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- January 2023
- Case
Zaoui & Co. (A): Consigliere for High Stakes M&A Transactions
By: Ashish Nanda, Alex Kitsberg and Zack Kurtovich
In September 2019, Zaoui & Co.’s close-knit team of professionals convened for their annual off-site. In its nine years of operation, the boutique investment bank founded by the brothers Michael (HBS ’83) and Yoel Zaoui (Stanford GSB ’88), had garnered a track record...
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- January 2023
- Exercise
Identify the Health Care Venture
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
This case enables rapid learning of the key financial characteristics of many types of health care organizations and to diagnose their financial status. It is a surprisingly fun exercise (see the Teaching Note) accomplished by organizing groups of students that compete...
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- January 2023
- Module Note
Network Effects in Technology
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
In business and strategy contexts, network effects are often accompanied by bandwagon (or herding) effects, positive feedback loops (or accumulated advantage effects), and market tipping (or winner-take-all dynamics). Though these phenomena are often grouped together...
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Wu, Andy, and Matt Higgins. "Network Effects in Technology." Harvard Business School Module Note 723-417, January 2023.
- January 10, 2023
- Editorial
Managing Your Team’s Emotional Dynamic
By: Amit Goldenberg
Collective emotion, when a group of people shares an emotion, is often stronger than a single individual feeling that same emotion alone. So, how can leaders manage emotions, particularly negative ones, from taking over a team? Four strategies from psychology—situation...
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Goldenberg, Amit. "Managing Your Team’s Emotional Dynamic." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 10, 2023).
- January 2023 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Belden and Digital Transformation: From Product Sales to Solutions Sales
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amy Klopfenstein
This case provides an overview of a sales transformation in the industrial automation division at Belden, a hardware manufacturer. While Belden historically sold products such as cables, wires, and other networking devices, EVP of Industrial Automation Ashish Chand...
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- January 2023
- Case
Cleave Therapeutics: Taking a Risk on Oncology Drug Discovery
By: Regina Herzlinger and Brian Walker
How can a successful executive assess her next move as the CEO of a firm with a promising and yet uncertain new drug? Amy Burroughs’ mandate to find a therapeutic window for Cleave Therapeutics oncology drug was on track but faced an uncertain future. Overseeing the...
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- January 2023
- Article
Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other...
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Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Human Resources 58, no. 1 (January 2023): 183–220.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Nailing Prediction: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Tools in Predictive Model Development
Predictive model development is understudied despite its importance to modern businesses. Although prior discussions highlight advances in methods (along the dimensions of data, computing power, and algorithms) as the primary driver of model quality, the value of tools...
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Keywords:
Analytics and Data Science
Yue, Daniel, Paul Hamilton, and Iavor Bojinov. "Nailing Prediction: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Tools in Predictive Model Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-029, December 2022.
- December 2022
- Case
Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution
By: Juan Alcácer and Emer Moloney
At the end of 2019, Ignacio Galán, the Chairman and CEO of the world's third largest utility, Iberdrola, relected on his almost 20 years at the company. He managed a portfolio of three very different businesses, each with their own specific opportunities and...
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Keywords:
Energy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Engineering;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Timing;
Industry Growth;
Mission and Purpose;
Strategy;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Auto Industry;
Spain;
United Kingdom;
United States;
Brazil;
Mexico
- December 13, 2022
- Article
6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow
By: Joseph Fuller, Matthew Sigelman and Nik Dawson
The authors recently studied Fortune 250 companies and ranked them based on the lived experience of three million of their U.S. workers. One of their key findings was that even top-ranked firms fail to deliver consistently on worker advancement. To understand why this...
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Keywords:
Personal Development and Career;
Training;
Business Model;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Evaluation;
Opportunities
Fuller, Joseph, Matthew Sigelman, and Nik Dawson. "6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 13, 2022).
