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  • March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
  • Case

Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally

By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Omar Ishrak, Medtronic's first non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Medical Devices; Medtronic; Globalization; Innovation; Reverse Innovation; Leadership; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Business Model; Emerging Markets; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; China
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  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810007-PDF-ENG Generation Health: A Pioneer in Genetics Benefit Management (B) Robert F. HigginsHarvard Business School Supplement 811-005 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

domestic and imported inputs. Value data for imports and exports of services are too aggregated and valuations are questionable, while price data for service exports View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

MiDAS: Automating Unemployment Benefits

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In 2015, the state of Michigan considered whether to nominate its Michigan Integrated Data Automated System (MiDAS) for a prestigious state technology award. Launched in 2013 amid severe budget pressures, the $47 million automated fraud detection system was designed to... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; AI; Machine Learning Models; Algorithmic Data; Automation; Benefits; Compensation; Cost Reduction; Government; Fraud; Government Technology; Public Sector; Systems; Systems Integration; Unemployment Insurance; Waste Heat Recovery; AI and Machine Learning; Government Administration; Insurance; Decision Making; Digital Transformation; Employment; Public Administration Industry; United States; Michigan
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  • Web

Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success - Recruiting

[pre-orientation] equipped me with knowledge, for example about section dues, which are $300 to $400. We needed to know that the fee was coming up, and how to budget for it,” she said. “The best part for me... View Details
  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

  Working PapersWalking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman, and Markus Nöth Abstract We study the framing effects of communication in multiparty bargaining.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2018
  • News

Tax Reform, Round One

    Gerald C. Chertavian

    Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

    • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
    • Case

    Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002

    Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Education; Business Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; Seattle
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    • 20 Aug 2024
    • Interview

    Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Brian Kenny and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Angel City Football Club (ACFC) was founded in 2020 by venture capitalist Kara Nortman, entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and actor and activist Natalie Portman. As outsiders to professional sports, the all-female founding team had rewritten the playbook for how to build a... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Gender; Franchise Ownership; Business Model; Sports Industry
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    • January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Japan: Betting on Inflation?

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    The case focuses on the challenges still confronting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of 2013, a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market... View Details
    Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Debt Sustainability; International Relations; Borrowing and Debt
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    • 20 Aug 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

    Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

      William C. Kirby

      William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; wine

        The Power of Experiments

        Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of... View Details

        • April 2009
        • Case

        Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community

        By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
        Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to... View Details
        Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Rural Scope; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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        • Article

        Describing Wait Time Bottlenecks for ED Patients Undergoing Head CT

        By: Jonathan G. Rogg, Robert S. Huckman, Michael Lev, Ali Raja, Yuchiao Chang and Benjamin White
        Study objectives: Facing increased utilization and subsequent capacity and budget constraints, EDs must better understand bottlenecks and their effect on process flow to improve process efficiency. The primary objective of this study was to identify bottlenecks in... View Details
        Keywords: Health Care; Bottleneck; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Health Industry; United States
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        • May 2019 (Revised June 2021)
        • Case

        State of Charge: The Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative

        By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
        In early 2017, Judith Judson (Harvard Business School MBA, 2000), Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER), was reflecting on the results of the initiative she had led to identify the contribution advanced electricity storage could make... View Details
        Keywords: Energy Storage; Energy Generation; Programs; Policy; Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Massachusetts
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        • January 2018 (Revised April 2021)
        • Case

        Capital Allocation at HCA

        By: W. Carl Kester and Emily R. McComb
        In early 2017, HCA Holdings, an investor-owned hospital management company, faced a strategically important capital allocation decision. After the exit of its private equity sponsors in 2016, HCA had to determine how best to allocate its substantial annual free cash... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Allocation; Cash Distribution Policy; Dividends; Share Repurchases; Growth Strategy And Execution; Growth Investing; Capital Expenditures; Debt Management; Debt Reduction; Debt Policy; Hospital Management; Investor-owned Hospital Chains; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; United States
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        • July–August 2013
        • Article

        Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative

        By: Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld
        The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue growth—launch a slew of initiatives in high-potential areas; appoint some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses—is a recipe for failure, according to the authors.... View Details
        Keywords: Failure; Growth and Development Strategy
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