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  • February 2013
  • Case

Diamond Foods, Inc.

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Tim Gray
The Diamonds Foods, Inc. case describes the major accounting blow up at the company in late 2011 that was triggered by a report by Off Wall Street, a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers'... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Restatements; Accounting Scandal; Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Statement Analysis; Short Selling; Revenue Recognition; Board Of Directors; Audit Committees; Auditing; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Agribusiness; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Revenue; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; California; Cambridge
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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

vaccine.” CAMH is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital, with a 550-person inpatient facility and a 24/7 dedicated psychiatric emergency room. Its staff of more than 3,000 physicians, clinicians, researchers, educators and support staff provide clinical... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 17 Jan 2024
  • HBS Case

Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues

businesses today will need to lean hard on psychological pricing strategies to convince customers to overcome their reluctance to spend, according to recent research by Elie Ofek, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Retail
  • January 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Supplement

Fair Value Accounting at Noble Group (B)

By: Siko Sikochi, Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
Following a series of reports by Iceberg Research alleging that Noble Group was too aggressive in its fair value accounting for contracts and investments in producers, Noble’s stock price continued to fall and stakeholders began to call for improved transparency in... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Contracts; Valuation
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  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

company that resorted to inhumane means of reducing its workforce, according to a trio of case studies co-written by Cynthia Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Ashley Whillans,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Richard S. Ruback

    Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details

    • 19 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 19, 2016

    monetary gains—but more risk-seeking towards positive experiences, such as eating desserts—as for monetary losses. These risk preferences for experiences are robust to different methods of elicitation. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

    offer the short-term loans to consumers. And it’s no wonder: Consumers using the payment method often spend more than they would with a credit card, according to new research by Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
    • 07 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

    coins and tokens—payments they often fail to disclose. Unfortunately for retail investors, following online crypto advice, especially from self-described “experts,” has the potential to bring significant financial losses, according to new View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 13 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

    week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 30 Oct 2020
    • HBS Seminar

    Vincent Larivière, University of Montréal

    • Research Summary

    Customer-Centric Marketing Strategy

    By: Rohit Deshpande
    Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high performance firms. This... View Details

      Benjamin C. Esty

      Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

      Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
      • 25 Jan 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

      Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes. Their research builds on several previous social psychology studies showing that people place more value on precise numbers than on relatively round numbers. People tend to assume, true or... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 12 Apr 2016
      • First Look

      April 12, 2016

      link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50897 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Gender and Price Knowledge on Auto-Repair Price Quotes By: Busse, Meghan, Ayelet Israeli, and Florian... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • August 2021 (Revised February 2023)
      • Supplement

      Fair Park Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Site (B)

      By: Willy Shih
      This case is an opportunity to apply the methods of the Toyota Production System (TPS) to the analysis of an everyday service application: administering Covid-19 vaccines. It describes the start-up of a drive-up Covid-19 mass vaccination site at the Texas State Fair... View Details
      Keywords: Operations Management; Operations Improvement; Operations And Processes; Toyota Production System; COVID-19 Pandemic; Operations; Service Operations; Health Pandemics; Service Delivery; Problems and Challenges; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; United States
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      Overview

      Dr. Crawford conducts research on innovation in the energy industry, with a special focus on emerging business models. She is developing several cases for the EC course, "21st Century Energy," that specifically examine innovations at the interface of IT and Energy — ... View Details
      • October 2018 (Revised May 2019)
      • Teaching Note

      Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

      By: Joseph Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Monica Baraldi
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 816-048. The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business units—professional tax software, sold to accountants, and the consumer focused... View Details
      Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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      • 13 Mar 2018
      • First Look

      March 13, 2018

      historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 18 Nov 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: November 18

      the continuing battle affect management, talent, and the company's financial performance? Purchase this case: https://hbr.org/product/Turkcell/an/715009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-024 Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne