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- June 2017
- Case
Magellan Boatworks
By: John A. Quelch and James T. Kindley
Magellan Boatworks is a midsize manufacturer of customized, power "cruising yachts." In the face of economic and political uncertainty in late 2016, Magellan's VP of sales and marketing, Walt Robinson, wonders whether he should request a budget increase for 2017....
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Quelch, John A., and James T. Kindley. "Magellan Boatworks." Harvard Business School Brief Case 917-547, June 2017.
- March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Governing OpenAI (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Will Hurwitz
In late November 2023, OpenAI’s new board of directors took stock of the situation. The company, which sought to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)—computer systems with capabilities exceeding human abilities—was looking to regain its footing after a chaotic...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Board Of Directors;
Board Decisions;
Board Dynamics;
Corporate Boards;
Governance Changes;
Governance Structure;
Leadership Change;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Nonprofit Governance;
Strategy And Execution;
Technological Change;
AI and Machine Learning;
Corporate Governance;
Leadership;
Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Technological Innovation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Resignation and Termination;
Ethics;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Open Source Distribution;
Partners and Partnerships;
Technology Industry;
San Francisco;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., Suraj Srinivasan, and Will Hurwitz. "Governing OpenAI (A)." Harvard Business School Case 324-103, March 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- July 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Timberland: Commerce and Justice
By: James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard and James Quinn
When Jeffrey Swartz became the third generation in his family to lead the Timberland Co., he pursued a strategy in which commerce and justice were "inextricably linked." Community involvement, environmental management, and global labor standards became not addenda to...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership Development;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Programs;
Opportunities;
Alignment;
Business Strategy;
Value
Austin, James E., Herman B. Leonard, and James Quinn. "Timberland: Commerce and Justice." Harvard Business School Case 305-002, July 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests
We study comparative statics of manipulations by women in the men-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism in the two-sided one-to-one marriage market. We prove that if a group of women employs truncation strategies or weakly successfully manipulates, then all other...
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Ashlagi, Itai, and Flip Klijn. "Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-111, June 2010.
- March 1999 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Pandesic: The Challenges of a New Business Venture (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower and Clark Gilbert
Pandesic is a joint venture of SAP and Intel designed to develop turnkey information architectures for marketspace companies. The case explores the problems of developing the joint venture from the perspective of its general management. Describes the development of its...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Design;
Information;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Marketing Communications;
Performance
Bower, Joseph L., and Clark Gilbert. "Pandesic: The Challenges of a New Business Venture (A)." Harvard Business School Case 399-129, March 1999. (Revised August 2005.)
Suraj Srinivasan
Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the
- 8:30 AM – 6:45 PM EDT, 15 Sep 2020
- Virtual Programming
Competing in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation
How are companies today using artificial intelligence (AI) to respond to business challenges? During this session, professors Karim Lakhani and Macro Iansiti, coauthors of the book Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the...
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- June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
The Decline of the British Cotton Industry (Abridged)
Supplements the general argument concerning the decline of the British economy by showing how vertical specialization, horizontal competition, and entrenched job control combined to create incentives for management to adapt to changing international conditions by...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Business Cycles;
Organizational Structure;
Consumer Products Industry;
Great Britain
McCraw, Thomas K. "The Decline of the British Cotton Industry (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-253, June 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- November 1976
- Article
Partial Equilibrium Approach to the Free-Rider Problem
By: Jerry R. Green, Elon Kohlberg and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Groves and others have shown that truthful answers concerning preferences for public goods can be elicited as dominant strategies if appropriate tax-subsidies rules are applied. This paper studies the statistical properties of the total revenues generated by one of the...
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Keywords:
Problems and Challenges
Green, Jerry R., Elon Kohlberg, and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Partial Equilibrium Approach to the Free-Rider Problem." Journal of Public Economics 6, no. 4 (November 1976): 375–394.
- June 2011 (Revised December 2013)
- Case
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
By: Francesca Gino, Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a Carbon Negative campaign that would offset more greenhouse gas emissions than were released by the...
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Keywords:
Carbon Footprint;
Carbon Offsetting;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Brands and Branding;
Negotiation Tactics;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
Fiji
Gino, Francesca, Michael W. Toffel, and Stephanie van Sice. "FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?" Harvard Business School Case 611-049, June 2011. (Revised December 2013.)
