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  • May 2020
  • Teaching Note

Talismark

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 211-097. Talismark negotiated waste hauling contracts for small and medium size companies. Its owners, Charles Muszynski and Marshall Staiman, were able to grow the business by more than 30% per year since it was founded, but believed... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Small Business Administration; Infrastructure; Restructuring; Business Processes; Information Management; Sales; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Wastes and Waste Processing
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  • May 2020
  • Teaching Note

Baskits Inc.

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 217-001. Robin Kovitz (MBA 2007) acquired Baskits, a Canadian gift basket company, in October of 2014. The business was highly seasonal with two-thirds of its sales occurring in November and December. Baskits dealt with its seasonality... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Performance Improvement; Canada
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  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Buying a Small Business Pt1: General (For HBS Alumni)

I need a general overview about how to buy a small business. Where can I start? You may begin with the following:  HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company by HBS Professors View Details
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Tulsa Massacre | Information Technology

Reparations Professor Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou, Leanne Fan, Ruth Page Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project Professor Richard S. Ruback, Matt Preble, Dave Habeeb, Ruth Page Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing... View Details
  • April 1999 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

1-800 Buy Ireland

By: Willis M. Emmons III, Adele S. Cooper and J. Richard Lenane
After decades of poor economic performance, the Irish government adopted major changes in economic policy in 1987. By the end of the 1990s, Ireland's real GDP growth rate of almost 10% per year exceeds that of all member nations of the European Union (EU). A key... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Development Economics; Supply and Industry; Policy; Foreign Direct Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Macroeconomics; Republic of Ireland
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  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912407-PDF-ENG The Case of the Unidentified Healthcare Companies—2010 Richard Bohmer, Ethan S. Bernstein, Margarita Krivitski, and Srinidhi ReddyHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation | Information Technology

Suzanne Antoniou, Leanne Fan, Ruth Page Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project Professor Richard S. Ruback, Matt Preble, Dave Habeeb, Ruth Page Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities Professors... View Details
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Success Academy Charter Schools | Information Technology

Reparations Professor Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou, Leanne Fan, Ruth Page Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project Professor Richard S. Ruback, Matt Preble, Dave Habeeb, Ruth Page Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing... View Details
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Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon | Information Technology

Ruth Page Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project Professor Richard S. Ruback, Matt Preble, Dave Habeeb, Ruth Page Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities Professors View Details
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

  PublicationsCapitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Authors:Joseph Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Institutions for "The Limits of Insurance Demand and the Growing Protection Gap" with Pari Sastry, Tess Scharlemann, and Ana-Maria Tenekedijieva. 2024 Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2024 Second Place Jensen Prize for the best paper published View Details
  • October 22, 2015
  • Article

The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas, Richard A. Helmers, March Rucci and Meredith Brady
Applying time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) in health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611065-PDF-ENG Marlin & Associates and the Sale of Riverview Technologies Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

campaigns to encourage public confidence in the steel industry. Photographs appeared in general-interest and business magazines, corporate reports, company publications, and exhibitions. Rather than a sales strategy, Richard View Details
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

Johnson, and Linnea MeyerHarvard Business School Case 210-021 What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

interpretations or recognitions that are new to each of them, thereby helping them recognize problems that are genuinely new. We also show that when communication is too intense, its beneficial aspects give way to the pathologies of "groupthink." We conclude... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Gemini Investors

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 211-066. Gemini Investors was a private equity firm that targeted equity investments of between $4 million to $6 million per firm. In the period from 2000 to 2015, Gemini had successfully deployed four funds, all licensed as Small Business... View Details
Keywords: Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Featured Cases | Information Technology

Denise Han, Ruth Page, Dave Habeeb The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations Professor Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou, Leanne Fan, Ruth Page Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk – Making an Impact Professors Richard View Details