Case Method - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

Miller and colleague V.G. Narayanan have made this case to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and wrote "Accounting Standards and the Globalisation of Indian Businesses," which appeared in the July 2005 issue of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Flood Prevention Methods Reduce, Transfer, and Bear Show Hide Details Concepts Heat Water Scarcity Wildfires Storms and Floods Sea-Level Rise Changes in the Ocean Featured Exercises Consider how your firm assesses climate change’s... View Details

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2.3.2 Hazing | MBA

of correction for not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment. The term “hazing” as used in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization,... View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

Ramirez learned how to operate a nonprofit organization like a profitable business. From operations and technology to sales and marketing, she dug in deeply to bring the best of for-profit business models into an impact-driven setting. In particular, Ramirez... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

their compliance skills. But this group lacked influence with top management. With its own logic and terminology, management viewed the new guard's methods as incompatible with the way the bank was run and difficult to attach to the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Thompson advertising agency. Melvin T. Copeland Papers Melvin Thomas Copeland was Professor of Marketing at HBS from 1919 to 1953 Instrumental in the development of the case method of instruction, Copeland... View Details

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

incentives for them to work on a solution. And when I was thinking systematically about where else I could look, I discovered a company, InnoCentive.com, that took problems in R&D labs and broadcast them to outsiders. So the study was a direct port of both the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

was recently published in the working paper How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study. The authors believe that their research "provides a first opportunity for both... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

measurement had fueled great market success for the division, but alternative non-contact measurement methods that employed optical or x-ray technologies were rapidly gaining ground in the market. This case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

concrete business model from scratch, skills that can be applied to any sector. Further, the HBS case method helped build my confidence and communications skills beyond the classroom, especially how to... View Details

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-013.pdf A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

says Ray Debbane, CEO of Invus, the company whose investment enabled the launch of stores 17 through 60. While scaling up, Beck remained connected to customers. “The data only tell part of the story,” says Beck, who frequently weighs what she sees in a spreadsheet... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

"The professors at Harvard don't try to tell us how to run our schools like a business. They push us to consider possible applications of business models and methods in our work, but they understand that the organizational complexities we... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Matt Thurmond

list. "Its vision aligns with my ideals: leaders who make a difference in the world. I don't measure my progress by compensation or titles, but by what I do to help society." In addition, "The case View Details

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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

examined in this course. One of the primary objectives of the course is to get you to think strategically about growth. Growth involves a series of choices about rate (e.g. how fast to grow?), direction (scale vs. scope), and method of... View Details

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

hospitals. In the March 3, 2005, story Turf Wars in Coronary Revascularization, Pisano and Huckman looked at competing treatment methods for coronary artery disease and discovered a tough battleground brewing for a new technology called... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

at HBS. We’ve done it before. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the case method, an innovation that radically changed the School and business education. The case method... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

of naïve idealism, one of naïve cynicism, and an emerging era of rugged idealism. We explain how the role of the corporate leader and society's perceptions of this role have changed and how leaders may now be able to create shared value for all stakeholders. View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Sep 2015
Blog Post

A Peek Inside Peek Weekend

coursing through your body throughout class while grappling with the fact that your initial “great idea” is about to be changed or influenced in some way by a fantastic remark of one of your peers. The case study View Details

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