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- March 2022
- Supplement
Transforming Kimball International, Inc. (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Board Of Directors;
Board Committees;
Board Decisions;
Board Dynamics;
CEO Compensation;
CEO Succession;
Compensation Committee;
Compensation Consultants;
Compensation Design;
Compensation Mix;
Corporate Purpose;
COVID-19;
ESG;
Furniture;
Furniture Industry;
Manufacturing;
Midwest;
Pandemic;
Purpose;
Spin-off;
Strategic Change;
Strategic Decisions;
Strategic Evolution;
Target-setting;
Executive Compensation;
Family Ownership;
Governance;
Restructuring;
Strategy;
Transformation;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "Transforming Kimball International, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 322-084, March 2022.
- 11 Mar 2013
- News
Silver Spring Networks Looks to Tap 'Smart Grid'
Jay W. Lorsch
Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details
- 14 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned at SVMP
The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) at HBS is a one week management training program for rising college seniors. It’s designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, and...
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- August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns...
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Keywords:
Data Science;
Data Analytics;
Investing;
Loans;
Investment;
Financing and Loans;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Business Model
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 119-020, August 2018. (Revised September 2018.)
- November 2000 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Bush Boake Allen
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Bush Boake Allen, a flavor and fragrance firm, is considering strategic options that would integrate customers into its innovation process via a potentially disruptive Internet-based technology. As this approach could result in dramatic changes to the firm's business...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Management Teams;
Product Design;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Conflict Management;
Internet;
Chemical Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Bush Boake Allen." Harvard Business School Case 601-061, November 2000. (Revised June 2010.)
- November 1999 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Pre-Paid Legal Services' business model reveals two key issues--managing the sales force and sales growth and managing claims. Students analyze the economics of the business and consider how to measure firm performance, how to evaluate and reward the sales force, and...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Salesforce Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Accrual Accounting;
Business Cycles;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Insurance;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Insurance Industry
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 100-037, November 1999. (Revised July 2003.)
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems
By: Robert Simons
This module reading introduces diagnostic and interactive control systems. Diagnostic control systems are the management-by-exception systems that managers use to monitor the achievement of their business strategy. Interactive control systems are the systems that top...
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Keywords:
Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Execution;
Performance Measurement;
Diagnostic Control Systems;
Interactive Control Systems;
Emergent Strategy;
Goal Setting;
Incentives;
Strategy;
Motivation and Incentives;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Systems;
Performance Evaluation
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-111, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. HBS professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics of these sites and offers guidance...
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by Staff
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
should be rewarded and incentives designed to encourage that. Says Bazerman, "Executives sometimes complain to me that their sales force is sacrificing profitability for revenue by lowering prices to make more sales. So I ask them,...
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by Garry Emmons
- 2018
- Working Paper
Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program
By: Tomomichi Amano and Hiroshi Ohashi
In differentiated goods markets with societal implications, quality standards are commonly implemented to avoid the under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in...
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Keywords:
Product Differentiation;
Energy Efficiency Standards;
Ratcheting;
Diffusion Of Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Quality;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy
Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi. "Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-021, September 2018.
- July 1989
- Background Note
What Is Marketing?
An introductory note for MBA students on the nature of marketing and topics encountered in its study. Defines the topic then breaks marketing into two major conceptual pieces--the tools, tasks and variables of the marketer, and the marketing process. In the tools...
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Keywords:
Marketing
Bonoma, Thomas V., and Thomas J. Kosnik. "What Is Marketing?" Harvard Business School Background Note 590-007, July 1989.
- 2014
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Marketing Reading: Segmentation and Targeting
By: Sunil Gupta
This Reading introduces two of the integral parts of any marketing strategy: segmentation and targeting. It covers, first, all of the methods, techniques, and variables with which a business first uncovers the full range of its potential customers and then...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Segmentation;
Conjoint Analysis;
Demographic Segmentation;
Geographic Segmentation;
Market Opportunities;
Market Segmentation;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Psychographic Segmentation;
Unethical Marketing Practices;
United States
Gupta, Sunil. "Marketing Reading: Segmentation and Targeting." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8219, 2014.
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)
Harvard Business School professor Gerald Zaltman's latest book, How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market, delves into the subconscious mind of the consumer—the place where most purchasing decisions are made. The...
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Keywords:
by Manda Mahoney
- Research Summary
Sustainability, Real Estate and the Built Environment
By: John D. Macomber
Research interests include:
- Real estate development, design, and construction, notably how design creates value;
- Sustainable cities, in particular entrepreneurship and project finance in light of global trends in urbanization and resource... View Details
- 20 Aug 2021
- Video
DT & HBP: The Incubator and Content Lab
- 17 Oct 2013
- News
An Obstacle to Patient-Centered Care: Poor Supply Systems
- July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Game Time Decision for AppDirect
By: Andrei Hagiu, Laura Arjona and Emily Zhang
AppDirect is a start-up that offers small businesses software-as-a-service solutions through a business app marketplace and portal. Daniel Saks, co-founder and co-CEO, is faced with the key question of deciding distribution strategy: should AppDirect find channel...
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Keywords:
Digital Platforms;
Distribution;
Applications and Software;
Innovation Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Competitive Strategy;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Hagiu, Andrei, Laura Arjona, and Emily Zhang. "Game Time Decision for AppDirect." Harvard Business School Case 712-410, July 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- September 2010 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg
By: Hanna Halaburda and Aldo Sesia
The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system...
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Keywords:
Business Education;
Curriculum and Courses;
Higher Education;
Auctions;
Marketplace Matching;
Groups and Teams;
Strategy;
Education Industry;
Sports Industry;
United States
Halaburda, Hanna, and Aldo Sesia. "Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg." Harvard Business School Case 711-417, September 2010. (Revised October 2011.)
- May 2019
- Background Note
Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders: How to PACE Your Self-Development
By: Ethan Bernstein and Kirstin Lynde
Millennials are redefining what it means to develop future leaders. In business organizations, leadership development—defined as “the expansion of a person's capacity to be effective in leadership roles and processes“—has traditionally been the work of corporate...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Human Resources;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leadership;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Skills;
Management Style
Bernstein, Ethan, and Kirstin Lynde. "Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders: How to PACE Your Self-Development." Harvard Business School Background Note 419-045, May 2019.