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- November 2019 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Thierry Porté
By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Thierry Porté." Harvard Business School Case 420-074, November 2019. (Revised October 2020.)
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) and (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,... View Details
- November 2019
- Teaching Plan
Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas
By: Geoffrey Jones and Emilie Takayama
Teaching Note for HBS No. 807-155. View Details
- November 2019
- Supplement
Facebook—Can Ethics Scale in the Digital Age? (B)
By: George A Riedel
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Riedel, George A. "Facebook—Can Ethics Scale in the Digital Age? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-043, November 2019.
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
The Bundesliga in the U.S.
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Sascha L. Schmidt and Florian Holzmayer
This Teaching Note addresses the classroom use of the case on the strategy of Germany’s premier football (soccer) league to “win the marketplace of U.S. sports broadcasters and consumers.” The note includes study questions and a teaching plan that also draws on... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised April 2020)
- Technical Note
The Life Sciences Revolution: A Technical Primer
By: Gary P. Pisano, William J. Anderson, Amitabh Chandra, Clarissa Ceruti and Stephanie Oestreich
For more than two decades, scientific advances have been driving profound changes in drug discovery and the drug industry itself. This case provides an overview and description of these technical and scientific advances. Written for the nonscientific reader, it may be... View Details
Keywords: Science; Technological Innovation; Technology; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Pisano, Gary P., William J. Anderson, Amitabh Chandra, Clarissa Ceruti, and Stephanie Oestreich. "The Life Sciences Revolution: A Technical Primer." Harvard Business School Technical Note 620-054, November 2019. (Revised April 2020.)
- November 2019
- Case
Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Tanvi Deshpande and Shreya Ramachandran
In May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was having a hard time... View Details
Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Management; Financial Condition; Problems and Challenges; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Tanvi Deshpande, and Shreya Ramachandran. "Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-053, November 2019.
- November 2019
- Supplement
Celebrity Fashions: Moving Ahead (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Tanvi Deshpande and Shreya Ramachandran
Supplements the (A) Case. View Details
Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Management; Financial Condition; Problems and Challenges; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Tanvi Deshpande, and Shreya Ramachandran. "Celebrity Fashions: Moving Ahead (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 120-054, November 2019.
- November 4, 2019
- Article
Kindness Isn't Just Nice—It's More Effective. Just Ask Obama and DeGeneres
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Kindness Isn't Just Nice—It's More Effective. Just Ask Obama and DeGeneres." Washington Post (November 4, 2019).
- November 2019 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Microsoft Azure and the Cloud Wars
By: Andy Wu and Cindy Na
Wu, Andy, and Cindy Na. "Microsoft Azure and the Cloud Wars." Harvard Business School Case 720-409, November 2019. (Revised April 2020.)
- November 2019
- Case
Pricing in a Digital World (2019)
- November–December 2019
- Article
Advanced Leadership Can Change the World: Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative Trains Leaders to Seek and Implement Global Changes
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Judy Perry Martinez
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Judy Perry Martinez. "Advanced Leadership Can Change the World: Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative Trains Leaders to Seek and Implement Global Changes." Law Practice Magazine 45, no. 6 (November–December 2019): 36–41.
- 2019
- Chapter
Agent Pricing in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Airbnb
By: Jun Li, Antonio Moreno and Dennis Zhang
Li, Jun, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis Zhang. "Agent Pricing in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Airbnb." Chap. 20 in Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand. Vol. 6, edited by Ming Hu, 485–504. Springer Series in Supply Chain Management. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019.
- 2019
- Contribution
Commentary: 'Sport Business in the Classroom'
Greyser, Stephen A. "Commentary: 'Sport Business in the Classroom'." Contribution to The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry, edited by Rick Horrow. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, Inc., 2019. (Pages 26-32 of the Instructor Guide Supplement.)
- November 1, 2019
- Article
Companies Think They Want New Ideas. But They Don’t Act Like It
Leaders say that they want more innovation. But then they trap themselves and their associates inside the structures that keep them stuck–inside the building, so to speak, where ideas get stale fast. That’s dangerous in a world of disruption and change. View Details
Keywords: Silos; Community; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Change; Perspective; Learning; Attitudes
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Companies Think They Want New Ideas. But They Don’t Act Like It." Wall Street Journal (online) (November 1, 2019).
- November 2019
- Article
Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality... View Details
Keywords: Peer Effects; Field Experiment; Interpersonal Communication; Creativity; Personal Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning. "Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Art. 103811. Research Policy 48, no. 9 (November 2019).
- November 2019
- Case
DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles
By: Shane Greenstein and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded in 2016, DeepMap developed high definition (HD) mapping software and localization services for Level 4+ autonomous vehicles. Traditional navigational maps were accurate to a few meters, which was sufficient for drivers but not for machine-driven vehicles that... View Details
Keywords: Mapping Software; Autonomous Vehicles; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Global Range; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Auto Industry
Greenstein, Shane, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles." Harvard Business School Case 620-047, November 2019.
- 2019
- Article
Does Big Data Enhance Firm Innovation Competency? The Mediating Role of Data-driven Insights
By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Grounded in gestalt insight learning theory and organizational learning theory, we collected data from 280 middle and top-level managers to investigate the impact of each big data characteristic (i.e., data volume, data velocity, data variety, and data veracity) on... View Details
Ghasemaghaei, Maryam, and Goran Calic. "Does Big Data Enhance Firm Innovation Competency? The Mediating Role of Data-driven Insights." Journal of Business Research 104 (2019): 69–84.
- Article
Economic Principles for Medicare Reform
By: Amitabh Chandra and Craig Garthwaite
In this article, we develop an economic framework for Medicare reform that highlights trade-offs that reform proposals should grapple with but often ignore. Central to our argument is a tension in administratively set prices, which may improve short-term efficiency but... View Details
Keywords: Medicare; Value-based Care; Health Care Reform; Markets In Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Chandra, Amitabh, and Craig Garthwaite. "Economic Principles for Medicare Reform." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 686, no. 1 (November 2019): 63 – 92.
- 2019
- Chapter
From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960." In Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Africa and Asia, c. 1850–1960, edited by Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, 161–192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.