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  • October 2012
  • Case

Romney vs. Obama and U.S. Energy Policy

By: Rawi Abdelal and Kaitlyn Tuthill
In 2012, the energy sector in the United States was demanding major reform. Prices of oil and gas had continued to cripple the middle and lower class as the U.S. economy slowly recovered. At the same time, the U.S. lagged behind developed economies in production of... View Details
Keywords: Mitt Romney; Barack Obama; Energy; Election Outcomes; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Political Elections; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • Web

About - Case Method Project

History of American Democracy, developed mainly for undergraduates. The course quickly became one of the highest-rated classes at Harvard College. Students described the... View Details
  • May 1998
  • Teaching Note

Development Relationships TN

By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy
The final class of the Career Development module of the Self-Assessment and Career Development course (SACD) uses the topic of mentoring and developmental relationships to encourage students to think beyond the point of finding and accepting a suitable job offer. The... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Strategy
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  • May 2017
  • Supplement

Boston Children's Hospital Process Map Video

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mary Witkowski
The 13 minute video simulates a discussion among orthopedic surgeons and cast room technicians about the processes and resources used when applying long leg casts for patients. The video should be used when teaching Boston Children’s Hospital (Abridged) case, #914-407,... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing; Healthcare Costing; Process Maps; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment
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  • March 1998
  • Case

Bumper Acquisition (A1), A: Confidential Information for Thermo-Impact, Inc.

By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Located in Mundelein, IL, Thermo-Impact, Inc. is a rapidly growing, private firm that manufactures automotive bumpers. In 1995, a number of large automotive supply companies and a private equity investment firm offer to buy Thermo-Impact. The cases in this series focus... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Negotiation Participants; Decision Making; Negotiation Process; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Illinois
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Employment | Harvard Business School

this is because of its people.” Amenities Shad Hall, centrally located on the school’s campus, is available to HBS employees, students, alumni and partners. Shad offers over 50 group fitness classes per week... View Details
  • Web

Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Video Recording The AI Journey: What Changes, What Remains the Same 10:00–11:15 a.m. ET Speaker: Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) , MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice... View Details
  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

Deference from Low-status Firms: Maintaining Status without Resources

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Bharat N. Anand
This paper proposes a set of conditions under which high-status firms retain their positions, even if they lose resources. Firms are considered high status if they obtain ties from other high-status firms. Within the class of high-status firms, we distinguish between... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Venture Capital; Financial Condition; Alliances; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • Article

Course Research: Using the Case Method to Build and Teach Management Theory

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Paul R. Carlile
Some in the Academy have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory (Shugan 2006). Our research and experience suggests exactly the opposite-that case studies can unite the development of theory with the teaching of it in a single... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Cases; Research; Theory
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  • November 2012
  • Article

Are You Ready for the 'Hardest Question'?

By: James K. Sebenius
Negotiation preparation entails assessing each side's interests and no-deal options, imagining possible agreements, factoring in personality and culture, thinking through moves and possible countermoves, and so forth. Yet standard preparation often neglects the... View Details
Keywords: Tactics; Hard Bargaining; Negotiation
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  • 26 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

Janelle Teng is from the Class of 2020 and a proud member of Section C. From completing her undergraduate studies at Stanford University to working as a product manager at... View Details
  • 03 May 2019
  • News

It’s All About Mindset

    The Experimentation Machine

    Leverage AI to be a 10x Founder

    Today’s most successful founders know that the startups that learn the fastest will win. In The Experimentation Machine, HBS professor, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist Jeffrey J. Bussgang reveals... View Details

    • Article

    Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
    In demographically diverse organizations, employees charged with socializing others— socialization agents—must navigate a deep tension between the organization’s needs to integrate individuals into a collective and individuals’ needs for recognition of their unique... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Identity; Employees
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    • July 2019
    • Case

    Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2019)

    By: John Gourville
    One job of product managers, marketers, strategic planners, and other corporate executives is to predict what the demand will be for a new product. This task is easier for certain classes of new products than for others. For new consumer package goods, for instance,... View Details
    Keywords: Diffusion Processes; Product Adoption; Marketing; Forecasting and Prediction; Demand and Consumers; Product; Adoption; Product Launch
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    • June 2019
    • Case

    ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform

    By: Alexander Braun, Lauren Cohen, Mauro Elvedi and Jiahua Xu
    ClearLife’s first product was a trading and analytics platform for participants in the U.S. life settlement market, the secondary market for life insurance. ClearLife played a key role in facilitating transactions and devising a common language for expressing value and... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Diversification; Strategy
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    • Program

    High Potentials Leadership Program

    Balance your personal leadership style with the demands of the organization without compromising your principles Adjust your leadership approach as your responsibilities grow and change Develop the next View Details
    • November–December 2024
    • Article

    Retire Without Regrets

    By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. "Tim" Hall and Kathy E. Kram
    This article explores the significant transition of retirement and offers insights into creating a satisfying postcareer life. It highlights the contrasting experiences of Irene and Lawrence, two retirees who navigated this change differently. Irene embraced retirement... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Satisfaction; Transition; Identity
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    • 2021
    • Article

    ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation

    By: Chuang Gan, Jeremy Schwartz, Seth Alter, Damian Mrowca, Martin Schrimpf, James Traer, Julian De Freitas, Jonas Kubilius, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Nick Haber, Megumi Sano, Kuno Kim, Elias Wang, Michael Lingelbach, Aidan Curtis, Kevin Feigelis, Daniel M. Bear, Dan Gutfreund, David Cox, Antonio Torralba, James J. DiCarlo, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Josh H. McDermott and Daniel L.K. Yamins
    We introduce ThreeDWorld (TDW), a platform for interactive multi-modal physical simulation. TDW enables simulation of high-fidelity sensory data and physical interactions between mobile agents and objects in rich 3D environments. Unique properties include: real-time... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Platform; Interactive Physical Simulation; Virtual Environment; Multi-modal; AI and Machine Learning
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    • July 2018 (Revised March 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Hilti (A): Fleet Management?

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jan Rivkin
    This Teaching Note accompanies the case HBS No. 718-419, “Hilti (A): Fleet Management.” It provides guidelines for class discussion, as well as a board plan and transcripts of the associated videos, Hilti Fleet Management Video Supplements.
    The associated case... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model Innovation; Total Customer Value; Innovation; Inventions; Business Models; Value Chains; Transformations; Focusing On Customers; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Liechtenstein; Switzerland; Europe
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