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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Faculty Research

How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at the same price (potato chips).... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • April 6, 2022
  • Article

In Uncertain Times, Big Companies Need to Take Care of Their Suppliers

By: Willy C. Shih
Many large original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have long been ruthless with their suppliers, demanding extremely low prices and loading them up with risks. Given that the current turmoil buffeting global supply chains is unlikely to end anytime soon, OEMs should... View Details
Keywords: Supplier Relationship; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States
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  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • December 2021
  • Case

Zoetis

By: David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred
Keywords: Strategy; Food; Change Management; Leadership; Diversity; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • Web

Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

presented, including leveraged recapitalizations, strategic and financial sales of portfolio companies, initial public offerings, and secondary transactions. Module 5: Private Equity Firm Strategic and View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

What Do CEOs Do?

By: Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea-sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up-is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Productivity; Italy
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  • 07 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

“There is actually a lot of heterogeneity with the actions that executives take. For me that was very surprising.” Pérez Cavazos, part of the Accounting and Management Unit, initially doubted his colleague Andreya M. Silva would find... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • News

The Race for a Vaccine

produce antibodies. In this way, Bancel hoped, Moderna would be able to develop vaccines more quickly and inexpensively than other companies and create a diverse portfolio of products. Second, the production... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • August 2010 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Erik Peterson at Biometra (E)

By: John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong and Jevan Soo
Presents the final outcome of the events. The Richard Jenkins at SciMat case presents a description from the executive vice-president's point of view of the series of events as reported in the Erik Peterson at Biometra (A), (B), (C), and (D) cases. The Jenkins at... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Product Launch; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Perspective
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  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Hatches Harvard Business School Case 809-072 Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

that event. Eventually, once I was ready to start recruiting, my previous manager who is now at Plaid introduced me to Plaid’s Head of Product, a fellow HBS graduate, and we started conversations about me potentially joining the View Details
  • September 2010
  • Teaching Note

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details
Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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  • 29 Jan 2021
  • News

Holding Business to Account

Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was... View Details
  • April 2008 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

Ti-Tech (A)

By: Benson P. Shapiro, John T. Gourville and Craig E. Cline
This case concerns the selection and scheduling of orders by a small industrial titanium fabricator that recently has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. At the time of the case, Ti-Tech must decide which of four orders to accept, with capacity... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Metals and Minerals; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Supply Chain Management; Performance Capacity; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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  • June 1998 (Revised January 2002)
  • Teaching Note

Baker Precision Instruments, Inc., TN

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Donald Rosenfield
Teaching Note for (9-687-052). View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Decisions; Technology; Planning; Performance Capacity; Management; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay

By: Jillian Berry Jaeker and Anita Tucker
We use two years of inpatient data from 243 California hospitals to quantify the relationship between hospital-level workload and patient length of stay (LOS), and its "spillover" effects across patient types. Patients are categorized as medical or surgical, and the... View Details
Keywords: Workload; Processing Times; Healthcare; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity; Time Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; California
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  • Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

includes start-up consulting, executive coaching and career counseling.  Work Experience: High Tech, 20+ years (mostly start-ups, including UNIFI communications, Exit41, Elm Square Interactive; corporates include Verizon, Octel and Osram Sylvania). Roles: View Details
Keywords: Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

[PageNet], now the world's largest wireless messaging company), GTCR now manages some $1.2 billion in five funds, with excellent results. Over the past decade, it has reaped returns of roughly 30 percent on companies it retains in its... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 31 May 2013
  • News

Meg Whitman Jolts HP as Its Reluctant Savior

Keywords: HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

channels are our most valuable customers.— Susan Vobejda, Gap Inc. Susan Vobejda (HBS MBA '97), senior director of brand management at Gap Inc., agreed with Nuzzo that the Internet works best in support of the company's efforts to sell in... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Consumer Products