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  • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)

By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Kyle Todd Doherty and Maarten W. Bos
The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social influence to successfully encourage consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Attitudes; Entrepreneurship; Energy Conservation; Power and Influence; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; United States
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    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

    • October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    Divesting Harvard's Endowment

    By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
    By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
    Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • May–June 2018
    • Article

    Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
    Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet research shows that job cuts rarely help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost... View Details
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Transition; Strategic Planning
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    • Career Coach

    Yanzhan Wen

    Yanzhan has four years of management consulting experience within the industrials, chemicals, and healthcare industries. Recently, he made a career pivot into investment banking, interning at Lazard over the... View Details
    • February 1993 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    David Fletcher

    By: Linda A. Hill and Melinda B. Conrad
    David Fletcher, manager of the Emerging Growth Fund at a New York investment management firm, decides to assemble a team of analysts to which he can delegate part of his workload. The case explores the challenges of being a producing manager and Fletcher's efforts to... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Investment Funds; Management Style; Selection and Staffing; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • June 2004 (Revised March 2005)
    • Background Note

    Question of LIFO or FIFO, The; Which Is Preferable?

    By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Sharon M. Bruns
    Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of alternative inventory flow assumptions allowed in the United States. A single exhibit shows that in Year 2, a company using LIFO in Year 1 could report higher net income by switching to FIFO at a cost of higher income... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Taxation; Revenue
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    • 05 May 2020
    • News

    What if You Don’t Want to Go Back to the Office?

    • April 2016
    • Case

    Detroit: On the Right Track?

    By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
    As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The case covers the rise of Detroit, the city’s devastating fall, and the ongoing potential... View Details
    Keywords: Urban Development; Rail Transportation; Infrastructure; Transportation Industry; Michigan
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    • 10 Dec 2010
    • News

    Tax U.S. companies to spur spending

    • July 1995 (Revised May 1997)
    • Case

    Nutra Foods

    By: David F. Hawkins
    An investor reviews his equity investment and asks for help in understanding how the stock splits and dividends impact his investment and the company's stockholders' equity portion of the balance sheet. View Details
    Keywords: History; Financial Management; Private Equity; Capital Structure; Valuation; Investment Return; Business and Shareholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Doing It Your Way

    health-care supplies in an atmosphere that is accessible, friendly, and even fun. "We like to see ourselves as the Home Depot of health care; like Home Depot, we pride ourselves on service," explains Greenberg, a former View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
    • 08 Aug 2018
    • News

    Why Are Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated By Female MDs?

    • February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    Shore Capital Partners: The Next Ten Years

    By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
    Private equity firm Shore Capital Partners is at an inflection point, after 12 years of phenomenal growth and success. Now, as the partners consider options, should Shore remain micro-cap focused, or move into more mid-cap investments? Should Shore hold investments... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    • June 2024
    • Case

    SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'

    By: Reza Satchu and Tom Quinn
    This case explores SnapTravel, a travel startup offering discounted hotel rooms, and its founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Volatility; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Income; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Pandemics; Surveys; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Risk Management; Consumer Behavior; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Diversification; Expansion; System Shocks; Accommodations Industry; Technology Industry; Canada; United States; Las Vegas
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    • December 2011
    • Case

    Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies

    By: James K. Sebenius
    Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after being promoted to executive vice president of the Estée Lauder Companies with... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain Management; Change; Innovation and Invention; Cost vs Benefits; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    • April 1998 (Revised November 1999)
    • Case

    Hambrecht & Quist

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and Nicole Tempest
    Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q), an investment bank headquartered in San Francisco, has a very unique culture relative to its Wall Street counterparts. Firm members and even competitors describe the culture as entrepreneurial, team-driven, non-bureaucratic, and... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry; San Francisco
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    • January 2021 (Revised October 2024)
    • Case

    Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Aptiv’s board must decide whether a joint venture with an auto maker is the right next step in the company’s efforts to develop and commercialize a production-ready autonomous driving system. While many commentators believed that Aptiv’s self-driving technologies had... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive Industry; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; Corporate Boards; Innovation And Strategy; Legal Aspects Of Business; Spin Off; Strategic Alliances; Strategic Change; Strategic Evolution; Supplier Relationships; Technological Change; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Innovation Strategy; Going Public; Joint Ventures; Leadership; Restructuring; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Auto Industry; Europe; United States
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    • Career Coach

    Manuel Llano

    Manuel wants to help students explore the opportunities available to HBS students in the Investment Banking, Investment Management, and Venture Capital industries. Manuel can... View Details
    • 06 Nov 2012
    • News

    Election 2012: Corporate America gets feisty