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- August 2017
- Case
CareMore Health System
By: Robert S. Huckman and Brian W. Powers
CareMore Health System—a physician-founded care delivery system and health plan—had developed and refined an innovative care model for at-risk seniors enrolled in Medicare managed care (i.e., Medicare Advantage) plans. CareMore's President, Sachin Jain, and his...
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Keywords:
Health Care Delivery;
Health Insurance;
Medicare;
Medicaid;
Managed Care;
Extensivist;
Social Determinants Of Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Health Industry;
United States
Huckman, Robert S., and Brian W. Powers. "CareMore Health System." Harvard Business School Case 618-008, August 2017.
- September 2015 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
Futbol Club Barcelona
By: Anita Elberse
In June 2015, FC Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu sees his team lift the UEFA Champions League trophy, completing an impressive trophy haul in the 2014-2015 season. Unique for a club of its caliber, five of the starting eleven are products of FC Barcelona's youth...
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Keywords:
Superstar;
Talent;
Talent Development And Retention;
Talent Management;
Marketing;
Strategy;
General Management;
Nonprofit;
Marketing Strategy;
Talent and Talent Management;
Entertainment;
Media;
Competitive Advantage;
Sports;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Barcelona
Elberse, Anita. "Futbol Club Barcelona." Harvard Business School Case 516-031, September 2015. (Revised June 2017.)
- 2017
- Supplement
Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
The (B) case provides an update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align...
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Keywords:
Charter Schools;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
Teaching;
Talent And Talent Management;
Innovation;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Consistency;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice." Harvard Business Publishing Supplement, 2017. (Case No. PEL-080.)
- March 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Inge Skjelfjord and the Cacao Supply Chain
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Inge Skjelfjord, with a long career in international finance focused on agribusiness projects, had a vision to build a cacao research center that would help smallholder cacao farmers, who benefited the least from the chocolate value chain. He aimed to support the...
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- January 2015 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Nasty Gals Do It Better
By: David Collis, Diane Chang, Matthew Shaffer and Ashley Hartman
In 2006, Sophia Amoruso started Nasty Gal, an eBay boutique selling vintage clothes. With a strong sense of style and personality, Amoruso poured herself into building the brand and developing relationships with her customers—typically the slightly edgy 18–24 year old....
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Keywords:
Business Growth;
Brand Management;
Online Retail;
Clothing;
Apparel;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Social Media;
E-commerce;
Digital Marketing;
Retail Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
United States
Collis, David, Diane Chang, Matthew Shaffer, and Ashley Hartman. "Nasty Gals Do It Better." Harvard Business School Case 715-412, January 2015. (Revised October 2018.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something...
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Keywords:
Time management
- Research Summary
Airline Schedule Disruptions
Increasing congestion and frequent schedule disruptions throughout the National Air Transportation System, both at airports and en route, have led to significant flight and passenger delays. Professor Fearing's primary research focus is on measuring and reducing... View Details
- 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...
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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.
- August 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences
By: Jill Avery and Rayan Nahas
Camera IQ, a camera marketing software company that empowered brands to create and launch augmented reality experiences (AREs) across social platforms, had just raised an additional $5 million to fund further product development and expand its marketing and sales...
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Keywords:
Brand Management;
Virtual Reality;
Augmented Reality;
B2B;
Technology Platform;
Marketing;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Digital Marketing;
Internet and the Web;
Growth Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Social Media;
E-commerce;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Advertising Industry;
United States
Avery, Jill, and Rayan Nahas. "Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences." Harvard Business School Case 522-002, August 2021. (Revised March 2022.)
- 2015
- Chapter
Framing the Game: How Brands' Relationships with Their Competitors Affect Consumer Preference
By: Neeru Paharia, Jill Avery and Anat Keinan
In this chapter, we explore how brands' relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency....
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Keywords:
Brand Management;
CRM;
Customer Relationship Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Competition;
Consumer Products Industry
Paharia, Neeru, Jill Avery, and Anat Keinan. "Framing the Game: How Brands' Relationships with Their Competitors Affect Consumer Preference." Chap. 2 in Strong Brands, Strong Relationships, edited by Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015.
- January 2023 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Nick Saban: Embracing 'The Process' of Sustaining Success
By: Ranjay Gulati and Eppa Rixey
Nick Saban, head coach of the University of Alabama football team from 2007-2022, fielded teams that won 183 of 208 games (88%), including a record-tying six national championships. Saban’s approach to coaching, known to many as “The Process,” and the consistent...
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Keywords:
Purpose;
Leadership And Managing People;
Football;
Recruiting;
Talent Acquisition;
Talent And Talent Management;
Talent Development And Retention;
Organization Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Behavior;
Sports;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Sports Industry;
United States
- April 2011 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
The Eleganzia Group
By: Elie Ofek, Elena Corsi, Bharat Sajnani, Sorina Casian-Botez and Francesco Tronci
Eleganzia Group management faces tough decisions heading into the summer of 2010. With tourism on the decline due to the global economic recession, General Manager Giannuzzi must decide how to set prices at the Forte Village Resort, the Group's most well-known...
