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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

industry sectors. At the holding-company level, the four largest organizations account for only about a quarter of the industry's total revenue, a share that changed little over the period 2002-2008, but one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2018
  • Supplement

Zenefits Board of Directors (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business Model; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks the growth of the subprime industry and its collapse leading to the financial crisis. The case describes the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

liquidation process. “We don't spend enough time thinking about the death or liquidation of businesses” "When we were first exposed to the issue of store liquidations, we didn't have a sense of how big it was—that there is a massive View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of the technology age. Without standards, Web... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 29 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products. It was during a product line analysis for a pet food company that I discovered... View Details
  • Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2022 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough's Rise

By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise. Maynard had... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

accounting for both personal and social activity, and encourage customers to interact with each other postadoption. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54735 January–February 2018 Organization Science Gender... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2009
  • Case

Cisco Acquires Linksys

By: David F. Hawkins
Students must suggest ways to value intangible assets, including trademarks, acquired by Cisco in the Linksys acquisition. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Trademarks; Brands and Branding; Information Technology; Valuation; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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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  • September 2016 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Springfield Hospital

By: Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan
One of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of performance and facilitate appropriate resource allocations. Through participation in a comparative cost study, management at Springfield Hospital, known for its heavy focus on operational... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Variance Analysis; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • February 2012 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Caijing Magazine (B)

By: Karthik Ramanna and G.A. Donovan
In late 2009, Wang Boming, publisher of Caijing Magazine, widely regarded as China's most independent newsmagazine, gathered his core team for an urgent meeting. His pioneering editor Hu Shuli, described for her fiercely independent journalism as "the most dangerous... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Restructuring; Corporate Disclosure; Organizations; Publishing Industry; China
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  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend in the Stars offers a... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

position to do something about it. Money for new enterprises had been restricted, they believed, by the New Deal's onerous tax system, and by the increasing prominence of ultraconservative investment trusts. Investment trusts and life insurance companies View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

performance problems in the United States. This seems surprising at first sight. The United States is by far the world's largest host economy for multinationals. Foreign firms hold large, and sometimes commanding, positions in such major View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace