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- January 2024
- Case
Colbún and Chile’s Energy Transition
By: Forest Reinhardt, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In May 2023, Colbún, Chile’s second-largest electricity generator, plans capacity expansions using renewable energy and storage. This strategy supports Chile’s commitment to carbon neutrality (also known as net zero emissions) by 2050. The case delves into the...
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Keywords:
Transition;
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Climate Change;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Infrastructure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Expansion;
Business Strategy;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Chile
Reinhardt, Forest, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Mariana Cal. "Colbún and Chile's Energy Transition." Harvard Business School Case 724-026, January 2024.
- March 2020
- Supplement
Poppy (B)
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers, Jeff Huizinga and Allison Ciechanover
Avni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy, an online marketplace for on-demand childcare, revisits the venture's final months, and discusses the steps she took in the wake of the shutdown. This case explores experiments the company conducted to refine its original...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Marketplace Matching;
Business Model;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Personal Development and Career;
United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Scott Duke Kominers, Jeff Huizinga, and Allison Ciechanover. "Poppy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-715, March 2020.
- Web
Marketing - Doctoral
field exam, and then another three years on dissertation research and writing. The Marketing program draws on computer science, economics, behavioral science, and psychological methods to focus on marketing...
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care...
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by HBS News
- June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
YAAS's Service Center
By: Brian Hall and Sara del Nido
This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is...
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Keywords:
Compensation;
Emotions;
Values;
Compensation and Benefits;
Human Resources;
Labor;
Negotiation;
Organizations;
Social Psychology;
Value Creation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Auto Industry;
Service Industry;
Kuwait;
Middle East
Hall, Brian, and Sara del Nido. "YAAS's Service Center." Harvard Business School Case 914-049, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- October 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund
By: Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn and Ari Sunshine
In April 2020, Scott Einsenberg, the Head of Credit at the private equity firm Francisco Partners, is deciding whether to go ahead with extending a private lending agreement to Eventbrite, Inc. (NYSE: EB), a leading global event management and online ticketing...
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Viceira, Luis M., John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn, and Ari Sunshine. "Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund." Harvard Business School Case 221-002, October 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- September 1988 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Donner Co.
By: Roy D. Shapiro
The management of a small manufacturer of circuit boards faces a number of production and operations management problems. The first day on this case is used to analyze the production capacity of various stages in the process and to examine bottlenecks and key...
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Keywords:
Information Management;
Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Production;
Performance Capacity;
Problems and Challenges;
Semiconductor Industry
Shapiro, Roy D. "Donner Co." Harvard Business School Case 689-030, September 1988. (Revised December 1998.)
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
changes, which we examine in this case study. After highlighting the constituent responsibilities, structures, and processes, we recognize a system, as opposed to a list of mechanisms, as responsible for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 2012
- Teaching Note
Gene Patents (A) (TN)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew Preble
This is the teaching note for case Gene Patents (A). In March 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet overturned 30 years of legal precedent and ruled that unaltered human genes could not be patented. This case reviews patent law and how it relates to our...
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- July 2013
- Case
Montreaux Chocolate USA: Are Americans Ready for Healthy Dark Chocolate?
By: John A. Quelch and Diane Badame
Andrea Torres, director of new product development at a high-end chocolate confectionery company, leads her team through a carefully sequenced program of market research to support the development and launch of a new product, healthy dark chocolate with fruit. This is...
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Keywords:
Competition;
Food;
Consumer Behavior;
Nutrition;
Product Launch;
Product Development;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Switzerland;
United States
Quelch, John A., and Diane Badame. "Montreaux Chocolate USA: Are Americans Ready for Healthy Dark Chocolate?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-501, July 2013.
- January 1990
- Case
Ashland Oil, Inc.: Trouble at Floreffe (A)
This case series involves a crisis in business ethics and management decision making, when one of the company's diesel fuel storage tanks collapses, releasing nearly one million gallons of oil into the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers. Divided into four cases guiding the...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Decision Making;
Crisis Management;
Energy Sources;
Energy Industry
Goodpaster, Kenneth E. "Ashland Oil, Inc.: Trouble at Floreffe (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-017, January 1990.
- February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
CalPERS Private Equity 2.0
By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Alys Ferragamo
Yup Kim, the Head of Investments, Private Equity at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), reflected on the pension fund’s private equity strategy. In July of 2022, the fund was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround strategy with the goal to...
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Lerner, Josh, John D. Dionne, and Alys Ferragamo. "CalPERS Private Equity 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 223-048, February 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- January 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Nivea (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Johann Fuller, Volker Bilgram and Greta Friar
The case describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through open innovation using external crowds and "netnographic" analysis. Beiersdorf, best known for its consumer brand...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Innovation Management;
Crowdsourcing;
Big Data;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Research and Development;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Analytics and Data Science;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Lakhani, Karim R., Johann Fuller, Volker Bilgram, and Greta Friar. "Nivea (A)." Harvard Business School Case 614-042, January 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
cases across industries, and will examine how Google Cloud can help accelerate this transformation. Ewa Duerr Head of Product Management, Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Google AI Regulation Join us for a panel moderated by Mitchell...
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- October 2010 (Revised August 2012)
- Supplement
Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (B)
By: Deishin Lee, Baris Ata and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and renewable energy production. The (A) case focuses on the operational characteristics of waste management and waste to energy, and the characteristics of the...
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Keywords:
Framework;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Management;
Operations;
Social Issues;
Problems and Challenges;
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Quality;
Industry Structures;
Energy Industry
Lee, Deishin, Baris Ata, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak. "Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-034, October 2010. (Revised August 2012.)
- October 2002
- Case
A Father's Love: Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Bradley Campbell
John Crowley, CEO of Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, a start-up biotechnology firm developing an orphan drug to treat a rare lysosomal storage disorder from which his children suffer, must choose between a partnership and a buyout to have sufficient funds and support to get...
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Technological Innovation;
Business Startups;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financing and Loans;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Sales;
Price;
Product Development;
Motivation and Incentives;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Bradley Campbell. "A Father's Love: Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 603-048, October 2002.
- January 2017
- Supplement
Q&A: Ghislain de Charentenay, Sanford C. Bernstein Director of Research, Asia
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
In this video supplement to the HBS case series "Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia," case protagonist Ghislain de Charentenay recalls his leadership priorities and challenges upon being appointed director of research in Asia.
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Keywords:
Talent Management;
Sell-side Analysts;
Organizational Behavior;
Leadership And Managing People;
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Leadership Style;
Asia;
Hong Kong;
Collaboration;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Talent and Talent Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Asia;
Hong Kong
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Q&A: Ghislain de Charentenay, Sanford C. Bernstein Director of Research, Asia." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 417-707, January 2017.
- August 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Supplement
Plug Power (B)
By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
The case is set in spring 2021, immediately after Plug Power made financial restatements dating back to 2018. The case describes the restatements, which revealed that Plug was reclassifying expense items to boost gross profits.
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Keywords:
Environmental Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Ethics;
Profit;
Management;
Social Enterprise;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States;
Europe
Heese, Jonas, Joseph Pacelli, and James Barnett. "Accounting Outages at Plug Power? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 124-018, August 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- March 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2009
By: Jan W. Rivkin, Michael Roberto and Ranjay Gulati
This case, a supplement to the “Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2001 (Abridged)” case (710-450) and the “Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2007” case (710-451), reviews the FBI's progress in its transformation effort from 2007 to 2009.
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Public Administration Industry;
District of Columbia
Rivkin, Jan W., Michael Roberto, and Ranjay Gulati. "Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2009." Harvard Business School Case 710-452, March 2010. (Revised May 2010.)