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Barber’s own match manufacturing company consolidated with three other firms in 1881 to form the Diamond Match Company, controlling about 85% of the...
- September 2020
- Case
JOANN: Joannalytics Inventory Allocation Tool
By: Kris Ferreira and Srikanth Jagabathula
Michael Joyce, Vice President of Inventory Management at JOANN, championed an effort to develop and implement an inventory allocation analytics tool that used advanced analytics to predict in-season demand of seasonal items for each of JOANN’s nearly 900 stores and...
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Keywords:
Analytics;
Machine Learning;
Optimization;
Inventory Management;
Mathematical Methods;
Decision Making;
Operations;
Supply Chain Management;
Resource Allocation;
Distribution;
Technology Adoption;
Software;
Change Management;
Fashion Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States;
ohio
Ferreira, Kris, and Srikanth Jagabathula. "JOANN: Joannalytics Inventory Allocation Tool." Harvard Business School Case 621-055, September 2020.
- September 2020
- Case
Keeping It in the Family at the Hayden Saw Company
By: V.G. Narayanan and John Masko
In 2019, Board Chair and third-generation shareholder Helen Fullerton was preparing for a meeting to discuss Ohio-based Hayden Saw Company’s (Hayden) future as a family business. As the company entered its fifth decade, the Hayden family was dealing with three distinct...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Corporate Governance;
Family Ownership;
Business And Shareholder Relations;
Family And Family Relationships;
Governing And Advisory Boards;
Construction Industry;
ohio;
United States
Narayanan, V.G., and John Masko. "Keeping It in the Family at the Hayden Saw Company." Harvard Business School Case 121-026, September 2020.
- August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Supplement
Facelift at Olay (B)
By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Olivia Hull
This supplement to Facelift at Olay (A) explains the major steps Procter & Gamble’s skincare brand Olay took to reverse several years of declining sales.
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Demographics;
Age;
Brands And Branding;
Marketing Channels;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Online Advertising;
Transformation;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Beauty And Cosmetics Industry;
United States;
ohio
Gupta, Sunil, Rajiv Lal, and Olivia Hull. "Facelift at Olay (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 521-002, August 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- August 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
Facelift at Olay (A)
By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Olivia Hull
By October 2017, Procter & Gamble’s skincare brand Olay has been struggling with declining sales for several years. The team has tried many remedies, but none has returned the brand to growth. As pressure grows from Olay’s competitors, including hundreds of new...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Demographics;
Age;
Brands And Branding;
Marketing Channels;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Online Advertising;
Transformation;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Beauty And Cosmetics Industry;
United States;
ohio
Gupta, Sunil, Rajiv Lal, and Olivia Hull. "Facelift at Olay (A)." Harvard Business School Case 521-011, August 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- July 2020
- Case
Applying Data Science and Analytics at P&G
By: Srikant M. Datar, Sarah Mehta and Paul Hamilton
Set in December 2019, this case explores how P&G has applied data science and analytics to cut costs and improve outcomes across its business units. The case provides an overview of P&G’s approach to data management and governance, and reviews the challenges associated...
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- February 2020
- Case
Halftime for Heidelberg
By: Debora L. Spar
The case follows President Rob Huntington as he seeks to find a viable way forward for Heidelberg University.
Located in Tiffin, Ohio, Heidelberg is a small, private, four-year university. As with many similar institutions of higher education, it currently faces a...
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Keywords:
University;
University Administration;
University Endowment;
Endowments;
Brand Management;
Higher Education;
Strategic Planning;
Brands And Branding;
Education Industry;
ohio
Spar, Debora L. "Halftime for Heidelberg." Harvard Business School Case 720-021, February 2020.
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question...
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- October 2019
- Case
Engaging the Nationwide Workforce
By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jessica Gover and Sarah Mehta
Nationwide is “on your side,” but did employees feel that way? CAO Gale King and CEO Steve Rasmussen, starting in 2008, invested heavily in a human capital strategy centered around “engagement” at the Ohio-based Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Set in 2014, this...
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Keywords:
Talent And Talent Management;
Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Insurance;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Retention;
Selection And Staffing;
Employment;
Human Capital;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Social Psychology;
Financial Services Industry;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
ohio
Bernstein, Ethan S., Jessica Gover, and Sarah Mehta. "Engaging the Nationwide Workforce." Harvard Business School Case 420-036, October 2019.
- October 2019 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance
By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko
In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first...
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Retention;
Selection And Staffing;
Employment;
Human Capital;
Growth Management;
Brands And Branding;
Social Marketing;
Mission And Purpose;
Prejudice And Bias;
City;
Urban Scope;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
ohio;
United States
Chu, Michael, Brian Trelstad, and John Masko. "Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance." Harvard Business School Case 320-008, October 2019. (Revised October 2020.)
- February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Hot Chicken Takeover
By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull
By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the...