- December 2022
- Article
Collaborative Rooming: An Innovative Pilot Project to Overcome Primary Care Challenges
By: Gagandeep Singh, Jill G. Lenhart, Richard A. Helmers, Michele Renee Eberlee, Heather Costley, Joel B. Roberts and Robert S. Kaplan
Primary care physicians are overburdened with growing complexities and increasing expectations for primary care visits. To meet expectations, primary care physicians must multitask during visits and spend extra hours in the office for charting, billing, and...
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Singh, Gagandeep, Jill G. Lenhart, Richard A. Helmers, Michele Renee Eberlee, Heather Costley, Joel B. Roberts, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Collaborative Rooming: An Innovative Pilot Project to Overcome Primary Care Challenges." Wisconsin Medical Journal 121, no. 4 (December 2022): 306–309.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions
We empirically analyze how managerial overrides to a commercial algorithm that forecasts demand and schedules labor affect store performance. We analyze administrative data from a large grocery retailer that utilizes a commercial algorithm to forecast demand and...
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Keywords:
Employees;
Human Capital;
Performance;
Applications and Software;
Management Skills;
Management Practices and Processes;
Retail Industry
Kwon, Caleb, Ananth Raman, and Jorge Tamayo. "Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions." Working Paper, December 2022.
- December 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Ribbit Capital and the Gauntlet Investment Opportunity
By: Shai Bernstein and Allison M. Ciechanover
Ten-year-old, Palo Alto-based Ribbit Capital is best-known for its global investments in fintech. The firm was also an early advocate of crypto and blockchain, having invested in more than two dozen startups in the space in the past decade. In the Spring of 2022,...
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- December 2022
- Article
The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance
This multi-method study of managers in a grocery chain identifies a novel mechanism by which threats of gender stereotypes undermine women’s ability to be effective managers. I find that women managers face a task bind, a dilemma that managers experience as they try to...
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Feldberg, Alexandra C. "The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance." Administrative Science Quarterly 67, no. 4 (December 2022): 1049–1092.
- November 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Replika AI: Monetizing a Chatbot
By: Julian De Freitas and Nicole Tempest Keller
In early 2018, Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based chatbot Replika AI, was deciding how to monetize the app she had built. Launched in 2017, Replika was a consumer AI “companion app” developed by a team of AI software engineers originally based in...
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- November 2022
- Case
Goonj: Growing in the Face of a Pandemic
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Priyank Narayan
Founded by the husband and wife team of Anshu and Meenakshi Gupta in 1999, Goonj had quickly emerged as one of the leading disaster relief and rural development organizations in India. Their main mode of development was through providing a clothing kit to the village...
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- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),...
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- November 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Ava Labs: Navigating the Next Blockchain
By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
John Wu, President of Ava Labs, the primary developer of the Avalanche blockchain, and Emin Gün Sirer, the software company’s Founder and CEO, team up to develop a lending and borrowing protocol that would jumpstart the Decentralized finance (DeFi) economy on...
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Keywords:
Blockchain;
Decentralized Finance;
Alternative Assets;
Financial Instruments;
Assets;
Decisions;
Financing and Loans;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Di Maggio, Marco, and Wenyao Sha. "Ava Labs: Navigating the Next Blockchain." Harvard Business School Case 223-027, November 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- November 2022
- Case
'A Marshall Plan for Africa': James Mwangi and Equity Group Holdings
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Debora L. Spar, Zeke Gillman and Julia M. Comeau
- November 2022
- Case
The Globalization of Manchester City Football Group
By: Maria P. Roche, Tiona Zuzul, Exequiel Hernandez and Amy Klopfenstein
This case describes the efforts of City Football Group (CFG) to purchase Esporte Clube Bahia (Bahia), a Brazilian professional soccer club. CFG’s strategy was to acquire under-performing clubs worldwide, invest money in high-profile players, and improve the teams’...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Business Conglomerates;
Geography;
Geographic Location;
Geographic Scope;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Organizations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Sports;
Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Sports Industry;
Europe;
United Kingdom;
England;
South America;
Brazil