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- July 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Branding Citigroup's Consumer Business
By: Rohit Deshpande and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In Spring 1998, Citicorp and Travelers merged to create a financial powerhouse that united the bank with Travelers' consumer finance and brokerage businesses, including Salomon Smith Barney and Primerica. It was the first U.S. financial services company to combine... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Decisions; Asset Management; Investment Banking; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Relationships; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; United States
Deshpande, Rohit, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Branding Citigroup's Consumer Business." Harvard Business School Case 504-023, July 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
- April 2012 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Merck: Operating Science-Based Business
By: Ananth Raman, Inga Maurer and William Schmidt
Merck is known for its commitment to investing in basic R&D. Are Merck's long-term investments justifiable when the firm faces extreme earnings pressure? View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Management; Research and Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Operations; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Raman, Ananth, Inga Maurer, and William Schmidt. "Merck: Operating Science-Based Business." Harvard Business School Case 612-082, April 2012. (Revised May 2012.)
- November 2007
- Class Lecture
The Baby Business (FSS)
By: Debora L. Spar
In vitro fertilization and genetic screening are possible with the advent of biotechnology. International adoptions, surrogacy, and other approaches to family planning are on the rise. But few rules govern these measures, medical costs can be prohibitive, and... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Genetics; Societal Protocols; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
Spar, Debora L. "The Baby Business (FSS)." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 708-701, November 2007.
- June 3, 2020
- Article
Business Leaders Have to Create the Change Needed to End Racism
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Business Leaders Have to Create the Change Needed to End Racism." CNN.com (June 3, 2020).
- 2021
- Chapter
Taking Leadership to a New Place: Outside-the-Building Thinking to Improve the World
BOOK ABSTRACT: Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity. View Details
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Taking Leadership to a New Place: Outside-the-Building Thinking to Improve the World." Chap. 3 in The Business of Building a Better World: The Leadership Revolution That Is Changing Everything, edited by David L. Cooperrider and Audrey Selian. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2021.
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Capital Market Intermediaries: Summary Observations on a Workshop Held at Harvard Business School
Keywords: Capital Markets
- April 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics
By: Leslie John, Michael Norton and Michael Norris
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
stickK.com, a website that uses behavioral economics to help users achieve their goals, must choose between a direct-to-consumer or business-to-business model. The case... View Details
stickK.com, a website that uses behavioral economics to help users achieve their goals, must choose between a direct-to-consumer or business-to-business model. The case... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Behavior Change; B2B Vs. B2C; Human Resource Management; Marketing Of Innovations; Health ＆ Wellness; Weight Loss; Charitable Giving; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Health; Business Model; Sales; Human Resources; Health Industry; United States
John, Leslie, Michael Norton, and Michael Norris. "Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics." Harvard Business School Case 514-019, April 2014. (Revised June 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
in emerging markets relatively small, business is beginning to eye this huge population at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) as a viable and essential market. Indeed, it is only... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
might be taken in admissions to sort out the "bad apples," the primary responsibility of business schools is to provide a place where ethics and values can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Business Leaders and Corporate Responsibility
By: Thomas R. Piper
Thomas R. Piper is trying to establish an appropriate sense of ethics and corporate responsibility for future business leaders. Earlier research provided compelling evidence that many future leaders seriously doubt that their interpersonal ethics can be brought into... View Details
- March 28, 2016
- Article
Why the 21st Century Will Belong to Family Businesses
By: Josh Baron
Baron, Josh. "Why the 21st Century Will Belong to Family Businesses." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 28, 2016).
- August 2020
- Article
Financial Market Risk Perceptions and the Macroeconomy
By: Carolin E. Pflueger, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam
We propose a novel measure of risk perceptions: the price of volatile stocks (PVS), defined as the book-to-market ratio of low-volatility stocks minus the book-to-market ratio of high-volatility stocks. PVS is high when perceived risk directly measured from surveys and... View Details
Keywords: Risk-centric Business Cycles; Cross-section Of Equities; Real Risk-free Rate; Real Investment; Financial Markets; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Investment
Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam. "Financial Market Risk Perceptions and the Macroeconomy." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (August 2020).
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
Summing Up Do Concerns About Job Creation By Small Businesses Miss The Point? Judging from responses to this month's column, there appears to be a visceral reaction View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Teaching Interest
Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation
By: John D. Macomber
This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School. It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week. SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
How much of your product do you share? Does your business model extract value from a core product or a portfolio of complementary products?" Most academic research has focused on individual contributions View Details
- January–February 2021
- Article
Build a Family Business That Lasts
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Judging from how they’re portrayed in the media, it would be easy to dismiss family businesses as hotbeds of power-playing, backstabbing, and favor-currying, ultimately destined to fail; think of the Murdochs and News Corp, or the Redstones and National Amusements, to... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Success; Ownership Type; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Build a Family Business That Lasts." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 112–121.
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of View Details
- Research Summary
Entrepreneurial Management: Customer Discovery and Business Development
This research focuses on: (a) market research methods and tactics suitable to startups seeking their initial customers and validation of their initial business model; (b) guidelines for conducting visits with potential customers as part of the startup ptrocess; and (c)... View Details
- December 1995
- Supplement
Doing Business on the Internet: An Interview with Shikhar Ghosh, CEO, Open Market
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan
Applegate, Lynda M., and Janis Lee Gogan. "Doing Business on the Internet: An Interview with Shikhar Ghosh, CEO, Open Market." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 196-503, December 1995.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Markets with Price Coherence
By: Benjamin Edelman and Julian Wright
In markets with price coherence, the purchase of a given good via an intermediary is constrained to occur at the same price as a purchase of that same good directly from the seller (or through another competing intermediary). We examine ten markets with price... View Details
Keywords: Intermediaries; Platforms; Two-Sided Markets; Vertical Restraints; Price; Distribution Channels; Business History; Financial Services Industry; Travel Industry; Insurance Industry; Real Estate Industry; Advertising Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright. "Markets with Price Coherence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-061, January 2015. (Revised March 2015.)