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- April 2025
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Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion PowerPoint Supplement
By: Michael W. Toffel, Ken Pucker and Stacy Straaberg
The Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (A) case introduces Allbirds as a footwear startup not only focused on simple design, comfort, and sustainable natural materials but on decarbonizing the wider fashion industry. Background material highlights the growing... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Impact; Environmental Strategy; Innovation; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Climate Change; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; United States; California
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
urban and rural communities. Fenton manages programs and financial operations for New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit aimed at improving education for all children by recruiting and supporting leaders for urban public... View Details
- December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks
By: Krishna G. Palepu and David Lane
On August 13, 2024, Starbucks announced that Laxman Narasimhan who was appointed as the CEO only in September 2023, was stepping down as CEO and board director “with immediate effect.” Laxman would be replaced on September 9 by Brian Niccol, CEO since 2018 of Chipotle... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management Succession; Cost Management; Labor Unions; Working Conditions; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Service Operations; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and David Lane. "Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks." Harvard Business School Case 125-040, December 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- Student-Profile
Hummy Song
and the productivity of the health care workforce. I am currently working on several projects that examine various operational and organizational factors that may affect worker productivity and quality of care. One of my projects explores the impact of different queue... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews were often less than welcoming. Since those early engineering days,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- August 1992
- Case
Otis Pacific Asia Operations (A): National Challenges
Describes the elevator market and Otis's competitive position in four markets: Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Japan. The student is asked to evaluate the strategic and competitive challenges in each market, especially in light of strong Japanese competition across the... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Network Effects; Problems and Challenges; Global Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India; Japan; Malaysia; Hong Kong
Yoshino, Michael Y. "Otis Pacific Asia Operations (A): National Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 393-009, August 1992.
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Great Expectations
courses. As we continue to incorporate the field method into our programs, expectations within the School and beyond are high. The stakes are high, too. By developing new ways of teaching and learning, we hope to raise the bar for View Details
- April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition
E-Loan is an online mortgage lender that acquired an auto-lending arm in August of 1999. This case examines E-Loan's purchase of CarFinance.com and highlights E-Loan's strategy-setting process. In addition, the case explores business development as a strategic process... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
Hansen, Morten T., and Jeffrey Berger. "E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 400-072, April 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
assembly line, marketing, sales, and after-sales service channels) A management model (the hierarchy) A social or regulatory system (specialized work, pay-for-performance incentives, worker education,... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 02 Jan 2016
- News
Cultural Change Afoot in the Yard
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
& Markets Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Arthur Brooks Leadership and Happiness General Management Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Ryan Buell Managing Service Operations Technology & Operations View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies. People told him that he was taking... View Details
- September 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Supplement
Restating Revenues and Earnings at INVESTools, Inc. (B)
By: Michael D. Kimbrough and F. Warren McFarlan
Kimbrough, Michael D., and F. Warren McFarlan. "Restating Revenues and Earnings at INVESTools, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 106-010, September 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- September 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Supplement
Restating Revenues and Earnings at INVESTools, Inc. (D)
By: Michael D. Kimbrough and F. Warren McFarlan
Kimbrough, Michael D., and F. Warren McFarlan. "Restating Revenues and Earnings at INVESTools, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 106-013, September 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
nationwide high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic network covering fifteen coastal cities and over 80 percent of the domestic data services market. With backing from shareholders, including the Ministry of Railways (fiber is being run... View Details
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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity
at home [1] 51 Women with children under 18 at home 54 Men with no children at home 54 Men with children under 18 at home Top 5 Industries Hours/Week Women Men Consulting / Professional Services 52 55 Educational View Details