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      • April 2011
      • Teaching Note

      Porcini's Pronto: "Great Italian cuisine without the wait!" (Brief Case)

      By: James L. Heskett and Richard Luecke
      Teaching Note to 4277. View Details
      Keywords: Franchising; Syndication; Quantitative Analysis; Performance Measurement; Human Resource Management; Incentives; Motivation; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods; Franchise Ownership; Human Resources; Performance Evaluation
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      Heskett, James L., and Richard Luecke. Porcini's Pronto: "Great Italian cuisine without the wait!" (Brief Case). Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-278, April 2011.
      • 2011
      • Article

      Scalable Detection of Anomalous Patterns With Connectivity Constraints

      By: Skyler Speakman, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
      We present GraphScan, a novel method for detecting arbitrarily shaped connected clusters in graph or network data. Given a graph structure, data observed at each node, and a score function defining the anomalousness of a set of nodes, GraphScan can efficiently and... View Details
      Keywords: Biosurveillance; Event Detection; Graph Mining; Scan Statistics; Spatial Scan Statistic
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      Speakman, Skyler, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Scalable Detection of Anomalous Patterns With Connectivity Constraints." Emerging Health Threats Journal 4 (2011): 11121.
      • March 2011 (Revised November 2011)
      • Case

      Harmonic Hearing Co.

      By: Howard H. Stevenson and Craig H. Stephenson
      Harmonic is a small, privately held manufacturer of hearing aids. Harriet Burns and Marc Davis, two employees at Harmonic, have an opportunity to purchase the company from the founder. As well-informed insiders who understand the industry, Burns and Davis believe the... View Details
      Keywords: Debts; Quantitative Analysis; Financing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Development Stage Enterprises; Small & Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Cash Flow; Mathematical Methods; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Manufacturing Industry
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      Stevenson, Howard H., and Craig H. Stephenson. "Harmonic Hearing Co." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-271, March 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
      • March 2011 (Revised November 2011)
      • Teaching Note

      Harmonic Hearing Co. (Brief Case)

      By: Howard H. Stevenson and Craig Stephenson
      Teaching Note for 4271. View Details
      Keywords: Debts; Quantitative Analysis; Financing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Development Stage Enterprises; Small & Medium-sized Enterprises; Cash Flow; Mathematical Methods; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt
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      Stevenson, Howard H., and Craig Stephenson. "Harmonic Hearing Co. (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-272, March 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
      • March 2011 (Revised April 2021)
      • Case

      The Whiz Kids

      By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
      In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan written by Charles "Tex" Thornton, a U.S. Air Force colonel. The telegram presented an opportunity for Ford to deploy a system of statistical control which... View Details
      Keywords: Ford Motor Company; Statistical Control; Management Systems; Accounting; Operations; Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Auto Industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "The Whiz Kids." Harvard Business School Case 811-042, March 2011. (Revised April 2021.)
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      An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

      By: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl
      This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short-run and flexible in the long-run. Policy is evaluated by... View Details
      Keywords: Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy; Economic Models; Aggregate Demand; Demand and Consumers; Money; Mathematical Methods; Taxation; Spending; Policy; Welfare; Household; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
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      Mankiw, N. Gregory, and Matthew C. Weinzierl. "An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2011). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-113, May 2011 and NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17029, May 2011.)
      • February 2011 (Revised November 2013)
      • Case

      The Cheezburger Network

      By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
      Cheezburger Network was a Web publisher of humorous, user-contributed content, using social media for dissemination, and selling advertising against the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011, it raised $30 million in venture capital for the... View Details
      Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Digital Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Strategic Planning; Sales; Internet and the Web; Publishing Industry; Web Services Industry
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      Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "The Cheezburger Network." Harvard Business School Case 511-091, February 2011. (Revised November 2013.) (request a courtesy copy.)
      • January 2011 (Revised January 2015)
      • Case

      Matrix Capital Management (A)

