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- February 1999 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman
A "slice of life" depiction of the range of issues and activities experienced by Frank Burke (HBS MBA 1987), the president of a minor league baseball team (the Chattanooga Lookouts). Raises questions of the applicability of MBA skills in this role and the "quotient of...
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Keywords:
Happiness;
Managerial Roles;
Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing;
Cost Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Operations;
Sports;
Business Education;
Sports Industry;
Tennessee
Greyser, Stephen A., and Kirk A. Goldman. "Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts." Harvard Business School Case 599-029, February 1999. (Revised July 2004.)
- April 2022
- Supplement
Connecting Students in Chattanooga (B)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
Keywords:
K-12 Education;
Pandemic;
COVID-19;
Accessibility;
Education;
Urban Development;
Wealth and Poverty;
Education Industry;
Tennessee
Rivkin, Jan W., and Manjari Raman. "Connecting Students in Chattanooga (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-451, April 2022.
- June 2003
- Case
Booker T. Washington High School
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
For over a decade, Principal Elsie Bailey has led a turnaround of this inner-city high school in Memphis. Although she's made progress, some problems have arisen for this "school of last resort" that deals with some of the more difficult student populations, and...
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- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B3): Chattanooga Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin P. Scibetta and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an...
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- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
projects the private sector was planning to do on its own. The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 is perhaps the most famous example of this. Other dollars appear to indirectly crowd out private firms by hiring away employees and the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
manufacturing processes, employees, physical plants, and steel products. U.S. Steel assembled the images into photograph albums organized by subsidiary or plant location—for example, the Geneva Steel Company in Utah or Tennessee Coal and...
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- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
to open roles at organizations and HBCUs actively hiring (will continue to update)- MLT, SEO, Howard University, Spelman College, North Carolina A&T, Tennessee State, Hampton University, Tuskegee University 3. Get informed: More about...
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- August 1994
- Case
Saturn Corp.'s Module II Decision
In the Spring of 1994, Saturn Corp. was setting sales records by attracting more than 25,000 buyers per month. Saturn officials believed there was a long-term opportunity to sell 400,000 to 500,000 cars per year in the United States and selected international markets....
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Production;
Expansion;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
Retail Industry;
Tennessee;
United States
McGahan, Anita M., and Greg Keller. "Saturn Corp.'s Module II Decision." Harvard Business School Case 795-011, August 1994.
- August 2023
- Case
Vanderbilt: Transforming an Academic Health Care Delivery System, 2020
By: Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and David N. Bernstein
Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care Industry;
Academic Medicine;
Value-based Health Care;
Value-based Healthcare;
Health Care Delivery;
Service Delivery;
Transformation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Corporate Strategy;
Leadership;
Health Industry;
Tennessee;
United States
Porter, Michael E., Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, and David N. Bernstein. "Vanderbilt: Transforming an Academic Health Care Delivery System, 2020." Harvard Business School Case 724-373, August 2023.
- March 1998 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
Boston Duck Tours,1996: Has Boston Gone Quackers?
By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson
While on vacation in Memphis, former investment manager Andy Wilson discovers a unique "tour bus" that travels over land and through water. He decides to transplant the concept to Boston and to add both historical and theatrical features to the amphibious tour. As he...
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Creativity;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Tourism Industry;
Tennessee;
Boston
Hart, Myra M., and Stephanie Dodson. "Boston Duck Tours,1996: Has Boston Gone Quackers?" Harvard Business School Case 898-189, March 1998. (Revised July 1998.)
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
changes on Black Monday for the 2014-15 season, seven for the 2013-14 season, and eight for the 2012-13 season. This year Black Monday is on January 4, 2015. Three coaches, Ken Whisenhunt of Tennessee Titans, Joe Philbin of Miami...
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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
stars. Announced actions against an Iowa dairy after illegal drug residues were found in the dairy's cows; a Tennessee company for selling a substance billed as both a preventative against skin cancer and a tanning agent; and a medical...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
the lengthy rehearsals leading up to a production of Tennessee Williams’s classic play A Streetcar Named Desire. Austin and Devin then draw parallels to the ways in which path-breaking companies, such as Sun Microsystems, promote...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
younger, low-income) patients in Tennessee and Iowa. This case allows for a discussion of whether diversifying to serve these new populations was the key to ensuring CareMore’s successful growth or a distraction from its core competency...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
by a small start-up either in North Carolina or eastern Tennessee (the drink has two origin myths, he said with a smile), the high-sugar, high-caffeine, low-carbonation beverage battled very competitively against Coke and Pepsi before its...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Bruce Henderson a Tennessee native, was Vanderbilt’s director of development at age 26. In that capacity, he met and was hired away by Henderson to work at BCG (where he was the firm’s “best salesman ever,” Kiechel writes). In 1973 Bain...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Preface by Augustus White III, M.D. (AMP 94, 1984) Harvard University Press Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in...
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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Delivery System In 2013, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was the top ranked hospital in Tennessee by U.S. News & World Report and among the leading academic medical centers in the entire southeast region. The 2012 U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2023
- Teaching Note
The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged...
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Keywords:
Opioids;
Shareholder Activism;
Investment Activism;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation;
Risk Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Distribution Industry;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
West Virginia;
Tennessee;
Ohio;
Pennsylvania