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December 2022 (Revised February 2023)
Case

Daniel Defense: Responding to the Shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

At 11:33am on May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old man from Uvalde, Texas walked into the Robb Elementary School carrying a semi-automatic "AR-15-style” rifle manufactured by Daniel Defense and killed 19 children and two adults. Three days later, Representative Carolyn Maloney... View Details

Keywords: Gun Violence; Gun Policy; Second Amendment; Legal Liability; Government Legislation; Marketing Strategy; Business or Company Management; Product Marketing; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Advertising Industry; United States

January 2007 (Revised August 2007)
Case

Lobbying for Love? Southwest Airlines and the Wright Amendment

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao, Libby Cantrill and Patricia Wu

The fall of 2004 brought exciting news to Love Field, the Texas headquarters of Southwest Airlines. Delta Airlines, one of Southwest's main competitors, had announced that it would dramatically decrease service from the nearby Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW)... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation Industry; Texas

December 2020 (Revised September 2023)
Case

PG&E and the First Climate Change Bankruptcy

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott

In early 2020, the California-based utility PG&E filed a second amended plan of reorganization. PG&E had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the face of more than $30 billion of legal claims brought against it for its alleged role in causing California wildfires. The... View Details

Keywords: Chapter 11; Utilities; Liabilities; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Legal Liability; Climate Change; Utilities Industry; United States

January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Delta Air Lines: Navigating the COVID-19 Storm

By: Ted Berk and Ryan Flamerich

This case examines Delta Air Lines’ response as demand for its services plummeted in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the company’s funding needs and capital structure. Following a series of initial actions, the company’s cash “burn” had reduced from... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Financial Condition; Capital Structure; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Air Transportation Industry

Web

Curriculum - Case Method Project

where delegates considered an anti-debt amendment that would sharply limit the state’s ability to borrow money, including for infrastructure such as the Erie Canal, but would also include a democratic escape hatch, allowing the electorate... View Details

27 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

Workplace, using two high-profile cases of religious discrimination that were argued before the US Supreme Court in recent years: one about a young Muslim woman who battled Abercrombie & Fitch for rejecting her job application because she wore a hijab for religious... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

United States, what were the economic and political advantages of building and managing the canal? A: The Panama Canal provided massive cost savings to intercoastal commerce. Before the Second World War, the vast majority of the cargo... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

He wrote: “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” In this vein, we were given a generous 20 words to introduce an essential part of our identity to our classmates. I wrote: 1919 the 19th amendment 1972 Title IX 1973 Roe v. Wade 2019 Here I... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

issues: taxes (“I believe in lower taxes”), spending (“I believe the federal government is spending too much”), abortion (he’s against it), the Second Amendment (“I’m a lifetime member of the NRA, and my... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

02 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

to service the canceled Delta routes from Love Field. A second possibility was to encourage members of Congress to repeal the Wright Amendment, which limited Southwest's flight offerings from Love Field. An alternative to fighting for the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS - MBA

example, in my second year I was able to take two courses at Harvard Law School directly related to my career interests: one was on the First Amendment and another was on the regulation of the communications... View Details

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

States, the First Amendment is central to nearly every debate on regulating the internet, along with questions about who owns the content we create, and even what can be defined as content we create in the first place. Addressing the... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

crusade in her working paper The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of “Fairness,” 1890–1938, forthcoming in the Business History Review. Gleason, a self-trained and California-certified pharmacist who was the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

sharply tailored suit with close-cropped silver hair. “It probably wasn’t very bright, but I was arrogant.” But as Maj began his studies in Warsaw, Poland again fell into tumult. In early 1976, a controversial amendment to its... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

sense that we didn't even have an income tax until 1913. It was viewed as unconstitutional and we needed an amendment to allow us to have a direct income tax. Around the same time, the corporate income tax was introduced. So, some of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

generations. What doors are opening? Which remain closed? The book, written by Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria, and Boston College's Laura G. Singleton, is the second in a trilogy on leadership and leaders from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

whether to rescind or amend the award or ignore the ISS recommendation. Was Immelt's 2010 pay in line with his performance? How would shareholders vote on the advisory "say on pay" ballot question at GE's annual meeting in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

mistakes, and all the while they fed it books, dictionaries, the Bible, encyclopedias, everything. They tested it, endlessly, reinforcing the methods that had led to correct answers and amending the mistakes, which meant tweaking the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

constitute a first level in the system, regulatory systems the second level, and political authority the third. This multi-level system could not emerge until sovereign political authorities relinquished some power in order to release the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) Harvard Business School Note 209-133 In 2005, new legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President that introduced a number of major amendments to U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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