Case Teaching - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

Management for Corporate Leaders in 2010, says she's still following up with both banks and plans to turn the research into teaching case studies. She's also looking at how risk management works in... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

shouldn’t matter, particularly if that behavior crosses the line into sexual harassment. Goldberg wrote a 2010 case about the sole female employee in an 11-person production shop who complained about dealing with crass sexual jokes and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

transformative research in developing markets, and ultimately with a broader objective to stimulate new conceptualizations, research, and best practices to transform consumer well-being. Three Cheers for Teaching Distributive Bargaining... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

to be high-impact and make their mark on history "for better or worse." The book studies both kinds of leadership through historical cases that Mukunda teaches in his courses. In the book, Mukunda classifies... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

around show business. Q: What are you working on next? A: I just released a new case on fashion magazine Vogue, which I can't wait to teach later this month, and have a few other exciting View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

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

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

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

Breakthroughs faculty draw on a broad range of cases to address decisions faced by senior leaders of science-based organizations. Consider Kodak and the digital revolution. "Kodak saw that film was going to be outmoded, but it wasn't... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

Facilitate the trend. Christensen said the school should work with companies, offering up cases and other course material. Make it simple for corporate trainers to teach great material, he said.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

survival is at risk. In business there is failure all the time. Our colleague Dorothy Leonard Barton developed the phrase “failing forward” to describe how innovative firms always take risks but learn from their failures. The trick as our colleagues in Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

05 Jan 2010
First Look

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

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

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

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

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

Another similarity between all of them was their focus and passion for their careers, devoting in some cases more than four decades to develop the same company in the same industry. This focus allowed these pioneers to develop unique and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

undertake. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-053.pdf Is Yours a Learning Organization? Authors:Amy Edmondson, David A. Garvin, and Francesca Gino No abstract available. Cases & Course MaterialsAmanco: Developing... View Details