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  • December 1998
  • Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: Fidelity Investments

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of Fidelity Investment's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 1998
  • Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: Charles Schwab

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of Charles Schwab's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the following... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • January 2008 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Rubbish Boys

By: Noam Wasserman and Rachel Galper
It looked like founder-CEO Brian Scudamore might not be able to pursue franchising as a growth option for his junk-removal business after all. Over the years, he had overcome many hurdles, including buying out his "too-fiery" co-founder, firing all of his employees so... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Problems and Challenges; Brands and Branding; Business Model; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Franchise Ownership; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Canada; North America
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  • March 1995
  • Case

Procter & Gamble: Improving Consumer Value Through Process Redesign

The evolution of Procter & Gamble's development of efficient consumer response (ECR) involved a series of trials, a resolve to distribute diapers on the basis of product movement, a conscious effort to move to a new means of distribution across all lines, a first cut... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

will be done," Applegate said. "That ability to play above and below the line is fundamental to success because it provides revenue streams. There is nothing stickier than getting everyone in your industry to do business on your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • December 2007 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

Xanadu on Broadway

By: Anita Elberse
Can one of Hollywood's biggest flops magically turn into a Broadway hit? Xanadu, an adaptation of a 1980 Olivia Newton-John roller-disco film described by one critic as "the epic failure to end all epic failures," opened on Broadway in July 2007. Producer Rob Ahrens,... View Details
Keywords: Theater Entertainment; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Risk and Uncertainty; Creativity; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

Review 49, no. 1 (fall 2007) Abstract The largely erroneous perception that breakthroughs are impossible to predict arises from the tendency to focus on just the breakthroughs while ignoring the iterative process of invention and its distribution of outcomes. When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

what the company should do to forestall some of the problems plaguing the fast food industry in the West. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511040-PDF-ENG BonneSante S.A. David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

other industry executives don't, including: The tech company's most valuable assets in the form of human capital walk out the door every day. Tech companies largely rely on components from other vendors, meaning that complementary assets... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry
    • 2017
    • Other Book

    Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

    By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
    I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details
    Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets
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    • October 2016 (Revised March 2019)
    • Case

    Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments

    By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
    Founded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees’ planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality... View Details
    Keywords: Health Financing; Health Insurance; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Bundled Payments; Innovation; Scale; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; California; San Francisco; San Diego; Seattle
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    • Web

    Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

    Financial Accounting with a final exam. 10-17 weeks, 8-15 hrs/week Apply by March 17 $2,650 Credential Explore all Courses Most Comprehensive Business Program 7 Courses Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB)... View Details
    • 29 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 29, 2015

    innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 1992
    • Article

    Coordination in Split-Award Auctions

    By: James J. Anton and Dennis Yao
    We analyze split award procurement auctions in which a buyer divides full production between two suppliers or awards all production to a single supplier, and suppliers have private cost information. An intriguing feature of split awards is that the equilibrium bids are... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Balance and Stability; Cost; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Production; Five Forces Framework; Supply and Industry; Situation or Environment; Information; Manufacturing Industry
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    • Web

    MBA Experience - Leadership

    all students pursue the same course of study: the Required Curriculum and FIELD. By studying under a common curriculum, students build a solid, broad foundation of general management concepts and skills across View Details
    • July 2021
    • Case

    A Close Shave at Squire

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth and Michael Norris
    In 2020, just after closing a $34 million Series B financing round, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon consider how to adjust their business, Squire Technologies, to the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their barbershop technology, including tools to run a shop... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Pandemics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
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    • Article

    The Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia

    By: Rawi Abdelal
    Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries' relations with Russia, Europe has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national... View Details
    Keywords: Performance; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Profit; Framework; Corporate Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Policy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; Energy Industry; Europe; Russia; France; Germany; Italy
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    • October 2018
    • Case

    Phuc Huynh and Teach for Vietnam (A)

    By: Leslie Perlow and Eunice Eun
    This Harvard Business School case is about Harvard Kennedy School graduate, Phuc Huynh, who wants to establish Teach for Vietnam (TFV) in his home country and become an official Teach for All partner. It considers the concepts of giving back in one’s career and the... View Details
    Keywords: Vietnam; Giving Back; Career Decisions; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Leadership Development; Education Industry; Viet Nam; Asia
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    • 25 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2911880 forthcoming Journal of Law & Economics The Effect of Prohibiting Deal Protection on M&A Activity: Evidence from the United Kingdom By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Since 2011, the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel