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- February 2023 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Hey, Insta & YouTube, Are You Watching TikTok?
In early 2023 the entertainment app TikTok reached close to 1 billion users globally, placing it 4th behind the leading social networks of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Featuring a sophisticated recommendation engine, TikTok mastered the art of keeping users...
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Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Hey, Insta & YouTube, Are You Watching TikTok?" Harvard Business School Case 723-426, February 2023. (Revised March 2023.)
- 2022
- Article
Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300–1600
By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This essay uses the concept of 'copynorms', social norms about copying expressive works that can be distinct from legal norms about the same, in order to understand the meaning of intellectual property among Roman law and canon law jurists from the fourteenth through...
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- 2022
- Working Paper
You've Got Mail! The Late 19th Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Performance
By: Astrid Marinoni and Maria P. Roche
We analyze the impact of the US Postal Service's western expansion in the late 19th century, a major institutional innovation, on entrepreneurship and its heterogeneous influence on firm performance. Exploiting a novel dataset constructed from digitized archival...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Institutional Innovation;
Knowledge Exchange;
US Postal Service;
Firm Performance;
Infrastructure;
Expansion;
Government Administration;
Communication;
Business History;
Public Administration Industry;
California
Marinoni, Astrid, and Maria P. Roche. "You've Got Mail! The Late 19th Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-022, October 2022.
- 2022
- Article
Indonesia and the Third Indochina War: The End of Containment
By: Mattias Fibiger
The Third Indochina War called forth dramatic changes in the international relations of Southeast Asia. Foremost among these changes was a shift in the geopolitical orientation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The organization’s founders...
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Fibiger, Mattias. "Indonesia and the Third Indochina War: The End of Containment." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 29, no. 3 (2022): 240–270.
- September 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Navya: Steering Toward a Driverless Future
By: Julian De Freitas, Elie Ofek, Shaun Ingledew and Tonia Labruyere
In 2022, Sophie Desormière arrived at French roboshuttle producer Navya, tasked with charting a new course in a challenging sector. The company, which had recently listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, was burning through cash reserves and needed to transform the promise...
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Keywords:
Autonomous Vehicles;
Market Entry and Exit;
Opportunities;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Consumer Behavior;
Business Model;
Auto Industry;
Transportation Industry;
France;
United States
De Freitas, Julian, Elie Ofek, Shaun Ingledew, and Tonia Labruyere. "Navya: Steering Toward a Driverless Future." Harvard Business School Case 523-046, September 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- September 2022
- Case
Esas Group: Investing Together, Staying Together
By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar
This case opens in June 2022, after Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, implements a series of changes to professionalize the business and help transition family members from operators to responsible investors. In December 2019, the Group...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Transition;
Business or Company Management;
Organizational Structure;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Governance;
Financial Services Industry;
Turkey
Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "Esas Group: Investing Together, Staying Together." Harvard Business School Case 623-027, September 2022.
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Effect of Employee Lateness and Absenteeism on Store Performance
By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
We empirically analyze the effects of employee lateness and absenteeism on store performance by examining 25.5 million employee shift timecards covering more than 100,000 employees across more than 500 U.S. retail grocery store locations over a four year time period....
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Kwon, Caleb, and Ananth Raman. "The Effect of Employee Lateness and Absenteeism on Store Performance." Working Paper, August 2022.
- August 2022
- Case
SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to...
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Keywords:
NFTs;
Crypto Economy;
Alternative Assets;
DAOs;
Arts;
Governance;
Governance Controls;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Finance;
Currency;
Investment;
Markets;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Demand and Consumers;
Network Effects;
Market Design;
Market Transactions;
Market Timing;
Web Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Scott Duke Kominers, and Amy Klopfenstein. "SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO." Harvard Business School Case 823-027, August 2022.
- August 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Altos Ventures (A)
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In December 2012, Altos Ventures General Partners Han Kim, Anthony Lee, and Ho Nam met to discuss the future of the firm. Altos had already adjusted its strategy multiple times. It began as a U.S.-focused venture capital investor whose first two funds were backed by a...
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Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Altos Ventures (A)." Harvard Business School Case 823-035, August 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- August 2022
- Supplement
Broadway Angels (2022)
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group’s future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena Yesil, started the group to gather together the most successful and powerful women in venture capital and...
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Keywords:
Gender Equity;
Impact;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Entrepreneurship;
Gender;
Mission and Purpose;
Groups and Teams;
Financial Services Industry
Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Broadway Angels (2022)." Harvard Business School Supplement 823-001, August 2022.
- June 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Dollar Tree: Breaking the Buck
By: Jill Avery and Marco Bertini
For thirty-five years, Dollar Tree, a discount retail chain selling general merchandise, had held its fixed price point steady, pricing all of its household items, food, stationery, books, seasonal items, gifts, toys, and clothing that made up its diverse and...
