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01 Dec 2014
News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

Kiddles founder and CEO Andrea Kimmel (MBA 2003) presents this case study query to HBS alumni and faculty: “The team has an aggressive growth timeline, but financing that growth is a challenge. (Center one, a ground-up build, cost a... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

January 1990
Teaching Note

Student Cases on Career Choice-Making, Instructor's Note

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Cases

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01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

How Will the Case Method Have to Evolve to Meet Future Needs? Like any good case discussion, this month’s column generated thoughtful comments centered around several issues concerning whether or not the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

11 May 2015
Video

HBS Case Protagonist Mohamed Hage on Rooftop Farming

1974
Chapter

Management Accounting in Hospitals: A Case Study

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Accounting; Health Industry

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03 Feb 2015
News

The Curious Case of ‘Beyoncé’ the Album

Blog

How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

At HBS, research and case development are tightly intertwined. Cases provide the opportunity for faculty to develop ideas, gain insight into nascent research questions, and illustrate theory in practice. In... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

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29 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

Keywords: by Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad

2024
White Paper

Hidden Workers: The Case for Caregivers

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman and Francis Hintermann

Keywords: Labor; Work-Life Balance; Selection and Staffing; Retention

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September 2018
Teaching Note

The Case of the Unidentified Ratios

By: Josh Lerner

Teaching Note for HBS No. 812-129. This teaching note provides an introduction to ratio analysis as well as the different financial properties across and within industries. Students are asked to match ratios to a list of industries. View Details

Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis; Industry Analysis; Finance; Analysis

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March 2007 (Revised February 2009)
Background Note

How to Crack a Strategy Case

By: Stephen P. Bradley, David J. Collis, Kevin P. Coyne, Andrei Hagiu, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Jan W. Rivkin and John R. Wells

Addresses a common concern among strategy students: "How should I tackle this case?" Describes a process for diagnosing a strategic situation, then generating, evaluating, and choosing among strategic options. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Valuation

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June 2005 (Revised May 2018)
Teaching Note

Columbia's Final Mission: A Multimedia Case

By: Michael Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Erika Ferlins

Teaching Note to 305-032. View Details

Keywords: Aerospace Industry

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winter 2007
Article

Oracle vs. PeopleSoft: A Case Study

By: D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Applications and Software; Information; Information Technology Industry

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17 Aug 2012
News

Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

08 Oct 2008
News

B-school: nervous students and case studies

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew The facts of the ever-widening tech labor shortage are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the United States, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

Podcast with: Joseph Bower Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 8 min., 23 sec. In early September, Ford Motor Company announced that Bill Ford would be replaced as CEO by Boeing's Alan Mulally, credited with the turnaround of the Commercial Airplanes division of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment