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Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Making the Case
Professor Michael Porter addresses the HBS Club of Washington, DC, as part of "The Case for American Competitiveness" event co-sponsored by the club and View Details
- 2022
- Conference Presentation
Towards the Unification and Robustness of Post hoc Explanation Methods
By: Sushant Agarwal, Shahin Jabbari, Chirag Agarwal, Sohini Upadhyay, Steven Wu and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As machine learning black boxes are increasingly being deployed in critical domains such as healthcare and criminal justice, there has been a growing emphasis on developing techniques for explaining these black boxes in a post hoc manner. In this work, we analyze two... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning
Agarwal, Sushant, Shahin Jabbari, Chirag Agarwal, Sohini Upadhyay, Steven Wu, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Towards the Unification and Robustness of Post hoc Explanation Methods." Paper presented at the 3rd Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC), 2022.
- November 1992 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
HBS Publishing Group: The Case of the (Electronic) Case
Dhebar, Anirudh S. "HBS Publishing Group: The Case of the (Electronic) Case." Harvard Business School Case 593-051, November 1992. (Revised June 1994.)
- September 2013
- Case
The Case of the Unidentified Industries—2013
By: Mihir A. Desai, William E. Fruhan Jr. and Elizabeth A. Meyer
Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. This case consists of an exercise in which students are given balance sheet data in percentage form and other selected financial data for companies in 14... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Accounting Statements; Ratio Analysis; Financial Statements; Finance
Desai, Mihir A., William E. Fruhan Jr., and Elizabeth A. Meyer. "The Case of the Unidentified Industries—2013." Harvard Business School Case 214-028, September 2013.
- January 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Background Note
Choreographing a Case Class
Compares four different approaches to case teaching: lecturing, theorizing, illustrating, and choreographing a case. Argues the advantages of the "choreography" method from the point of view of students' learning. Concludes with a description of that method and some... View Details
Keywords: Cases
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Choreographing a Case Class." Harvard Business School Background Note 595-074, January 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
through case reading, case discussions, reading the textbook and having informal discussions with classmates, the more intuitive and clear View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
A Conversation on the FIELD Method at HBS - Facebook Live
In this Facebook Live session, Carrie Elkins, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and three current MBA EC students (in their second year at HBS) have a conversation on the HBS MBA FIELD View Details
- October 1995
- Exercise
Venture Capital Method - Valuation Problem Set
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Presents a short problem set designed as an introduction to the venture capital method of problem solving. View Details
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "Venture Capital Method - Valuation Problem Set." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-090, October 1995.
- April 1961 (Revised April 1986)
- Background Note
Case of the Unidentified U.S. Industries, The
Examines the impact of the nature of an industry on: 1) general patterns of the need for funds (asset allocation); 2) the methods of meeting these needs; and 3) the financial results of most firms in the industry. View Details
Williams, Charles M. "Case of the Unidentified U.S. Industries, The ." Harvard Business School Background Note 261-001, April 1961. (Revised April 1986.)
- September 2013
- Teaching Note
The Case of the Unidentified Industries—2013
By: Mihir A. Desai, William E. Fruhan, Jr. and Elizabeth A. Meyer
Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. This case consists of an exercise in which students are given balance sheet data in percentage form and other selected financial data for companies in 14... View Details
- June 2016
- Article
Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration
By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby
What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Work; Mechanisms And Processes; Stratification; Labor Process; Qualitative Methods (General); Case Method; Field Research; Equality and Inequality; Working Conditions; Gender; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Air Transportation Industry
Chan, Curtis K., and Michel Anteby. "Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 2016): 184–216.
- March 2001
- Background Note
Valuing the Option Component of Debt and Its Relevance to DCF-Based Valuation Methods
The flows-to-equity or equity cash flows valuation method is a discounted cash flow method used to estimate the equity portion of the capital structure. It is closely related to the venture capital/buyout valuation method, which estimates the IRR of the stream of cash... View Details
Meulbroek, Lisa K. "Valuing the Option Component of Debt and Its Relevance to DCF-Based Valuation Methods." Harvard Business School Background Note 201-110, March 2001.
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
in which everybody knows the ‘company,’ ” he continues. “You’re able to put the students in positions of responsibility and have them challenge one another. It’s the View Details
- 08 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods
- Teaching Interest
Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)
Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details
- 03 Jun 2021
- Video
The Latin American Case Consortium
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Founders, Apply the Scientific Method to Your Startup
- March 2020 (Revised March 2023)
- Module Note
The Role of Experiments in Organizations
By: Michael Luca
This note outlines the structure and content of a four-class module—The Role of Experiments in Organizations—that is designed to introduce students to the role of experimental methods in managerial decisions. View Details
Luca, Michael. "The Role of Experiments in Organizations." Harvard Business School Module Note 920-044, March 2020. (Revised March 2023.)