Publications

November 1982
Case

Arthur Johnson (A)

By: John P. Kotter

After securing a secret ice cream recipe for $300 in 1925, Johnson began preparing ice cream in his basement and selling it in his pharmacy. The success of the ice cream gave way to the closure of the pharmacy and the start of the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

John H. Johnson

Johnson built the world’s largest black-owned publishing empire. He is the founder and publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony and JET magazines. He also owns Ebony Cosmetics as well as radio and TV production companies. View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

December 2019
Supplement

The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids (B)

By: Erik Snowberg, Trevor Fetter and Amy W. Schulman

This case is designed to provide an engrossing overview of stakeholder capitalism through a vigorous discussion of the conflicts that can arise when trying to serve multiple stakeholders. In 2007, Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) subsidiary Janssen has to decide whether or... View Details

Keywords: Opioids; Addiction; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Launch; Ethics; Society; Pharmaceutical Industry

March 2010
Supplement

Toby Johnson (B)

By: Boris Groysberg

Supplement to 410-103. View Details

November 1982
Supplement

Arthur Johnson (C)

By: John P. Kotter

Awards

POMS College of Behavioral Operations Junior Scholar Paper Competition

By: Kris Johnson Ferreira

"Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift" with Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo was awarded the 2024 Junior Scholar Paper Competition Prize from the College of Behavioral Operations at the Production and Operations Management Society... View Details

March 1981 (Revised March 1981)
Case

Johnson Wood Corp. (C)

March 1981 (Revised September 1985)
Case

Johnson Wood Corp. (A)

August 1986 (Revised January 1988)
Teaching Note

Johnson & Johnson (A), (B): Hospital Services, & Johnson & Johnson: Hospital Services, Teaching Note

By: Francis Aguilar

Teaching Note for (9-384-053), (9-384-054), and (9-392-050). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry

Liz is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. She is broadly interested in studying identity, inequality, and well-being, particularly how intersectional identities shape workplace experiences.

Prior to... View Details

George F. Johnson

Johnson built a successful shoe company, but his most striking contributions to American capitalism were the progressive labor policies introduced at Endicott-Johnson. His company was the first in the shoe industry to introduce the 8-hour... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Robert H. Johnson

its markets, including oil and gas drilling equipment and construction materials. Between 1955 and 1966, Johnson grew sales from $145 million to $476 million and earnings from $28 million to $52 million. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

March 1994 (Revised April 1995)
Teaching Note

Lyndon Baines Johnson TN

By: Linda A. Hill and Katherine Seger Weber

Teaching Note for Reprint (1-488-001). View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics

March 1981
Case

Johnson Wood Corp. (D)

25 Mar 2022
Video

Omobola Johnson - Regulation

August 2013
Teaching Plan

Remicade-Simponi

By: Guhan Subramanian and Charlotte Krontiris

This exercise models a negotiation between two pharmaceutical companies—Johnson & Johnson and Merck—concerning the international distribution rights for Remicade, a blockbuster anti-arthritis drug. At odds over the original distribution contract, the two companies... View Details

Keywords: Johnson ＆ Johnson; Merck; Negotiation; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Pharmaceutical Industry