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- August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 624-003, August 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
became. Male doctors performance also improved when emergency rooms had more female doctors. For Huang, the price of that learning curve seems too high for women. “There's lots of these scenarios where people have to advocate, have to... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- Fast Answer
Aggregate financial ratios: including private company data
How do I find aggregate industry ratios that include private companies? Industry ratios provide a way to compare and analyze the correlation of diverse financial data for an entire industry. They can be used to compare the performance of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- News
Last Look - September 2009
was performed at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre for an audience of about 1,200 people on November 28, 1942, the evening of Boston’s deadly Cocoanut Grove fire.” George Hanford (MBA ’43 March) wrote, “I can’t help observing that they all look... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- News
Last Look - September 2010
“Since it appears I am holding a sneaker (or ‘trainer,’ since we’re British), I think the case concerned Adidas performance claims in the UK market.” Section-mate Christian de Juniac wrote: “I seem to remember that there was a case in... View Details
- Web
1.14 Academic Review / Academic Withdrawal | MBA
1.14 Academic Review / Academic Withdrawal 1.0 Academic Information & Policies Academic Reviews are conducted by the Academic Performance Committee (APC) after Terms 2, 3, and 4, and are completed before the beginning of the subsequent... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
field of customer engagement and on his community. In addition to HBS, he and Diane support many Dallas institutions, including the Dallas Zoo (the couple is pictured on the Brierley Giraffe Ridge), the Dallas Performing Arts Center,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
brewery compares to the competition. Team members have one hour to digest the information and formulate a new strategy. At the end of eight rounds, industry winners are selected based on their overall performance throughout the game.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. Who... View Details
- 27 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Dan McGinn on How to Ace Your Presentation
about specific ways to manage each of these three elements. Which ones work best for each person will differ, but everyone should find the right routine they use before such events in order to maximize their chances of performing well.... View Details
- March 2022
- Article
Where to Locate COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Facilities?
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li and Alessandro Previero
The outbreak of COVID-19 led to a record-breaking race to develop a vaccine. However, the limited vaccine capacity creates another massive challenge: how to distribute vaccines to mitigate the near-end impact of the pandemic? In the United States in particular, the new... View Details
Keywords: Vaccines; COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Performance Effectiveness; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li, and Alessandro Previero. "Where to Locate COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Facilities?" Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 69, no. 2 (March 2022): 179–200.
- 2019
- Article
Go-Shops Revisited
By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
A go-shop process turns the traditional M&A deal process on its head: rather than a pre-signing market canvass followed by a post-signing “no shop” period, a go-shop deal involves a limited pre-signing market check, followed by a post-signing “go shop” process to find... View Details
Keywords: Go-shop Process; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Deal; Performance Effectiveness; Technological Innovation
Subramanian, Guhan, and Annie Zhao. "Go-Shops Revisited." Harvard Law Review 133, no. 4 (February 2020): 1216–1279.
- March 2016 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa's democracy persists, albeit with problems. A tripartite coalition — the African National Congress, the labor unions, and the Communist Party — still controls the political system but with diminishing economic... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Development; Productivity; Labor; Labor Unions; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Economic Growth; Performance Productivity; Economy; Social Issues; South Africa
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason. "South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?" Harvard Business School Case 716-069, March 2016. (Revised September 2021.)
- October 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Case
Citizens Bank
By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han
In November 2004, Larry Fish, chairman of Citizens Bank, is wondering about the challenges posed by the latest and largest acquisition in the history of the bank. Fish has always believed that the success of Citizens thus far was facilitated by the credo he introduced... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Change Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Leading Change; Performance Effectiveness; Banking Industry
Lal, Rajiv, and Arar Han. "Citizens Bank." Harvard Business School Case 505-034, October 2004. (Revised March 2005.)
- May 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Teaching Note
Jumpstart TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-037). View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
well. It is easy to exaggerate the contribution of one leader to the performance of an organization —we do it to excess. But in the case of these two, it is warranted. “Bogle taught us a new way to invest while Kelleher taught us a new... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Business Strategy Review (May 2011) Abstract We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
the Cluster Mapping Project, uses statistical techniques to profile the performance over time of regional economies in the U.S., with a special focus on clusters. Clusters are geographically concentrated groups of interconnected... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer