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- April 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Southern States Communications
By: Constance E. Bagley and Michael B. Keating
Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate the intellectual property rights of another sometimes have a tendency to ignore them after their technical staff advises them that the claims have no merit. Illustrates the perils of that...
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Bagley, Constance E., and Michael B. Keating. "Southern States Communications." Harvard Business School Case 806-170, April 2006. (Revised March 2007.)
- September 2004 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
QUALCOMM, Inc. 2004
By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Elizabeth Kind
QUALCOMM, Inc. had transitioned from a fledgling startup into a Fortune 500 wireless technology leader. Its CDMA technology was considered the preeminent technology and was the world's fastest growing wireless communications technology. CEO Irwin Jacobs had a number of...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Government and Politics;
Leadership Style;
Resource Allocation;
Product Positioning;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
China;
India
Yoffie, David B., Pai-Ling Yin, and Elizabeth Kind. "QUALCOMM, Inc. 2004." Harvard Business School Case 705-401, September 2004. (Revised June 2005.)
- December 2003 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Rein Chemical Company: Specialty Division
By: Francis Aguilar
This case describes corporate management's recent discovery of widespread unethical pricing transactions in one division and key managers' different views on how to respond. Students are asked to evaluate management's position and decide who should do what to resolve...
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Keywords:
Customers;
Price;
Ethics;
Business Divisions;
Chemicals;
Crisis Management;
Chemical Industry
Aguilar, Francis. "Rein Chemical Company: Specialty Division." Harvard Business School Case 904-046, December 2003. (Revised September 2005.)
- February 1990 (Revised July 1992)
- Case
Whistler Corp. (A)
By: Gary P. Pisano
Describes the circumstances surrounding Whistler Corp.'s decision whether or not to continue manufacturing operations in the United States. The company had been experiencing severe problems in its domestic manufacturing operations and was thus unable to compete with...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Production;
Problems and Challenges;
Competitive Strategy;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
United States
Pisano, Gary P. "Whistler Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 690-011, February 1990. (Revised July 1992.)
- 28 Aug 2024
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
- Article
Who Will Vote Quadratically? Voter Turnout and Votes Cast Under Quadratic Voting
By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers
Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core QV literature assumes that everyone votes, turnout is endogenous. Drawing on other work, we consider the representativeness of endogenously...
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Keywords:
Voting Turnout;
Paradox Of Voting;
Quadratic Voting;
Pivotality;
Elections;
Voting;
Political Elections;
Mathematical Methods
Kaplow, Louis, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Who Will Vote Quadratically? Voter Turnout and Votes Cast Under Quadratic Voting." Special Issue on Quadratic Voting and the Public Good. Public Choice 172, nos. 1-2 (July 2017): 125–149.
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
number of meetings required of employees has risen by 12.9 percent on average since the pandemic began. And according to Reclaim.ai., a calendar-app company, the average full-time, white-collar American worker spends 21.5 hours a week in...
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by Kristen Senz
- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert...
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Keywords:
Writing;
Online Platform;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Internet and the Web;
Competency and Skills;
Change Management;
Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-030, 2013.
- July 2019
- Case
LaCroix Sparkling Water
By: Tomomichi Amano, Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
Launched in 1981 as an “all occasion” sparkling water brand, LaCroix Sparkling Water has had a number of ups and downs as a brand. After being purchased by National Beverage in 1996, the brand was re-positioned as a new, colorful, fun alternative to the other sparkling...
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Keywords:
Brands and Branding;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Industry Structures;
Food and Beverage Industry
Amano, Tomomichi, Das Narayandas, and Kerry Herman. "LaCroix Sparkling Water." Harvard Business School Case 520-014, July 2019.
- August 2014
- Teaching Plan
The Huffington Post
In February 2010, management of the Huffington Post, a fast-growing but not-yet-profitable Internet newspaper that aggregates blog posts from unpaid contributors and excerpts of stories originally published by other news sites, faces a number of decisions about its...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Newspapers;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Journalism and News Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "The Huffington Post." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 815-052, August 2014.
- March 1995 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Mattson Foods, Inc. (Revised): The Bardolini Division
The Bardolini Division of Mattson Foods, with plants in the northeast and midwest, wants to open up the western market for its pizza. Management must decide whether to build a new plant on the West Coast, and what type of technology to put in the plant if they decide...
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Keywords:
Logistics;
Emerging Markets;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Business Plan;
Capital Budgeting;
Expansion;
Buildings and Facilities;
Strategic Planning;
Marketing Strategy;
Technology;
Economic Systems;
Food and Beverage Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Mattson Foods, Inc. (Revised): The Bardolini Division." Harvard Business School Case 695-058, March 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
- 09 Dec 2014
- News
Can Your Movie Change the World?
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Automated Hiring Systems Are Rejecting Qualified Candidates
- March 2024
- Article
Do Safety Management System Standards Indicate Safer Operations? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard
By: Kala Viswanathan, Matthew S. Johnson and Michael W. Toffel
Problem definition: Given the enormous disruptions and costs of occupational injuries, companies and buyers are increasingly looking to voluntary occupational health and safety standards to improve worker safety. Yet because these standards only require...
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Keywords:
Occupational Health;
Occupational Safety;
Program Evaluation;
Safety Performance;
Injuries;
OHSAS 18001;
ISO 45001;
Working Conditions;
Safety;
Standards
Viswanathan, Kala, Matthew S. Johnson, and Michael W. Toffel. "Do Safety Management System Standards Indicate Safer Operations? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard." Art. 106383. Safety Science 171 (March 2024).
- 28 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Leveraging Market Power Through Tying and Bundling: Does Google Behave Anti-Competitively?
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by Benjamin Edelman
- 2012
- Working Paper
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises
By: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson
Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects....
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Keywords:
Social Norms;
Social Networks;
Triadic Closure;
Social Groups;
Group Identity;
Groups and Teams;
Identity;
Performance Consistency;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Societal Protocols;
Social Media
Gibbons, Robert, and Rebecca Henderson. "What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-020, August 2012.
- 2007
- Article
Greedy Bidding Strategies for Keyword Auctions
By: Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Claire Mathieu and Michael Schwarz
How should players bid in keyword auctions such as those used by Google, Yahoo! and MSN? We consider greedy bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single keyword, where in each round, each player chooses some optimal bid for the next round, assuming that the...
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Cary, Matthew, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz. "Greedy Bidding Strategies for Keyword Auctions." Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (2007): 262–271.
- Column
What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?
The pandemic crisis is almost certain to change many American industries. It would be a shame if health care is not one of them. A number of major practices have been altered to help the country cope with the extraordinary demands that the pandemic has imposed on the...
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Huckman, Robert S. "What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?" Harvard Business Review (website) (April 7, 2020).