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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the choice of some... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
and events through the eyes of the men and women watching them in real time: to follow the arc of time, if you will. And this represented an exciting intellectual opportunity for me, as a historian and scholar of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
metrics, so that if people are going to invest in the sector there's some way to measure that return in social terms. It's a tough struggle that a lot of experienced and devoted people are trying to crack right now. Q: There seems to be... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
interests. I leverage the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop three hypotheses on corporate accountability reporting. I argue that an accountability reporting system is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
makes a purchasing decision.” Levitt’s influence reached well beyond the classroom. “Ted Levitt was the most influential and imaginative professor in marketing history,” HBS professor and senior associate dean John Quelch stated on the occasion of his death. “He was an... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding
By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn
This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Business Cycles; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Development; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle; Japan
Groysberg, Boris, and Tom Quinn. "Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding." Harvard Business School Case 424-047, July 2024.
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
the world. How’s this possible? So I went in and they said, well, yes, you haven’t been back in domestic investment banking that long so we felt this was the right decision. I thought, well they’re wrong. And I went to some of my other... View Details
- April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Positioning; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Denmark; United States; Europe; China; India; Middle East; North Africa
Badaracco, Joseph L., Tom Quinn, and John Schultz. "Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs." Harvard Business School Case 324-114, April 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the single decision-making authority of a hierarchy is optimal. The paper therefore argues that when enterprise IT is required, so is an electronic hierarchy: a collaboration in which one member has all required decision rights over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one lesson or... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents and healing View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction Veteran Hiring Leader’s Handbook by Peter A. Gudmundsson (MBA 1990) (BookBaby) Employers have a chance to get veteran hiring right from the start. This manual illustrates just a few of the... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Centralization is predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
we discern four central criticisms of corporate social responsibility. When companies engage in socially responsible practices, the first concern is that managers will misappropriate corporate resources by diverting them from their View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
UNGPs10+ ‘next decade’ project . She also contributed her expertise to 2021 gender dimensions of business and human rights via the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Her piece in The Conversation, focusing on the intersections of gender,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the world escape persecution... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
as president of a steel company before turning to the stage. “[Education] was not so much about, you know, doing well to get a good job. I guess that’s in everybody’s mind, but I always saw it as an incredible intellectual challenge.”... View Details