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    Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

    Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details

      Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

      The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details

      • 23 Oct 2019
      • Blog Post

      How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

      strategies do you use in this class to teach students? The students will spend most of the time in and out of class practicing conversational skills, getting feedback (from me, from peers, from machines,... View Details
      • July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
      • Case

      Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing

      By: Peter Tufano
      Kinecta Federal Credit Union has the opportunity to purchase Nix Check Cashing as part of their "blue ocean" strategy to reach the financially underserved and increase credit union membership and deposits. But they face financial as well as reputational risk. Check... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Credit; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Reputation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      • August 2001 (Revised October 2001)
      • Case

      Shinsei Bank (A)

      By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
      In a deal marking the first acquisition of a domestic Japanese financial institution by foreigners, a consortium of Western investors purchased the assets of the Long Term Credit Bank (LTCB) of Japan in March 2000. The new management renames the bank Shinsei Bank,... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Assets; Banks and Banking; Investment; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Failure; Adaptation; Banking Industry; Japan
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      • January 1990 (Revised October 1993)
      • Case

      Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (A)

      By: Gary P. Pisano
      Very early in the history of biotechnology (about 1979), Monsanto made a major commitment to move into this field. This case recounts the history from the point of view of the eminent scientist hired to head up corporate R&D. He took Monsanto from a very traditional... View Details
      Keywords: History; Transition; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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      • 03 Jul 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

      working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 Harvard Business School Case 118-061 The Whistleblower at International Game Technology Robert Mayhem, a senior manager at International... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 14 Mar 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

      stranger’s or an unworn shirt. Cortisol levels did not differ between women who had smelled a partner’s shirt and those who smelled an unworn shirt except, notably, in cases where women had correctly guessed that they were inhaling their... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • Web

      People - Advancing Racial Equity

      Behavior and Course Head / LEAD Andy Zelleke Faculty / General Management Workstreams Anti-Racism Education and Research: Curriculum Leaders: Robin Greenwood and Carin Knoop Anti-Racism Education and Research: Research and Dissemination Leaders : Robin Ely and Das... View Details
      • 10 Apr 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: April 10, 2007

        Working PapersNone this week.   Cases & Course MaterialsAscent Media Group (A) Harvard Business School Case 607-064 Ascent Media races to adapt to the changes resulting... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Sep 2023
      • News

      Preparing Global Leaders

      Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During View Details
      • 25 Jun 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

      grit—complete with a social conscience—form the basis of a new Harvard Business School case, "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Professor Nancy F. Koehn, a leading historian, coauthored View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
      • 30 Apr 2020
      • Book

      Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

      Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
      • 2021
      • Article

      Fair Influence Maximization: A Welfare Optimization Approach

      By: Aida Rahmattalabi, Shahin Jabbari, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Phebe Vayanos, Max Izenberg, Ryan Brown, Eric Rice and Milind Tambe
      Several behavioral, social, and public health interventions, such as suicide/HIV prevention or community preparedness against natural disasters, leverage social network information to maximize outreach. Algorithmic influence maximization techniques have been proposed... View Details
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      • 11 Apr 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

      organizations that want to change, it’s completely accessible. You see both the capability and the motivation, whereas before maybe you had the motivation but not View Details
      Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
      • 31 May 2023
      • HBS Case

      Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story

      for business leaders to rethink their hiring practices and start giving the formerly incarcerated more opportunities to prove themselves, say Hise Gibson and coauthors of a Harvard Business School case study... View Details
      Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
      • 26 Jul 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

      quality is a valuable avenue for future research,” they write. The magic of monitoring Farronato says this monitoring method could be applied to other industries with comparable review sites, such as... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail
      • 14 Apr 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: April 14, 2009

      these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 14 Sep 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: September 14, 2010

      firms compared to non-founder firms. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1663905   Cases & Course MaterialsTennant Company: Innovating Within and Beyond View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • January 1994 (Revised August 1994)
      • Case

      Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor
      Ocean Spray Cranberries, one of the nation's most successful agricultural cooperatives, faces some difficult environmental management problems associated with water usage and wetlands development. Because of federal and state wetlands laws, new bogs for expansion had... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Innovation and Invention; Risk Management; Cooperative Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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