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  • February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Owens & Minor, Inc. (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
After a manager at Owens & Minor, a national medical and surgical distribution company, proposes and develops a formalized activity-based pricing and activity-based management approach to sales and service provision, this case explore the outcome. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Logistics; Distribution; Price; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Outcome or Result; Management Style; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Distribution Industry
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    Elisabeth Kempf

    Elisabeth Kempf is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit, teaching Finance 1 to MBA students. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research... View Details

      Karim R. Lakhani

      Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; communications; computer; health care; high technology; information technology industry; internet; pharmaceuticals; software; video games
      • March 2011
      • Module Note

      Varieties of Capitalism

      By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
      This module, part of the second year HBS course MITI, introduces a political economy approach to analyzing national economic strategies, with a primary focus on German economic policy. View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Markets; Curriculum and Courses; Policy; Competitive Advantage; Goals and Objectives; Geographic Location; Strategy; Germany
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      • June 2014
      • Case

      Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal

      By: Nancy F. Koehn, Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth Legris

      Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal analyzes the turnaround and reconstruction of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how... View Details

      Keywords: Howard Schultz; Starbucks; Transformation; Turnaround; Change; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Leadership; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia; South America; Middle East; Latin America
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        Matthew C. Weinzierl

        Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the... View Details

        Keywords: aerospace

          Ray Kluender

          Ray Kluender is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel... View Details

            Linda A. Hill

            Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

            • 03 Sep 2011
            • News

            True North Groups offer approach to developing leaders

            • 01 Oct 2018
            • Book

            Is the US Losing its Ability to Attract Highly Skilled Migrant Workers?

            Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage; Service
            • 15 Oct 2007
            • Research & Ideas

            Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

            other common myth that even if the world isn't quite flat today, it will be tomorrow. The data clearly indicate that national borders still matter. I group the differences that they demarcate into 4 areas: those related to cultural... View Details
            Keywords: by Martha Lagace
            • 2014
            • Working Paper

            College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

            By: Christopher Avery, Alvin E. Roth and Soohyung Lee
            This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South Korean setting where the national government sets rules governing applications. We identify some basic facts about the behavior of colleges before and... View Details
            Keywords: Competition; Higher Education; Policy; Government and Politics; Education Industry; South Korea
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            • September 1999 (Revised November 1999)
            • Case

            Explore, Inc.

            By: Allen S. Grossman, James E. Austin, Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
            Documents the creation of a national before and after-school day care program aimed at bridging the gap between school and parents' work schedules. This high-growth, for-profit social enterprise organization operated in what was historically the domain of nonprofit or... View Details
            Keywords: Microeconomics; Growth and Development; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Mission and Purpose; Performance Expectations; Quality; Social Enterprise; Travel Industry
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            • July 2009
            • Article

            How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

            By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
            We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate... View Details
            Keywords: Foreign Aid; Money
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              Louis E. Caldera

              Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

              • 18 Mar 2019
              • News

              Professor Henderson recognized by the Financial Times Outstanding Director Exchange as one of three “outstanding directors of the year”

              • 03 Jan 2016
              • Research & Ideas

              NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

              won the NFC East and went on to win the Super Bowl, making Johnson the first coach in history to win a college national championship and a Super Bowl title. Six Cowboys played in the Pro Bowl that year. The Cowboys repeated as Super Bowl... View Details
              Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
              • May 1986
              • Supplement

              General Mills, Inc.: Yoplait Custard-Style Yogurt (B)

              By: John A. Quelch
              Yoplait's director of new product development is finalizing plans for the national introduction of custard-style Yoplait. Based on the results of a mini-market test and a BASES laboratory test market. View Details
              Keywords: Food; Product Launch; Product Development; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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              • 22 Aug 2011
              • News

              Now Learn - Entrepreneurship at Harvard

                Evergrande on the Edge: Implications of a Corporate Crisis

                In this video, produced by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Prof. Rithmire speaks with Keith Abell about how the Chinese economy became so reliant on real estate development and debt and what the Evergrande crisis means. View Details