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- September 2013
- Case
SafeBlend Fracturing
By: Benson P. Shapiro, Frank V. Cespedes and Alisa Zalosh
The CEO of SafeBlend Technologies must set a price for the company's environmentally friendly fracturing fluid additive. The firm is negotiating a new contract with its biggest client, Bristol Natural Gas. For the last two years, SafeBlend has been the sole provider of... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Customer Relationship Management; Price; Negotiation; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Sources; Sales; Energy Industry
Shapiro, Benson P., Frank V. Cespedes, and Alisa Zalosh. "SafeBlend Fracturing." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-513, September 2013.
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
We all know people who seem able to perform at a higher level than those around them; and we've all had moments ourselves where we are firing on all cylinders and everything just seems to work. But how do you achieve that kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
mankind is looking at the actual cause right now, and consequently that human innovation is not focusing on solving the right problem." Others were concerned about the consequences of responses based... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
delivery—for free. If you run the video store, you worry about the customer who comes in specifically to rent The Matrix but leaves annoyed and empty handed because the video isn't on the shelves today.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
A year of COVID-19 limbo has turned the notion of self-care into a mainstream pursuit. After all, with the pandemic’s end on the distant horizon, we all just need to hang in there a little longer—even CEOs. Earlier this month, we looked... View Details
- January 2019 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
The Louvre
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Francois-Lucien Vulliermet and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Once a royal residence and today one of the most photographed Parisian landmarks, the Louvre, home of iconic masterpieces, was the world’s largest and most visited museum in 2017. Its President Director Jean-Luc Martinez had since 2013 spearheaded its development and... View Details
Keywords: Customer-centricity; Cultural Organizations; Museum; Brand; Customer Focus and Relationships; Mission and Purpose; Culture; Education; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Fine Arts Industry
Deshpandé, Rohit, Francois-Lucien Vulliermet, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "The Louvre." Harvard Business School Case 519-045, January 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- February 2010
- Background Note
Millipore Background Note
By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
This note provides background on Millipore Corporation, a global provider of products and services used primarily in the discovery, development and production of therapeutic drugs. With a track record of quickly adapting to the evolving needs of its customers,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Natalie Kindred. "Millipore Background Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 510-059, February 2010.
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
In 2020, our faculty published 14 books that dive into their research and pull from their professional experiences on topics including the future of capitalism, managing time, how AI is transforming work, the power of experiments, a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
developing proven molecules from strategic partners to leapfrog competition and create large molecule biologics in India. The company understood that its transition from an API to an innovation-led company focused View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
for Disease Control. In the emergency room as a business, the customer lives or dies. "Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference" “This is really like a glass... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
benefits consumers who now receive offers and communications that are more relevant to them. However, algorithmic personalization poses risks for firms, consumers, and society as a whole. One of those risks is to underserved View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
while, everyone else in the ground-coffee market had done something similar, and it’s been going on ever since. You tend to see this happen at times of increasing costs of raw materials, wages, and energy prices—anything that puts... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Hospital for Special Surgery: Returning to a New Normal? (A)
By: Robert S. Huckman, Michael Lingzhi Li and Camille Gregory
Early on the morning of April 27, 2020, Justin Oppenheimer stood outside the entrance to the lobby of the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Pavilion Building with mixed emotions. On one hand, Oppenheimer, HSS’ Enterprise Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Operations Management; Scheduling; Optimization; COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Disruption; Health Industry; United States
Huckman, Robert S., Michael Lingzhi Li, and Camille Gregory. "Hospital for Special Surgery: Returning to a New Normal? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 624-092, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- February 2001 (Revised October 2002)
- Background Note
Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Analyzes HBS cases on five entrepreneurs and the companies they built: Josiah Wedgwood, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Michael Dell. These five cases and their accompanying teaching notes comprise a course module on entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Society
Koehn, Nancy F. "Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-368, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.)
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a strategic perspective, the (A) case provides brief histories of the two companies; traces the global confectionery industry, focusing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Ananth Raman of HBS and their colleague Anna Sheen McClelland recently completed a survey of 32 retail companies focusing on their... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
are opportunities for large corporations to attract interest outside of the traditional MBA functions and into roles focused on energy and sustainability. Those roles can be hard to find for students, but... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech