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  • 21 Nov 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

looks at McCartney from a brand perspective in the case study Stella McCartney, co-written with Sandrine Crener. In the Cold Call podcast, a transcript of which is presented here, Keinan discusses how McCartney has built a luxury fashion brand while maintaining... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

Online Reviews at TripAdvisor in the HBS case collection at hbr.org. I’m Brian Kenny and you’ve been listening to Cold Call, the official podcast of Harvard Business School. Related Article The Yelp Factor:... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel
  • May 2008 (Revised June 2008)
  • Case

Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a vast music library, over the ensuing decades the Muzak franchise organization expanded geographically. Despite a history of innovation, by the late 1990s Muzak... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Music Industry
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  • August 1987
  • Supplement

Au Bon Pain: A Presentation by Gary Aronson and Brian McEvoy, Video

To be used with Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, the Partner/Manager Program. View Details
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  • 09 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

enable companies to carefully control the compensation of executives and the percentage of that compensation derived from option grants. Fixed value plans are therefore ideal for the many companies that set executive pay according to studies performed View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

meaningful patterns have begun to emerge.” Such themes are striking in their contrast with the approaches taken by other mega-donors, who often establish perpetual foundations, focus on specific issues, and exercise considerable control... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • 29 Mar 2019
  • Interview

Integrating Theory into Your Organization: Black Duck by Synopsys

By: Lou Shipley
The Disruptive Voice hits the road, heading to BlackDuck by Synopsys headquarters in Burlington, MA. We sit down with Lou Shipley (CEO), Patrick Carey (Director of Product Marketing), and Tim Kenny (VP of Culture) to hear how Competing Against Luck became a company... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Company Culture; Disruption; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Technology; Organizational Culture
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  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • January 2016 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired its digital assets. This case discusses major decisions taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to... View Details
Keywords: Weather Company; IBM; Digital; Technology; David Kenny; Television; Weather Channel; Legacy Business; Mainstream; Newstream; Reorganization; Acquisitions; Transformation; Information Technology; Television Entertainment; Acquisition; Consolidation; Change; Leadership
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  • 01 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja & Brian Wendell
  • 12 Oct 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and Labor Markets

Keywords: by Brian S. Chen, Samuel G. Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein; Banking
  • 17 May 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

In a post-pandemic business world of hybrid work and quiet quitting, companies must rethink how they motivate employees. Good incentive plans and reward structures require a careful analysis of a company’s objectives, culture, and pressure points, says View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the success of portfolio companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 10 Dec 2024
  • Interview

A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Duke Rohlen
Ajax Health founder Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA 2001) and HBS Professor Regina Herzlinger join host Brian Kenny to discuss the key success factors for both start-up and established medical technology firms. The case “Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation”... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Model; Private Equity; Health Industry
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  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

As a young teacher at Harvard Business School, Brian J. Hall called on longtime professor James Cash for a favor: Hall wanted to study the inner workings of General Electric, and he needed Cash's help to get in touch with top-level... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Nov 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field

Keywords: by Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith & Ying Zhu; Technology
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don't evoke the outrage of multimillion-dollar paydays, curbing the risk-taking incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson

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