by HBS Staff - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Reinhardt led a discussion of the case recently in the MBA field study seminar Innovation in Business, Energy, and Environment, held in Harvard's Innovation Lab. The case was prepared by... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

12 Mar 2014
News

An Alternative to Graduate School Built by a Powerhouse Pair of HBS Alums

01 Jul 2021
Video

Thank You HBS Operations

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Searched-For Female," as recorded by Google, and made international headlines for donning a dress made of red meat, which Time Magazine called the top fashion statement of 2010. “Gaga is a marketing phenomenon” So it's almost... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

07 Feb 2012
News

Yelp Reviews Reputation Study by Harvard Busines School. Assistant Professor HBS Michael Luca (VIDEO)

20 Oct 2015
News

HBS Professor Shawn Cole Named Faculty Pioneer by Aspen Institute Business and Society Program

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

companies, order HBS cases, research your paper or project topics, and prepare for courses. CASE METHOD: Pioneered by HBS faculty and one of the highlights of the View Details

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

why that happened," says Ofek. Clocky fit the bill. In the case "Clocky: The Runaway Alarm Clock" (with Eliot Sherman) and the follow-up case, "Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky" (with Jill Avery, HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

February 2019
Case

Volvo Cars: Acquisition by Geely

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Willy Shih and Nancy Dai

Zheijiang Geely Holding Company's acquisition of Volvo Cars was widely viewed with skepticism because of the poor track record of cross-border auto industry acquisitions. This case looks at the acquisition and post-acquisition integration from the point of view of... View Details

Keywords: Merger Integration; Organization Culture; Organization Behavior; Organizational Alignment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Alignment; Organizational Culture; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; China; Sweden

Citation

Educators

Purchase

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

22 Mar 2016
Video

HBS Entrepreneurship Webinar

01 Dec 2008
News

…and by Comparison

Last June, the MBA Class of 1958 celebrated its 50th Reunion. HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, one of five class members who became professors at the School (likely a record for any class), notes that because the class graduated... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

By 1910, however, with the new name Madam C.J. Walker, Breedlove had accrued a sizable fortune and considerable influence. This daughter of adversity was now well known and respected among the nation's African Americans as a savvy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

03 Apr 2024
Video

HBS Student Visa Overview

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

infighting, and allegations of corruption. The district was by far the lowest performing in the state, and nearly half of its 125 schools failed to meet their adequate yearly progress goals in 2004 as required View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

Illustrations by John Ritter HBS/HU Growth With the Allston land purchase, Harvard University has begun to expand across the Charles River and around the HBS campus. How do you see the School interacting... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

April 2021
Teaching Note

Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

By: Sunil Gupta and Jonathan Levav

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-010. In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch... View Details