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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
offered filers the option of investing part of their refunds in savings bonds at fifteen H&R Block offices north of Chicago in March and April 2006. This pretest was designed to pave the way for more...
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- June 2001 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Gillian D Elcock
Set in the context of the rise and fall of the Internet stocks in the United States.
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Keywords:
Stocks;
Price Bubble;
Capital Markets;
Investment Banking;
Information Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and Gillian D Elcock. "Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The." Harvard Business School Case 101-110, June 2001. (Revised December 2006.)
- January 2005
- Case
Building Career Foundations: Kevin Williams (B)
Presents an interview with this HBS alumnus about the success of his Chancellor Beacon Academies and his life in Miami.
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Higgins, Monica C. "Building Career Foundations: Kevin Williams (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 405-703, January 2005.
- May 2017
- Article
Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary-Drink Portion Limits
By: Leslie John, Grant Donnelly and Christina Roberto
In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces. Although a state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable...
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Keywords:
Nutrition;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
New York (city, NY)
John, Leslie, Grant Donnelly, and Christina Roberto. "Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary-Drink Portion Limits." Psychological Science 28, no. 5 (May 2017): 620–629.
- June 2023
- Case
Grittiness at Convene
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Based in New York, Convene was founded in 2009 by Ryan Simonetti and Chris Kelly. Convene was founded on the question: “What if you ran an office building like a hotel?” The company offered a premium corporate events and workspace product. Convene initially took a...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneur;
Hospitality Industry;
Growth;
Culture;
Entrepreneurship;
Change Management;
Growth Management;
Strategy;
Leadership;
Service Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Grittiness at Convene." Harvard Business School Case 423-090, June 2023.
- October 2005 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna and Carin-Isabel Knoop
The Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo offered advanced medical procedures, such as cardiac surgery using the beating heart technique, at very high levels of...
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Keywords:
Vertical Integration;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Global Strategy;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Health Industry;
Thailand;
United States;
India
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Tarun Khanna, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices." Harvard Business School Case 706-440, October 2005. (Revised June 2007.)
- May 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Teaching Note
San Francisco Ballet: On 'Pointe' for the Future
By: Rohit Deshpandé and Nicole Tempest Keller
An examination of the strategic challenges facing the SF Ballet in 2019 due to changes in demographics, lifestyles, and the city of San Francisco itself
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- April 2011 (Revised June 2012)
- Background Note
Note on U.S. Pension Accounting
By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij Khurana
The purpose of this note is to describe the manner in which publicly traded corporations and local governments in the United States account for their pension plans.
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Pozen, Robert C., and Brij Khurana. "Note on U.S. Pension Accounting." Harvard Business School Background Note 311-115, April 2011. (Revised June 2012.)
- July 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
The Beijing Dream
By: Arthur I Segel, Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian and Ying Laura Wang
The purchase of a single-family home is generally the major investment for most young couples in China. Shows in detail the process that a young couple goes through in late April 2007 to find, finance, and close on an apartment in Beijing within what they believe to be...
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Keywords:
Property;
Investment;
Cost;
Emerging Markets;
Financing and Loans;
Acquisition;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Internet and the Web;
Management Practices and Processes;
Real Estate Industry;
Beijing;
United States
Segel, Arthur I., Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian, and Ying Laura Wang. "The Beijing Dream." Harvard Business School Case 208-015, July 2007. (Revised July 2008.)
- March 1992 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
AT&T Productos de Consumo de Mexico
Describes in detail the decisions AT&T made in designing and staffing their Mexican telephone answering machine plant. Allows students to evaluate a company's detailed implementation decisions on a plant in a developed country--involving wages, benefits, waste...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Executive Compensation;
Selection and Staffing;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Systems;
Mexico
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "AT&T Productos de Consumo de Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 392-109, March 1992. (Revised June 1992.)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
(The New Yorker, March 20, 2006). At the moment, his would-be utopia is an undeveloped 2,200-acre tract — nearly three times the size of Central Park — acquired for $50 million. Aiming for a highbrow clientele, Curry wrote in one pitch...
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- August 2014 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Molycorp: Morgan Brothers' Reverse Convertible Notes (C)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
In August 2011, Morgan Brothers Bank was issuing a $2.5 million reverse convertible note with payoffs linked to the price of Molycorp's common stock. These financially engineered securities were just one of many kinds of structured notes available in the retail market....
