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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Structural barriers also appear to be impeding bank lending to small businesses, including consolidation within the banking industry, high search costs, and higher transaction costs associated with small business lending. A decades-long...
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- Profile
Yazan Halwani
scooter. “It’s so simple yet so controversial,” says Yazan. “But the real story behind the image is a woman breaking the rules to support her family.” Expanding his impact Yazan wanted an MBA “to bring the pieces together. I have different parallel interests that I...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
the primary factors driving the School’s success. Consolidated revenue for the fiscal year — which ended June 30, 2007 — grew by $37 million, or 10.1 percent, to $405 million, while expenses increased by $30 million, or 8.7 percent, to...
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- February 1996 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (A)
By: Gary P. Pisano and Maryam Golnaraghi
Focuses on the decision confronting senior administrators at the Brigham and Women's Hospital: whether to enter into an affiliation with the Massachusetts General Hospital. Requires students to analyze the complex institutional changes in the health environment and to...
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Keywords:
Consolidation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Management Teams;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Pisano, Gary P., and Maryam Golnaraghi. "Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 696-062, February 1996. (Revised April 1997.)
- Web
Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Financial Report 2015
Financials Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Revenues IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year {FY} ended June 30... 2015 2014 2013 MBA Tuition &...
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- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
realize the potential threat posed by these new technologies, they invariably enter a downward spiral of cost-cutting and consolidation in a futile effort to become competitive again at the market's low end. Ironically, this 'thumbscrew...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
reforms.” In a freewheeling Q&A session with some 400 students in Burden Hall on September 30, Thain advocated action on three fronts: consolidating the six federal agencies that regulate financial institutions to eliminate overlapping...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
another area unfamiliar to him - consolidation and relocation. "Story of my life," the affable Bines laughs. Bines decided to head for HBS to improve his business skills and evaluate his career plans. While at the School, he embraced a...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- July 2018
- Case
LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry
By: Boris Groysberg and Akiko Kanno
In the spring of 2018, Kinya Seto, president and CEO of LIXIL Group Corporation, a major housing and building products and services company, called a meeting at the company’s head office in central Tokyo to discuss how to implement the new three-year strategic plan....
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Keywords:
Turnaround;
Leadership And Change Management;
Consolidation;
Change Management;
Leadership;
Global Strategy;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan
Groysberg, Boris, and Akiko Kanno. "LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry." Harvard Business School Case 419-009, July 2018.
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Five Year Data Summary - Financial Report 2015
Financials 5-Year Data Summary Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financial Data IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year {FY} ended June 30... 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Revenues $ 707...
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- February 1998 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Danielle Melito Wu
The Tata Group began the 1990s as a confederation of loosely coupled firms. This case considers the rise to prominence of the new CEO of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, and his attempts to strengthen the inter-relationships among the group companies at a time when critics...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Business Conglomerates;
Organizations;
Corporate Strategy;
Consolidation;
Business Strategy;
Alignment;
Consumer Products Industry;
Service Industry
Khanna, Tarun, Krishna G. Palepu, and Danielle Melito Wu. "House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 798-037, February 1998. (Revised August 2006.)
- 19 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
worsen. The industry is now going through full-scale consolidation and reorganization in the face of competition from Internet properties. The trend begs the question: Is Murdoch overpaying for Dow Jones? Harvard Business School professor...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
imaging with $2.2 billion in sales, is now in the early stages of an eighteen-month streamlining and consolidation strategy that was announced in December. He expects that within the next year an exciting line of Polaroid products -...
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Nancy O. Perry
- March 2006
- Case
Bringing OTC back to the Exchange: Euronext.liffe's launch of ABC
Euronex.liffe, a derivatives trading exchange, launches matching, clearing, and confirmation services for the over-the-counter market. This combination of services creates a new platform for a market that potentially cannibalizes its current exchange-based services. Is...
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Cantillon, Estelle S., and Pai-Ling Yin. "Bringing OTC back to the Exchange: Euronext.liffe's launch of ABC." Harvard Business School Case 706-489, March 2006.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
of Consolidated Container Company (CCC). Headquartered in Atlanta, CCC has some 4,500 employees and manufactures its plastic containers at 68 different plants. Of these, 24 are on-site with customers and 5 are located in Canada, Mexico,...
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- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
challenges Vivian liked what she found at Diageo and decided to pursue an MBA to help her consolidation in the industry and her transition into leadership: "I wanted more management skills – how to lead, how to inspire people,"...
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CPG
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This Note was created for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of the Harvard Business School case, "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." As chairman and CEO, David Kenny guided the Weather Company's transformation from a cable television...
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- January 2016 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired its digital assets. This case discusses major decisions taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to...
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Keywords:
Weather Company;
IBM;
Digital;
Technology;
David Kenny;
Television;
Weather Channel;
Legacy Business;
Mainstream;
Newstream;
Reorganization;
Acquisitions;
Transformation;
Information Technology;
Television Entertainment;
Acquisition;
Consolidation;
Change;
Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." Harvard Business School Case 316-143, January 2016. (Revised March 2016.)
- January 1998
- Case
Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Negotiation;
Valuation;
Investment Banking;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Consolidation;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Sebenius, James K., and David T. Kotchen. "Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (B)." Harvard Business School Case 898-141, January 1998.
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way...
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Margie Kelly