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  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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    NoamWasserman.com

    Noam's research focuses on the early, often difficult decisions founders face that can make or break their startups.  This site includes his long-time research blog, resources tied to his Founders' Dilemmas course and his book (The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating... View Details
    • November 1999
    • Case

    Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

    By: Andre F. Perold
    Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
    Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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    • April 2006
    • Module Note

    Cross-Border Financial Opportunities

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
    Describes the fifth module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. This module explores how segmented capital markets create financing opportunities for firms and the mechanisms that evolve to take advantage of those opportunities. The issues... View Details
    Keywords: Opportunities; Capital Markets; Decisions; International Finance; Motivation and Incentives; Taxation
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    • January 2018
    • Background Note

    Math Tools for Strategists

    By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
    Great strategists rely heavily on numbers as they go about their work. This note offers an overview of the highbrow and lowbrow quantitative tools that individuals commonly encounter during strategy courses and in actual strategy work. The note focuses especially on... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Strategy
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    • January 2008 (Revised August 2009)
    • Module Note

    Competing through Business Models (A)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
    This note defines the concepts of business model and the value loop. It also introduces business model representations and proposes four tests for evaluating business models in isolation. This is the first note in a series of three written for the HBS elective course... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Value
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    • 03 Mar 2017
    • News

    Inside Snapchat: The Best Tech IPO of 2017?

    • March 2009 (Revised October 2010)
    • Case

    Tokyo AFM

    By: Francois Brochet
    This case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economics; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Japan
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    • March 1998 (Revised November 1998)
    • Case

    Empresas CAP, 1994

    By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu
    Empresas CAP began as a private-sector steel company in 1946. Over the next 40 years, CAP's ownership structure moved from nationalization to reprivatization. Unrestricted by state ownership, CAP began to diversify its holdings. The case considers the viability of... View Details
    Keywords: Ownership; Privatization; Diversification; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management; Planning; Steel Industry
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    • December 1998 (Revised July 2016)
    • Background Note

    Tools of Cooperation, The

    By: Clayton M. Christensen, Howard H. Stevenson and Jeremy Dann
    Presents a theory about the tools a manager can use to get people to agree on a coordinated course of action and effect change in his or her organization. The extent to which people in the organization agree on the way the world works, and agree on what they want,... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Managerial Roles; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness; Cooperation
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    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Strategy; Macroeconomics; State Capitalism; Political Economy; Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Economics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China; Africa; Dubai; Pakistan; India; Brazil; Russia; Cuba; Argentina
    • 2015
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Innovating in Healthcare

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Margo I. Seltzer and Kevin Schulman
    With over 71,000 past enrollees, Innovating in Healthcare investigates the issues of health care spending, quality, and access that continue to plague America and global nations alike. With U.S. health care costs trending toward $4 trillion in 2020, the need to... View Details
    Keywords: edX; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Model
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    • August 2004 (Revised August 2006)
    • Background Note

    Reading the Material

    By: Sandra J. Sucher
    This note is intended to aid students preparing for The Moral Leader course. Given the unique nature of the materials used in the course (history, literature, biography, autobiography, plays, philosophical extracts), a different approach to reading is required for... View Details
    Keywords: Education
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    • Video

    Inside the Case Method: The Entrepreneurial Manager

    • 04 Oct 2011
    • News

    Harvard Business School NamesThirteen Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

    • January 1987 (Revised March 1989)
    • Background Note

    Note on the U.S. Soft Drink Industry in 1986

    Demonstrates how knowing the "money mechanics" of the business is essential in developing a successful strategy among industry participants. Deals with the structural attractiveness of the industry from the concentrate producer and bottler perspectives and examines the... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • September–October 2023
    • Article

    What Does 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Mean to You?: A Guide to the Four Main Types

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance... View Details
    Keywords: Stakeholder Capitalism; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Trust
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    • 14 Mar 2021
    • News

    Kominers’s Conundrums: Procuring Perfect Pies for Pi Day

    • January 2001 (Revised April 2001)
    • Case

    Lawyers & Leases

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz
    Profiles Rajath Chaundry, an aspiring entrepreneur, as he attempts to secure office space for his growing team, select a lawyer, and continue to build his fledgling enterprise, eLearning.com. Designed to be used in an entrepreneurial management or small business course... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Management Succession; Leasing; Negotiation; Education Industry; Legal Services Industry
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    • June 2001
    • Teaching Note

    Role of Intermediaries in Supply Chains TN

    By: Ananth Raman
    Describes the role of intermediaries in the Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains elective course at HBS. Contrary to many observers' predictions, intermediaries have continued to survive and even grow. This module examines the ways in which intermediaries can add... View Details
    Keywords: Cost of Capital; Cost Management; Labor; Supply Chain Management; Motivation and Incentives
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