Case Method - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

good business can be built around it?’ Kaelyn: The required curriculum gave me a broad groundwork that enabled me to ask the right questions during my internship. In particular, the case method enabled me to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

Facts in the Face—and What to Do About It. Tedlow, a business historian, defines denial as "the unwillingness to see or admit a truth that ought to be apparent and is in fact apparent to many others." In other words, denial is "seeing but not... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

ago. Or the first Newton, Tang, or Roomba. Everyone knows and understands a better mousetrap when they see one—no selling skills really required. But a 3-D printer? Why would I want that? How much does it cost to maintain? What’s wrong with my current View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary sales data and we use a novel zip... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

with a “what’s in it for me attitude” and little patience. I have found that there is really no shortcut to success, and learning business takes time. Companies are different, industries are different, and the case View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

Hannah and directed by Steven Spielberg, is a riveting case analysis of business leadership in action through the lens of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham’s decision to publish the then classified Pentagon Papers—a decision that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

Pouskouri-Reiche (AMP 160, 2001) Diversity and inclusion are critical for HBS. We know the ways diversity is essential in our classrooms; the case method relies on students' ability to learn from each other... View Details

22 Jan 2018
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

discussion under the case method helped me learn when to jump into a debate, and what kinds of evidence to use to be most effective in different situations—skills I draw on when advising the administrator on... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Writing for Late-Night TV: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy by Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979) Twenty Lane Media LLC Toplyn reveals his proven methods of writing... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Working PapersInvestable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Authors:Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal Abstract The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Program Policies - HBS Online

their life events. Participants are expected to make every reasonable effort to reach out to HBS Online by logging into their account and opening a support case within the support portal within 2 weeks of their life event. Regardless of... View Details

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

for Microsoft. Alas, when it comes to embracing the latest technology, consumer hardware and corporate software are as different as apples and orang well, as different as Apples and corporate software. "Software is the method by... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products

20 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and she wanted to continue building her career in business. She also had a yearning to uncover her passion, and so exposure to different industries and business challenges through the case study View Details

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

gave Rachel the foundation to make decisions on the fly and with little information. “If you’re operating as the Protagonist, what would you do the case method beyond everything else really prepares you for... View Details

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Cross-Registration | MBA

schools require advisor or registrar approval before the petition may be submitted. Please be sure to check with your home school if you think this may be the case for you. HU Graduate Students Submit petitions online through my.Harvard.... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, Weinzierl coauthored the HBS working paper "The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution" [PDF]. The main framework economists use to think through tax... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

(MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty. It provides new tools, processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective... View Details

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