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Keywords:
Structured Products;
Reverse Convertible Notes;
Replication;
Option Pricing;
Bond Pricing;
Financial Engineering;
Valuation;
Metals and Minerals;
Debt Securities;
Finance;
Investment;
Mining Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada;
California
Esty, Benjamin C., and E. Scott Mayfield. "Molycorp: Morgan Brothers' Reverse Convertible Notes (C)." Harvard Business School Case 215-002, August 2014. (Revised March 2015.)
- August 2021
- Supplement
Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game
By: Boris Groysberg
NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018–2019 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when he had navigated a difficult decision regarding the timing of his move to the NBA. He also did not know what he...
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Keywords:
Career Decisions;
Career Journey;
"Sports Organizations,;
Mentoring;
Retirement;
Sports;
Performance;
Training;
Personal Development and Career;
Decision Making;
Talent and Talent Management;
Sports Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris. "Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 421-710, August 2021.
- December 2008
- Article
Technology Usage Lags
By: Diego A. Comin, Bart Hobijn and Emilie Rovito
We present evidence on the differences in the intensity with which ten major technologies are used in 185 countries across the world. We do so by calculating how many years ago these technologies were used in the U.S. at the same intensity as they are used in the...
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Keywords:
Technology Adoption;
Global Range;
Economy;
Relationships;
Performance Productivity;
United States
Comin, Diego A., Bart Hobijn, and Emilie Rovito. "Technology Usage Lags." Journal of Economic Growth 13, no. 4 (December 2008).
- May 2021
- Case
Career at a Crossroads? (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
A career professional at a major consumer goods company, Kym Lew Nelson is hoping to negotiate a promotion to vice president, which would make her one of the senior-most African American women in the organization. But when Nelson’s white German boss arrives in the...
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Keywords:
Culture;
Negotiation;
Race;
Gender;
Organizational Culture;
Prejudice and Bias;
United States
Sebenius, James K., and Alex Green. "Career at a Crossroads? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 921-018, May 2021.
- March 1992 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
AT&T Consumer Products
Describes the factors AT&T Consumer Products managers considered in deciding whether to locate a new plant for telephone answering machines in the United States, Asia, or Mexico. Describes in depth the restructuring of AT&T during the 1980s, the competition facing its...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Competitive Strategy;
Trade;
Management;
Operations;
Crime and Corruption;
Executive Compensation;
Selection and Staffing;
Demand and Consumers;
Asia;
Mexico
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "AT&T Consumer Products." Harvard Business School Case 392-108, March 1992. (Revised October 1994.)
- April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships
By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta
In September 2018, the executive team at Ariadne Labs (Ariadne), a Boston-based organization dedicated to improving health systems through the discovery and implementation of simple tools, faced a number of strategic decisions. Chief among them, the seven-year-old...
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Keywords:
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Health Industry;
Boston
Stern, Ariel D., and Sarah Mehta. "Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 619-017, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- September 2019
- Case
Dementia Discovery Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Sarah Gulick
The case is set in March 2019, and tells the story of the founding of the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF). The idea for the fund began in 2015, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the importance of making breakthroughs in dementia research, and pledged...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Investment Funds;
Mission and Purpose;
Recruitment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts;
London;
England
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy Giusti, and Sarah Gulick. "Dementia Discovery Fund." Harvard Business School Case 820-045, September 2019.
- February 2007
- Case
IBM Culture in Its Architecture
By: A. Eugene Kohn and Kerry Herman
In 1992, Lou Gerstner was the CEO of IBM during a period where the firm was losing money and a turnaround was desperately needed. In a bold decision, Gerstner chose to build a new headquarters in Armonk, NY that had strict limits on expandability. His idea was to use...
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Keywords:
Design;
Leadership;
Job Design and Levels;
Organizational Structure;
Buildings and Facilities;
Business Headquarters;
Decisions;
Organizational Culture;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Information Technology Industry;
New York (state, US)
Kohn, A. Eugene, and Kerry Herman. "IBM Culture in Its Architecture." Harvard Business School Case 207-026, February 2007.
- August 2010 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicholas Henri Taranto
Since becoming the President's envoy responsible for post-war Iraq, Paul Bremer endured many sleepless nights, struggling with the decision of how to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people. Despite daily assassination attempts, tribal warfare, growing violence, and...
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Keywords:
Government Administration;
International Relations;
National Security;
Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Iraq;
District of Columbia
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Nicholas Henri Taranto. "Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq." Harvard Business School Case 411-010, August 2010. (Revised September 2010.)