Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

analysis is possible, commit to moving in a particular direction, carefully plan the immediate next steps, work hard to learn from execution and experiment, seize opportunities along the way, and be prepared to recalibrate an... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

The framework has two parts—a business analysis and a personal analysis—each comprised of a set of yes/no questions for critical assessment criteria. The note also offers perspectives on entrepreneurship, observations about combining an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

Hyman Minsky, whose analysis was used to show how banks overreached themselves before the 2008 financial crisis. He warns that those companies and industries that failed to adjust to climate change might cease to exist. Jeremy Grantham,... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom announced in early 2013, adds... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

LESSON FROM HBS "The secret of success often comes down to two main ingredients: think through a problem carefully and then act upon your analysis without a hint of procrastination. HBS is a very effective proving ground for this, and for... View Details

June 1987 (Revised August 1988)
Case

American Bank

By: Robert S. Kaplan

American Bank is developing a new system to compute product costs. The deregulated, more competitive environment for commercial banks has created both problems and opportunities for banking operations. In order to price existing products and assess the desirability of... View Details

Keywords: System; Consolidation; Commercial Banking; SWOT Analysis; Fair Value Accounting; Cost Management; Price; Banking Industry; North and Central America; United States

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01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

between the manufacturing analysis we learned and making a movie,” he says. “With a movie, you take a dream — like somebody’s script — and break it into tiny pieces, or individual shots. A film typically contains hundreds of shots, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

public health effectively. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807016 Basic Techniques for the Analysis of Customer Information Using Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in India, a topic the class had... View Details

September 2021
Supplement

Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform

By: Chiara Farronato, Stefano Denicolai and Sarah Mehta

This supplementary dataset can be paired with the case entitled “Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform” (case no. 622-011), to allow students the opportunity to analyze data before class. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Value; Value Creation; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; Europe; Italy; Milan

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01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

experience this way: “I took away the self-confidence to approach complex problems that did not lend themselves to 240 characters worth of analysis or 2 minutes worth of attention. In other words, the types of problems that management... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

suing for infringement on patents that are worthless—and that is damning” Not only do the researchers' findings support the conclusion that NPEs on average act as patent trolls, but one analysis of the data shows that NPEs are actually... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

invest only a small proportion of total R&D money. They therefore charge higher prices and pay lower average wages. An analysis of census data by economists Erik Hurst and Benjamin Pugsley found that companies employing fewer than 20... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

disadvantages of establishing an in-house advertising resource? A: The make or buy decision relating to advertising services is a complex one. The primary considerations involve issues of cost and control. The make or buy decision calls for a comparative View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

company's strategy but with intimate knowledge of how to get things done inside the organization? Bower's analysis of the leadership and performance of S&P 500 companies in the U.S. leads him to conclude that "insiders perform... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

the present. Q: One of the payoffs in your book for global strategists is an analysis of the top ten countries in terms of economic development and potential trajectories. Obviously each situation is different, but which countries would... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro: Four key themes emerge from an analysis of this struggle between two firms and their governments. The first is how managers can use international organizations, in this case the World Trade Organization, as... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

gear up to raise a Series A. “When I spoke with Diego, he shared five problems they were thinking about and gave me the option of what I wanted to work on,” Westphal explained. “The project I chose allowed me to spend 90% of my time working with Diego. I did a bunch of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

would be trained in "the thorough analysis of and in the administrative control of a manufacturing company....taken up not only from the standpoint of a man who has to reach decisions and carry them out, but also from the standpoint of... View Details

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

in the US, results that can be applied to this pandemic or any future public health crisis. Other research groups at Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia Universities have notified us they are finding correlations previously unseen with state-level policy View Details

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