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- September 2006 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
PSI India—Will Balbir Pasha Help Fight AIDS? (A)
By: Elie Ofek and Peter Wickersham
In 2002, Population Services International (PSI) was committed to curbing the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in India. Sanjay Chaganti, program director of HIV/AIDS at PSI India, has to decide on the best communication strategy to achieve this goal. Up to this date most...
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Keywords:
Advertising Campaigns;
Communication Strategy;
Health Disorders;
Marketing Communications;
Social Marketing;
Social Enterprise;
India
Ofek, Elie, and Peter Wickersham. "PSI India—Will Balbir Pasha Help Fight AIDS? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 507-032, September 2006. (Revised July 2012.)
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
long-term strategy and culture. David Wittenberg led the way in making the argument for an inadequate strategy as a primary cause of the problem. He suggested that bad timing...
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- November 1986 (Revised August 1989)
- Case
Paul Revere Insurance Co. (A)
The Paul Revere Insurance Co. lost its number one position in disability insurance, its main product, and formulated a strategy to regain the lead through a comprehensive quality improvement effort. The case describes the forces influencing the strategic direction of...
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Keywords:
Quality;
Performance Productivity;
Competitive Advantage;
Insurance Industry;
United States
Hart, Christopher. "Paul Revere Insurance Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 687-013, November 1986. (Revised August 1989.)
- January 2022
- Case
Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (A)
By: Ariel D. Stern, Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
When Dr. Ikenna Okezie founded Somatus, a value-based kidney care provider, his goal had been nothing short of transforming kidney care delivery in the United States. Rather than relying on dialysis, a costly and intensive treatment for late-stage kidney disease, the...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Medical Specialties;
Innovation and Invention;
Disruptive Innovation;
Management;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Value;
Value Creation;
Health Industry;
United States;
Virginia
Stern, Ariel D., Robert S. Huckman, and Sarah Mehta. "Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (A)." Harvard Business School Case 622-009, January 2022.
- Article
Why Build in Web3
By: Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers
A major change is coming to the internet. While today’s dominant platforms have guarded their troves of user data and maintained an advantage through network effects, new companies—working in what they're calling a “Web3” model—are proposing a new value proposition to...
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Keywords:
Blockchain;
User Experience;
Digital Platforms;
Network Effects;
Internet and the Web;
Competition;
Web Services Industry
Esber, Jad, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Why Build in Web3." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 16, 2022).
- April 2004 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
OfficeTiger
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall
OfficeTiger was founded in late 1999 with an innovative approach to global outsourcing. The company's employees, located primarily in India, provided services for corporations, investment banks, and professional services firms throughout the United States, Europe, and...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Operations;
India
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall. "OfficeTiger." Harvard Business School Case 804-109, April 2004. (Revised July 2007.)
- December 2022 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Sword Health
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Annelena Lobb
Virgilio “V” Bento, CEO of Sword Health—a startup that provided virtual physical therapy to patients in self-insured firms via AI and sensor technology with supervision by a physical therapist with a doctorate—considered how to increase its U.S. market share. To do so,...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Annelena Lobb. "Sword Health." Harvard Business School Case 323-022, December 2022. (Revised June 2023.)
- February 2020 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Sustainable Product Management at Solvay
By: George Serafeim, Vincent Dessain and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In November 2019, Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, a Belgian specialty chemicals and advanced materials group, with annual revenues of more than €10 billion in 2018, announced the group’s mid-term strategy, eight months after she took the helm as Solvay’s 11th CEO. The case...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Sustainable Business And Innovation;
Sustainability Management;
Sustainable Development;
Management Accounting;
Innovation;
Carbon Emissions;
Sustainability Reporting;
Sustainability Targets;
Target-setting;
Product;
Management;
Transformation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Chemical Industry;
Europe;
Belgium
Serafeim, George, Vincent Dessain, and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. "Sustainable Product Management at Solvay." Harvard Business School Case 120-081, February 2020. (Revised February 2022.)
- September 2022
- Case
ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office
By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
Fernando Scodro, a third-generation member of his family, mulled over the next step in integrating an ESG strategy into his family office’s investment portfolio. While his family office, Grupo Baobá, had made excellent progress in incorporating his family’s values into...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
ESG;
Green Building;
Family;
Partnership;
Latin America;
Brazil;
Buildings and Facilities;
Green Buildings;
Family Business;
Family and Family Relationships;
Financial Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Services Industry;
Brazil;
Latin America
Cohen, Lauren, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye, and Grace Headinger. "ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office." Harvard Business School Case 223-018, September 2022.
