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- December 1991 (Revised February 1992)
- Case
Dayton Electric Corp.
Concerns a product redesign decision for one of the company's most successful motor products, its rectified power, medium D-C motor, the RPM. A one-year redesign program has proposed a design that comes close to meeting its stated cost and performance goals, but at the...
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Product Design;
Strategic Planning;
Research and Development;
Business Divisions;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Machinery and Machining;
Manufacturing Industry;
Ohio
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Dayton Electric Corp." Harvard Business School Case 692-071, December 1991. (Revised February 1992.)
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread and the...
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Martha Lagace
- April 1991 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Southland Corp. (A)
Examines the Thompson's $4.9 billion leveraged buyout of the Southland Corp. in 1987. As the original founders of Southland, the Thompsons were concerned about losing control over the company upon learning of the Belzberg family's acquiring interest. The teaching...
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Leveraged Buyouts;
Governance Controls;
Corporate Governance;
Bids and Bidding;
Valuation;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Strategy;
Cash Flow
Ruback, Richard S. "Southland Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 291-038, April 1991. (Revised December 1997.)
- September 2024
- Case
River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
MBA student William Chism, the founder of fully integrated medical marijuana company based in Mississippi, must respond to a significant disruption in the fledgling industry. In late 2023, Rapid Analytics, one of two active licensed testing facilities, has its...
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Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Microeconomics;
Local Range;
Government Legislation;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply and Industry;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Mississippi
- May 2010
- Supplement
Tremblant Capital Group Exhibits (CW)
By: Robin Greenwood
Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York-based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40 percent in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
whether review times or product novelty predicted adverse event reporting. Longer review times were associated with a lower probability of any subsequent reports and a lower probability of reports involving injury/death. Controlling for...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
decades, and I identify remedies well-grounded in antitrust precedent. Paper: http://journaloflaw.us/0%20JoL/2-2/JoL2-2.pdf#page=197 The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century Authors:Lorsch, Jay W. Publication:European Financial Review...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
Whatever the headlines predict these days, there may still be good news for entrepreneurs. Many successful products, services, and pivotal ideas have been launched during an economic lull, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, a senior...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
studies to check on shifts in price elasticities of demand and price-attribute tradeoffs can usefully improve the profitability of pricing decisions at a time when cash is king. Keep an eye on the new consumer. No one has a perfect record of View Details
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by John Quelch
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
children to create a more stable income. This often runs counter to our passion, interest, and growing appetite for risky careers, like startups. The challenge is balancing a more financially predictable path with one that is less certain...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
he had already successfully invaded North Africa and liberated Sicily. As we stood before him, he said, “Gentlemen, look to your right, look to your left, and remember that one of you won’t be around at the end of the war.” That View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
rural versus urban and suburban, that didn’t really predict anything.” (Rural schools did have slower speeds, but they also had fewer students to slow the network down.) After securing nearly $30 million in funding, the group’s work...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans, who both study...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
independence as powerful and rich city-states." —Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986), managing director, Excel Venture Management What do you think? Make your predictions in the comments in the "Post a Comment" box below.
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- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
press governments to allow space for business to work and innovate. The tenet of predictability is vital, said Wagle. "If people are going to invest in very bad conditions, they have to know the rules of the game," he charged....
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
in a survey conducted of 45 experts before the study, including academics, nonprofit staffers, and government or private sector employees. These experts predicted a median 7 percentage point reduction in depression tied to the debt....
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- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
but interviewers commented that they felt “all law students would benefit from such a program.” “I would be lost without the knowledge I gained in CORe,” says Cera. “Because I now have a foundational understanding of how businesses operate and what they care most...
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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability—persistently View Details
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Sean Silverthorne