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24 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

students that Madoff was once best known for pioneering the controversial but legal practice of payment for order flow, in which he would pay brokerage firms a couple of cents per share to send orders through his firm. This made him... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 1992 (Revised July 1998)
Case

Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification

By: George C. Lodge and James W. Ragsdale

In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Political Elections; Situation or Environment; Integration; Europe; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

seem to get past, no matter how qualified and reformed a job candidate may seem. It’s time for business leaders to rethink their hiring practices and start giving the formerly incarcerated more opportunities to prove themselves, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

integration of best practices from past lessons into existing programs and innovations for large-scale, long-term market and policy solutions that can get to the root of rental housing challenges. Book link:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Harvard Business School Case 314-097 Furloughs: An Alternative to Layoffs for Economic Downturns This note describes the practice of employee furloughs (also known as work sharing or short-time work) including their regulatory frameworks... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

United States in a uniquely powerful position. While Europe and Asia had experienced extensive destruction and loss of life, no battles had been fought on the soil of the United States. The U.S. dollar... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

Web

Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

competitive position. Students learn to: Develop a mastery of a body of analytical tools and the ability to take an integrative point of view. Use these tools to perform in-depth analyses of industries and competitors, predict competitive... View Details

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

have helped and what lessons have been learned. Finally, the authors suggest new directions for housing policy, including the integration of best practices from past lessons into existing programs and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Associate Dean, Business in Global Society Unit Head, General Management Brian L. Trelstad William Henry Bloomberg Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow Mitchell B. Weiss Richard L. Menschel... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

a US Airways takeover in the early 2000s, Delta was profitable and had been named by Fortune as the world’s most-admired airline twice. A champion in practicing “servant leadership” and “taking care of Delta’s people,” Bastian immediately... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

March 2015
Case

Twine Health

By: Robert S. Huckman, Ariel D. Stern and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges that threatened to restrict the widespread dissemination of its sole product, Twine. Twine was a cloud-based platform that... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Chronic Disease; Technology Adoption; Digital Health; Health Acceleration Challenge; Strategy; Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Health Industry; United States; Massachusetts

April 2016 (Revised December 2016)
Case

The Container Store

By: Tatiana Sandino, Zeynep Ton and Aldo Sesia

The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its employees first, and its cofounder and CEO Kip Tindell practices Conscious Capitalism. Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Conscious Capitalism; Merchandising; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Service Delivery; Going Public; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry; United States

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Web

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

directly aligns with healthcare professionals’ collective goals and individual purposes. Appealing to employees’ motivations enables leaders to help team members unite under a common goal. By extension, setting the stage for employees to... View Details

14 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

best yet to come? Campbell stresses that the ideas in their case are speculative, based on second-hand reports in the press. They can’t be sure how much Amazon tried to integrate its culture with that of Whole Foods, or what its ultimate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

July 2000 (Revised August 2005)
Case

Deaconess-Glover Hospital (A)

Chronicles the initial efforts to teach a health care organization to manage itself according to the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Describes the decision and dilemmas that arose from the implementation experiment. Builds on Bowen and Spear's earlier... View Details

Keywords: Management; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Massachusetts