Comparative Case Study - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2018
Blog Post

10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective

countries. The first evening we had a large cohort dinner and for the rest of the evenings we all got to know each other in the dorm lounges while going over a case study or two. It wasn’t just the diversity... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

Michael Roberts, who is the primary liaison between HBS and the CRC. Roberts, an experienced teacher and case writer who is executive director of entrepreneurial studies at the School, will spend about one... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

The initial impetus was when I was doing my early field research on founders and heard complaints from them about their inability to increase their compensation compared to their non-founder colleagues, which I found surprising. For... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

fewer jobs. Luca doesn’t see the study results as a definitive case for or against minimum wage increases. Instead, the findings help us understand how the minimum wage affects markets—in other words, which... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

well in the future only if it holds stocks that are primarily held by historically successful managers.— Randolph B. Cohen A: The increase in precision that our method obtains compared to the standard approach was really striking to us.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

sure that point-of-sale checks are done correctly. SC: That’s an especially exciting example because we taught a module on public markets engagement in the spring, and then by the fall we had a new case View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Alfred D. Chandler Papers | Baker Library

lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence. It is rich in research material gathered during his comparative studies of corporate structure and its development in... View Details

16 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

make sense for me to pursue?’” Coffman has recently co-written an article in the American Economic Review as well as two working papers, all aimed at studying men’s and women’s beliefs about their own abilities. What she found, in... View Details

22 Nov 2013
News

A Passion for Film

Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

and structure—choices that seem to reflect the organizations in which these individuals spent considerable time. These two in-depth case studies suggest that strong exposure to organizational career imprints... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

citizens and firms is unusually available, compared with other nations. (When I ask Keloharju about the “Swedish data sample,” he gently corrects me. “This data is extraordinary,” Keloharju says. “It’s not a Swedish sample. It’s all of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

impact by comparing warnings received after having safe personal experience with those received before people start making choices. A series of five experiments studies this question with a paradigm that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

How Do Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition?, Campbell, fellow HBS professor Frances X. Frei and doctoral student Ryan W. Buell explore this dance between service levels, customer loyalty, and competitive strategy. The View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

information that is most important to us (health data, for example, or cost data or comparative studies of clinical success rates or adoption placements) and then provide these data through public sources.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

all this time. It's this long, continuous, consistent data set." By comparing a brand's ranking before and after a merger, Sheen reasoned, he could gauge the merger's effect on quality (at least in View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2002
News

Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story

Newspapers are missing an opportunity to boost revenues by barely tapping the online market, according to a new study by Assistant Professor Clark Gilbert and Borrell Associates Inc. In “Newspapers Miss Out on $300 Million in Online... View Details

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

first comprehensive and systematic findings on supply chain auditing practices, our study suggests strategies for designing more credible monitoring regimes. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343802 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

decades of decreased funding, which the case notes peaked at 4.4 percent of the United States federal budget in 1966 and had shrunk to just 0.5 percent by 2014. To fulfill its vision for the exploration and View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage... View Details