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27 May 2021
Video

2022 Silicon Valley IFC

12 Aug 2024
Video

Applying to HBS: Who Are We Looking For?

14 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

helpful to your company.” The study’s findings also underscore the growing possibility of mining “nuanced and granular” social media data to understand how and why employee networks form and what advantages they provide to their larger... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

Web

Curriculum - Case Method Project

This case provides a broad overview of the economic, political, and moral issues that eventually led to the outbreak of the American Civil War. Students explore how these issues ensured sectional division between North and South, and they... View Details

August 2012
Case

ARISE: A Destination-for-a-Day Spa

By: Michael Beer and Lynda St. Clair

A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees to act as "personal wellness coaches" (PWCs) with high commitment and broad responsibilities, the... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Service Delivery; Competitive Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Service Industry; Texas

November 2016 (Revised April 2018)
Case

reMarkable: e-Writing the Future

By: Elie Ofek and Curtis Hsu

Magnus Wanberg is the creator of reMarkable, a breakthrough e-writer device set apart from similar products on the market by having solved the frustrating “slow ink” problem typically experienced on pen-based electronic devices, thus providing a “pen and paper” like... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Innovation Management; Go To Market Strategy; Marketing Plan; Target Market; Digital Devices; Consumer Electronics; Forecasting; Information Technology; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Management; Marketing Channels; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Marketing; Product Development; Electronics Industry

September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Compilation

Time Distribution and Interaction Patterns for PEARL Project Team: Work Patterns at Ditto (D)

By: Leslie A. Perlow

Provides data to enable students to analyze how software engineers spend their time. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Time Management; Work-Life Balance; Information Technology Industry

15 Apr 2020
Video

Rootine: Finalist in 2020 New Venture Competition Alumni Track

July 1994 (Revised September 1995)
Case

Cougars

By: Scott P. Mason and Mihir A. Desai

Provides an introduction to zero coupon bonds and stripping coupon bonds. Concerns the relationship between the spot curve, the strip curve, and the coupon curve. View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Relationships

December 2022 (Revised November 2024)
Module Note

LCA Module Overview: Investors

By: Nien-hê Hsieh

This Note provides an overview of cases, key concepts, and overall arc for the module on responsibilities to investors in Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA). View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability

April 2002
Background Note

Rise of Cause-Related Marketing, The

Provides an overview of cause-related marketing (CRM), including recent trends. Uses various examples to discuss the potential benefits of CRM as well as potential pitfalls. View Details

Keywords: Marketing

October 1986
Supplement

Timken Co., Video

Provides interviews with four top executives of the Timken Co., including the president, Joe Toot, Jr., discussing the company's employee communications and employee relations strategy. View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management

26 Mar 2021
News

Planning for a Hybrid Workforce

15 Jan 2025
Video

Applying to the 2+2 Program: Who Are We Looking For?

07 May 2014
Video

Maya Chorengel - Making A Difference

27 May 2022
Video

Celebrating the Harvard Business School Class of 2022

May 1995 (Revised October 1995)
Background Note

Introduction to Cash Flow Valuation Methods

By: Richard S. Ruback

Provides an introduction to three cash flow valuation methods. The three methods differ in their measure of cash flows and the discount rate applied to those cash flows. The names for the three methods correspond to the type of cash flow that is used in the valuation:... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation

February 2015 (Revised August 2019)
Case

Equality of Opportunity and Outcome in the U.S.

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Alastair Su

Equality of opportunity is endorsed universally even though, or more likely because, it can mean such different things to different people. What definition of equality of opportunity ought to figure into policy decisions? How close, or far, is the United States from... View Details

Keywords: Equality Of Opportunity; Justice; Opportunities; Equality and Inequality; Policy; United States