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24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

financing private ventures, it can also offer unique rewards. Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle highlighted some of the issues confronting entrepreneurs and investors in a case discussion on Gray Security... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

2010
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Transforming Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship

Based on a popular education entrepreneurship course at Harvard Business School, Transforming Public Education organizes 18 case studies into modules that reflect the predominant opportunities pursued by social entrepreneurs focused on public education in the United... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Transformation

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26 Jan 2021
Video

Faculty Authors Discuss Black History Month Cases

11 Sep 2012
News

Harvard conducts case study on Farhan's Excel Entertainment

04 Mar 2022
Video

Haley Brown Writes the Case on Linda Oubré

01 Feb 1997
News

Case Method Experts Share Their Wisdom

Corporation, the two-day program was led by the School's John D. Black Professor Louis B. Barnes, coauthor with Christensen and Abby J. Hansen of Teaching and the Case Method. During the seminar, participants were given a chance to... View Details

13 May 2019
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Making History More Relevant, One Case At A Time

01 Jun 2005
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NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS

Ted Johnson, a linebacker with the New England Patriots. “This is a great setting for learning how to make a smooth transition.” Players admitted to being pleasantly surprised by how hard they worked. “People have been up late talking about View Details

Keywords: NFL; Ted Johnson; Todd Collins; Mike Haynes; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2019
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In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Oct 2019
News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

the case method by giving students the opportunity to take action and see the consequences,” says Vicky Keirnan, who oversees the creation of these and other learning tools at HBS. Keirnan and her staff work with a software development... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

20 Nov 2024

Military Explore the HBS Case Method

Now is your chance to experience the case method live! Join Professor Jim Matheson, Faculty Advisor to the Armed Forces Alumni Association, for this highly interactive virtual class. All prospective applicants are welcome to join. View Details

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

[Editor's note: Since this case study was posted, two faculty members have also offered their insight to the BlackBerry situation. Read their comments below and keep the conversation going!] BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was hired in... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

13 Jan 2020
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The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

03 Feb 2015
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The Curious Case of ‘Beyoncé’ the Album

01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

certainly anticipated something very large because the parallels are not just with the Great Depression but with the financial crisis of 1914, which in many ways was more spectacular. So, this was a case of history informing judgments... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

28 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Michael Luca; Construction; Real Estate

January 1996
Case

Case of the Unidentified Industries--1995, The

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Financial Statements

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2021
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Measuring Employment Impact: Applications and Cases

By: Katie Panella and George Serafeim

Applying the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative’s employment impact methodology on eight leading companies, we document wide variability in employment impacts as a percentage of salaries paid, ranging between 59 and 80 percent. We identify opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Impact Measurement; Employee Compensation; Accounting; Employees; Labor; Well-being; Diversity; Wages; Compensation and Benefits

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