      By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
      Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Stock Shares; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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      Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-017, January 2011. (Revised January 2015.)
      • January 2011
      • Teaching Note

      AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly (Brief Case)

      By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Sunru Yong
      Teaching Note for 4245. View Details
      Keywords: Performance Management; Quantitative Analysis; Manufacturing; Production Planning; Production Management; Production; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation; Planning; Manufacturing Industry
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      Wheelwright, Steven C., and Sunru Yong. "AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-246, January 2011.
      • 2011
      • Article

      A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction

      By: Eyal Ert, Ido Erev and Alvin E. Roth
      Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games: one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Game Theory; Fairness
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      Ert, Eyal, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth. "A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction." Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2, no. 3 (September 2011): 257–276.
      • 2011
      • Chapter

      Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory

      By: Michael Beer
      The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform... View Details
      Keywords: Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Research; Alignment; Theory; Value
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      Beer, Michael. "Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory ." In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, 1–54. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

      By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
      As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
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      Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-071, January 2011.
      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns

      By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson
      We show that the credit quality of corporate debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Credit; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Bonds; Market Design; Cost of Capital; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks
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      Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson. "Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-065, January 2011. (Revised September 2012, Internet Appendix Here.)
      • 2011
      • Teaching Note

      Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao
      Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China-based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by female serial entrepreneur Xiaomin Chen, Juner has exhibited strong performance and growth potential in the past fifteen... View Details
      Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements; IPO; Valuation; Women Executives; China; Plastics; China
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia, and Ziqian Zhao. "Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
      • November 2010
      • Article

      A New Era for Raiders

      By: Guhan Subramanian
      The article presents information on corporate methods of preventing hostile takeovers by corporate raiders, such as the poison pill strategy. It is noted that some of these techniques have become less popular and effective. An argument is presented that Section 203 of... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; United States
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      Subramanian, Guhan. "A New Era for Raiders." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 34.
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior

      By: L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton and E. W. Dunn
      While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Cost vs Benefits; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Outcome or Result; Relationships; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives
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      Anik, L., L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn. "Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior." In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity, edited by D. M. Oppenheimer and C. Y. Olivola. Psychology Press, 2010.
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased

      By: Richard S. Ruback
      This paper focuses adaptations to the discount cash flow (DCF) method when valuing forecasted cash flows that are biased measures of expected cash flows. I imagine a simple setting where the expected cash flows equal the forecasted cash flows plus an omitted downside.... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Performance Expectations; Prejudice and Bias; Valuation
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      Ruback, Richard S. "Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-036, October 2010.
      • September 2010
      • Supplement

      Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships (CW)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
      Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime Services, a New Jersey-based shipping research and consulting firm, has been asked by a new potential customer in May 2008 for advice on purchasing a capesize bulk carrier. After identifying a suitable ship with his... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Decisions; Microeconomics; Finance; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Market Transactions; Partners and Partnerships; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Consulting Industry; New Jersey
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Albert W. Sheen. "Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 211-702, September 2010.
      • September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
      • Case

      Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
      Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime Services, a New Jersey-based shipping research and consulting firm, has been asked by a new potential customer in May 2008 for advice on purchasing a capesize bulk carrier. After identifying a suitable ship with his... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Negotiation Offer; Mathematical Methods; Ship Transportation; Valuation; Consulting Industry; Shipping Industry
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Albert W. Sheen. "Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships." Harvard Business School Case 211-014, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
      • September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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      J.P. Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009

      By: Anette Mikes, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
      Mary Erdoes, the CEO of JP Morgan's asset management business, and three colleagues provide insights into risk management issues faced by the firm's private bank during the financial crisis in 2008–2009. The case provides perspective on the philosophy with which they... View Details
      Keywords: Judgments; Financial Crisis; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Banking Industry; United States
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      Mikes, Anette, Clayton S. Rose, and Aldo Sesia. "J.P. Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009." Harvard Business School Case 311-003, September 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
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