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- October 2023
- Case
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: A Curriculum Provider Puts Itself on the Hook for Student Outcomes
By: John J-H Kim, Derek C. M. van Bever, Michael Norris and Max Hancock
Jack Lynch, CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) since 2017, was leading the company’s transformation from a legacy textbook publisher to a digital-first student outcomes provider, which earned subscription revenue from digital products and curriculum. In 2023, HMH... View Details
Keywords: Edtech; Textbook; Publishing; Leading Change; Change Management; Transformation; Digital Transformation; Expansion; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
Kim, John J-H, Derek C. M. van Bever, Michael Norris, and Max Hancock. "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: A Curriculum Provider Puts Itself on the Hook for Student Outcomes." Harvard Business School Case 324-011, October 2023.
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
If they go, nobody but the textbook publishers will cry." Disruption Happens The Random House-Kindle case, recently taught in the first-year Strategy course at HBS, prompted some interesting... View Details
- January 2015 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Curriculum Associates: Turning the Page from Tradition to Innovation
By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
Set in Fall 2014, the traditional textbook publishing industry is being transformed by technological innovations and new student achievement standards. This case chronicles how Rob Waldron, CEO, and his team bring Curriculum Associates (CA), a traditional supplemental... View Details
Keywords: Education Technology; SaaS; Turnaround; Textbook Publishing; Innovation; Sales Cycle; HR Strategy; Privately-funded Businesses; Sustainable Growth; Product Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Publishing Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "Curriculum Associates: Turning the Page from Tradition to Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 315-053, January 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
- Research Summary
Managerial Decision Analysis
By: David E. Bell
David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. are concluding a multiyear project aimed at producing more field-oriented case material for the Managerial Economics course, specifically, materials on decision, data, and risk analysis. A series of case- and textbooks (with... View Details
- January 2011 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational instruction market has suffered a dramatic decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession, and is now... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Publishing Industry; Massachusetts
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah L. Abbott. "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt." Harvard Business School Case 211-027, January 2011. (Revised July 2019.)
- February 2011 (Revised December 2022)
- Supplement
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational instruction market has suffered a dramatic decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession, and it now... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
illusion that supplies would be limited. In fact, there were very few supply shortages. In both cases, the marketers anticipated demand levels pretty well. As the mountains of press coverage and strong opening day sales attest, the scarcity illusion strategy paid off... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812031-PDF-ENG Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 211-027 One of the leading publishers of textbooks and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511065-PDF-ENG Chegg: Textbook Rental Takes Flight Thomas R. Eisenmann, William A. Sahlman, and Evan W. RichardsonHarvard Business School Case 811-077 In late 2010, Silicon Valley-based Chegg,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
fronts. He persuaded Melvin Copeland, a noted marketing professor, to change his planned textbook to a collection of business "problems." Published in September 1920, it became the first business... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Created by the people for the people, the American political system is instead "a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
compete against the customer's manifest priorities. Instead, he said, facilitate them. In the electronic learning industry, for example, textbook publishers have invested great sums into creating elaborate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Harvard Business School’s exploration of the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has reached an important milestone. This month the Creating Emerging Markets project will publish interviews 100 and 101... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
examining several options for expansion and growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-053 Curriculum Associates: Turning the Page from Tradition to Innovation Set in fall 2014, the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
Leadership: Advancing the Field By Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana It has been more than twenty-five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point's Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
a viable business model. In building this model, Bezos has revolutionized many aspects of the book-selling and distribution process, and with his introduction of the Kindle, he has become an even more influential figure in the overall View Details