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- 28 Mar 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
BMW’s Decarbonization Strategy: Sustainable for the Environment and the Bottom Line
- 18 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers
Payday lenders have long been cast as villains for charging consumers sky-high interest rates, leaving borrowers who live paycheck to paycheck struggling to repay loans. But conventional banks are just as guilty of using fees to penalize consumers, hurting low-income... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those metrics alone seem to... View Details
- February 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Background Note
Integrated Marketing Communications
By: Robert J. Dolan
Describes the major communication vehicles and the process via which they can be brought together in an integrated marketing communications plan. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Communications
Dolan, Robert J. "Integrated Marketing Communications." Harvard Business School Background Note 599-087, February 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- September 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
The Progressive Corporation, 2018
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, The Progressive Corporation (Progressive), the USA’s third-largest auto insurance writer, reported earned premiums were up 20% in 2018 compared to the previous year, and net income was up 64%. Direct sales of personal auto policies rose 21%, while agent... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Decisions; Customer Acquisition; Customer Experience; Customer Lifetime Value; Policy Implementation; Competitors; Auto Insurance; Vehicle; Progressive; Allstate; State Farm; GEICO; Implementation; Insurance; Customer Value and Value Chain; Growth Management; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "The Progressive Corporation, 2019." Harvard Business School Case 719-413, September 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
UCLA Anderson School, and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School. In the quest to discover whether competition breeds unethical behavior, the researchers examined the vehicle emissions testing program in New York State, one of... View Details
- November 1983 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Federal Government and Employment
Provides a vehicle for a discussion of the Employment Act of 1946. View Details
Tedlow, Richard S. "Federal Government and Employment." Harvard Business School Case 384-125, November 1983. (Revised March 1995.)
- August 1983 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Railroad Problem and the Solution
A vehicle for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the Interstate Commerce Act. View Details
Keywords: Transportation; Rail Transportation; Fluctuation; Outcome or Result; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Business History; Complexity; Problems and Challenges; Rail Industry
Tedlow, Richard S. "Railroad Problem and the Solution." Harvard Business School Case 384-032, August 1983. (Revised March 1995.)
- September 2023
- Case
Derek Aguirre
By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Derek Aguirre is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Detroit, Michigan that uses the sport of squash as a vehicle to support young people in low-income urban areas. The case discusses his path to pursue meaningful work and his reflections on the... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Technical Note
Rechargeable Batteries, 2017: Gigafactory Wars in the Offing?
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2017, the global market for rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries was 126 gigawatt-hours (GWh) valued at $37 billion, growing by $10 billion in two years. Once confined largely to consumer electronics and appliances, the rapid increase in demand was spurred by... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Rechargeable Batteries; Lithium-ion; Lithium-ion Batteries; Electric Vehicle; Electric Vehicles; Energy Entrepreneurship; Energy Markets; Energy Storage; Battery; Demand Uncertainty; Demand Forecasting; Supply ＆ Demand; Supply And Demand; Capacity Planning; Tesla; Technological And Scientific Innovation; Technological Change; Technology Change; Technology Commercialization; Policy Change; Subsidies; Power/Energy; Power Grid; Energy Policy; Developing Markets; Alevo; Samsung; LG Chem; CATL; Northvolt; General Motors; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; China
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Rechargeable Batteries, 2017: Gigafactory Wars in the Offing?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 720-371, November 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Great Depression: Causes and Impact (Abridged)
Provides a vehicle for discussing the problems caused by the Great Depression. View Details
McCraw, Thomas K. "Great Depression: Causes and Impact (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 391-258, July 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- July 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Labor Movement Between the Wars
By: Thomas K. McCraw
A vehicle for a discussion of the growth of organized labor between the World Wars. View Details
McCraw, Thomas K. "Labor Movement Between the Wars." Harvard Business School Case 391-257, July 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- June 1991 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Antitrust Movement: Perceptions and Reality in Coping with Big Business
A vehicle for the discussion of early antitrust legislation in the United States from 1890 to 1914. View Details
McCraw, Thomas K. "Antitrust Movement: Perceptions and Reality in Coping with Big Business." Harvard Business School Case 391-292, June 1991. (Revised April 2008.)
- October 2005 (Revised October 2006)
- Background Note
Marketing Promotions
Introduces the major communication vehicles and the process by which they can be brought together in an integrated marketing communications plan. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Communications
Wosinska, Marta. "Marketing Promotions." Harvard Business School Background Note 506-028, October 2005. (Revised October 2006.)
- November 1989 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (A)
This case series is a vehicle for examining the strategic logic and risks of preemption. Rewritten versions of earlier cases. View Details
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-112, November 1989. (Revised April 2004.)
- March 1991 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola and the Soft Drink Industry
Describes the competition between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Provides a summary of the history of the soft drink industry prior to World War II, and over the period 1950-1990 in greater detail. Major strategic competitive moves and countermoves are described. Also... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola and the Soft Drink Industry." Harvard Business School Case 391-179, March 1991. (Revised October 1994.)
- July 2005 (Revised October 2006)
- Exercise
Ready-To-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry: Product Proliferation and Preemption, The
Describes a simplified economic model that serves as a vehicle for understanding the strategic and possibly anticompetitive aspects of product proliferation. View Details
"Ready-To-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry: Product Proliferation and Preemption, The." Harvard Business School Exercise 706-408, July 2005. (Revised October 2006.)
- June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Organized Labor and the Worker
A vehicle for the discussion of labor unions and working people from the Civil War to the end of World War I. View Details
McCraw, Thomas K. "Organized Labor and the Worker." Harvard Business School Case 391-256, June 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- November 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Ltd.
By: Benjamin Edelman
Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) vehicles—often called "driverless taxis"—sought to combine the best characteristics of cars, taxis, and trains, while adding features unavailable in any existing transportation system. Like cars and taxis, PRT vehicles carried small... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "Personal Rapid Transport at Vectus, Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 910-010, November 2009. (Revised September 2010.) (Featured in Working Knowledge: Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?) (courtesy copy.)