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  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

conduct an analysis to determine how companies were responding to the crisis. Were they retaining their staff and providing essential workers with extra pay, or were they cutting expenses through layoffs and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • November 2008
  • Case

The StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost

By: John D. Macomber
The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation." Material that can be taught includes quantity survey methodology (from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Construction; Cost; Contracts; Bids and Bidding; Real Estate Industry
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Macomber, John D. "The StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost." Harvard Business School Case 209-067, November 2008.
  • November 2017 (Revised July 2019)
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Project Moab at Hulu

By: C. Fritz Foley and James Weber
In 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programing and earned... View Details
Keywords: Video On Demand; Subscriber Models; Media; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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Foley, C. Fritz, and James Weber. "Project Moab at Hulu." Harvard Business School Case 218-050, November 2017. (Revised July 2019.)
  • November 2022
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Hiring with the Community in Saint Paul

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This case reviews Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s decision to involve the community in the process of hiring his cabinet members. Rather than relying on an executive recruiting firm or choosing cabinet heads from his own network, Carter recruited 100 community members... View Details
Keywords: Community Engagement; Competency and Skills; Government and Politics; Human Resources; Government Administration; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
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Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Hiring with the Community in Saint Paul." Harvard Business School Case 823-074, November 2022.
  • May 2021 (Revised September 2021)
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CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em

By: Josh Lerner and Franko Jira
In July 2016, Di Yang and Grace Guo of the leading Chinese private equity group CPE faced a dilemma—a happy dilemma, but a challenge nonetheless. CPE’s investment in the waste-to-energy firm SUS Environment had proved to be exceedingly successful. This success had... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Growth and Development
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Lerner, Josh, and Franko Jira. "CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em (A)." Harvard Business School Case 821-085, May 2021. (Revised September 2021.)
  • March 2007
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Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

By: Julie Wulf
I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions
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Wulf, Julie. "Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms." Journal of Industrial Economics 55, no. 1 (March 2007): 169–196.
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

choices influence meta-cognition,” they write. You Might Also Like: Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • June 2018
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Meridian Systems (Brief Case)

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Michael J. Roberts
Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-533. The key issues discussed in the Meridian teaching note concern sales force deployment: decisions about how to focus sales efforts with respect to territories, customers, and products. The teaching note explains the strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Sales; Strategy; Salesforce Management; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy
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Cespedes, Frank V., and Michael J. Roberts. "Meridian Systems (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 918-534, June 2018.
  • January 1993 (Revised April 1995)
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Fog of Business, The

In the mid-1980s, the Holland Sweetener Co. (HSC) was facing the decision whether to enter the European and Canadian aspartame markets, following the ending of NutraSweet's patents there. A major question facing HSC was whether NutraSweet would respond to entry in an... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Patents; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada; United States; Europe
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Brandenburger, Adam M. "Fog of Business, The." Harvard Business School Case 793-098, January 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
  • October 1992
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Charles River Jazz Festival

Charles River Jazz Festival must decide whether to press a compact disk (CD) of Friday's jazz performance for sale on Saturday and Sunday. The idea to press CDs is novel, so there is considerable uncertainty about how receptive customers will be. The festival must... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Making
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Wu, George. "Charles River Jazz Festival." Harvard Business School Case 893-004, October 1992.
  • March 2020
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Forbidden City: Launching a Craft Beer in China

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Carole Carlson
This case describes a difficult choice faced by Victor Wang, Managing Director of Singapore-based Eurasian Brewing Company (EBC), concerning the competing product launch plans of Le Jie, Vice President of EBC's China and East Asian operations, and Vivian Chin, EBC's... View Details
Keywords: Subsidiary Management; Craft Brewing; Strategy; Decision Making; Organizational Structure; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Management Style; Food and Beverage Industry; China; East Asia
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Bartlett, Christopher A., and Carole Carlson. "Forbidden City: Launching a Craft Beer in China." Harvard Business School Brief Case 920-559, March 2020.
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

relationships with the parliamentarians--he built his business in part around this opportunity. Many academics emphasize the benefits of stability. When we see wobbly political regimes or uncertainty in the law, we assume it is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    John Beshears

    John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

    • 09 Apr 2012
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    HBS Prof. Publishes Book on Start-Ups

    • 13 Apr 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Bulletproof Glass Effect: When Privacy Notices Backfire

    Keywords: by Aaron R. Brough, David A. Norton, and Leslie John
    • March 1992 (Revised November 1992)
    • Case

    Lockheed Aeromod Center, Inc.

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman
    A wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Corp. has an $11 million expansion underway in South Carolina. The company must decide how best to take advantage of the opportunity to issue tax exempt debt. Specifically, the decision involves choices about the maturity and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Strategy; Taxation; Opportunities; Expansion; Valuation; South Carolina
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    Luehrman, Timothy A. "Lockheed Aeromod Center, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 292-123, March 1992. (Revised November 1992.)
    • 21 Aug 2018
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    Cultivate Curiosity

    • January – March 2012
    • Article

    Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

    By: Luis M. Viceira
    This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on... View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Volatility; Forecasting and Prediction; Interest Rates; Inflation and Deflation; Investment Return; Risk and Uncertainty; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash Flow; Stocks
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    Viceira, Luis M. "Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates." International Journal of Forecasting 28, no. 1 (January–March 2012): 97–117.
    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

    cater to tall women and make them the center of the shopping experience. Impressed, the team then gave Girard a choice - she could come work with them directly or they would support her in launching The... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
    • August 2020
    • Case

    Ready for Take-Off at Jet It

    By: Gary P. Pisano, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
    This case examines the business model and growth of a start-up company in the private aviation industry. In June 2020, amidst the COVID crisis, the company's co-founder and CEO must make a decision regarding an order of new jets that will significantly expand the... View Details
    Keywords: Capacity Planning; Business Startups; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Air Transportation Industry
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    Pisano, Gary P., Hise Gibson, and Nicole Gilmore. "Ready for Take-Off at Jet It." Harvard Business School Case 621-036, August 2020.
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