Publications

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details

October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in August 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are navigating Migros through COVID-19 and the unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Strategic Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey

November 2007
Case

Antegren: A Beacon of Hope

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann

The CEO of Biogen Idec faces a set of difficult decisions regarding a promising drug for Multiple Sclerosis that is headed for early approval by the FDA. The first in a series focuses on operational decisions triggered by the drive for early approval. Sparks discussion... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Leadership; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Health Testing and Trials; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns? By: Froot, Kenneth A., Namho... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

from the majority of corporate executives in two important ways. First, they necessarily have highly developed knowledge in their profession, be it investment banking, consulting, or another area. And second, they tend to think and act... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Web

Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Identify physical manifestations of climate change, learn how businesses assess and manage the risks and opportunities associated with climate stressors, and evaluate adaptation measures currently being pursued in different industries and geographies worldwide.... View Details

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-028 Innovating Beyond Ochsner The Ochsner Health System has developed a proprietary software tool designed to treat hypertension. Built into the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

beneficiaries," wrote Werker in an e-mail from Liberia, where he was conducting another study. The World Bank was a necessary subject for investigating such issues, continued Werker. "While the consequences of bad corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPerformance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. John B. Bingham and Michael BeerHarvard Business School Case 913-501 Vitality View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Staff Directory | Baker Library

pharmaceutical companies, health care, travel, and personal finance. Avery holds a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School, a Fulbright Fellowship to Russia, and a bachelor’s degree in history and international relations from... View Details

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

values of local, sustainable, healthy food, they can have a huge economic, environmental, and health benefit throughout their institutions.” The University of Massachusetts at Amherst—the largest institutional food operation in the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international political dynamics of countries' IFRS harmonization decisions. The analysis is based on field studies in three... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan

By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details

March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things

By: Frank Nagle

In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but growing, not-for-profit organization to thrive for another decade. Their sensor technologies and big data analytics... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Expansion; Information Technology; Health Industry; Information Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry