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Second Chance: Life Without Student Debt
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit...
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  • June 2021
  • Case

Modern Endowment Management: Paula Volent and the Bowdoin Endowment
By: Luis M. Viceira, Emily R. McComb and Dean Xu
This case examines modern endowment investment management through the lens of a leadership transition between Chief Investment Officers (CIOs). In March 2021, Paula Volent is about to step down as the CIO of the endowment of Bowdoin College after twenty-one years, and...  View Details
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  • June 2021
  • Supplement

TSLA Student Template
By: Charles CY Wang
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  • June 2021
  • Supplement

ADI Worksheet Student Template
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Charles CY Wang
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  • June 2021
  • Case

Linda Oubré at Whittier College
By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown
The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County, California, is...  View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Race And Ethnicity; Diversity; Leadership; Women And Leadership; United States; California; Los Angeles
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  • June 2021
  • Supplement

Linda Oubré at Whittier College (B)
By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown
The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County, California, is...  View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Education; Women And Leadership; Diversity; Racial Disparity; Los Angeles; California; United States
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  • June 2021
  • Supplement

Linda Oubré at Whittier College (C)
By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown
The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County, California, is...  View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Education; Women And Leadership; Diversity; Racial Disparity; Los Angeles; California; United States
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  • June 2021
  • Technical Note

Introduction to Linear Regression
By: Michael Parzen and Paul J. 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...  View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Risk and Uncertainty; Theory
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Who Closed the Schools?
By: Joshua D. Coval
This paper examines the differences in characteristics between U.S. public schools that opted for virtual instruction because of COVID-19, and schools that did not. Much of the variation can be explained by measures of the degree to which districts favored teachers...  View Details
Keywords: Public Education; COVID-19; Virtual Learning; Education; Health Pandemics; Teaching; Online Technology; Policy; Outcome or Result; United States
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  • May 2021
  • Teaching Note

Megan Ming Francis: Leadership and Racial Injustice
By: Francesca Gino, Frances X. Frei and Youngme Moon
In this multimedia case, Megan Ming Francis, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington (UW) and a visiting professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the roots of racial injustice and the need for change. Through...  View Details
Keywords: Racial Injustice; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership
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  • May 2021
  • Teaching Note

Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy
By: Frances X. Frei, Francesca Gino and Youngme Moon
In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits, Ton showed how operational excellence enables companies to offer the lowest prices to customers while ensuring good jobs for their...  View Details
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  • May 2021
  • Simulation

Customer Compatibility Exercise Application
By: Ryan W. Buell
Customers impose considerable variability on the operating systems of service organizations. They show up when they wish (arrival variability), they ask for different things (request variability), they vary in their willingness and ability to help themselves (effort...  View Details
Keywords: Customer Compatibility; Customer Relationship Management; Strategy; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Performance Efficiency; Analysis
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  • May 2021
  • Case

Roku 2021
By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
This case is used to explore the strategic concept of "look forward, reason back." Roku in 2021 is trying to figure out the future of television and streaming media. Students are asked to provide a vision for television and streaming media (that is, Look Forward) by...  View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • May 2021
  • Case

Megan Ming Francis: Leadership and Racial Injustice
By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.  View Details
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  • April 2021
  • Supplement

Muddy Waters vs. eHealth: The Debate of a 'Lifetime' Spreadsheet Supplement for Students
By: Jonas Heese
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  • April 2021
  • Case

Distinct Software
By: Das Narayandas, Arijit Sengupta and Jonathan Wray
Distinct Software (disguised name), a global enterprise software company, is at an important point in its growth trajectory where the luster of its mantra of “grow and win at any cost” has dimmed with increasing competition and margin pressures. To help navigate its...  View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Marketing; Sales; Performance Productivity; Technological Innovation
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  • April 2021
  • Exercise

Valuing Employment Exercise
By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and Katie Panella
The Valuing Employment exercise can be used to show the importance of impact measurement in designing incentives and contracts. The exercise has two phases. In the first phase, participants play the role of managers at the State of Massachusetts Infrastructure...  View Details
Keywords: Bid Evaluation; Workforce; Impact Measurement; Bids and Bidding; Contracts; Design; Measurement and Metrics
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  • April 2021
  • Teaching Plan

Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance
By: Brian Trelstad and John Masko
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-008. 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...  View Details
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
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  • April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
In the wake of George Floyd's killing in May 2020, and widespread protests for social justice in the United States, OneTen was formed by a coalition of 40 large companies to provide one million jobs for African-Americans in 10 years. The case describes the background...  View Details
Keywords: Labor Market; Diversity; Race; Jobs and Positions; Opportunities; United States
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Kevin Huang
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the...  View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Performance
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  • April 2021
  • Case

Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy
By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost...  View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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Second Chance: Life Without Student Debt
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit...
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