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- March 2021 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Seeding and Selling Asana
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Susie Ma and Amram Migdal
In December 2019, Oliver Jay, Asana’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), was reconsidering his go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Asana was cloud-based work management software that enabled users to break up projects into discrete tasks that could be assigned, scheduled, and...
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Keywords:
SaaS;
Customer Journey;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
Change Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Industry;
United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Susie Ma, and Amram Migdal. "Seeding and Selling Asana." Harvard Business School Case 821-054, March 2021. (Revised August 2022.)
- TeachingInterests
Investment Management Workshop
By: Luis M. Viceira
Investing and Strategic Decision-Making for Principals, Portfolio Managers, and Executives of Asset Management Firms
For nearly 50 years, the Investment Management Workshop (IMW) has convened the world's top principals, portfolio managers, and...
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- Research Summary
Diversity Orientations: Construct, Antecedents, and Consequences
Researchers have identified a number of different methods with which a group can handle its diversity. Some of the methods gaining the most attention mirror popular ideologies around colorblindness, pride in one's own subgroup, or integrative cultural pluralism....
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- January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
- Course Overview Note
The Sustainable Core: Operations Management
By: Michael W. Toffel and L. Beril Toktay
This note is designed to help faculty embed environmental sustainability content into their core Operations Management course at the MBA or undergraduate level. It can also be used to identify cases with environmental content that can be used in operations electives...
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Keywords:
Environmental Management;
Operations Management;
Sustainable Operations;
Environmental Regulation;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Construction Industry;
Forest Products Industry;
Retail Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and L. Beril Toktay. "The Sustainable Core: Operations Management." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 616-022, January 2016. (Revised February 2016.)
- September 2013
- Case
Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization (Abridged)
By: David A. Garvin
Abridged version of one of six cases that describe the roles and responsibilities of managers at each of the hierarchical levels of management within the U.S. Stores business unit of Staples, the world's largest office supply company. Together, the cases form a...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Design;
Management Practices and Processes;
Job Design and Levels;
Business Processes;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Garvin, David A. "Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 314-004, September 2013.
- March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
Randall Fojtasek, a partner at the Dallas-based Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through...
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Keywords:
Private Equity Exit;
LBO;
Leveraged Buyout Transaction;
Texas;
Security;
Brazos;
Tri-Northern;
Tri-Ed;
Northern Video;
Private Equity;
Partners and Partnerships;
Distribution;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry;
Distribution Industry;
Texas
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit." Harvard Business School Case 813-157, March 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- February 2008 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Digital Music: From MP3 to Streaming
By: Willy Shih
The emergence of the MP3 file-based music format not only disrupted the market for portable audio players, it also impacted the business models of major record labels. Modularity, and the commoditization spillover enabled by modularity in the personal computer...
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Keywords:
Recording;
Digital Devices;
Digital Media;
Digital Music;
Digital;
Digital Economics;
Consumer Electronics;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Music Industry;
Technology Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy. "Digital Music: From MP3 to Streaming." Harvard Business School Case 608-119, February 2008. (Revised December 2023.)
- Article
A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value
By: William Shrank, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain and Niteesh K. Choudhary
Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability to control costs rather than improve health. PBMs should be evaluated along three...
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Health;
System;
Cost Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Motivation and Incentives;
Value;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Effectiveness;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Shrank, William, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain, and Niteesh K. Choudhary. "A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value." American Journal of Managed Care 15, no. 2 (February 2009).
- September – October 2008
- Article
Care Platforms: A Basic Building Block for Care Delivery
By: Richard Bohmer and David Lawrence
Without significant operational reform within the nation's health care delivery organizations, new financing models, payment systems, or structures are unlikely to realize their promise. Adapting insights from high-performing companies in other high-risk, high-cost,...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Management Systems;
Standards;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Business Processes;
Organizational Design;
Customization and Personalization;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard, and David Lawrence. "Care Platforms: A Basic Building Block for Care Delivery." Health Affairs 27, no. 5 (September–October 2008).
- February 2005 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
Hewlett-Packard (A)
By: Rohit Deshpande and Seth Schulman
Since its controversial merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard had been under pressure by analysts and some stockholders to divest itself of its low-margin PC business. For CEO Carly Fiorina and others on HP's management team, however, PCs seemed integral to the company's...
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Keywords:
Problems and Challenges;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Information Infrastructure;
Business Strategy;
Price;
Computer Industry
Deshpande, Rohit, and Seth Schulman. "Hewlett-Packard (A)." Harvard Business School Case 505-065, February 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- 07 Sep 2020
- News
Where ESG Ratings Fail: The Case for New Metrics
- September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization
By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh
Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and...
