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- July 2003 (Revised January 2013)
- Background Note
Note on Organized Labor in U.S. Public Education
Surveys the history, structure, and activities of the two dominant U.S. teachers unions—the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The NEA and AFT represent approximately 90% of U.S. public school teachers and have grown...
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Leschly, Stig. "Note on Organized Labor in U.S. Public Education." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-018, July 2003. (Revised January 2013.)
- January 2017 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A)
By: Doug J. Chung
Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company’s products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for its excellent customer service and a fair “one-for-all” HR policy. Historically, the salespeople had been compensated...
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Keywords:
Salesforce Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Change;
Decision Making;
Electronics Industry;
Sweden
Chung, Doug J. "Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 517-090, January 2017. (Revised May 2019.)
- November 1998
- Case
Wegmans Food Markets: Diabetes Counseling
By: Ray A. Goldberg, David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Danny Wegman, president of Wegmans Food Markets, is trying to decide how to evaluate the success of a nutrition-counseling program for diabetics, and whether and how to expand the program beyond the two stores currently involved. Wegmans, with 57 stores and $2.3...
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Keywords:
Performance Evaluation;
Expansion;
Programs;
Human Needs;
Financial Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Nutrition;
Consumer Behavior;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., David E. Bell, and Ann Leamon. "Wegmans Food Markets: Diabetes Counseling." Harvard Business School Case 599-057, November 1998.
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System
Many of the existing methods for evaluating an airline's on-time performance are based on flight-centric measures of delay. However, recent research has demonstrated that passenger delays depend on many factors in addition to flight delays. For instance,...
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- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
NatureSweet
By: Jose Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the United States and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated...
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Keywords:
NatureSweet;
Tomatoes;
Agriculture;
Greenhouse;
Ambelang;
Cherry Tomatoes;
Incentives;
Worker Empowerment;
Empowerment;
Toyota Production System;
Leadership;
Branding;
Produce;
Manufacturing;
Organizational Change;
Agribusiness;
Business Model;
Employee Relationship Management;
Working Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Success;
Problems and Challenges;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Mexico;
North America
Alvarez, Jose, Forest Reinhardt, and Natalie Kindred. "NatureSweet." Harvard Business School Case 518-002, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- March 2024
- Teaching Note
Madrigal: Conducting a Customer-Base Audit
By: Eva Ascarza, Peter S. Fader, Bruce Hardie and Michael Ross
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-046. This case presents a scenario where Madrigal, a U.S. retailer with a rich 20-year history and a solid loyalty program, faces a turning point with the arrival of a new CEO. This leadership change reveals a critical gap in...
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- 1977
- Working Paper
Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance
By: Jerry R. Green
A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of...
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Keywords:
Social Insurance;
Econometric Models;
Public Sector;
Government Administration;
Policy;
Human Needs;
Social Issues;
Risk and Uncertainty
Green, Jerry R. "Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 215, November 1977.
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
ALAC International
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
ALAC International (ALAC) was awarded the U.S. distributorship of di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) which provided ALAC an opportunity to increase its sales and profits. But the opportunity required a significant additional investment in working capital. The DINP, shipped...
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- June 2017
- Case
AKB48: Going Global? (A)
By: Juan Alcácer, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul and Mayuka Yamazaki
After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities overseas for his artistic creation. This case introduces the business model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what...
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Keywords:
Brand Building;
Brand Extension;
Culture-based Products;
Global Products;
Differentiation;
Intellectual Property;
International Business;
Local Products;
Strategy;
Value Capture;
Market Entry and Exit;
Music Entertainment;
Business Model;
Global Strategy;
Global Range;
Brands and Branding;
Value Creation;
Expansion;
Music Industry;
Japan;
China;
Indonesia;
Taiwan;
Philippines;
Thailand;
South Korea
Alcácer, Juan, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "AKB48: Going Global? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-445, June 2017.
- May 2016
- Background Note
Health Systems in the Developing World
By: Kevin Schulman, Muhammed Pate and Gary Carbell
This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about the organization of core elements of the health care system. The organization of these elements can vary across markets and can vary in...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Public Sector;
Private Sector;
Opportunities;
Analysis
Schulman, Kevin, Muhammed Pate, and Gary Carbell. "Health Systems in the Developing World." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-112, May 2016.
