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  • 01 Feb 2017
  • News

The Hot New Brand of Higher Education

  • 09 Nov 2021
  • HBS Seminar

Susan Murphy, Harvard-SEAS

  • May 2020
  • Case

Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight?

By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
Four college friends market a beverage that combines ingredients like those in a drink they consumed in college bars. It includes a caffeinated energy drink, malt liquor, and a soft drink flavoring. They launch the business, Big Boom Beverages (BBB), with their own... View Details
Keywords: Alcoholic Beverages; Energy Drinks; Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Reputation; Communication Strategy; Decision Making
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Greyser, Stephen A., and William Ellet. "Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 920-557, May 2020.
  • 11 Feb 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy

Keywords: by Vincent Pons; Public Administration; Public Relations
  • May 2015
  • Case

Transforming Alkermes into a Global Biopharmaceutical Company

By: C. Fritz Foley and Nicholas Haas
In the summer of 2011, Jim Frates, CFO of Alkermes faced choices about how to finance the acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based Elan Drug Technologies (EDT)—a deal that was expected to close in the fall. The case describes the history of Alkermes, provides information... View Details
Keywords: Financing; Debt; Merger; CFO; Financial Management; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Europe
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Foley, C. Fritz, and Nicholas Haas. "Transforming Alkermes into a Global Biopharmaceutical Company." Harvard Business School Case 215-079, May 2015.
  • April 1990 (Revised May 1997)
  • Case

Lowe's

By: Walter J. Salmon
Lowe's chain of 306 stores was anticipating fierce competition from their major market rival, Home Depot. As they reformulated the size of their new prototype stores and the mix of their merchandise, what would be the ultimate format? What impact would it have on their... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Buildings and Facilities; Markets; Service Delivery; Competition
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Salmon, Walter J. "Lowe's." Harvard Business School Case 590-013, April 1990. (Revised May 1997.)
  • 30 Sep 2015
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The Problem of Too Much Talent

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An AI Method to Score Celebrity Visual Potential from Human Faces

By: Flora Feng, Shunyuan Zhang, Xiao Liu, Kannan Srinivasan and Cait Lamberton
It has long been a mantra of marketing practice that, particularly in low-involvement situations, spokespeople should be physically attractive. This paper suggests there is a higher probability of gaining fame and influence (i.e., celebrity potential) than is captured... View Details
Keywords: Personal Characteristics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing
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Feng, Flora, Shunyuan Zhang, Xiao Liu, Kannan Srinivasan, and Cait Lamberton. "An AI Method to Score Celebrity Visual Potential from Human Faces." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) (forthcoming). (Pre-published online February 12, 2025.)
  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Runa

By: Paul Gompers and Carla Larangeira
In early 2022, Courtney McColgan, founder and CEO of Runa, a human resources and payroll Software-as-a-Service platform, faced an unexpected tech market downturn. Founded in 2018, Runa catered to small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico, offering an affordable and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Volatility; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Leadership; Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Growth and Maturation; Latin America
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Gompers, Paul, and Carla Larangeira. "Runa." Harvard Business School Case 224-047, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

have told the Wright brothers, "Don't do it: it's a bad use of capital!" Yet over the past two decades, Ryanair's ROE was often comparable to the best returns in the pharmaceutical business—a traditional example of a structurally View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • November 2017 (Revised September 2020)
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Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
In the decade starting in 2000, a new mayor focused on infrastructure and leadership from a foundation investing in arts and culture helped the Miami region transform and attract younger people to a newly vibrant central city and arts district. In 2011, the Knight... View Details
Keywords: Change; Leadership; Business and Community Relations; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Miami; Florida
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 318-033, November 2017. (Revised September 2020.)
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The Payoff of Pay-for-Success

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa Chase
Pay-for-success contracts also known as social impact bonds, have been widely touted as a clever way to fill the funding gap plaguing social programs by attracting a tranche of the trillions of dollars in private return-seeking capital. This article takes an in-depth... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Impact Bonds; Public Innovation; Social Enterprise; Investment; Innovation and Invention
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Lisa Chase. "The Payoff of Pay-for-Success." Stanford Social Innovation Review 13, no. 4 (Fall 2015): 28–36.
  • July 2010
  • Article

Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church

By: Christopher Parsons, J. Hartzell and D. Yermack
We study the compensation and productivity of more than 2,000 Methodist ministers in a 43‐year panel data set. The church appears to use pay‐for‐performance incentives for its clergy, as their compensation follows a sharing rule by which pastors receive approximately... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Organizations; Religion; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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Parsons, Christopher, J. Hartzell, and D. Yermack. "Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 509–538.
  • March 1989 (Revised March 1999)
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Metabo GmbH & Co. KG

By: Robert S. Kaplan
A privately owned German power tool company was dissatisfied with its existing cost system. The system could not produce timely accurate reports on cost center operations, and newly purchased automated machines were attracting large overhead costs. A new, highly... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost; Budgets and Budgeting; Capital Budgeting; Cost Management; Reports; Private Ownership; Business or Company Management; Consumer Products Industry; Germany
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Metabo GmbH & Co. KG." Harvard Business School Case 189-146, March 1989. (Revised March 1999.)

    New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets

    Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing... View Details

    • August 2021
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    Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela

    By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira
    By June 2021, Yummy had become Venezuela’s first and largest food delivery app and last-mile logistics company. In Caracas, the nation’s capital, Yummy held a 55% market share, while operations in other cities had already started to take place, including in three of... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Health Pandemics; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion
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    Israeli, Ayelet, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Carla Larangeira. "Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela." Harvard Business School Case 522-034, August 2021.
    • September 2003 (Revised September 2018)
    • Exercise

    RetailMax: Role for Regan Kessel

    By: Kathleen McGinn and Dina Witter
    This exercise requires students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. The exercise presents a one-issue, distributive negotiation that... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
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    McGinn, Kathleen, and Dina Witter. "RetailMax: Role for Regan Kessel." Harvard Business School Exercise 904-025, September 2003. (Revised September 2018.)
    • September 2003 (Revised October 2020)
    • Exercise

    RetailMax: Role for Cam Archer

    By: Kathleen McGinn and Dina Witter
    This exercise requires students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. The exercise presents a one-issue, distributive negotiation that... View Details
    Keywords: BATNA; Decision Trees; Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Retail Industry
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    McGinn, Kathleen, and Dina Witter. "RetailMax: Role for Cam Archer." Harvard Business School Exercise 904-024, September 2003. (Revised October 2020.)
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    Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship (Doctoral)

    By: Josh Lerner
    Entrepreneurship—the formation and growth of new firms—is a complex phenomenon that has historically attracted relatively little academic attention. In recent years, however, scholars in a variety of disciplines have been devoting increasing attention to this topic.... View Details
    • September 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
    In the decade starting in 2000, a new mayor focused on infrastructure and leadership from a foundation investing in arts and culture helped the Miami region transform and attract younger people to a newly vibrant central city and arts district. In 2011, the Knight... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Leadership; Business and Community Relations; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Miami; Florida
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    Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 321-044, September 2020.
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