- July 1993
- Case
Richardson Hindustan Limited (Abridged)
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Deals with the problems of a country manager building and balancing a constituency relationship. Explicitly examines the demands and responsiveness of four major constituencies: corporate headquarters; the national organization; the Indian government; and the public...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Business and Government Relations;
Adoption;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
India
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Richardson Hindustan Limited (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 394-025, July 1993.
- November 2016 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team
By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and John D. Vaughan
BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises across the United States by 2016, generating over $300...
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Keywords:
Health Care Services;
Entrepreneurs;
Board Of Directors;
Boards Of Directors;
Health Care Industry;
Growth Strategy;
Organizational Change;
Brand Positioning;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Franchising;
Family-owned Business;
Home Health Care;
Managing Growth;
Management Styles;
Organizational Development;
Talent Management;
Women Executives;
Women And Leadership;
Business Startups;
Family Business;
Small Business;
Talent and Talent Management;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Health Care and Treatment;
Human Capital;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Skills;
Management Style;
Management Succession;
Management Systems;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Strategy
Groysberg, Boris, Colleen Ammerman, and John D. Vaughan. "BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team." Harvard Business School Case 417-020, November 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
- February 2005 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba): The Pot Line 5 Expansion Project
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
In September 2002, Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) needed to decide how to finance its proposed $1.7 billion pot line. The company's financial adviser, Taylor De-Jongh (TDJ), had recommended Alba employ a multisourced financing strategy using as many as five sources of debt...
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Keywords:
Project Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Capital;
Financial Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Bahrain
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "Aluminium Bahrain (Alba): The Pot Line 5 Expansion Project." Harvard Business School Case 205-027, February 2005. (Revised July 2005.)
- February 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
The New York Times Paywall
On March 28, 2011, The New York Times website became a restricted site where most of the content was protected behind a "paywall." Users who exceeded the limit of 20 free articles per month were required to pay for either a digital or print subscription. The newspaper...
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Kumar, Vineet, Bharat Anand, Sunil Gupta, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "The New York Times Paywall." Harvard Business School Case 512-077, February 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition
By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to...
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Keywords:
Competitive Advantage
Pisano, Gary P. "Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-146, June 2016.
- March 1996 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Arborite
Describes the competitive position of Arborite, a Canadian manufacturer of high-pressure laminates (HPL) (a product sold under the Formica name in the United States). Arborite's market share has slipped, and a new general manager must evaluate whether a change in...
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McGahan, Anita M. "Arborite." Harvard Business School Case 796-146, March 1996. (Revised February 2006.)
- April 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
KENETECH Corporation
Involves a strategic decision about how fast to ramp up sales. Improvements in technology have driven down the cost of electric power generated from wind turbines to the point where they are competitive with fossil-fuel plants. KENETECH needs to raise equity capital to...
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Keywords:
Renewable Energy;
Borrowing and Debt;
Equity;
Initial Public Offering;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Going Public;
Sales;
Competition;
Energy Industry
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "KENETECH Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 294-111, April 1994. (Revised September 1994.)
- June 2010 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Continental Media Group: Business Highlights
By: Robert L. Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Continental Media Group has a series of business reviews struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging opportunities and the formulation of new strategies. The interactive system used by top...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Governance Controls;
Management Systems;
Risk Management;
Business Strategy;
Publishing Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Kathryn Rosenberg. "Continental Media Group: Business Highlights." Harvard Business School Case 110-087, June 2010. (Revised April 2011.)
- November 2015 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Lipman: Vertical Integration in Fresh Tomatoes
By: José B. Alvarez and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Lipman, the largest open field fresh tomato grower and marketer in the United States, has been successfully pursuing an aggressive strategy of acquisitions over the last several years. End-market consolidation in the retail space has driven vertical integration in the...
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Keywords:
Tomatoes;
Fresh Produce;
Vertical Integration;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
United States;
Cuba;
Central America
Alvarez, José B., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Lipman: Vertical Integration in Fresh Tomatoes." Harvard Business School Case 516-053, November 2015. (Revised February 2016.)
- May 2001 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Calpine Corporation: The Evolution from Project to Corporate Finance
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
In early 1999, Calpine Corp.'s CEO Pete Cartwright adopted an aggressive growth strategy with the goal of increasing the company's aggregate generating capacity from approximately 3,000 to 15,000 megawatts (MW) by 2004. He believed there was a fleeting opportunity to...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Cost of Capital;
Project Finance;
Adaptation;
Profit;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Energy Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "Calpine Corporation: The Evolution from Project to Corporate Finance." Harvard Business School Case 201-098, May 2001. (Revised January 2003.)