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Keywords:
Pricing;
Pricing Strategy;
Customer Management;
Branding;
Customer Relationship Management;
Price;
Luxury;
Business Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Accommodations Industry;
Travel Industry;
Italy
Ofek, Elie, Elena Corsi, Bharat Sajnani, Sorina Casian-Botez, and Francesco Tronci. "The Eleganzia Group." Harvard Business School Case 511-115, April 2011. (Revised January 2015.)
- February 2012
- Case
Henkel: Building a Winning Culture
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was...
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Keywords:
Performance Measurement;
Performance Appraisals;
Human Resource Management;
Values;
Organizational Transformations;
Pay For Performance;
Strategy Execution;
Values and Beliefs;
Work-Life Balance;
Organizational Culture;
Human Resources;
Performance Evaluation;
Compensation and Benefits
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Henkel: Building a Winning Culture." Harvard Business School Case 112-060, February 2012.
- Article
Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes
By: Richard Bohmer and Candace Imison
In 2000 the English National Health Service (NHS) began a series of workforce redesign initiatives that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in...
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Bohmer, Richard, and Candace Imison. "Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes." Health Affairs 32, no. 11 (November 2013): 2025–2031.
- February 2015 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners
By: Joseph B. Fuller, David J. Collis and Matthew G. Preble
Josh Golomb, president and general manager of DaVita Rx (Rx), was about to meet with Kent Thiry, CEO of Rx's corporate parent, DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita), in August 2013. The two would discuss whether Golomb should lead a new DaVita venture, Paladina...
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Keywords:
Intrapreneurship;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Startup Management;
Startup;
Strategic Positioning;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Startups;
Strategic Planning;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Fuller, Joseph B., David J. Collis, and Matthew G. Preble. "Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners." Harvard Business School Case 315-046, February 2015. (Revised June 2017.)
- Article
Algorithms Need Managers, Too
By: Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan
Algorithms are powerful predictive tools, but they can run amok when not applied properly. Consider what often happens with social media sites. Today many use algorithms to decide which ads and links to show users. But when these algorithms focus too narrowly on...
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Keywords:
Machine Learning;
Algorithms;
Predictive Analytics;
Management;
Big Data;
Analytics and Data Science
Luca, Michael, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Algorithms Need Managers, Too." Harvard Business Review 94, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2016): 96–101.
- 2015
- Book
Strong Brands, Strong Relationships
By: Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale and Jill Avery
From the editorial team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of...
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Keywords:
Brand Building;
Brand Management;
CRM;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Advertising;
Customer Relationship Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Advertising Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Fournier, Susan, Michael Breazeale and Jill Avery, eds. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Signaling without Certification: The Critical Role of Civil Society Scrutiny
By: Susan A. Kayser, John W. Maxwell and Michael W. Toffel
In response to stakeholders' growing concerns, companies are joining voluntary environmental programs to signal their superior environmental management capabilities. In contrast to the literature's focus on certification programs that require a third-party audit, we...
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Keywords:
United Nations;
Labor Standards;
Supplier Relationship;
Procurement;
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Quality And Safety;
Risk;
Globalization;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Governance;
Working Conditions;
Supply Chain Management;
Supply Chain;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Quality;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Safety;
Reputation
Kayser, Susan A., John W. Maxwell, and Michael W. Toffel. "Signaling without Certification: The Critical Role of Civil Society Scrutiny." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-009, August 2014. (Revised July 2016.)
- June 2013
- Supplement
Union Corrugating Co. (A) (Spreadsheet Supplement)
This is the spreadsheet supplement for HBS Case 803065, containing Exhibit 3 as an Excel document.
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Keywords:
Family-owned Business;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Entrepreneurs;
Sales Force Management;
Salesforce Management;
Operations Management;
COST Control;
Gender;
Careers;
Turnaround;
Turnarounds;
Supply Chain Management;
Restructuring;
Entrepreneurship;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Supply Chain;
Steel Industry;
Construction Industry;
North Carolina;
United States
- September 2013 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife
By: Anita Elberse, Ryan Barlow and Sheldon Wong
In January 2013, nightlife impresarios Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg are celebrating the re-opening of their famed New York City–based nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one and a half years, Strauss and Tepperberg managed to keep...
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Keywords:
Creative Industries;
Nightlife;
Service Management;
Entertainment;
Fashion;
Celebrities;
Event Marketing;
Risk Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Change Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Music Entertainment;
Product Marketing;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Las Vegas
Elberse, Anita, Ryan Barlow, and Sheldon Wong. "Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife." Harvard Business School Case 514-028, September 2013. (Revised June 2019.)