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- January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Amazon Shopper Panel: Paying Customers for Their Data
By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
This case introduces a new Amazon program that has consumers upload their receipts from transactions outside of Amazon, in exchange for money. Through the discussion, the case aims to explore issues in customers’ privacy in the digital age, the value of customers’ own... View Details
Keywords: Data Analytics; Data Privacy; Data Management; "Marketing Analytics"; Marketing Communication; Marketing Research; Data-driven Management; E-Commerce Strategy; Ethical Decision Making; CRM; Consumer Protection; Targeted Advertising; Targeted Policies; Data Ownership; Marketing; Research; Marketing Communications; Analytics and Data Science; Management; Customer Relationship Management; Ethics; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Amazon Shopper Panel: Paying Customers for Their Data." Harvard Business School Case 521-058, January 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- August 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Showrooming at Best Buy
By: Thales Teixeira and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
Best Buy is a consumer electronics retailer with nearly 2,000 stores worldwide. In 2012, the rising popularity of price-matching apps for mobile phones made price differences between retailers transparent, online and offline. Shoppers' desire to test electronics... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Price; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Retail Industry; Electronics Industry
Teixeira, Thales, and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. "Showrooming at Best Buy." Harvard Business School Case 515-019, August 2014. (Revised December 2015.)
- Teaching Interest
Economics
Instructor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, MPA Mid-Career Summer Program View Details
- 2009
- Book
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D. and Jason Hwang M.D.
A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform—from a legendary leader in innovation. Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Disruptive Innovation; Health Industry; United States
Christensen, Clayton M., Jerome H. Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D. The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care. McGraw-Hill, 2009. (Winner of James A. Hamilton Award Given annually to the author of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by the American College of Healthcare Executives' Book of the Year Committee presented by American College of Healthcare Executives.)
- July 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc: Rewarding Our People
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Marilyn Winn, head of human resources at Harrah's Entertainment, must make a recommendation to the company's president and CEO about whether the existing bonus payout program is effective at motivating employees or whether it should be revised and/or replaced. A recent... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Human Capital; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Alignment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "Harrah's Entertainment, Inc: Rewarding Our People." Harvard Business School Case 403-008, July 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
- January 2023
- Case
Year Up: Measuring and Scaling Impact
Year Up, a non-profit that provides training and practical work experience to low-income young people, has for years prioritized impact measurement. By 2022, it had built a robust body of evidence demonstrating that its program yields higher earnings for participants.... View Details
Keywords: Demographics; Education; Jobs and Positions; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Research; Social Enterprise; Growth Management; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Rigol, Natalia, Benjamin N. Roth, Brian Trelstad, and Sarah Mehta. "Year Up: Measuring and Scaling Impact." Harvard Business School Case 823-004, January 2023.
- November 2020
- Case
Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Iavor I. Bojinov and Emma Salomon
Goldman Sachs runs an annual internship for over 3,000 participants, spread across dozens of the firm's global offices. In 2020, the team brought all its resources to bear to transform the internship program into a fully virtual format in just a few short weeks. The... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Remote Operations; Remote Internship; Internship; Virtual Socialization; Human Capital Management; Human Resources; Management; Health Pandemics; Adaptation
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Iavor I. Bojinov, and Emma Salomon. "Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 621-035, November 2020.
- March 1990 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (A)
By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
Describes the incentive system by which Mary Kay Cosmetics motivates the sales force of 200,000 independent agents who comprise the firm's only distribution channel. Illustrates the powerful effect on sales-force behavior that results when creative types of employee... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Cost Management; Salesforce Management; Distribution Channels; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
Simons, Robert L., and Hilary Weston. "Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (A)." Harvard Business School Case 190-103, March 1990. (Revised October 1999.)
- April 2021
- Supplement
Buy Online, Pickup in Store: CEO Supplement
By: Antonio Moreno, Santiago Gallino and Amy Klopfenstein
In April 2019, Sylvarella CEO Sylvia Coparella must assess the impact of the company’s Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program on her company’s overall sales. To do so, she must review analyses of both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar sales data and compare the... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Service Delivery; Logistics; Infrastructure; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Analysis; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Canada
Moreno, Antonio, Santiago Gallino, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Buy Online, Pickup in Store: CEO Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-104, April 2021.
