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  • April 2011
  • Case

Porcini's Pronto: "Great Italian cuisine without the wait!"

By: James L. Heskett and Richard Luecke
Porcini's Inc. operates a chain of 23 full-service restaurants located near shopping malls and downtown areas in the northeastern United States. Known for providing excellent service, Porcini's serves high-quality Italian cuisine made from fresh ingredients. Looking... View Details
Keywords: Franchising; Syndication; Quantitative Analysis; Performance Measurement; Human Resource Management; Incentives; Motivation; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Quality; Customer Value and Value Chain; Selection and Staffing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Franchise Ownership; Customer Focus and Relationships; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Northeastern United States
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  • Web

Dean Srikant Datar | About

Dean Srikant Datar 2021–Present Srikant M. Datar became the 11th dean of Harvard Business School on January 1 , 2021. During his tenure at the School, he has served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair... View Details
  • May 2017
  • Case

Fresh to Table

By: Gautam Mukunda and Brooks C. Holtom
After the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants, make an unpleasant discovery. While reviewing the office manager's internal electronic communications, company... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Resignation and Termination; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Leadership
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  • 2018
  • Flash Talks

What's Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effects of Race and Gender on Negotiation Outcomes

  • Program

Compensation Committees

professionals who help structure employment contracts, and senior regulatory officials charged with implementing legislation Attendance by two or more representatives of your compensation committee or organization will foster teamwork and enhance the program's impact.... View Details

    Robert H. Hayes

    Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Imposter Among Us

    Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • June 2023
    • Case

    Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of deaths globally. The company's approach was a single shot treatment to permanently lower cholesterol, thus reducing... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Genetic Engineering; Medicine; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Innovation Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Medical Specialties; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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    • 2021
    • Book

    Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Why Startups Fail explores entrepreneurial failure, examining its predictable patterns, how to avoid them, and how to cope when failure does occur. Part I looks at three common failure patterns for early-stage startups, illustrating each with an anchor case... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Failure; Success; Framework
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    • September 2017 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future?

    By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta
    In July 2017, Dr. Brian M. Alexander, president and CEO of the AGILE Research Foundation, was preparing to launch a new type of clinical trial—an adaptive platform trial—to study potential therapies for glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer.... View Details
    Keywords: Clinical Trials; Cancer; Adaptive Platform Trials; Platform Trials; Adaptive Trials; Glioblastoma; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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      Pietro Satriano

      Pietro Satriano is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School.  He sits on the boards of CarMax, the largest omni-channel used car retailer in the U.S. and Metro, a large regional grocery retailer in Canada.  Pietro advises a number of food-tech startups and acts... View Details

      • 14 Feb 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

      live.” “It helped me process the possibility that the time at the company I had started could be finished, and that could be OK.” Even as he was feeling fulfilled by helping people, he felt himself crashing. “I didn’t think you could burn... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 14 Jun 2023
      • Op-Ed

      Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

      functional-area expertise and commitment to their business unit (the vertical portion of the "T"). While the T-shaped leader concept is not new, my research over the last 15 years with the US Army—conducted with my colleagues Nicole Gilmore, director of talent... View Details
      Keywords: by Hise Gibson
      • 2024
      • Book

      Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

      By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
      Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.

      Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Contracts
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      • February 2016 (Revised October 2017)
      • Case

      The Jungle and the Debate over Federal Meat Inspection in 1906

      By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
      In early June 1906, the House Committee on Agriculture heard testimony from two investigators appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to verify allegations of unsanitary conditions at Chicago slaughterhouses that had appeared in Upton Sinclair's recent novel, The... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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      • February 2022 (Revised March 2022)
      • Case

      MicroStrategy's Investment in Bitcoin

      By: C. Fritz Foley
      At the end of the second quarter of 2020, MicroStrategy, a Virginia based provider of analytics software and services, announced plans to acquire and hold bitcoin as a part of the firm’s treasury reserve policy and corporate strategy. Within a year, the firm purchased... View Details
      Keywords: Bitcoin; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Investment Portfolio; Capital Structure; Equity
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      • October 2006 (Revised September 2014)
      • Case

      Summit Partners - The FleetCor Investment (A)

      By: Michael J. Roberts
      Part of a 3-case series in which students get to see the unfolding of due diligence on private equity (buy out) deal. In this, the A case, the deal team has negotiated a letter of intent with FleetCor, a firm that operates a fuel payment network for vehicle fleets.... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Investment; Negotiation Offer; Service Industry
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      • December 2021 (Revised May 2025)
      • Case

      Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy to Drive Shareholder Value

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
      At one time, Bed Bath & Beyond was one of the most successful specialty retailers in the United States—its growth and profit margins far exceeded both peer retailers in the home goods market as well as many other discount retailers. But in 2014, its stock price peaked,... View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Diversification; Corporate Governance; Leading Change; Performance Evaluation; Valuation; Investment Activism; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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      • April 2015 (Revised December 2018)
      • Case

      Steve Jobs: Leader Strategist

      By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and David B. Yoffie
      Strategically, Steve Jobs got it brilliantly right some times and terribly wrong other times. This case examines Jobs' development as a leader strategist over the course of his entire career. The successes and failures of Apple, NeXT, and Pixar are used to probe the... View Details
      Keywords: Strategist; Steve Jobs; Apple; Leadership; Competitive Advantage; Personal Development and Career; Strategy
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      • Web

      Crossover Into Business

      get at the core of what business is, how business works, and see what it is I like. Let me try to connect the dots and educate myself first. ” Chris Bosh NBA Player More Past Participants Fall 2025 Edition Aug 8 August 2025 Applications... View Details