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  • September 1990 (Revised April 1993)
  • Case

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Following the company's purchase as a part of a leveraged buyout, the new management team of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. had to decide what to do about the build-up of excess inventory of its independent wholesale customers. The case introduces students to the problems... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Satisfaction; Business or Company Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Consumer Products Industry
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  • June 2024
  • Supplement

Legacy Partners (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months earlier in mid-2021.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nutrition; Supply Chain Management; Growth Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; California
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  • 03 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

less than total investment or ones that were active but have not received funding in at least three years. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/5ZfGNK64os7hBRBPPAeW][/div] The researchers developed a concept of seniority to define success... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

how to win? A: My advice here is simple: Think business model. Most managers tend to focus on cost management and operational efficiencies when... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

2013, but was re-evaluating the costs and benefits of participating in the SCF program in the summer of 2015. The firm’s treasury group and its U.S. country View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

  Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

innovative, social value-creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government, or business sectors. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

mandate and management of international trade negotiations. Historically, legitimacy for GATT and later the WTO was understood to derive from expanding membership View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Ghosh says, if start-ups often manage to secure a good team and good financing, they face dozens of lower-cost competitors and fragmented customer demand.) Funding has the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

has risen to the fore.” Kara Baskin: As a business school professor, why are you interested in mental health? Lauren Cohen: I got interested based on the two streams of the work that I do. The first has to do with understanding what makes... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

recipients get organs as they become available—decisions that must be based on various priority and fairness criteria. “The new system will explicitly give points based on the... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

effectively, where they can be damaging, and where additional complementary mechanisms to spur innovation may be appropriate. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/patents_creative_destructive.pdf   Working Papers Does... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Program

Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

health care delivery organizations, such as general managers, senior clinical leaders responsible for overseeing care delivery, and financial executives who direct cost View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

  PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

revenue, up from 20 percent in 2020. And Peloton still has 75 stores in the US and two studios for video production. “The large subscriber base View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • 14 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

rapid growth from its Austin, Texas, home across the country. Managers operated stores like autonomous fiefdoms, able to tailor offerings based on customer preferences for fresh, local produce.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage