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- February 2014 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
School Specialty, Inc.
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Kristin Mugford
Set in 2013, School Specialty was a financially troubled supplier of educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load, but needed to arrange... View Details
Keywords: School Specialty; Bankruptcy; Section 363; Financing; Chapter 11; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Distribution Industry; Education Industry; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Kristin Mugford. "School Specialty, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 214-084, February 2014. (Revised March 2022.)
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working. We asked professors of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
1950s, Unilever manufactured convenience foods, such as frozen foods and soup, ice cream, meat products, and tea and other drinks. It manufactured personal care products, including toothpaste, shampoo, hairsprays, and deodorants. The oils and fats business also led... View Details
- June 2016
- Article
When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs
By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain
There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details
Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Ljuboja, Damir, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant, and Sachin Jain. "When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs." American Journal of Managed Care 22, no. 6 (June 2016): e196–e198.
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
often a disconnect between practitioners and academics,” he says. Source: CMO Council Neale-May illustrates a pervasive paradox in academia: Research conducted at business schools often offers no obvious value to people who actually work... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Harvard Business School spends a significant amount of research funds each year on the health care industry, answering questions such as: How can the business of health care be made more efficient? What can a business do to motivate... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Center for Creative Leadership Harvard Business School Case 308-013 The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) was founded in 1970 on the notion that leadership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
variety of industries use this approach. Bush Boake Allen (BBA), a global supplier of specialty flavors to companies like Nestlé, has built a tool kit that enables its customers to develop their own flavors, which BBA then manufactures.... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Business History at HBS traces its roots back to 1927 when it was part of a course in business policy. But the golden age for this area of study at the School began with the arrival of Professor Alfred Chandler in 1970. Universally... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
backfire. Sales last year fell 25 percent, resulting in a net loss of $985 million, and the blood-letting continued in quarterly results released this week. In a recent interview, Harvard Business School marketing expert Rajiv Lal, the... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
not just a moment to praise or reprimand; and establish a culture where people are treated with respect. Amabile says that the study of creativity at business schools is a relatively new phenomenon, dating back to the 1980s or so.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
same time, Harvard Business School Professor Elie Ofek was seeking case studies for his second-year Marketing and Innovation course. "I was looking for new products and innovations that were unexpected successes—things that you... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Harvard Business School Case 517-014 Godrej Agrovet Ltd (GAVL) Nadir Godrej, chairman, and B. Yadav, managing director of Godrej Agrovet Ltd (GAVL), grapple with the challenge of growing their cattle feed business—should they integrate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
activities of a large cohort of physician-MBAs by gathering information on 206 physician graduates from the Harvard Business School MBA program who obtained their degrees between 1941 and 2014. Key outcome measures that were examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Harvard Business School Case 415-049 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp: Redefining Success in the U.S. (B) This (B) case describes the actions André Wyss, president of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, took in early 2012 to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
Harvard Business School Professor and historian Nancy Koehn has studied Starbucks and its leader, Howard Schultz, for close to 20 years. For her, the company represents much more than a phenomenal success story. In a recently published... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
effects, but find negative causal brand effects for discount stores on mall sales. We find that a developer is better off creating a mall in an affluent versus a populated market. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52271 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
and restore the company's fortunes? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Hennes---Mauritz--2000/an/713509-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-512 Hennes & Mauritz, 2012 In 2012, Hennes & Maurtiz (H&M) was the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
percentage points higher in patient satisfaction surveys than specialists with whom the primary care doctor didn’t train, finds new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. PCPs and specialists who spent their early years together tended to show improved outcomes... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We need to do more team-based medicine and to better integrate specialty care with primary care. We need to be doing a better job measuring health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne