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  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

and corporate partners—tell of the organization’s success, Chertavian’s most prized metric shows the outcomes for the 18- through 24-year-olds that Year Up has served: Some 10,000 young people have participated in the one-year training... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • May 24, 2016
  • Article

Build a Culture of Health

By: John A. Quelch
Every company, large and small, has an impact on health. It does so in four ways: first, through the healthfulness and safety of the products and services it sells; second, through its attention to employee health and well-being in its work practices and benefits;... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Four Pillars; Public Health Footprint; Culture Of Health Plan Of Action; Change; Education; Health; Human Resources; Knowledge; Labor; Leadership; Management; Operations; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Consumer Products Industry; Chemical Industry; Health Industry; United States; Europe
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  • November 1988
  • Case

Honeywell Residential Division: New Product Development

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes three different product development efforts at the Residential Controls division of Honeywell, Inc. Each of the three projects was for a different market and competitive environment. Each was tackled in a somewhat different way within the Honeywell... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Construction; Outcome or Result; Situation or Environment; Business Divisions; Product Design; Change Management; Construction Industry
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  • April 1999 (Revised September 1999)
  • Case

Compaq Computer: Consumer Notebook Group

By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Presents the background for a video of a focus group on Compaq Computer's new consumer notebook. Engineers, manufacturers, and retailers had collaborated on the product design, which has been approved by the executive committee. A launch is scheduled for nine months... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Product Launch; Product Design; Outcome or Result; Social and Collaborative Networks; Corporate Strategy; Computer Industry
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  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

demonstrably fair offer and then—if the other party is unreasonable—extending a challenge to take the competing offers to an arbitrator who must choose one or the other rather than a compromise between them (the usual outcome of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

academic approaches to date has provided an entirely coherent picture of the process, in part because of the contradictory models of the process that they generate. The article goes on to consider the planning processes that are involved in assessing future projects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

(Experiment 2), and non-suppression (Experiment 3). However, when firms honor these implicit promises, voting can mitigate the disappointment that arises from receiving an undesired outcome (Experiment 4). Finally, Experiment 5 identifies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

transactional planners responded to these differences in standards of judicial review; that these differences in judicial scrutiny created differences in outcomes for the minority shareholders; and that differences in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411032-PDF-ENG Erik Peterson at Biometra (C) John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Supplement 411-033 Describes the outcome of Erik Peterson's meetings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

If We Ran the World

By: Hanna Halaburda, Radka Dohnalova and Aldo Sesia
Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as what the tech world called minimum viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Network Effects
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  • April 2010
  • Article

Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

By: Paul A. Gompers, Josh Lerner, David Scharfstein and Anna Kovner
This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. In particular, they exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Performance; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Market Timing; Competency and Skills; Success; Business Startups
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  • April 2009
  • Teaching Note

Amylin Pharmaceuticals: Diabetes and Beyond (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
Teaching Note for [809011]. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Product Development; Success; Commercialization; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Resource Allocation; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • April 2000
  • Background Note

Market Failures

By: Bharat N. Anand, Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
Examines the role of transaction costs in impeding the functioning of markets and shows how the concept of transaction costs sheds light on a broad range of issues in strategy. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Cost; Market Transactions; Industry Clusters; Failure; Internet
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  • 12 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

of their equity plans by outlining in detail the possible scenarios and potential outcomes of their particular grants. The message here is A) you add value to this company and should benefit from it well into the future and B) we want to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 15 Mar 2010
  • HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

fact, two other projects are under way and progressing more quickly in other parts of India.) Whatever the final outcome of the Dharavi project, the issues it raises are not going away anytime soon, with 200 million people expected to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse

an “emperor's new clothes” scenario, where those who did raise questions were dismissed out of hand? What role did deregulation play? Did a “perfect storm”–like convergence of unlikely factors overtake the company, or is what happened to Enron a plausible View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Enron; faculty; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

sourcing decisions. This paper examines how the scheduling of inspections risks introducing bias that erodes inspection quality by altering inspector stringency. In particular, we theorize that inspection results are affected by (a) the inspection View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork

tracking outcomes with employers) and then connecting students with the best jobs. Employers were enduring long project wait times – six months to a year after the sale to install – because they couldn’t find enough skilled trades labor.... View Details
  • January 2024
  • Case

Post-Wirecard: BaFin under Mark Branson

By: Jonas Heese, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer
In November 2023, Mark Branson, the head of Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), reflected on the efficacy of the reforms initiated since the Wirecard scandal. BaFin had been discredited after Wirecard’s downfall in 2020. The press had derided it... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Failure; Trust; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; Germany
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  • January 2014 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission

By: Anette Mikes
The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000, during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Crisis Management; Failure; Cooperation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Norway; United Kingdom; Russia
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