Publications

27 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Professor of Behavioral Economics, Boston University, Department of Economics

September 2020
Case

Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Rich or King

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani

The case examines issues such as cascading problems within the organization, changing founder roles, founder success criteria, as well as company exit consideration. In 2017, Dr. Torben Antretter, a former competitive tennis player and academic researcher, founded... View Details

Keywords: Exit; Startup; Financing; Founders; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Success; Financing and Loans; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Germany

Educators

February 2001 (Revised September 2002)
Teaching Note

Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store TN

By: Nancy F. Koehn and William Grundy

Teaching Note for (9-801-349). View Details

Keywords: Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Chicago

2021
Chapter

History on Trial: Mau Mau Reparations and the High Court of Justice

By: Jaqueline Bhabha, Caroline M. Elkins and Margareta Matache

1980
Other Unpublished Work

Inventive Plans Related to Rawls' Theory of Justice - HBS Discussion Paper

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Distribution; Ethics

July 2022
Article

Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy

By: Kyle Myers and Lauren Lanahan

We quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to state-specific matching policies, and we develop a new approach to measuring both geographic and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Energy; R＆D; Grants; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Patents; Performance; United States

August 1983 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Nineteenth Century Retailing and the Rise of the Department Store

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Discusses changes in retailing in the nineteenth century. View Details

Keywords: History; Distribution; Change; Retail Industry

2014
Working Paper

The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

By: Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker and Karen L. Murrell

We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of queue management on patients' average wait time and length of stay (LOS). Using an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data from 2007 to 2010, we find that patients' average wait time and LOS are longer when... View Details

Keywords: Pooling; Queue Management; Strategic Servers; Social Loafing; Empirical Operations; Health Care; Fairness; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

Read Now

May 2018 (Revised October 2020)
Supplement

La Ribera Health Department (B): Epilogue

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Emer Moloney and Daniela Beyersdorfer

The La Ribera case studies depict an innovative low cost/high quality privately financed hospital model struggling to achieve alignment with the Six Factors. It is reimbursed by the public sector in a Spanish environment whose Consumers, Structure, and Public Policy... View Details

Keywords: Trends And Opportunities; Government; Government Programs; Acquisition; Business Model; Business Plan; Trends; Opportunities; Government and Politics; Programs; Health Care and Treatment; Situation or Environment; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry; Spain

December 1991 (Revised February 1992)
Case

Federated Department Stores, Inc.: Managing in a Hurricane

Describes Federated Department Stores following an important infusion of capital and before its subsequent Chapter 11 filing. The questions include how the company can be managed in a period of financial distress, whether it is possible or desirable to avoid Chapter... View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Retail Industry

12 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Lily Geismer, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College Department of History

Article

Doing More with Less: the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish Elections, and the Uncertain Future of Turkish Politics

By: Kristin Fabbe

The outcome of Turkey's June 2011 elections temporarily quelled—though by no means entirely put to rest—growing concern over the creeping autocratic tendencies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). To ensure that democracy remains durable, the AKP must now... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Turkey

16 Jun 2020
News

Racial justice begins with corporate America righting economic wrongs

Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy

The spillovers from public R&D grants are large and reach far across geographic and technological space, and focusing only on firms that directly receive grants causes... View Details

10 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

November 1989 (Revised June 1991)
Background Note

Facts and Figures on Defense Procurement: The Department of Defense and Defense Procurement, An Overview

By: Robert L. Simons

Provides statistics and other factual information on the Department of Defense procurement process, DOD expenditures, market share segmentation, the variety of contract types, and the role of the Defense Contract Audit Agency. View Details

Keywords: National Security

August 2012
Supplement

William Jeffrey: Departing Bay Colony (C)

By: Lena G. Goldberg

The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details

Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Governance Compliance; Leadership; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States