Filter Results
:
(2,524)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,524)
- People (2)
- News (483)
- Research (1,736)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (742)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,524)
- People (2)
- News (483)
- Research (1,736)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (742)
- June 2003 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Molded Dimensions, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen, Virginia Fuller and Doren Spinner
Mike Katz, an MBA with several years of manufacturing management experience, talks about purchasing Molded Dimensions, Inc. (MDI), a Wisconsin-based plastics manufacturer, with his wife Linda, who also has a manufacturing background. The case describes at length...
View Details
Keywords:
Transition;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Jobs and Positions;
Leadership;
Business or Company Management;
Negotiation Process;
Manufacturing Industry;
Wisconsin
Bowen, H. Kent, Virginia Fuller, and Doren Spinner. "Molded Dimensions, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 603-133, June 2003. (Revised December 2004.)
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
For Today’s Travel Businesses, Is It TripAdvisor or Bust?
- Fall 2020
- Article
Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era
By: Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Eric Zwick
We develop a pair of models that speak to the goals and design of the sort of business-lending and corporate-bond purchase programs that have been introduced by governments in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. An overarching theme is that, in contrast to the...
View Details
Keywords:
COVID-19;
Business Lending;
Government Intervention;
Econometric Models;
Health Pandemics;
Credit;
Governance;
Policy
Hanson, Samuel G., Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam, and Eric Zwick. "Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2020).
- December 1999 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
CVS: The Web Strategy
By: John A. Deighton and Anjali C. Shah
How should America's second-largest pharmacy chain respond to the challenge from online drugstores? What threat does the web pose to bricks and mortar distribution of prescription drugs and the other items that make up 50% of a drugstore's sales? This case describes...
View Details
Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Marketing Channels;
Distribution Channels;
Service Operations;
Corporate Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Web Services Industry
Deighton, John A., and Anjali C. Shah. "CVS: The Web Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 500-008, December 1999. (Revised February 2001.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- June 23, 2020
- Article
Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption
By: Serena Hagerty and Kate Barasz
Lower-income individuals are frequently criticized for their consumption decisions; this research examines why. Eleven preregistered studies document systematic differences in permissible consumption—interpersonal judgments about what is acceptable (or not) for others...
View Details
Keywords:
Interpersonal Judgments;
Consumption;
Economic Inequalty;
Income;
Equality and Inequality;
Spending;
Judgments
Hagerty, Serena, and Kate Barasz. "Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 25 (June 23, 2020): 14084–14093.
John T. Gourville
John Gourville is the Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS Marketing Unit in 1995 after receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in marketing and behavioral research. His most... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
series of experiments, the researchers tested four increasingly interactive ways in which Facebook might affect customers’ behavior. First, they explored whether liking a brand—passively following it—makes people more likely to purchase...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Fall 2018
- Article
The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
By: Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
Online channels generate frictions when selling products with nondigital attributes, such as apparel. Customers may be reluctant to purchase products they have not been able to try on, and those customers who do purchase may return products when they do not fit as...
View Details
Keywords:
Supply Chain Information;
Fit Uncertainty;
Online Retail;
Randomized Field Experiment;
Virtual Fitting Room;
Digital Retail;
Customization and Personalization;
Internet and the Web;
Value;
Performance Improvement;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Retail Industry
Gallino, Santiago, and Antonio Moreno. "The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 20, no. 4 (Fall 2018): 767–787.
- December 2019
- Supplement
Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Mariana Cal
Unilever is making strides to integrate the operations of Mãe Terra—one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods—into its own structures, after acquiring the company in 2017. Mãe Terra’s CEO, Alexandre Borges, must decide whether to implement his original...
View Details
Keywords:
Brand Management;
Sustainability;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Environmental Sustainability;
Organizational Culture;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Brazil;
Latin America
Paine, Lynn S., Ruth Costas, and Mariana Cal. "Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-069, December 2019.
- November 2012
- Supplement
Amylin Pharmaceuticals (B)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Amylin Pharmaceuticals brought two first-in-class diabetes drugs to market, Byetta and Symlin, in 2005, which were sold in over 80 countries with $650.7 million in sales by 2011. However, the company remained unprofitable as sales plateaued. The small pharmaceutical...
View Details
Keywords:
Pharmaceuticals;
Bristol-Myers Squibb;
Health Care and Treatment;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Amylin Pharmaceuticals (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 813-091, November 2012.
- December 2004
- Article
Market Valuation and Merger Waves
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we...
View Details
Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Market Transactions;
Value;
Cash;
Stocks;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Bids and Bidding;
Market Design;
Stock Shares;
Accounting Audits;
Performance Evaluation
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and S. Viswanathan. "Market Valuation and Merger Waves." Journal of Finance 59, no. 6 (December 2004): 2685–2718.
- May 1992
- Supplement
Fabtek (B)
By: Rowland T. Moriarty Jr. and Benson P. Shapiro
Presents an urgent order for repair service from an important customer who had purchased an item from a competitor. The item, which TiFab had bid on, went out at a price that TiFab predicted was below the amount necessary to ensure quality manufacture. Now the customer...
View Details
Moriarty, Rowland T., Jr., and Benson P. Shapiro. "Fabtek (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 592-096, May 1992.
- 10 Dec 2018
- News
Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis?
- 2016
- Working Paper
Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard
By: Geoffrey Jones and Ben Gettinger
This working paper examines the impact of two entrepreneurs who offered alternative paths to reach their shared goal of a more sustainable world. Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins were respective founders of the prominent outdoor apparel brands Patagonia and The North...
View Details
Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Jones, Geoffrey, and Ben Gettinger. "Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-034, October 2016.
- October 2010
- Case
Narragansett Brewing Company
By: Tom Nicholas, Lindsey Marshall and Charles Anthony Miller
Mark Hellendrung, CEO of Narragansett Brewing Company, is deciding whether to partner with a local television station for the upcoming NHL Winter Classic outdoor hockey game between New England's own Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers at Fenway Park. He had...
View Details
Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Sports;
Financial Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Investment;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, Lindsey Marshall, and Charles Anthony Miller. "Narragansett Brewing Company." Harvard Business School Case 811-028, October 2010.
- June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis
By: Robert C. Pozen and Benjamin Greff Schneider
The Southeast Bank of Texas, like most other financial institutions in the U.S., has fallen on hard times during the financial crisis of the past year. Now, in March 2009, the bank is faced with several choices as a result of the new reforms spawned from the financial...
View Details
Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Capital;
Financial Liquidity;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Banking Industry;
Texas
Pozen, Robert C., and Benjamin Greff Schneider. "The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 310-141, June 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- April 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
RTY Telecom: Network Expansion
Requires real option analysis to analyze a capital expenditure decision by a large regional telecommunications firm. The firm needs to add network capacity for its broadband offering and is trying to decide on how to do this. One approach is simply to purchase this...
View Details
Keywords:
Expansion;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Wireless Technology;
Telecommunications Industry
Chacko, George C., Vincent Dessain, Christopher Smith, and Anders Sjoman. "RTY Telecom: Network Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 205-102, April 2005. (Revised March 2006.)