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Keywords:
Remote Work;
Internet and the Web;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Strategy;
Employees;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Service Industry
Stanton, Christopher, and Shikhar Ghosh. "Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization." Harvard Business School Case 817-038, September 2016. (Revised September 2017.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams, and the Energy Transition
By: Michele Fioretti and Jorge Tamayo
Renewable generation creates a tradeoff between current and future energy production as generators produce energy by releasing previously stored resources. Studying the Colombian market, we find that diversified firms strategically substitute fossil fuels for...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Production;
Green Technology Industry;
Energy Industry;
Colombia
Fioretti, Michele, and Jorge Tamayo. "Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams, and the Energy Transition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-016, August 2021.
- November 2004
- Case
IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace
By: David A. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji
Explores how IBM incorporated diversity into its business strategy, making the case that workforce diversity is critical to marketing its products and services to its customers. In the early 1990s, Ted Childs, vice-president of Workforce Diversity, proposed to CEO Lou...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Diversification;
Business Strategy;
Integration;
Global Strategy;
Organizations;
Markets;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Thomas, David A., and Ayesha Kanji. "IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 405-044, November 2004.
- October 2015
- Teaching Note
Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower...
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Keywords:
Convertible Debt;
Uncertainty;
Competition;
Startup;
China;
Supply & Demand;
Growth;
Rare Earth Minerals;
Discounted Cash Flows;
Mining;
Payoff Diagrams;
Option Pricing;
Capital Budgeting;
Capital Structure;
Cash Flow;
Financial Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Vertical Integration;
Valuation;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Canada;
California
- May 2009
- Case
Global Health Partner: Obesity Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Zayed Muhammed Yasin and Jennifer F Baron
Global Health Partner (GHP) was founded in 2006 as a privately owned health care provider in Sweden serving both public and private paying patients. In contrast to most providers in the country, GHP organized around specific service lines where it saw the potential to...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Structure;
Outcome or Result;
Quality;
Competitive Advantage;
Integration;
Health Industry;
Sweden
Porter, Michael E., Zayed Muhammed Yasin, and Jennifer F Baron. "Global Health Partner: Obesity Care." Harvard Business School Case 709-494, May 2009.
- 11 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability
Keywords:
by Alnoor Ebrahim
- October 2023
- Article
Health System Perspective on Cost for Delivering a Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
By: David R. Ho, Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Bergman, David F. Penson, Benjamin Waterman, Kristin C. Williams, Jefersson Villatoro, Lorna Kwan and Christopher S. Saigal
Previsit decision aids (DAs) have been shown to improve decisional quality. But the cost to deploy a DA has not been previously estimated. We interviewed or observed relevant personnel at three institutions that had implemented DA programs for men with prostate cancer....
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Keywords:
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost Accounting;
Health Industry
Ho, David R., Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Bergman, David F. Penson, Benjamin Waterman, Kristin C. Williams, Jefersson Villatoro, Lorna Kwan, and Christopher S. Saigal. "Health System Perspective on Cost for Delivering a Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Medical Care 61, no. 10 (October 2023): 681–688.
- December 2019
- Supplement
Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Mariana Cal
Unilever is making strides to integrate the operations of Mãe Terra—one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods—into its own structures, after acquiring the company in 2017. Mãe Terra’s CEO, Alexandre Borges, must decide whether to implement his original...
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Keywords:
Brand Management;
Sustainability;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Environmental Sustainability;
Organizational Culture;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Brazil;
Latin America
Paine, Lynn S., Ruth Costas, and Mariana Cal. "Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-069, December 2019.
- Article
Done but Not Published: The Dissertation Journeys of Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan
By: Shirli Kopelman, Anne L. Lytle, Cynthia S. Wang, Roy J. Lewicki, J. Keith Murnighan and Max Bazerman
This article explores the tumultuous path to publication that begins for many of us with trying to publish our dissertation. We invited Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan—the 2013 and 2015 recipients of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM)...
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Keywords:
Higher Education;
Research;
Personal Development and Career;
Business Education;
Education Industry;
Publishing Industry
Kopelman, Shirli, Anne L. Lytle, Cynthia S. Wang, Roy J. Lewicki, J. Keith Murnighan, and Max Bazerman. "Done but Not Published: The Dissertation Journeys of Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan." Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 8, no. 4 (November 2015): 261–271.