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  • July 2023 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

'Bugs' Burger Bug Killers

By: Ryan W. Buell and William Fulmer
In the height of its success, Bugs Burger Bug Killers (BBBK; Burger has a soft 'g' - it rhymes with merger) was the largest independent extermination company in America, growing at more than 20% per year. BBBK built its business on the promise of pest eradication,... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Service Industry
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Buell, Ryan W., and William Fulmer. "'Bugs' Burger Bug Killers." Harvard Business School Case 624-004, July 2023. (Revised April 2025.)
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

a Harvard Business Review classic, and has just been reissued in book form. We asked Sahlman what he would change if he wrote the article, now a decade old, today. 6. Spending on Happiness Money can't buy you love but it can buy... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • September 2024
  • Supplement

National Public Broadcasting (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: This (B) case supplement is designed for use by faculty only to support classroom instruction in conjunction with... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Media; Ownership; Strategy; Advertising; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "National Public Broadcasting (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 225-706, September 2024.
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

temporary moratorium that followed the spill, the case ends with discussion of possible regulatory responses. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711021-PDF-ENG The Changing Face of Angel Investing William A. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

world for the better over the next two years, and will prepare us for the inevitable pandemics that follow. William A. Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 20 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

owned by Cantor Index Holdings, mimics a real supply-and-demand-based stock exchange like the NYSE. HSX acts as the market maker—its technology is set up so that when there is high demand for a certain stock, prices will automatically go... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • August 1996
  • Supplement

Andersen Consulting - EMEAI: Bill Barnard on Organization Change

By: Ashish Nanda and Michael Y. Yoshino
Remarks by William (Bill) Barnard, partner-in-charge for Strategic Services in the subregion of Western Europe, in a conversation he had with Professors Ashish Nanda and Michael Yoshino of the Harvard Business School on November 1, 1995. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Consulting Industry; Europe
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Nanda, Ashish, and Michael Y. Yoshino. "Andersen Consulting - EMEAI: Bill Barnard on Organization Change." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 397-501, August 1996.
  • 07 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

TerraPower has received multiple rounds of funding—and its chairman, Bill Gates, is the wealthiest person on earth. (Last year, Lassiter coauthored a business case about TerraPower's funding issues, along with HBS colleagues William A.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 27 May 2015
  • News

Studies Find Angels Significantly Impact Success Of Funded Companies

  • Research Summary

A Case Study Approach to Teaching Real Estate

By: William J. Poorvu
William J. Poorvu has developed a casebook and instructor's manual for teaching real estate by the case method. Real Estate: A Case Study Approach elaborates a conceptual framework for viewing real estate and the real-estate process. The instructor's manual (which... View Details
  • January 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

National Public Broadcasting

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Bob Williams, the CEO of National Public Broadcasting (NPB), was considering an unsolicited offer to purchase the company in the early spring of 2006. The company was a media underwriting representative for public television and radio stations throughout the United... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Management; Ownership; Advertising Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "National Public Broadcasting." Harvard Business School Case 211-058, January 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
  • 03 May 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

and Russia. Too Many Deals? HBS professor William A. Sahlman, the panel's moderator, noted: "One of the historical factors in the venture capital industry…wasn't too much money chasing too few deals. It was too much money going... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

make for himself at age twelve. He also started his own university, Shantou University, in 1981, with a similar purpose. 2) William and Victor Fung of Li & Fung: old traditional Chinese family-owned companies now run View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

(iStockphoto/PeopleImages) An organization’s mission is widely recognized as its reason for being. Enlightened leaders have long known and believed that the heart of an organization’s culture is described not just by “how we do things... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

conference and survey from Harvard's business and medical schools may prove particularly timely. Delivered by the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, which was formed last year with encouragement from the respective deans of the two... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

second birth), requiring, as Zaleznik described it to me in a recent e-mail, "a turning into one's self ... following which one emerges with a deepened sense of self, and relatively free of dependency on the social structure." Zaleznik in turn was influenced... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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