- February 2022 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
National Electric Vehicles Sweden (NEVS): Materializing a Vision
By: Shane Greenstein and Elena Corsi
In 2021, the car manufacturer National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) faced the challenge of securing funding from its investor to launch an innovative mobility solution based on fleets of shared autonomous driving (AD) cars. The system was complex as it required the...
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Keywords:
Autonomous Vehicles;
Product Design;
Sustainable Cities;
Transportation Networks;
Auto Industry;
Sweden;
Europe
Greenstein, Shane, and Elena Corsi. "National Electric Vehicles Sweden (NEVS): Materializing a Vision." Harvard Business School Case 622-076, February 2022. (Revised March 2022.)
- February 2009 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big?
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Big Spaceship, a digital marketing agency, faced a rather big challenge: How to scale the distinctive culture that was essential to its competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Management;
Human Capital;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big?" Harvard Business School Case 409-047, February 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- October 2011 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
Delta/Signal Corp.
By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Matthew Packard
This auto parts company has just ousted its longtime CEO and founder, and the new, professional CEO is badly in need of a coherent strategy, clear objectives and metrics, and initiatives that are aligned with the strategy and objectives. Will the balanced scorecard...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Business Strategy;
Financial Reporting;
Leading Change;
Performance Evaluation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Web Services Industry;
Web Services Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Lisa Brem, and Matthew Packard. "Delta/Signal Corp." Harvard Business School Case 112-048, October 2011. (Revised July 2013.)
- March 1995 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
Co-operative Bank, The
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Srikant M. Datar
A British bank with strong roots in the cooperative movement encounters declining profitability in an increasingly competitive and deregulated financial services industry. It attempts to grow by broadening its customer base and increasing the range of products and...
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Keywords:
Product;
Competition;
Expansion;
Cost Management;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Profit;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Srikant M. Datar. "Co-operative Bank, The." Harvard Business School Case 195-196, March 1995. (Revised April 1997.)
- May 1975 (Revised May 1982)
- Case
Southwest Airlines (C)
Southwest Airlines, a small intrastate carrier, has just completed its first year of operations in June 1972 and management is debating what advertising and promotional strategy to adopt for the future. Southwest has successfully broken into a market dominated by two...
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Lovelock, Christopher H. "Southwest Airlines (C)." Harvard Business School Case 575-118, May 1975. (Revised May 1982.)
- July 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Edward Jones
By: Michael E. Porter and Gregory C. Bond
Edward Jones is a leading, highly profitable retail brokerage firm with a unique strategy very different from those of its rivals. The case describes Jones's activities and allows a rich discussion of its positioning choices, supporting activities, and tradeoffs. Jones...
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Keywords:
Financial Institutions;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Porter, Michael E., and Gregory C. Bond. "Edward Jones." Harvard Business School Case 700-009, July 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- September 2009 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
OnStar: Not Your Father's General Motors
By: Clayton M. Christensen
After two years of less than stellar performance resulting in sales well below plan, senior management at General Motors (GM) mobile telecommunications service start-up, OnStar, recognized that without a substantial change in their strategy, support for the venture...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Joint Ventures;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Product Positioning;
Risk Management;
Auto Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Christensen, Clayton M. "OnStar: Not Your Father's General Motors." Harvard Business School Case 610-029, September 2009. (Revised November 2021.)
Mitchell Tang
Mitchell Tang graduated in 2016 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed dual-degrees in computational biology and economics as part of the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management (LSM). While at Penn, Mitchell was involved in research at the... View Details
- December 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
MINI USA: Finding a New Advertising Agency (A)
Selling an intangible like advertising services is a difficult task. The first step is to understand how brands buy these services. What are they looking for? What do they need to learn? How do they go about assessing things like creativity, trust, and loyalty? This...
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Godes, David B. "MINI USA: Finding a New Advertising Agency (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-041, December 2007. (Revised July 2008.)
- October 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
The Joslin Diabetes Center
By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg and Scott Wallace
The Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications and rapidly accelerating health...
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Keywords:
Integration;
Service Delivery;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Outcome or Result;
Corporate Finance;
Health Industry;
Boston
Porter, Michael E., Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, and Scott Wallace. "The Joslin Diabetes Center." Harvard Business School Case 710-424, October 2009. (Revised January 2010.)