- April 2013
- Article
Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?
By: Nava Ashraf, B. Kelsey Jack and Emir Kamenica
Does providing information about a product affect the impact of price subsidies on purchases of new or unfamiliar products? This question is particularly relevant for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about...
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Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica. "Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 88 (April 2013): 133–139.
- January 2008 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry
Linear Air is an air taxi start-up established to take advantage of the emergence of Very Light Jets, which incorporate new technology that cuts jet operating costs by about 40%. Air taxis could make use of the 5400 smaller regional airports throughout the US,...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Disruptive Innovation;
Product Launch;
Industry Structures;
Competition;
Air Transportation Industry
Tripsas, Mary, Davin Chow, Adam Prewett, and Kevin Yttre. "Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry." Harvard Business School Case 808-107, January 2008. (Revised November 2009.)
- November 2000 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Intuit QuickBooks
By: Rajiv Lal and Punima P Kochikar
Internet QuickBooks, a successful product with a strong brand and an 85% share of retail sales, was faced with the challenge of meeting market growth expectations in a mature, slowing market segment. Generating recurring revenues by providing value-added online...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Decisions;
Growth and Development;
Brands and Branding;
Market Participation;
Problems and Challenges;
Internet and the Web;
Value;
Web Services Industry
Lal, Rajiv, and Punima P Kochikar. "Intuit QuickBooks." Harvard Business School Case 501-054, November 2000. (Revised July 2001.)
- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)
appear most confident also make the fewest mistakes? Do mishaps often happen even though the people involved seemed highly confident in what they did?” asks Graeber. “Surprises are a sign that confidence is badly calibrated.” Then, View Details
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by Kara Baskin
- Teaching Interest
Financial Reporting and Control
By: Suraj Srinivasan
Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) covers topics about how managers can design and use performance measurement systems for external reporting and internal management to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details
Keywords:
Financial Reporting
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Scoring and Funding Breakthrough Ideas: Evidence from a Global Pharmaceutical Company
By: Joshua Krieger, Ramana Nanda, Ian Hunt, Aimee Reynolds and Peter Tarsa
We study resource allocation to early-stage ideas at an internal startup program of
one the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world. Our research design enables us to
elicit every evaluator’s scores across five different attributes, before seeing how they
would...
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Keywords:
Project Selection;
Pharmaceuticals;
Financing Innovation;
Resource Allocation;
Innovation and Invention;
Research and Development
Krieger, Joshua, Ramana Nanda, Ian Hunt, Aimee Reynolds, and Peter Tarsa. "Scoring and Funding Breakthrough Ideas: Evidence from a Global Pharmaceutical Company." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-014, August 2022. (Revised November 2023.)
- June 2021
- Technical Note
Introduction to Linear Regression
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces (from an applied point of view) the theory and application of simple and multiple linear regression. The motivation for the model is introduced, as well as how to interpret the summary output with regard to prediction and statistical...
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- March 2020
- Article
The Role of Numbers in the Customer Journey
By: Shelle Santana, Manoj Thomas and Vicki Morwitz
At each stage in customers’ journeys, they encounter different types of numeric information that they process using different judgment strategies. Relevant numbers might include budgets, price, product attributes, product counts, product ratings, numbers in brand...
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Keywords:
Numbers;
Heuristics;
Numerical Cognition;
Pricing;
Customer Journey;
Information;
Consumer Behavior
Santana, Shelle, Manoj Thomas, and Vicki Morwitz. "The Role of Numbers in the Customer Journey." Journal of Retailing 96, no. 1 (March 2020): 138–154.
- January 2020
- Article
Jack of All Trades and Master of Knowledge: The Role of Diversification in New Distant Knowledge Integration
By: Frank Nagle and Florenta Teodoridis
We consider the role of individual-level diversification as a mechanism through which skilled researchers engage in successful exploration—recognizing and integrating new knowledge external to one’s domains of expertise. To approach an ideal experiment, we (1) employ a...
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Keywords:
Individual-level Knowledge Diversification;
Novel Knowledge;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Diversification;
Innovation and Invention;
Research
Nagle, Frank, and Florenta Teodoridis. "Jack of All Trades and Master of Knowledge: The Role of Diversification in New Distant Knowledge Integration." Strategic Management Journal 41, no. 1 (January 2020): 55–85.