Case Teaching - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

of this process? Lassiter: I'll be teaching a case this year where an entrepreneur does this beautifully, selling, of all things, wool underwear. A young entrepreneur in New Zealand named Jeremy Moon created... View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311087-PDF-ENG Music and the (Real) World: Thirty Years of MTV Mukti Khaire and Eleanor KenyonHarvard Business School Case 812-041 The case is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

make their mission-driven product a reality. The case explores the co-founders' decision to pursue either a for-profit or nonprofit structure and their strategy for scaling their product, Teach to One.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

of low-cost, scalable interventions leveraging behavioral insights, and in many cases they’re being applied for the social good.” The success of BIT’s tax letter helped the organization grow. Nicknamed the “nudge unit,” BIT started with... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after taking a leave of absence from View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

Michael Roberto: My parents are Italian immigrants, and my family back in Tuscany and the Campania region of Italy continue to make their own wine. Therefore, I've always had an interest in the wine-making process. A few years ago, when View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

serving patients with complex, chronic diseases. However, despite its renown, the Joslin's clinical operations lose money, raising the challenge of how to align financial success and clinical success in health care delivery. The case can... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Doing Business In China Kirby and his colleagues have collectively studied the country for decades, and distill the book from insights gleaned in teaching the HBS course, "Doing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations looked a lot like auctions. At... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

educating our employees to recognize symptoms of 'poor health' so that they are able to self-identify themselves to their managers?" And Ulysses U. Pardey said, "(In their training, doctors) are in real contact with what they must understand . The ways and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

stress frequently, but it's a hard thing to teach in a classroom. Each year, thousands of business school students enroll in courses on finance. Their sights set on a career in money management, they dutifully study theories such as the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. "A lot of discrimination happens because of implicit biases where... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

difficult question, How are we going to make good on those promises? Pensions are a costly legacy for many companies. Photo: iStockPhoto The question is particularly urgent now, says Viceira, who teaches in the area of investment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

the founders of Zipcar, a case we teach in our first-year entrepreneurship course. The Zipcar founders, who barely knew each other before founding the company, split the equity simply, shaking hands over a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

confirmed this notion using the detailed database, updated in real time until the end of May. There is a “stark difference between the announcements as a share of GDP in the developed countries relative to the developing countries,” says Cavallo, who also developed a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

he's the exception. The man-of-action hero myth provides tremendous inspiration for the American economy, and also shapes how we do business. At Harvard Business School, we love to teach cases of renegades... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

entitled We Shall Not Surrender this Television Station. As Tom Wolfe says, who needs fiction with reality like this! Writing and teaching a case with material like this is a real pleasure. Q: Can you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Oct 2015
First Look

October 6, 2015

Merkel's decision a difficult one. Instructors may also obtain a Teaching Note, written by this case’s author, that provides suggestions for using this case effectively in the classroom. Purchase this case:... View Details