- August 2004 (Revised March 2009)
- Exercise
Your Own Case Study
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Sarah Marie Kauss
Designed to aid in the transfer and application of knowledge gained from the executive program to the live situation that program participants face in their jobs. Teaching Purpose: To bring practical relevance to executive education programs, permitting focused... View Details
Margolis, Joshua D., and Sarah Marie Kauss. "Your Own Case Study." Harvard Business School Exercise 405-037, August 2004. (Revised March 2009.)
- September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Dove and Real Beauty: Building a Brand with Purpose
By: Mark R. Kramer, Myriam Sidibe and Gunjan Veda
Unilever subsidiary Dove soap became a "brand with a purpose" and created shared value when the company decided to launch a Campaign for Real Beauty to combat the artificial media-driven stereotype of female beauty that causes appearance anxiety in women and girls... View Details
Keywords: Stereotype; Body Image; Female; Self-Esteem; Brands and Branding; Mission and Purpose; Advertising Campaigns; Gender; Resource Allocation
Kramer, Mark R., Myriam Sidibe, and Gunjan Veda. "Dove and Real Beauty: Building a Brand with Purpose." Harvard Business School Case 720-361, September 2019. (Revised June 2021.)
- March 1975 (Revised April 1985)
- Case
L'eggs Products, Inc. (Condensed)
Describes designing an advertising or promotion program to sustain the momentum on L'eggs successful market entry. View Details
Star, Steven H. "L'eggs Products, Inc. (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 575-090, March 1975. (Revised April 1985.)
- January–February 2015
- Article
The Truth about CSR
By: Kasturi Rangan, Lisa Chase and Sohel Karim
The article discusses corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. In the authors' view many of these programs consist of disparate, uncoordinated initiatives that fail to maximize their impact. They recommend a more coherent strategy that divides CSR efforts into... View Details
Rangan, Kasturi, Lisa Chase, and Sohel Karim. "The Truth about CSR." Harvard Business Review 93, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2015): 40–49.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf, Gunther Fink and David N. Weil
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Performance Evaluation; Programs; Health Industry; Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, Gunther Fink, and David N. Weil. "Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16069, June 2010.
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
Frequent shopping programs that reward customers with discounts or other perks are commonplace in grocery stores, but many are not as effective in influencing buying behavior as they could be, argues HBS professor Rajiv Lal. "The... View Details
- 01 Aug 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?
- April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Buro Happold
By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman
Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each... View Details
Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Programs
Eccles, Robert G., and Kerry Herman. "Buro Happold." Harvard Business School Case 409-021, April 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- April 2021
- Case
Buy Online, Pickup in Store: Evaluating an Omnichannel Intervention in Retail
By: Antonio Moreno, Santiago Gallino and Amy Klopfenstein
In October 2018, fashion, wellness, and beauty retailer Sylvarella implemented a Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program in an attempt to counteract a sales decline. While BOPS had the potential to meet customer expectations for a seamless order and fulfillment... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Service Delivery; Logistics; Infrastructure; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Analysis; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Canada
Moreno, Antonio, Santiago Gallino, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Buy Online, Pickup in Store: Evaluating an Omnichannel Intervention in Retail." Harvard Business School Case 621-103, April 2021.
- June 2016
- Supplement
Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and David Lane
In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Supply Chain Finance; Corporate Treasury; Consumer Packaged Goods; Value Creation; Supply Chain; Supplier Relationships; Banking; Liquidity; Accounts Payable; Accrual Accounting; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Financial Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Supply Chain Management; United States; Brazil
- June 2012
- Case
Buro Happold (Abridged)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Ryan Johnson
In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold, passed away, and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current... View Details
Keywords: Learning And Development; Managing Growth; Organizational Design; Diversification; Client Management; Leadership Skills; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Training; Programs; Customer Relationship Management
Eccles, Robert G., and Ryan Johnson. "Buro Happold (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 412-123, June 2012.