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Keywords:
Retailing;
Pricing;
Pricing Strategy;
Discount Retailing;
Discount Store;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Price;
Inflation and Deflation;
Consumer Behavior;
Retail Industry;
United States
Avery, Jill, and Marco Bertini. "Dollar Tree: Breaking the Buck." Harvard Business School Case 522-091, June 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- April 2022
- Case
Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash
In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Organizational Culture;
Business Strategy;
Change;
Change Management;
Money;
Cash;
Credit;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Central Banking;
Financial Instruments;
Credit Cards;
Financial Markets;
Globalization;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Information Technology;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
New York (state, US)
Gupta, Sunil, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley, and Emily Tedards. "Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash." Harvard Business School Case 522-001, April 2022.
- April 2022 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Stalin’s Capitalists: American Business and Soviet Industrialization
By: Jeremy Friedman, Jingyu Liu and Christine Riggle
In the late 1920s and early 1930s when Joseph Stalin, leader of the world’s first Communist state, sought to industrialize his largely peasant country on an unprecedented scale, he turned for help to those who had the most experience constructing on such a scale:...
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- March 2022
- Case
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley
In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Small Business;
Business Education;
Curriculum and Courses;
Government and Politics;
Knowledge;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Labor;
Employment;
Human Capital;
Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Programs;
Networks;
Social Enterprise;
Society;
Strategy;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
New York (city, NY);
New York (state, US)
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Julia Kelley. "The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021." Harvard Business School Case 322-052, March 2022.
- February 2022 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Resident 2020
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
Launched in 2016, Resident was a leading player in the direct-to-consumer bed-in-a-box mattress market, where it was one of at least 175 venture-backed companies competing in the space. By late 2020, it had realized over $500 million in revenue, profitability in the...
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- 2022
- Chapter
State-Formation, Statist Islam, and Regime Instability: Evidence from Turkey
By: Kristin Fabbe
Religion, and particularly the forces of political Islam and state secularism, have been central to discussions of regime stability in the Turkish case. Intense polarization, political instability, and military interventions have propelled Turkey into crisis about once...
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Keywords:
Ottoman Empire;
Regime;
State Secularism;
Political Islam;
Democracy;
Autocracy;
Religion;
Government and Politics;
Turkey
Fabbe, Kristin. "State-Formation, Statist Islam, and Regime Instability: Evidence from Turkey." In The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies, edited by Melani Cammett and Pauline Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- February 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Aleph Farms: A New Culture of Meat
By: Elie Ofek and Jeff Huizinga
Aleph Farms, an Israeli food-tech start-up, was hoping to play a major role in disrupting the conventional meat sector. Compared to intensive agricultural practices, Aleph’s cultured (or lab-grown) meat solution held the promise of considerably reducing greenhouse gas...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Adoption;
Go To Market Strategy;
Industry Evolution;
Food Industry;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Marketing Of Innovations;
Brand Building;
Capital Expenditures-equipment;
Disruption;
Green Technology;
Environmental Sustainability;
Food;
Market Entry and Exit;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Behavior;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Jeff Huizinga. "Aleph Farms: A New Culture of Meat." Harvard Business School Case 522-071, February 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- February 2022
- Article
Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and William L. Skimmyhorn
Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase financial distress due to increased borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan....
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Keywords:
Retirement Savings;
Automatic Enrollment;
Choice Architecture;
Nudge;
Financial Distress;
Retirement;
Saving;
Borrowing and Debt;
Behavior
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and William L. Skimmyhorn. "Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt." Journal of Finance 77, no. 1 (February 2022): 403–447.
- January 2022 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent
By: Boris Groysberg, V. Kasturi Rangan, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization’s origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars—Ken Chenault (former CEO of American Express), Ken Frazier (former CEO of Merck), Charles Phillips (chair of Infor), Ginni Rometty...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Demographics;
Ethics;
Organizations;
Social Enterprise;
Society;
Business or Company Management;
Nonprofit Organizations
Groysberg, Boris, V. Kasturi Rangan, Annelena Lobb, and Kerry Herman. "OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent." Harvard Business School Case 422-018, January 2022. (Revised September 2022.)
- January 2022
- Case
Simplifyy
By: Paul A. Gompers and Alicia Dadlani
Jake Lisby, co-founder and CEO of Simplifyy, a property technology startup in Kansas City, Missouri, was both exhausted and exhilarated by the flurry of activity surrounding the pivot of the business model in late 2021. Simplifyy, a venture-backed PropTech company, was...
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Keywords:
SaaS;
SaaS Business Models;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Small Business;
Geographic Location;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Transformation;
Problems and Challenges;
Real Estate Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
Missouri
Gompers, Paul A., and Alicia Dadlani. "Simplifyy." Harvard Business School Case 222-050, January 2022.