Case Research Methods - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and others have said it, and people accept the concept when you are talking about companies that make... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

begin? A: One of the most hopeful things we discovered in the course of this research is that the revolution, if you will, has already started. The U.S. [healthcare] system can be reformed from the bottom up. Any hospital, physician... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

favorite songs.” Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, who does much of her business research on the entertainment industry, looked at the clash between bundles and digital distribution, and the effect on media and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

International Political Economy in Post-Soviet Eurasia," nationalism powerfully influences the world economy, particularly in post-imperial societies. National identities can—and in the case of the former Soviet Union, did—affect... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Art Nature Business

School, 2006.9 Kim Keever studied thermal engineering and spent a summer conducting research at NASA before he became an artist. He creates these large-scale photographs by constructing miniature topographies inside a 100-gallon aquarium.... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Schlesinger I have just begun Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton. This book represents a well- crafted effort of social science research applied... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Ho Woon World Scientific Publishing Over sessions that lasted two to three hours each, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap. Speaking... View Details

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Right, a new book by HBS research associate Gorick Ng. Educated during the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the class of 2021 concludes an unusual academic experience only to face an unsteady global economy. Ng’s book sets out to help these... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

other for more than 10 years, and have often worked together on projects such as cases and articles. After spending over a decade with the Microsoft Office team, Steven was asked to manage Windows development in May 2006, as Windows Vista... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

Web

Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

China, and Estonia. These success stories highlight why promoting entrepreneurship globally has become an important policy agenda. From the perspective of entrepreneurs and investors, however, little research has been devoted to providing... View Details

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

school there, MIT, and I met a really great individual, Jonathan Fleming. Jonathan and I connected. He knew what I was about, Duchenne, and trying to save my brother and the boys like him. He suggested I meet with a researcher over at... View Details

26 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

eight plants in a row, a new variety begins and each week a new ripe cluster of tomatoes is harvested. Research teams collect data throughout this process via sensors and measurements, such as the volume of tomatoes grown per plant per... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Downtime

books? Outside of Shakespeare’s plays and the King James Bible, I would say George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I’ve read it twenty times now. Rohit Deshpandé is the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and a pioneer in research on... View Details

Keywords: fiction; Christianity

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

management.” — HBS professor Tom Eisenmann “One of the amazing and enduring characteristics of Howard over the years has been his incredible energy level, and his determination to make a difference in his teaching, in writing his many books, in producing new View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2013
News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

grew up in Montreal, where his father was a professor at McGill University and where he earned an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering. After graduating, he went to work for Monitor Company in Toronto, as a consultant. CPR for IP Zetta View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

Lawmakers, following public opinion rather than scholars' theories, have put in place very little tagging. Does this mean it's time to bury the Utilitarian approach? Not quite, says economist Matthew C. Weinzierl. The Harvard Business School assistant professor has a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

topic. Scholars interested in the fields of finance and private equity will find the research and case studies informative and enlightening. Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to... View Details

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

in-depth Harvard Business School case studies of almost two dozen companies in order to chronicle their activities and their changes over time. I wanted that scope of research because I wanted to be... View Details