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We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here's How to Get There.

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
Any effective system of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting needs to measure each company’s supply-chain carbon impacts accurately. Such information would provide visibility and incentives for the company to make more climate-friendly product-specification and purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; GHG; Carbon Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain
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    Joseph L. Bower

    JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

    Keywords: banking; chemical; electronics; financial services; home appliances; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; insurance industry; private equity (LBO funds); retailing
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    Navy Medicine Introduces Value-Based Health Care

    By: Alee Hernandez, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, C. Forrest Faison III and Michael E. Porter
    In 2016 the newly appointed surgeon general of the Navy launched a value-based health care pilot project at Naval Hospital Jacksonville to explore whether multidisciplinary care teams (known as integrated practice units, or IPUs) and measurement of outcomes could... View Details
    Keywords: Military Health System; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Projects
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    • September 2009 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    OnStar: Not Your Father's General Motors

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    After two years of less than stellar performance resulting in sales well below plan, senior management at General Motors (GM) mobile telecommunications service start-up, OnStar, recognized that without a substantial change in their strategy, support for the venture... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Joint Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Risk Management; Auto Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 15 Dec 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

    David LaneHarvard Business School Case 210-016 Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 20 Jul 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

    reorganization, managers can steer firms into liquidations that harm junior creditors, employees, and customers. Under Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code, judges may grant that request without creditor... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

    issue. What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a management consultant at... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Research Summaries

    Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


    Social Capital... View Details

    • 24 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

    Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Platform Envelopment

      Due to network effects and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. Platform envelopment offers a second entry path: one that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation. Examples of successful envelopment... View Details

      • 02 Mar 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      When Goal Setting Goes Bad

      domains. But we are concerned about the simple specification of stretch goals that permeates the goal setting and management by objectives literature. Q: How can goal setting go wrong? A: When people focus... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • August 1992 (Revised July 2013)
      • Case

      ChemBright, Inc.

      By: Janice H. Hammond
      ChemBright is a small start-up company that manufactures private-label household chemicals. The company sells its products to grocery chains in the New England area. Its strategy is based on a significant logistics-based cost advantage. The primary case decisions are... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Logistics; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Chemical Industry; New England
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      • 21 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

      accident-free. “If people are skeptical of OSHA, it's likely based on anecdotes. The difference in our study is we are looking at hundreds of companies over a long period of time, and we find that those... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • September 1996 (Revised July 1997)
      • Case

      Grupo Sidek (A)

      By: Kenneth A. Froot and Alberto Moel
      A large Mexican conglomerate, active in tourism, real estate, and steel, is faced with difficult macroeconomic conditions beginning with the Peso crisis of December 1994. The conglomerate had extensive dollar-indexed liabilities and was caught in a crunch when the... View Details
      Keywords: Foreign Exchange; Real Estate; Debt Policy; Tourism; Steel; Business Conglomerates; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Crisis Management; Valuation; Mexico
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      • January 1999
      • Case

      Ciba Specialty Chemicals

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      Based on extensive interviews, this case discusses the environmental policies of a successful firm in the specialty chemicals business. Executives at Ciba have differentiated products along environmental lines and have used environmental scrutiny as a tool for cutting... View Details
      Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Risk Management; Business Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Chemical Industry
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      • August 2021
      • Case

      Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela

      By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira
      By June 2021, Yummy had become Venezuela’s first and largest food delivery app and last-mile logistics company. In Caracas, the nation’s capital, Yummy held a 55% market share, while operations in other cities had already started to take place, including in three of... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Health Pandemics; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion
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      • Mar 2012
      • Article

      Choosing the United States

      exhaustive analysis. At the same time, managers ignore substantial hidden costs associated with non-U.S. locations and overlook the benefits they could reap were they to invest... View Details
      • August 1993 (Revised August 2002)
      • Exercise

      Work Methods Design Exercise

      Teams of students receive identical product design specifications, a sample unit of the product, and a series of assignment questions that entail time and motion studies, which they must both understand and perform before class discussion. In class, teams explain how... View Details
      Keywords: Resource Allocation; Product Development
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        Howard H. Stevenson

        Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

        Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
        • January 2011 (Revised May 2011)
        • Case

        Paydiant

        By: Jose B. Alvarez, Elizabeth C. Williamson and James Weber
        Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to electronic payment methods such as credit cards and debit cards to make purchases.... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cooperation; Technology Adoption; Retail Industry
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