywords:
IBM;
P-TECH;
Stanley Litow: Robin Willner;
Cuomo;
Scaling;
Innovation;
New York State;
New York City;
Business Model;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation Leadership;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Change;
Growth and Development;
Technology Industry;
New York (state, US);
New York (city, NY)
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Kelsi Stine-Rowe. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-130, March 2016. (Revised May 2021.)
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 19 May 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
In their book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin and researcher Patrick Cullen identified creative and innovative thinking as an essential skill for managers operating in a world of rapidly evolving...
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- April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
TixToGo: Financing a Silicon Valley Start-up
Describes TixToGo, a Silicon Valley start-up company that offers online solutions to individuals and organizations that want to offer activities and/or collect registration fees for events over the Internet. A serial entrepreneur and his partner started the company in...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Financing and Loans;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry;
San Francisco
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "TixToGo: Financing a Silicon Valley Start-up." Harvard Business School Case 800-376, April 2000. (Revised April 2004.)
- Program
General Management Program
Summary Taking your organization and your career to the next level requires going beyond your field of expertise to gain an end-to-end view of the enterprise, an in-depth understanding of business operations, and a multidisciplinary...
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- May 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Novartis (A): Reimagining Medicine
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Claudio Feser, Karolin Frankenberger and David Redaschi
This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis scaled it. Novartis — one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world — is, among other ventures,...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Model;
Leadership;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Switzerland
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Claudio Feser, Karolin Frankenberger, and David Redaschi. "Novartis (A): Reimagining Medicine." Harvard Business School Case 723-443, May 2023. (Revised June 2023.)
- April 2006 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Marketing New York City
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Anita Elberse and Marie Bell
New York City is a pioneer in the emerging field of municipal marketing. The city's first chief marketing officer must develop a marketing organization with a self-funded business model that creates value for the city by leveraging the city's assets, including physical...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Government and Politics;
Goals and Objectives;
Marketing Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Value Creation;
New York (city, NY)
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Anita Elberse, and Marie Bell. "Marketing New York City." Harvard Business School Case 506-022, April 2006. (Revised October 2008.)
- 18 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View
Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible...
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- January 2022
- Case
Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen
By: Dennis Yao and Alpana Thapar
In January 2020, Paddy Padmanathan, president and CEO of ACWA Power, was reflecting on the company’s sixteen-year record of success and thinking about its future growth plans. Founded in 2004, ACWA Power was a Saudi Arabian developer, owner, and operator of power and...
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Keywords:
Green Hydrogen;
Energy;
Climate Change;
Supply Chain;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Green Technology;
Projects;
Alliances;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Energy Industry;
Saudi Arabia;
Middle East;
North Africa
Yao, Dennis, and Alpana Thapar. "Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen." Harvard Business School Case 722-381, January 2022.
- December 2019 (Revised November 2021)
- Course Overview Note
The Entrepreneurial Manager: Spring 2022
By: Mitchell Weiss and Benjamin Henkes
This is the course overview note for “The Entrepreneurial Manager,” taught in the first year at Harvard Business School. Students will learn how to be opportunity-driven managers and how to lead under uncertainty. They'll learn how to identify opportunities, how to...
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Weiss, Mitchell, and Benjamin Henkes. "The Entrepreneurial Manager: Spring 2022." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 820-082, December 2019. (Revised November 2021.)
- February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
TimeCredit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 824-139. TimeCredit is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is developing large language models (LLMs) to generate accounting memos. The case follows Ndonga Sagnia, a Gambian Harvard Business School MBA student with an accounting...
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- April 2023
- Case
Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed
By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li
This is a case about a fictional New York beverage company called Fizzy Fusion. The business is facing supply chain and inventory management challenges with its new product, SparklingSip. Despite seeking help from a data science consulting firm, the machine learning...
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Keywords:
Supply Chain Management;
Production;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Analytics and Data Science;
Food and Beverage Industry
Parzen, Michael, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng, and Jessie Li. "Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed." Harvard Business School Case 623-071, April 2023.
- 28 May 2013
- News