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  • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Testing and Trials; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Miami
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  • January 2016 (Revised July 2018)
  • Case

Cyberdyne: A Leap to the Future

By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
Cyberdyne Inc. was a Japanese technology venture that wanted to commercialize a hybrid assistive limb (HAL). HAL was a robotic exoskeleton system for people who had difficulty walking due to nervous system disabilities resulting from stroke, spinal cord injury (SCI),... View Details
Keywords: Go-to-market Strategy; Pricing; Sales Channel; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Sales; Distribution; Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19

By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam
The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Government Legislation; Policy
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  • February 2020
  • Supplement

Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (B)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe... View Details
Keywords: Aluminum Industry; General Management; Cultural Change; Change Management; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Safety; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Bahrain; Middle East
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  • February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (A)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe... View Details
Keywords: Aluminum; General Management; Cultural Change; Change Management; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Safety; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Bahrain; Middle East
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  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

safety. A first employee survey indicated KKR had its work cut out for it—with only 30 percent of the employees responding, morale was low and employees believed the survey would have no impact. Injuries were high, with 14 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement

cost of simply being a woman in our society, and certainly in our healthcare system, is high. Women pay more for the same consumer products and services men also use in what is called the Pink Tax , affecting everything from the price of razors to dry cleaning and... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

Entertainment. Getting more people in seats The researchers studied AFL game attendance, team line-ups, injuries, gambling trends, and performance data from 2013-2018. They found that when injuries and roster switch-ups make a win or loss... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

school, for example, I had been asked to research insurance coverage for a raft of lawsuits being brought against Johns-Manville Corporation for injuries and deaths from exposure to asbestos. At the time, Johns-Manville was the leading... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Support for Students with Disabilities - MBA

Coordinator. Transportation Services Students with disabilities or injuries that impair their mobility are eligible, with documentation, to use the Harvard University Accessible Van Service. If you have questions about the documentation... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

medtech firm can bring a new product to the market even one month earlier following a rival’s recall, it could bring in an additional $10 million in revenue. The more severe a recall, the faster competitors speed up innovation. Major product failures, such as ones that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • Profile

Bobby Tuohy

his dream. With a desire to serve his country – and to follow the path of other astronauts – Bobby enrolled in the Naval Academy with an eye toward becoming an aviator. In 2011, he got his wings as a jet pilot. But shortly afterwards, an old back View Details
  • Web

1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA

policy. For a service member who is hospitalized for or convalescing from an illness or injury incurred in, or aggravated during, the performance of service, notice must be provided not later than two (2) years after the end of the period... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • News

Screen Time

iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

that Harvard Business School should not be considered a protector or sanctuary from the existing laws of the city, state, or federal government. A social host may under certain circumstances be held liable for injuries caused by a guest... View Details
  • Web

2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy - MBA

Acts Careful note should be taken that Harvard Business School is not and should not be considered to be a protector or sanctuary from the existing laws of the city, state, or federal government. A social host may under certain circumstances be held liable for View Details
  • 09 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

results for both sides. The person inflicting injury will almost always end up losing—psychologically, socially, and/or financially—as well. This is obvious in a negotiation between family members who want or need to keep a mutually... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

of Mexico shrimp fisherman who stayed in business with low-interest economic injury loans after the BP oil spill, to a Pennsylvania drill bit manufacturer whose SBA-financed technology was instrumental in rescuing the trapped Chilean... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

just this week, Gap Inc. announced it will shut a fifth of its stores in North America over the next two years. Even in categories where only one retailer now exists—Best Buy in electronics and Barnes & Noble in books—the category killer retail model is extremely... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Making travel possible for people with physical challenges

are physically challenged face—Brehm and his wife, Faith, were seriously injured in a 1993 car accident. He suffered a high-level spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia. "We were determined not to let this View Details