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  • August 2025
  • Case

Layoff Letters: The Art of Delivering Bad News

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
When companies downsize, they often issue press releases announcing the layoffs. Increasingly often, senior leaders also communicate the “bad news” internally using videos or text (letters, emails, or memos). This case analyzes the practice of writing “layoff letters”...
  • September 2025
  • Case

Navigating Hyper Luxury: Chartering the Future of Ferretti Group

By: Juan Alcacer and Lorenzo Lucidi
In April 2025, Alberto Galassi, CEO of Ferretti Group, reflects on the company’s journey from its 2012 bankruptcy to a dual public listing on the Hong Kong and Milan Stock Exchanges and its current position as a global leader in luxury yachting. Ferretti had...
  • September 2025
  • Case

Chainsaw Economics: Javier Milei’s Libertarian Gamble in Argentina

By: Rafael Di Tella and Pablo Ottonello
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

When LLMs Go Abroad: Foreign Bias in AI Financial Predictions

By: Sean Cao, Charles C.Y. Wang and Yi Xiang
We document foreign biases in AI-generated financial predictions: ChatGPT (U.S.-based) is systematically more optimistic about Chinese firms than DeepSeek (China-based), predicting higher end-of-year stock prices and generating more buy recommendations. This...
  • September 2025
  • Case

BairesDev: Culture and Growth

By: Raffaella Sadun, Jorge Tamayo and Karina Souza
In February 2025, Nacho de Marco, CEO of BairesDev, the nearshoring tech company founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was planning the company’s next growth phase. After ten years of organic expansion, the COVID-19 pandemic had validated BairesDev’s fully remote model...
  • September 2025
  • Case

Oriental Weavers: Handing Over the Loom

By: Christina R. Wing and Ahmed Dahawy
Over the course of forty years, Oriental Weavers had grown from a modest Egyptian family business into one of the world’s largest manufacturers of machine woven carpets and rugs. Managing a family-led company at that scale was no easy task, but the business was guided...
  • September 2025
  • Case

Cristina Ventura at White Star Capital

By: Linda A. Hill, Allison J. Wigen, Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page
[pre-abstract] This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. [abstract] This multimedia case study focuses on General Partner and Chief Catalyst Officer Cristina Ventura at White Star Capital, as she builds an ecosystem for investors and...
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Reliable Switchback Experiments with Rerandomization for Auction Environments at Procter & Gamble

By: Tu Ni, Eleni Kalfountzou and Iavor Bojinov
Auction environments play an increasingly central role across industries such as transportation, commodities, and media. Companies like Procter & Gamble (P&G) rely on advanced digital solutions to optimize auction performance and must rigorously validate algorithmic...
  • September 2025
  • Teaching Material

Raymond Jefferson: Trial by Fire

By: Anthony J. Mayo and Carin-Isabel Knoop
  • September 2025
  • Article
  • Journal of Accounting Research

Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers’ Information Acquisition Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?

By: Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng and Yuan Zou
We investigate the impact of observing peers’ information acquisition on financial analysts’ allocation of attention. Using the timely disclosure mandate by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a setting, we find that, shortly after analysts observe that a firm has been...
  • September 2025
  • Article
  • Journal of Development Economics

Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India

By: Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna
This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment...
  • September 2025
  • Case

Flying Solo for the Team: The Grupo Brio Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
Gabriel Sragovicz, G1 of the Grupo Brío Family Office, wondered who he would hire to lead his family office (FO). For many years, the current CEO (FO Head) José Daniel Miranda Fumero aided Sragovicz in the construction of the family entity, building the organization...
  • September–October 2025
  • Article
  • Harvard Business Review

Now Is the Time for Courage: Five Strategies to Drive Bold Action amid Uncertainty.

By: Ranjay Gulati
Research has shown that fortune favors the bold, not the cautious. But in volatile and uncertain times, many leaders hesitate to act, and others simply freeze up. The question is, Can bravery be acquired? In this article an HBS professor who has done extensive research...
  • September 2025
  • Article
  • Current History

China's Perilously Imbalanced Economic Success

By: Meg Rithmire
China’s contemporary economic trajectory is paradoxical, marked by both extraordinary technological advancement and mounting macroeconomic vulnerabilities. China has achieved global leadership in advanced manufacturing sectors such as electric vehicles and batteries,...
  • August 2025
  • Teaching Material

Parque del Sendero: Repositioning in the Death Care Industry in Chile

By: Jill Avery, Andres Cuneo and Marco Bertini
Facing changing consumer behavior and shifting industry conditions, Rafael Valdivieso, President of Parque del Sendero, one of largest networks of cemeteries in Chile, considers repositioning his services to appeal to a broader swath of Chilean customers to fuel growth...
  • August 2025
  • Case

“The James Bond of Philanthropy”: A Chuck Feeney Story

By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
Chris Oechsli, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, meditated on the lifespan of his organization and its expansive work. The Atlantic Philanthropies was founded by Chuck Feeney, who had generated a respectable fortune at DFS Group. Unlike many of his...
  • August 2025
  • Case

Nectar Community Investments

By: Emily R. McComb and David Allen
This case explores Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and asks more broadly how community finance organizations should balance their own sustainability with their mission to create impact in society. It focuses on Nectar Community Investments, a...
  • August 2025
  • Case

Apollo Global Management

By: George Serafeim and Michael Norris
Apollo Global Management—long known for opportunistic private-equity deals—has morphed into an insurance-anchored credit powerhouse after fully acquiring life-annuity issuer Athene. CEO Marc Rowan’s bold bet is that an asset-heavy balance sheet, fueled by Athene’s...
  • August 2025
  • Teaching Material

VC Journey Vignettes

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Maxim Pike Harrell
Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 824-205, 824-206, 824-207.
  • August 2025
  • Teaching Material

The Toyota Production System in Action: TPS at Toyota Motoro Manufacturing Kentucky

By: Willy C. Shih
This is a supplememtary video that shows the Toyota Production System in action at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Georgetown, KY in August 2024
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