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  • April 2005
  • Case

Handleman Company

By: Janice H. Hammond and Kevin Dolan
Describes the organization and operations of the Handleman Co., an intermediary in the music industry that buys recorded music and resells it to mass retailers such as Wal-Mart. The company provides distribution, inventory management, retail merchandising, and category... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Music Entertainment; Cost Management; Growth and Development; Business or Company Management; Distribution Channels; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Online Technology; Value Creation; Music Industry
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Hammond, Janice H., and Kevin Dolan. "Handleman Company." Harvard Business School Case 605-024, April 2005.
  • March 1997
  • Case

Private Management and Public Schools (A)

Examines the prospects for private management in U.S. public schools. Introduces the U.S. system of education and the concerns driving the education reform process. Focuses on the education and business strategies of Education Alternatives, Inc. (EAI), Public... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Value; Education; Government and Politics; Education Industry; United States
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Dyck, Alexander, and Danielle J. Melito. "Private Management and Public Schools (A)." Harvard Business School Case 797-113, March 1997.
  • May 1994
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Reorienting Channels of Distribution

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Traditionally, distribution channels have been viewed as vertical marketing systems where responsibility was transferred from one layer to the next, like passing a baton in a relay race. Distribution channels in the future are likely to look more like horizontal... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Customers; Supply and Industry; Alliances; Performance Efficiency; Performance Effectiveness; Change; Distribution Industry
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Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Reorienting Channels of Distribution." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-118, May 1994.
  • spring 1987
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Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
We examine a dynamic model of price competition in defense procurement that incorporates the experience curve, asymmetric cost information, and the availability of a higher cost alternative system. We model acquisition as a two-stage process in which initial production... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Government and Politics; Price; Competition; Mathematical Methods
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Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement." RAND Journal of Economics 18, no. 1 (spring 1987): 57–76. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
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Optimal Contracting with Reciprocal Agents

(with Florian Englmaier) (Job Market Paper)

 Abstract: Empirically, compensation systems often seem to generate substantial effort despite weak incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal... View Details

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Internet Auctions for Close Substitutes

Economists agree that eBays auction design is sensible and potentially welfare-maximizing for the trade of collectibles, which are unique and idiosyncratic. For mainstream goods, which have close but imperfect substitutes (cars, cameras, computers, clothes), the... View Details

  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs

By: Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez
This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major... View Details
Keywords: Tariffs; Trade; Price; Inflation and Deflation
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Cavallo, Alberto, Paola Llamas, and Franco Vazquez. "Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs." Working Paper, April 2025.
  • June 2024
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Zeswitz Music (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: In July of 2013, Randy Shayler (HBS, 2012) acquired Zeswitz Music, a musical instrument rental company based in Reading,... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Revenue; Marketing; Music Industry; Retail Industry
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Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Zeswitz Music (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-748, June 2024.
  • May 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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Health Care Payment in the United States

By: Robert S. Huckman, Jeff Charca and Craig Garthwaite
This document provides an overview of how various actors (e.g., physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers) are paid in the United States health care system. It is particularly focused on features of the payment system that contribute to strategic decisions... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Industry
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Huckman, Robert S., Jeff Charca, and Craig Garthwaite. "Health Care Payment in the United States." Harvard Business School Technical Note 624-071, May 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
  • 2020
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 2 Transactions in a Task Network

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
From the 1930s through today, many economists have conceived of large technical systems for the production of goods and services as a series of transactions. This point of view has led eminent economists to assert that transactions are the fundamental unit of analysis... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 2 Transactions in a Task Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-030, August 2020.
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Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Christopher Ody and Matt Schmitt
The analogy between value-based purchasing in pharmaceuticals and the new frontier of alternative payment models for health care providers is relatively straightforward. Insurers are increasingly demanding steep discounts from providers in exchange for inclusion in... View Details
Keywords: Drug Copayment Coupons; Prescription Drug Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost; Policy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt Schmitt. "Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry." New England Journal of Medicine 375, no. 21 (November 24, 2016): 2013–2015.
  • July 2014
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Accounting for Crises

By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu
We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis
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Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu. "Accounting for Crises." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6, no. 3 (July 2014): 184–213.
  • 26 Oct 2020
  • News

Great promise but potential for peril

    Nien-he Hsieh

    Nien-hê Hsieh is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching aims at helping business leaders and organizations determine and deliver on their responsibilities. He... View Details

    • 30 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

    online in a more widespread way, and use of secure portals has largely stabilized at that new, higher level. The platforms place new stresses on doctors and their teams, who suddenly face an onslaught of messages, some pressing and others minor. That surge has given... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
    • 07 Mar 2011
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    Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

    badge of honor." Individual failures within a company can be an asset, too, in that they can prevent the whole system from failing—but only if the executives are willing to view failure as a potential for improvement. For instance,... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

    When Katherine Coffman presents her research findings about how gender stereotypes shape the behavior of men and women in the workplace, she is often asked: What about non-binary individuals? “People understandably keep asking, ‘What about people other than men and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework

    By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
    This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Economy; Financial Condition; Central Banking; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; System Shocks
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    Gray, Dale F., Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie. "Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability: A New Framework." In Financial Stability, Monetary Policy, and Central Banking. Vol. 15, edited by Alfaro A. Rodrigo and Cifuentes S. Rodrigo., 2010.
    • January 2016 (Revised July 2018)
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    Cyberdyne: A Leap to the Future

    By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
    Cyberdyne Inc. was a Japanese technology venture that wanted to commercialize a hybrid assistive limb (HAL). HAL was a robotic exoskeleton system for people who had difficulty walking due to nervous system disabilities resulting from stroke, spinal cord injury (SCI),... View Details
    Keywords: Go-to-market Strategy; Pricing; Sales Channel; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Sales; Distribution; Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    Chung, Doug J., and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Cyberdyne: A Leap to the Future." Harvard Business School Case 516-072, January 2016. (Revised July 2018.)
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