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- December 2023
- Case
The American Bully XL
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback, Johnathan Sun and Robert Ialenti
The American Bully XL, first introduced to the United Kingdom around 2014, had been held responsible for a disproportionate share of both dog-related attacks and deaths. The case discusses the announcement, in October 2023, that the dog breed would be added to a list... View Details
- October 2023
- Case
Social Finance: Driving Accountability
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
Social Finance is a Boston-based nonprofit that works at the intersection of finance and policy. It raises, allocates, and manages capital to fund projects in the areas of education, early childhood development, criminal justice, and health. The case explores how... View Details
- June 2023
- Case
Rent Control in Boston, Again?
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback, Robert Ialenti and Tom Quinn
This case explores the merits and drawbacks of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to bring rent control back to the city in 2023. It lays out the features, objectives, and potential unintended consequences of this policy, before highlighting the expected impact of... View Details
- May 2023
- Case
Natural Gas in New England
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Gil Highet
Participants in the New England power market are exploring several strategies to meet the region's renewable power goals while also providing its residents with inexpensive and reliable electricity and heating fuel. New England was a first-mover into natural gas power... View Details
- May 2023
- Case
Legacy Partners
By: Royce Yudkoff and Richard S. Ruback
Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months earlier in mid-2021. The company, based in Sacramento CA, was a compounding pharmacy serving Total Parenteral Nutrition ("TPN") patients nationwide.... View Details
- January 2023
- Case
Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk - Making an Impact
By: Richard S. Ruback, Marco Di Maggio, Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page
- December 2022
- Case
Managing Pain in the Midst of an Opioid Epidemic
By: Joshua D. Coval, Richard S. Ruback and Christopher Diak
- December 2022
- Article
Collaborative Rooming: An Innovative Pilot Project to Overcome Primary Care Challenges
By: Gagandeep Singh, Jill G. Lenhart, Richard A. Helmers, Michele Renee Eberlee, Heather Costley, Joel B. Roberts and Robert S. Kaplan
Primary care physicians are overburdened with growing complexities and increasing expectations for primary care visits. To meet expectations, primary care physicians must multitask during visits and spend extra hours in the office for charting, billing, and... View Details
- November 2022
- Case
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Brian's Journey
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Sarah Livick-Moses
- August 2022 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Forest Park Capital
- August 2022 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Rooted in Roxbury: Race and Equity in the Boston Cannabis Industry
By: Joshua D. Coval, Richard S. Ruback and Christopher Diak
- May 2022
- Case
What's Next
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Is there a typical long-term career path for people who become entrepreneurs through acquisition? What choices do searchers and investors make subsequent to their first search? The former searchers profiled here identified five common longer-term career paths and... View Details
- September 2021
- Supplement
Helena Divišová
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Video supplement to 220-020. View Details
- September 2021
- Supplement
Systems Design West (A) and (B) Case Supplements
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Video supplement to HBS Case No. 220-004. View Details
- 2021
- Book
The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership
In The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present. A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day leadership,... View Details
- Winter 2020
- Article
The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was the most charismatic businessperson in the modern era. When he died, on October 5, 2011, Apple was inundated with condolence messages from all over the United States and from around the world. These notes were sent not only to Apple headquarters in... View Details