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- 03 May 2016
- News
There Are Multiple Issues With Multitasking
- 25 Feb 2014
- News
Is The Gap's Minimum Wage Hike Good Retail Politics?
- 19 Nov 2013
- News
Rescuing JFK From Abstraction
- 31 May 2017
- News
You Can Blame Wall Street For Your Crappy Flight
- February 2007 (Revised March 2012)
- Compilation
John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Katherine Miller
Reconstructs the entrepreneurial journey of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and one of the most famous business figures in history. Traces his early career as a retailer in Cleveland through his decision to enter the oil industry in the early 1860s to his... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Competitive Strategy; Energy Industry
Koehn, Nancy F., and Katherine Miller. "John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil." Harvard Business School Compilation 807-110, February 2007. (Revised March 2012.)
- 23 Dec 2015
- News
Mast Brothers Melt Their Artisanal Chocolate Image
- 28 Jan 2014
- News
'Bigger Is Better' Makes A Comeback
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Men Are Now The Predominant Grocery Shoppers
- February 2006
- Case
Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Erica Helms
Explores the creation and subsequent rise of Bumble and bumble, a trend-setting hair-care company. Analyzes the vision and achievements of the founding entrepreneur, Michael Gordon, and charts the evolution of the company within the $230 billion global beauty industry.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Financial Condition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Distribution; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Fashion Industry
Koehn, Nancy F., and Erica Helms. "Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 806-084, February 2006.
- February 2001 (Revised October 2002)
- Background Note
Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Analyzes HBS cases on five entrepreneurs and the companies they built: Josiah Wedgwood, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Michael Dell. These five cases and their accompanying teaching notes comprise a course module on entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Society
Koehn, Nancy F. "Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-368, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated merchants: price discrimination and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
AASU50 - Alumni
Roberto Young, MBA 2007 AASU Award Recipients Each year at the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, HBSAAA and AASU celebrate a tradition of leadership and service by conferring the Professional Achievement Award and the Bert King Award for... View Details
- June 1996 (Revised November 1996)
- Background Note
Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage
By: Robert E. Kennedy and Nancy F. Koehn
How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David Ricardo formally developed the theory of comparative advantage, it has become one of the principles most widely... View Details
Kennedy, Robert E., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 796-183, June 1996. (Revised November 1996.)
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
C. Edmondson : Awarded the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Service by the Teachers College at Columbia University. Kris Johnson Ferreira : "Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift" with Matthew... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Comeback Trail
Koehn, and Debora Spar—to weigh in on what advice history can offer as we navigate the current economic crisis. The Devil You Don’t Know Professor David Moss on the danger of treating this economic crisis like its predecessors Righting the Ship Professor View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
of the full-time workforce. Others wanted to develop personal strategies for finding or creating meaningful work that would accommodate their new priorities. The program, which was led by HBS professor Myra M. Hart and included Professors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
have big parts to play. That can be positive. It will be difficult and it will involve lots of complicated trade-offs and wrenching decisions, but nonetheless, we need a lot more than hunkering down and hoping we get through. Nancy View Details