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01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

autumn 1998
Article

Case Study: Dell Online

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Keywords: Technology; Computer Industry

November–December 1991
Article

The Case of AIDS

By: R. S. Tedlow and M. Marram

Keywords: Health Pandemics

July 1990 (Revised March 2000)
Case

John M. Case Company

By: Samuel L. Hayes III

The owner of a small, privately held company decides to sell out, and a group of the company's top managers structures a leveraged buyout. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Management Teams; Business Exit or Shutdown

Educators

March 2023
Supplement

Moderna (B) Case Supplement

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Allison J. Wigen and Dave Habeeb

March 2023
Supplement

Moderna (A) Case Supplement

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Allison J. Wigen and Dave Habeeb

November 1984 (Revised May 1986)
Case

Schneider Corp., Software Case

1982
Book

Cases in Competitive Strategy

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Competitive Strategy

February 1990
Background Note

Career Choice-Making Case Assignment

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Personal Development and Career

June 1951
Background Note

Preparation of Case Material

1986
Book

Cases in Consumer Behavior

By: F. Stewart DeBruicker, John A. Quelch and Scott Ward

15 Jun 2021
News

Case Study: Inside Story

Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to Lin’s sense of self, but they were... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jun 2013
News

A Case For Fellowships

LEOPOLD At HBS we often say that fellowships are the lifeblood of the School. During my 20-plus years serving on the MBA Admissions Board—and the last 7 as its director—I have witnessed firsthand the truth of that statement. Fellowships, which are funded by gifts from... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

May – June 1990
Article

Case of the Complaining Customer (HBR Case Study and Commentary)

By: Dan Finkelman, Tony Goland, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Dinah Nemeroff, Ron Zemke and Claus Moller

July 1999 (Revised July 2007)
Background Note

Preparing Family Business Cases

By: John A. Davis

Advises students on how to prepare and discuss a family business case. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Business Education; Cases; Family Ownership; Research

Educators

April 2006 (Revised April 2020)
Case

"The Case of Leadership Inertia"

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The CEO of an international bank has raised the bank's performance by emphasizing a new culture of leadership that empowers people at all levels. Managers are rated both on their business results and their leadership—how they model new behaviors—but 12 senior managers... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Performance Evaluation; Employee Relationship Management