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  • January 2005 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

WorldCom, Inc.: Two Views

By: David F. Hawkins
Financial analysis is one way to detect WorldCom's fraudulent accounting. This case presents two perspectives of WorldCom: the company as viewed by security analysts and the inside view of the accounting fraud. Also looks at the company's acquisition accounting to... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Crime and Corruption; Accounting
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  • 10 Oct 2013
  • News

Business Leaders as our Missing Middle?

  • September 2015 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph Fuller and Michael Roberts
The case provides a vehicle for teaching about both corporate intrapreneurship and the use of lean startup methods. It 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... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Although it isn't part of the admissions criteria, experience playing with LEGOs can come in handy at Harvard Business School. When Stefan H. Thomke teaches his new case about the iconic toy company, he... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation

    Malcolm P. Baker

    Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

    His research is in the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
    • May 2021 (Revised February 2025)
    • Teaching Note

    Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations

    By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
    Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 621-026, 621-027, and 621-062. As Migros, one of Turkey’s largest grocery chains, forays into online groceries, the company faces operational challenges related to inventory management, fulfillment and last mile delivery and strategics... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Management; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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    • 09 Oct 2013
    • News

    No more working at home for Hewlett-Packard employees

    • 19 Aug 2011
    • News

    Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

    • September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
    • Case

    GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services

    By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
    Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In... View Details
    Keywords: Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Change Management; Supply Chain Management; Legal Liability; Business Processes; Legal Services Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 21 Aug 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

    discussions around case studies. “First, students learned a framework for combining intuition and data/analytics (including regression and optimization) into a comprehensive decision-making strategy. Second, students developed an... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • March 2006
    • Module Note

    Exchange Rates and Firms

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
    Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on how firms identify, measure, and manage currency exposures. The cases first introduce students to foreign exchange exposures and the tools used to manage... View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Corporate Finance
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    • 12 Nov 2015
    • Blog Post

    3 Facts About HBS Discussion Groups

    Discussion groups meet each morning from 8:00-9:00am to help prepare for classes. People share different perspectives on the material and help each other prepare for the case method style of teaching and... View Details
    • November 2019
    • Teaching Note

    Hacking Heroin

    By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
    This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question... View Details
    Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
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    • August 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town

    By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 313-103. The case is designed to give the students an understanding of the local Chinese entrepreneurial state and how foreign and Chinese firms have worked with it to create China’s richest small city. The major themes are—local state... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; China
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    • October 2019
    • Teaching Note

    Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

    By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
    A Teaching Note for the "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" case study (HBS#820-048). The case discusses recent controversies regarding how Google manages temporary help agency workers, workers supplied by vendors, and independent contractors ("TVCs"). Such TVCs reportedly... View Details
    Keywords: Workforce; Independent Contractors; Talent Management; Silicon Valley; Google; Employee Attitude; Employee Compensation; Employee Engagement; Future Of Work; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Inequality; Talent Acquisition; Labor; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Employees; Attitudes; Innovation and Management; Human Resources; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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      Krishna G. Palepu

      KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean at the... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; banking; financial services; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing

        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
        • January 2019 (Revised October 2019)
        • Case

        Commercial Sales Transformation at Microsoft

        By: Doug J. Chung
        Industry leaders should adapt to changes in the business context and consider different ways to grow. Advances in technology had shifted software demand to the cloud. As a result, Microsoft announced a strategic shift in direction from its existing ‘Windows first’... View Details
        Keywords: Sales; Strategy; Transformation
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        • July 2020
        • Teaching Note

        Shindigz

        By: Frank Cespedes
        Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 819-010. Shindigz sells party and celebratory items through its branded direct online channel, third-party retail and wholesale channels, and online marketplaces. Shindigz has for decades successfully executed a premium-priced branded... View Details
        Keywords: Ecommerce; Pricing; Price; Strategy; Decision Making; Distribution Channels; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry
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          George Serafeim

          George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology