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02 Jun 2014
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Case Study: Can a 'Main Street' Crowdfunding Platform Take Off?

Keywords: crowdfunding; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

1999
Manual

Instructor's Manual for Accounting for Managers: Text and Cases

By: W. J. Bruns Jr.

Keywords: Accounting

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May–June 2020
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Case Study: Should You Fight to Keep a Star?

By: Boris Groysberg

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2024
Working Paper

Tamoxifen—Reducing Breast Cancer Risks: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins

We describe the development of tamoxifen, considered a “gold standard” treatment for millions of breast cancer patients. Specifically, we describe breast cancer treatments before tamoxifen’s development; the initial development of tamoxifen from 1960 to 1973;... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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2013
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Competing by Restricting Choice: The Case of Search Platforms

By: Hanna Halaburda and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Seminal papers recommend that platforms in two-sided markets increase the number of complements available. We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its customers while charging higher prices... View Details

Keywords: Matching Platform; Indirect Network Effects; Limits To Network Effects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Network Effects; Two-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Competitive Strategy

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2008
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Centennial of Harvard Business School 'HBS in 2008' case

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Business Education; Boston

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June 1985 (Revised May 1986)
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First Federal Corp.: Small Business Market (B), Software Case

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September 1994 (Revised January 1997)
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This Case Sucks: Beavis, Butt-head, and TV Content (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem

Beginning in 1992, "Beavis and Butt-head," an animated series on MTV about two uncivilized teenaged misfits, became both a runaway popular sensation and the symbol of a heated national debate about violent and inappropriate programming on television. Especially after... View Details

Keywords: Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Animation Entertainment; Fairness; Governance Controls; Media; Outcome or Result; Social Issues; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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07 Feb 2013
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The case for having a founder run the business

13 Jun 2010
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Dharavi turns a case study for students of Harvard

18 Aug 2017
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The Case Some Executives Made for Sticking With Trump

Podcast: Karen Mills and The Case for Open Banking

The former head of the Small Business Administration and current Harvard professor says data sharing can be transformational for banks. View Details

Introductory Video: Bringing the Case Method to High Schools

2024
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging—High Quality and Radiation Free: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Srikant M. Datar, Amar Bhidé and Katherine Stebbins

This case history describes how Magnetic Resource Imaging (MRI) came to complement – and partially replace -- computed tomography (CT) imaging of soft tissue. Specifically, we chronicle 1) the development of foundational techniques and prototypes (through the 1970s);... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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09 Nov 2021

Military Explore the HBS Case Method with Professor Jim Matheson

Now is your chance to experience the case method live. Join Professor Jim Matheson, Faculty Advisor to the Allied Forces Alumni Association, for this highly interactive virtual class. After leading you through a View Details

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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits... View Details

1982
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Correlates of Deficient Consumer Environments: The Case of the Elderly

By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan

Although much research attention has been given to the format of consumer information environments, there has been little study of the effects of consumer environments lacking in information. This paper describes an empirical study of elderly consumers functioning in... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Age; Information

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