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Keywords:
Fair Chance Employment;
Fair Chance Hiring;
Open Hiring;
Inclusive Hiring;
Criminal Record;
Homelessness;
Therapeutic Employment;
Corporate Culture;
Managing The Future Of Work;
Food;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Values And Beliefs;
Fairness;
Human Resources;
Compensation And Benefits;
Recruitment;
Employees;
Retention;
Selection And Staffing;
Innovation Strategy;
Job Offer;
Job Interviews;
Human Capital;
Leadership;
Growth Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Mission And Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Welfare;
Food And Beverage Industry;
ohio;
United States
Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 819-078, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- March 2018
- Case
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology
By: Joel Goh, Robert S. Huckman and Nikhil Sahni
In December 2014, Dr. Anthony Furlan, chair of the Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), faced a mandate from the hospital’s executive leadership team. Specifically, all UH departments were directed to take steps within six...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Hospitals;
Capacity Planning;
Scheduling;
Health Care And Treatment;
Service Operations;
Performance Capacity;
Health Industry;
North America;
United States;
ohio;
Cleveland
Goh, Joel, Robert S. Huckman, and Nikhil Sahni. "University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology." Harvard Business School Case 618-062, March 2018.
- January 2018
- Supplement
Interview with Case Protagonist Wen Li
By: Willy C. Shih
In today's global economy, what are the factors that go into production location choice? This case is set in the world's largest automotive glass producer as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced with...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Globalization Of Supply Chain;
Production;
Production Management;
Production;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Auto Industry;
China;
United States
Shih, Willy C. "Interview with Case Protagonist Wen Li." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 618-704, January 2018.
- August 2017 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision
By: Willy Shih
In today's global economy, what are the factors that go into production location choice? This case is set in the world's second largest automotive glass producer as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced...
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Keywords:
Supply Chains;
Globalization Of Supply Chain;
Manufacturing Footprint;
Manufacturing;
Manufacturing Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Supply Chain;
Globalization;
Supply Chain Management;
Production;
Logistics;
Strategy;
Auto Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
China
Shih, Willy. "Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision." Harvard Business School Case 618-007, August 2017. (Revised March 2020.)
- August 2017
- Case
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said....
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Hackathon;
Heroin;
Opioids;
Crowdsourcing;
Public Sector;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation And Invention;
Collaborative Innovation And Invention;
Health Pandemics;
Public Administration Industry;
Health Industry;
ohio;
Cincinnati
Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Case 818-010, August 2017.
- October 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments
By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
Founded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees’ planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality...
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Keywords:
Health Financing;
Health Insurance;
Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements;
Bundled Payments;
Innovation;
Scale;
Health;
Health Care And Treatment;
Cost Management;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Health Industry;
California;
San Francisco;
San Diego;
Seattle
Huckman, Robert S., and Sarah Mehta. "Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments." Harvard Business School Case 617-017, October 2016. (Revised March 2019.)
- May 2015
- Case
The Columbus Partnership
By: Jan W. Rivkin
The Columbus Partnership, a civic alliance bringing together the heads of roughly 50 leading organizations in central Ohio, has made strides in developing the region's economy. But a stinging defeat at the ballot box has set back the Partnership's efforts to improve...
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Rivkin, Jan W. "The Columbus Partnership." Harvard Business School Case 715-462, May 2015.
- December 2013 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism
By: Juan Alcacer, Christian Bettinger and Andreas Philippi
Oktoberfest, an annual festival held in Munich (Germany) for more than 200 years, has grown in recent decades into a hugely popular event that attracts 7 million visitors annually, a large proportion of which are foreign. In fact, Oktoberfest's global appeal is so...
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Keywords:
Value Creation;
Product Positioning;
Marketing Channels;
Global Strategy;
Food And Beverage Industry;
ohio;
Munich;
Brazil;
Bangalore;
Beijing
Alcacer, Juan, Christian Bettinger, and Andreas Philippi. "The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 714-439, December 2013. (Revised October 2014.)
- October 2013
- Case
Pearle Vision: Clearly Different?
By: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
Ohio-based optical retailer Pearle Vision, part of the vertically integrated Italian eyewear group Luxottica, sold glasses and offered in-store eye exams. Once the largest U.S. optical retailer, Pearle Vision, with 266 corporate stores and 356 franchised stores in...
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Keywords:
Eye Care;
Competitive Advantage;
Market Participation;
Retail Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Lal, Rajiv, and Natalie Kindred. "Pearle Vision: Clearly Different?" Harvard Business School Case 514-015, October 2013.
- 23 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013
- Conference Presentation
Key Drivers for Inner City Growth
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) annual ecomonic summit. The 2013 theme: Transforming Urban Ecologies, What Works for Cities
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Porter, Michael E. "Key Drivers for Inner City Growth." Paper presented at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Cleveland, OH, October 23–24, 2013.
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