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  • January 2001 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan

By: Andre F. Perold
In April 2000, Ford Motor Co. announced a shareholder Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) to significantly recapitalize the firm's ownership structure. Ford had accumulated $23 billion in cash reserves and under the VEP would return as much as $10 billion of this cash to... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Structure; Cash; Financial Liquidity; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Auto Industry
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  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

time in the workplace and can be addressed wisely—or poorly—says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Christina Wing, whose forthcoming book Unspeakable offers advice for managing weighty interactions. She has also created a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • January 2018
  • Case

Spark Therapeutics: Pioneering Gene Therapy

By: Robert F. Higgins and Tina Liu
Spark Therapeutics is a pioneering gene therapy startup. It was spun out of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The company had taken with it much of the intellectual property and talent that CHOP had developed. The company is considering an initial public... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Strategy
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  • 17 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

If Marketing Experts Ran Elections

solutions, informing interested citizens about them, and making them easily accessible. I remember Leonard Marsh, 1 of the 3 founders of Snapple, explaining the brand's success: "We never thought of ourselves as any better than our... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

the major considerations and frameworks of compensation. Its audience is general managers interested in learning about their own or their employees’ compensation. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419020-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

conclusion—professional social networks “may have potential benefits to companies, and not only to the individual,” says Frank Nagle, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “What we’re trying to say is there are many more jobs... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • Web

Find a Club - Alumni

Clubs Find a Club Don’t See Your Club Listed? Harvard Business School Clubs and Association is currently not accepting applications for new clubs. If you do not see a regional club or SIG listed, please... View Details
  • Blog

Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?

where you run up against gaps in your skills and knowledge. To overcome business challenges and continue to advance in the organization, you will need to build new abilities, expand your perspective, and strengthen your leadership skills.... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

should purchase the used Toyota Camry. How consumers weigh those decisions is crucial information for retailers, and is the subject of recent research by Harvard Business School doctoral candidates Todd Rogers and Katy Milkman, in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 17 Jul 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
  • Teaching

Overview

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Course Requirements

Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

Career Focus

For... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects

Unlike many business schools today, HBS offers only one type of MBA degree: the two year, full time residential MBA. Everyone graduates with the same degree, and we don’t offer official concentrations or specialties. That isn’t to say... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the institution. “I was blown away,” she says, “by how Jeff and his... View Details
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Social Entrepreneurs, Socialization Processes, and Social Change: The Case of Sekem

By: Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair and Julie Battilana
How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Psychology; Social Issues; Organizations; Business and Community Relations
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy Across Races: Evidence from the U.S. Credit Register

By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia and Camelia Minoiu
We examine the consequences of monetary policy on racial disparities, focusing on the role of bank lending to firms through collateral and selection channels. Leveraging comprehensive loan-level data from the U.S. credit register (Y-14Q) of the Federal Reserve, we show... View Details
Keywords: Monetary Policy Transmission; Inequity; Credit Registry; Wealth; Collateral Channel; Selection; Racial Disparity; Racial Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Banks and Banking; Credit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; United States
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  • June 2024
  • Simulation

Vehicle Lifecycle Emissions Calculator

By: Mike Toffel, Shirley Lu and George Serafeim
This Vehicle Lifecycle Emissions Calculator calculates the greenhouse gas emissions over the lifespan of internal combustion engine (ICEs) vehicles, battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), including those associated with their... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Environment; Carbon Accounting; Carbon; Carbon Abatement; Electric Vehicles; Automobiles; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Supply Chain; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Climate Change; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry; Battery Industry
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  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

advice-seeking behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55480 November 7, 2018 Harvard Business Review The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Ramana Nanda Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

3 Benefits of the Case Method

emphasis on the case method approach, I knew from the outset that HBS would be very different, and I was not sure if it would suit me. As I wrapped up my time at business school, I considered how the once foreign case method influenced my... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

It doesn’t matter if you’re crafting a pitch for tech investors, consumers, or election-season voters. If you want your target audience to remember your message the next day, tell a story. That’s one of the findings of a new study by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis