Publications

February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Pet Doctors: 1999

By: Paul A. Gompers and David James Alexander Grant

Describes the decisions confronting David Hodges and Garret Turley about whether to grow their chain of veterinary clinics in the United Kingdom. Turley and Hodges must decide whether to attempt to speed up their acquisition pace and raise venture capital. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Venture Capital; Expansion; Acquisition; Service Industry; United Kingdom

Educators

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

$1.9 million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

May 2017
Article

Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary-Drink Portion Limits

By: Leslie John, Grant Donnelly and Christina Roberto

In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces. Although a state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable... View Details

Keywords: Nutrition; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)

Read Now

June 2024
Supplement

VC Journey Vignette (B): Navigating Turbulent Times

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Jackie Grant

June 2024
Case

VC Journey Vignette (A): Board Formation and Onboarding

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Jackie Grant

Educators

September 1994 (Revised October 1994)
Case

Guinness PLC

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Grant Kelley

Changing demographics, new types of competition, and new attitudes toward alcoholic beverages force the company to rethink priorities. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Demographics; Product Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

2021
Working Paper

The Situational Samaritan: How and Why Marketplace Conditions Shape Prosocial Consumer Behaviors

By: Julia von Schuckmann, Lucia S.G. Barrios, Grant E. Donnelly and Marco Bertini

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

paper Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? (forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics). "Planning regulation ended up harming independent retailers," she writes. "According to the results shown in the paper, the decline in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September–October 1995
Article

Realize Your Customers' Full Profit Potential

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Alan W.H. Grant

26 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

also provides a visual progress cue, as borrowers see purchases vanish from their statements. Norton worked on the project with Grant E. Donnelly, an assistant professor at Ohio State University; Cait Lamberton, a marketing professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

that if all songs are priced equally, those albums are a particularly "good deal" for consumers. But that is not what I found: The number of songs on an album does not really matter. “The labels did themselves a disservice by View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

creating for the corporation—which was actually very abstract and difficult to do. I left the for-profit sector in 1992 and spent some time involved with different nonprofits, getting a contextual view of what was possible. That led to the creation of VPP in 2000. My... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Article

Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women

By: Ashley V. Whillans, Jaewon Yoon, Aurora Turek and Grant E. Donnelly

In nine studies using archival data, surveys, and experiments, we identify a factor that predicts gender differences in time stress and burnout. Across academic and professional settings, women are less likely to ask for more time when working under adjustable... View Details

Keywords: Burnout; Time Stress; Workplace Practices; Deadlines; Time Management; Gender; Well-being