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  • October 2013 (Revised February 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Red Hen Baking Company

By: Richard Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Lisa Paige
The case explores the decision to expand in a small business setting. In 2007, the Red Hen Baking Company (RHB) was deciding whether to move from its cramped and inefficient Duxbury, Vermont facility to a new facility in nearby Middlesex, Vermont. It had been in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Capital; Risk Management; Expansion
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    Heating Sector Transformation in Rhode Island

    In a heating transformation study presented to Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo,... View Details

    • 23 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

    higher-risk issues, the study finds that agencies are overcoming the financial incentives to rate specific issues inappropriately high. “Overall, our study suggests that as the likelihood of issuer default grows, the threat of... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    companies can adapt key aspects of the private-equity governance model to ensure that they fulfill their oversight responsibilities. With respect to avoiding the perverse financial incentives that corrupted Enron, my book makes specific... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • Research Summary

    Professor Wei-Skillern's research is focused in the field of Social Enterprise. Her research examines the creation of social value in both commercial and nonprofit organizations. In the former stream of research on corporate social responsibility, she has studied... View Details
    • Article

    Aztec Castles and the dP3 Quiver

    By: Megan Leoni, Gregg Musiker, Seth Neel and Paxton Turner
    Bipartite, periodic, planar graphs known as brane tilings can be associated to a large class of quivers. This paper will explore new algebraic properties of the well-studied del Pezzo 3 (dP3) quiver and geometric properties of its corresponding brane tiling. In... View Details
    Keywords: Brane Tiling; Del Pezzo 3 Lattice; Dimer Model; Mathematical Methods
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    • Article

    Beyond the Target Customer: Social Effects in CRM Campaigns

    By: Eva Ascarza, Peter Ebbes, Oded Netzer and Matthew Danielson
    Customer relationship management (CRM) campaigns have traditionally focused on maximizing the profitability of the targeted customers. The authors demonstrate that in business settings characterized by network externalities, a CRM campaign that is aimed at changing the... View Details
    Keywords: Social Effects; Field Experiment; Mobile; Customer Relationship Management; Network Effects; Consumer Behavior
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    • 2017
    • Other Article

    Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

    By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
    The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

    By: Pian Shu
    Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance
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    • April 2007 (Revised October 2007)
    • Background Note

    An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
    Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2002 to 2006. Examples of project-financed investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Investment; Projects; Trends
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    • July 2021
    • Teaching Note

    Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-024. Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of multinational IT giant Atos to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Leading Change; Mergers and Acquisitions; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Transformation; Information Technology Industry
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    • January 2021
    • Case

    Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos

    By: Tsedal Neeley and James Barnett
    Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of Atos—multinational IT giant—to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global in scope, he made a bold first step as... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Change; Leadership; Technology Industry
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    • Web

    FAQs - Doctoral

    participated in another Research Village program. Does this mean anyone? Yes, as long as the applicant is in good standing at a US undergraduate institution, one may apply. Is the Program limited to specific concentrations or majors?... View Details
    • 29 Jul 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

    be complete? A: The time pressure study is one of several projects coming out of a longitudinal research program that my team and I have been working on since 1996. These projects are all aimed at discovering how specific events and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
    Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    Taken together, they suggest there are three critical hurdles or challenges that management faces in any restructuring program: 1. Design. What type of restructuring is appropriate for dealing with the specific challenge, problem, or... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
    • Profile

    Adriana Garcia Ceja

    broader business skill set. I was privy to a small subset of business, and there were other skills I need to learn: marketing, general management.” Leadership in difficult times “Because I sought specific skills I didn’t have as a liberal... View Details
    • Web

    Generative AI - Alumni

    include professional, personal, passionate, etc. Output: Request a specific output, such as “create a cover letter for a job application as a [position] at [company].” Specifics: Include any measurable indicator that you want to give to... View Details
    • Web

    Academics - Health Care

    span the many sectors of the health care industry. During the second-year "elective curriculum" (EC), students may choose courses and field-based research specific to their particular health care interests. Some students also choose to... View Details
    • 31 Oct 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

    Organization, argues that fear is not a useful tool in a leader’s toolkit when it comes to managing interpersonal relationships in a workplace. Best known for her studies of teams and teaming (where different team members come together for one View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett