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- October 2000 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*TRADE (A)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Harmeling
Kathy Levinson, the president and COO of ETRADE and a lesbian mother of two children, must decide whether and how to participate in the "No on Knight" campaign. The campaign opposes California ballot proposition 22, which requires California to recognize only marriages...
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Conflict of Interests;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Values and Beliefs;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Gender;
Diversity;
Financial Services Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Susan Harmeling. "Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*TRADE (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-057, October 2000. (Revised January 2002.)
- October 2008 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Apple's Core
By: Noam T. Wasserman
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best friends who enjoy pulling pranks together and talking about electronics. After several small collaborations, Jobs pitches Wozniak on starting a company together to sell computers based on Wozniak's design for a personal computer....
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Equity;
Managerial Roles;
Partners and Partnerships;
Conflict Management
Wasserman, Noam T. "Apple's Core." Harvard Business School Case 809-063, October 2008. (Revised February 2011.)
- 31 Aug 2021
- News
Pay Transparency
- Career Coach
Erika Osterling
services across different businesses and geographies, leading to a global P&L role. In her most recent role as Executive Director at Russell Reynolds, she advised CEO, C-Suite leaders and board of...
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- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored...
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Keywords:
Disease Management;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Education;
Information Technology;
Insurance;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
Information Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-029, 2013.
- April 2008 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)
By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge-fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they...
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Keywords:
Investment Activism;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business or Company Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Conflict of Interests;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Ferri, Fabrizio, V.G. Narayanan, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)." Harvard Business School Case 108-024, April 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
- 09 Sep 2015
- News
Entrepreneurship: Increasingly, the Province of the Wealthy
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In...
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All Industries
- November 1990 (Revised June 1991)
- Case
Final Voyage of the Challenger
Provides a summary of technical and organizational details that led to the decision to launch the Challenger Space Shuttle, and to the ensuing accident. Details of design and testing milestones of the Space Shuttle, with a focus on the Solid Rocket Booster, offer...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Risk Management;
Ethics;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Business Processes;
Aerospace Industry;
United States
Hauptman, Oscar. "Final Voyage of the Challenger." Harvard Business School Case 691-037, November 1990. (Revised June 1991.)
- 04 May 2021
- News
Hubert Joly from Best Buy
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
background in the topic. "Often we don't need better ideas, we just need to frame them more effectively," says Frei "To describe something simply, you must really understand it deeply." Mixing It Up The class had just...
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by Michael Blanding
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
deal with what is in front of us today. Yes, all these other players matter, in some cases a great deal. But not as much as business matters—in the form of both large global...
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by Nancy Koehn
- January 2021
- Article
Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)
In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)." Top Sales Magazine (January 2021), 38–39.
George C. Lodge
Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details
- March 2016 (Revised January 2023)
- Teaching Note
Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley
This case follows Carla Ann Harris, an African-American executive on Wall Street, from her childhood to the eve of her 20th year at Morgan Stanley. In addition to her professional identity as an investment banker, Harris is also an accomplished gospel singer, an...
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- June 2024
- Case
Driving Scale With Otto
By: Rebecca Karp, David Allen and Annelena Lobb
This case asks how startup founders make scaling decisions in light of their priorities for their business and for themselves. Otto was a technology company that applied artificial intelligence technology to sales. It deployed natural language processing to find sales...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Machine Learning;
Natural Language Processing;
B2B;
B2B Innovation;
Startups;
Scaling;
Scaling Tech Ventures;
Business Ventures;
Information Technology;
Finance;
Sales;
Strategy;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
Cambridge;
New York (city, NY);
Spain
Karp, Rebecca, David Allen, and Annelena Lobb. "Driving Scale With Otto." Harvard Business School Case 724-407, June 2024.
- August 2022
- Teaching Plan
Janet Ames (A), (B), (C), (D)
By: Brian Trelstad
Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 320-076, 320-077, 320-078, and 322-051. The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join...
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Keywords:
Philanthropy;
Board;
Non-profit Management;
Career Changes And Transitions;
Evaluation;
Personal Development and Career;
Opportunities;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Social Enterprise;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Management;
United States
- March 2021 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Ayn Rand: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer
This case traces the life of Ayn Rand from Russia to Hollywood to New York City. The case describes how Rand fled communist Russia and, in reaction to the deprivations she experienced under communism, developed a philosophy idealizing free will and personal...
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Keywords:
Writing;
Values and Beliefs;
Economic Systems;
Society;
Mission and Purpose;
Success;
Work-Life Balance;
Ethics;
Personal Development and Career;
Publishing Industry
Simons, Robert, and Max Saffer. "Ayn Rand: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 121-070, March 2021. (Revised January 2024.)
- July 15, 2022
- Article
Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?
By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
Does Elon Musk have a strategy? Or is he just out there winging it? Looking at Musk’s many companies, common themes stand out across three areas: what fits into his vision for problems to solve, how he designs an organization as a solution to those problems, and why he...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Strategy;
Vision;
Resources;
Organization;
Platform;
Closed Systems;
Leadership;
Complexity;
Organizational Design;
Vertical Integration;
Problems and Challenges;
Success;
Auto Industry;
Aerospace Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Energy Industry
Wu, Andy, and Goran Calic. "Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 15, 2022).
- 21 Aug 2023
- Book
You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance
The days of sticking with one job through retirement are long gone. Younger workers are prioritizing happiness over workplace loyalty, often out of necessity. Harvard Business School senior lecturer Christina Wallace offers a roadmap for...
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by Kara Baskin