Case Method - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

spending time with each other, those can be overcome.” The panelists also discussed the possibility of collaborating on teaching methods. For instance, some SEAS classes could adopt Harvard Business School’s case View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

paper I just assumed that noncompetes were an invention of modern—especially high tech—companies. But as you make clear, noncompetes have enjoyed a long history. How and why did they arise? A: The earliest recorded noncompete case was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Working PapersInvestable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Authors:Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal Abstract The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

share their resources are a key obstacle to saving. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45072 Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case By: Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Baldwin,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

depth in a focus group.—Gerald Zaltman Underhill shuns academic market research as being too theoretical. Yet some of this research supports Underhill's commonsense findings. Such is the case with the work of Gerald Zaltman, a Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

years, MacCormack has led FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development), a hands-on experiential learning program that has arguably revolutionized education at HBS more than any development since the introduction of the case-study View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

AI oversight and regulation. At least that’s the impression created by a small sample of comments on this month’s column. Sandeep made the case for an AI czar. “Any public servant is accountable to you and me and we can fire him and find... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

continue to deteriorate sharply despite decades of talk about business and sustainability. Participants eschewed focusing on the handful of win/win cases to explore why attention to environmental sustainability is just plain hard. Some of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

negotiated business challenges. In three cases, the challenges involved getting everyone on the same page after acquisitions or mergers. They describe the methods they used to counter growing bureaucracies, encourage customer-centricity,... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

girls reveal insecurities about their looks, showing the harm done by unrealistic standards set by the industry. (Dove is also the subject of a new case by Deighton.) “Authenticity becomes a much more desirable property than... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

Miller and colleague V.G. Narayanan have made this case to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and wrote "Accounting Standards and the Globalisation of Indian Businesses," which appeared in the July 2005 issue of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

money to spend on groceries. So if we were opened seven days a week, we wouldn't necessarily sell any more, and we would have to increase prices to cover our expenses." The Mercadona case inevitably raises the question: Can this... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

to greater learning in this area, the academics generally cited shortage of faculty who understood health care and could teach business skills; lack of case materials and familiarity with case View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

case discussion methods employed by many business schools may exacerbate the problem by their frequent reliance on heavy class participation, conveying subtle messages that those who sound smart and speak a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace, Deighton explains how it continues to carve out territory in the marketplace.Lagace: Were you surprised that Webvan failed? Deighton: No. The purpose of writing the case was to have classes explore... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

measurement had fueled great market success for the division, but alternative non-contact measurement methods that employed optical or x-ray technologies were rapidly gaining ground in the market. This case... View Details