Publications

December 2022
Supplement

Driving Decarbonization at BMW - Video Supplement

By: Shirley Lu, George Serafeim and Michael W. Toffel

Videos of Thomas Becker, Vice President of Sustainability and Mobility at BMW Group, in support of the case "Driving Decarbonization at BMW" (HBS No. 123-008) View Details

July 2024 (Revised December 2024)
Background Note

This note provides an overview of district heating: systems in which central plants generate heat that is conveyed by steam or water through a set of insulated pipes to send heat to residential and/or commercial buildings. It describes key elements of the system (heat... View Details

Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Change; Energy Efficiency; Energy Storage; Energy Transmission; Construction; Energy; Buildings and Facilities; Energy Industry; Denmark; Europe; United States

01 Dec 2007
News

Exec Ed in India

HBS senior faculty will teach the School’s first-ever Exec Ed program in India February 10–15 in Hyderabad. The program, Building a Global Enterprise in India, offered in conjunction with HBS’s India Research Center, will feature cases tailored to the needs of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Nov 2014
News

Creating access to capital for the Muslim community

Aamir Rehman (MBA 2004) helps institutions and Muslims around the world build wealth in ways that align with their personal beliefs and principals. (Published November 2014) View Details

18 Nov 2013
News

Diving into the 'Shark Tank'

Donna Khalife (MBA 2011, at left) and sister, Rosy, make their pitch on ABC-TV's Shark Tank. Donna Khalife (MBA 2011) and her sister, Rosy, were taking a lunch break from work on their startup Surprise Ride—which delivers a box of curated children's activities... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; parenting; childhood; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

02 Apr 2013
News

Japan's Answer to Jeff Bezos Sets Sights on Amazon, America

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Dan Vallone

You graduated from West Point, which is famous for leadership, and served as an infantry officer for five years. What did HBS add to your understanding of leadership? In the military, I was accustomed to thinking five to ten years in advance. After two years at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

March 2014 (Revised May 2014)
Teaching Note

The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal

By: Lucy White and Benjamin C. Esty

On February 21, 2013, TELUS announced a proposal to convert the firm's non-voting shares into voting shares on a one-to-one basis, thereby eliminating the firm's dual class structure. Shareholders were scheduled to vote on the proposal at the firm's annual general... View Details

August 2013 (Revised October 2013)
Case

MedImmune Ventures

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Lane

Ron Laufer is the new Senior Managing Director of MedImmune Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of AstraZeneca, a leading pharmaceuticals firm. Laufer has to decide whether to pursue a high-potential, but very risky, early-stage investment. The decision Laufer... View Details

Keywords: MedImmune; MedImmune Ventures; AstraZeneca; NeuProtect; Corporate Venturing; Biotechnology; Venture Investing; Venture Capital; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Financial Services Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Australia; Europe; London

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

patient numbers in both NGO data and government registers by 20% and underreporting of treatment interruptions by 25%. We find no effect on worker or patient satisfaction. This suggests biometric technology is both an effective and sustainable way to improve the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional... View Details

March 2022
Case

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley

In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the... View Details

November 2019
Case

Chief: Role for Lindsay Kaplan

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley and Katherine Chen

In 2018, Lindsay Kaplan is preparing to meet with Carolyn Childers about the possibility of co-founding Chief, a New York-based peer network for women executives. Kaplan is currently the vice president of communications and brand engagement at a successful mattress... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)

January 2014 (Revised May 2015)
Case

Yahoo: Both Sides of the Stamped Deal

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Lisa C. Mazzanti

In 2012, Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo!, a tech giant with a tumultuous past. When Mayer tries to reinvigorate the company, she hires Jacqueline Reses, who has a private equity background, to head both human resources and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). As part... View Details

Keywords: Mobile App; Acquisition-hire; Exit Strategy; Start-up; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Mergers and Acquisitions; Human Resources; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Product Development; Technology Industry; Sunnyvale; New York (city, NY)

March 2001
Teaching Note

OXO International TN

By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Anne D. Karshis

Teaching Note for (9-697-007). View Details

Keywords: Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut