Publications

April 2020
Case

TiVo 2020

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

This short case provides an update on TiVo from 2016-2020. The case covers TiVo merger with Rovi, the turnover of several CEOs, and struggles on how to reposition its product business (the digital video recorder). View Details

Keywords: Streaming; Media; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry

01 Jun 2009
News

Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details

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

01 Jun 2003
News

Fellowships Celebrated

evening, Kennedy discussed his decision to establish a fellowship in honor of Wertimer, one of his professors at Hamiltion College. Tom Doyle, the student speaker, with Richard Young of the Trinitas Foundation. The group sponsors the... View Details

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

May 2021
Case

Roku 2021

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

This case is used to explore the strategic concept of "look forward, reason back." Roku in 2021 is trying to figure out the future of television and streaming media. Students are asked to provide a vision for television and streaming media (that is, Look Forward) by... View Details

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Media and Broadcasting Industry

December 2019
Teaching Note

Fixing Facebook: Fake News, Privacy, and Platform Governance

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

Teaching Note for HBS No. 720-400. View Details

2013
Working Paper

We're Halfway There? Transitions and Creativity in Work Teams

By: Sujin Jang, Colin M. Fisher and J. Richard Hackman

01 Jun 2017
News

The Evolving HBS Campus

Pictured, from left: Cliff Gayley and architect William Rawn of William Rawn Associates; Dean Nitin Nohria; Beth Klarman; Seth Klarman; and Richard Walsh, president and CEO of Walsh Brothers, the project construction management firm.... View Details

February 2020
Case

Intellectual Ventures Update 2020

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

After raising $6 billion and buying 60,000 patents, Intellectual Venture (IV) was confronted with a changing legal environment. After a number of important legal decisions, including the Supreme Court's so-called "Alice" decision, IV had to shift strategy. IV sold off... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Business Model; United States

(Revised May 2024)
Teaching Note

Lyric Dinner Theater (A) and (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Jim Sharpe and Noah Fisher

This teaching note is associated with HBS cases 813-043 and 813-044. View Details

Keywords: Turnarounds; Turnaround; Operations Management; Family Business; Family-owned Business; Hiring; Careers; Sales; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Saint Louis

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

integrative valuation and negotiation classes were used with all 900 students in the first year Finance course in the MBA Program. Dwight Crane, the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, says: “Jay had... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

Jul 2012
Conference Presentation

We're Halfway There? A Closer Look at Midpoint Transitions in Small Task Groups

By: Sujin Jang, Colin M. Fisher and J. Richard Hackman

01 Dec 2003
News

Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations

Rapier (MBA ’92), formerly the School’s associate dean for External Relations and chief financial officer. Rapier recently became Harvard University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development. Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) has... View Details

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

June 1995 (Revised July 1995)
Case

Wal-Mart in East Asia

By: David B. Yoffie and Richard Seet

Discusses Wal-Mart's entry strategy in East Asia, specifically Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Trade; Expansion; Retail Industry; East Asia; Singapore; Japan; Hong Kong; China

March 2015 (Revised September 2016)
Case

Terrapin Laboratory

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Joseph B. Fuller

Describes the formation and rapid growth of a drug testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. The associated teaching materials provide students the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategy; Market Entry; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Expansion; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry

July–August 1989
Article

The Service Factory

By: David A. Garvin and Richard B. Chase

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