Publications

July 1996 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Northwest Airlines: Brush with Bankruptcy (A)--November 1992

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Davis Dyer

Deals with Northwest's financial crisis between the fall of 1992 and the following spring. Northwest's leaders face the problem of how to meet an impending $600 million payment on the 1989 LBO loan when the airline had run out of cash. Concludes by outlining options... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Restructuring; Leveraged Buyouts; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Financial Crisis; Air Transportation Industry; United States

August 1996 (Revised December 1999)
Case

J Boats, Inc.

By: Robert L. Simons

During the 20-year evolution of a family-owned, entrepreneurial sailboat company, two founders leverage their design and marketing skills to build one of the most recognized brands in the recreational boating industry. The founder then considers management succession... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Risk Management; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Valuation; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry

Article

MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

By: Robert C. Merton

Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

This book tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi in Kabul, Afghanistan, who overcame the Taliban's ban on women leaving their homes alone by making clothes in her living room to help support her family. This venture was the beginning of a... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

HBX: Expanding Our Reach

Recognizing the potential of online learning, both to reach new audiences and to strengthen its engagement with alumni, the School is developing HBX, its own online platform. While sharing best practices with edX (a joint venture of... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

March 2019
Supplement

KITEA (B): Getting Ready to Face IKEA

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in September 2015, when IKEA is about to open its first store in Morocco. It then chronicles the efforts of KITEA CEO Amine Benkirane and his son Othman between 2013 and 2015 to prepare KITEA for IKEA’s entry. After incurring losses for the first time in... View Details

May 2001
Article

Bringing the Market Inside the Firm?

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Markets; Business Ventures

Read Now

1988
Chapter

An Overview of Takeover Defenses

By: R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Acquisition

August 2017
Module Note

Distinguishing Good Advice from Bad Advice: An Introduction to the HBS Course 'Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise' (BSSE)

By: Clayton Christensen

Overview of theoretical approach of HBS MBA Course "Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise"; distinguishing theory based on correlation from theory based on causal driver. View Details

Keywords: Causation Vs. Correlation; BSSE; Theory; Business Ventures

October 2004
Article

The Obligations of Transnational Corporations: Rawlsian Justice and the Duty of Assistance

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Keywords: Theory; Business Ventures

1 Sep 2010
Conference Presentation

Designs as Selfish Genes: Modularity, Options and Industry Structure

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Design; Business Ventures

Apr 2010
Conference Presentation

The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Transparency

By: Michael W. Toffel

Keywords: Globalization; Business Ventures

fall 1991
Article

Beefing-up Operations in Service Firms

By: R. H. Hayes and R. B. Chase

Keywords: Operations; Business Ventures; Service Industry

September 1989 (Revised April 1991)
Case

Pepsi-Cola U.S. Beverages (B)

Outlines the steps PepsiCo actually took in reorganizing its domestic soft drink business. Students are asked to analyze the pluses and minuses of the change. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Food and Beverage Industry

March 25, 2001
Article

An Information Age Led by Business, So Far

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Information; Business Ventures

22 Oct 2013
News

Pulling the Plug

mention his entrepreneurial spirit—can be traced back to his time at HBS. As a student, he loved former HBS lecturer Irving Grousbeck's popular course on starting new ventures and conducted a field study of Analog Devices, run by Ray... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Telecommunications; Information; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

August 2010 (Revised January 2020)
Case

Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon

By: Geoffrey Jones and Hari Balkrishna

The case examines the entrepreneurial career of Rupert Murdoch and the growth of News Corporation from a small Australian newspaper to a global media giant. It shows how he expanded geographically to Europe, the United States, and Asia and from newspapers to the film... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Media; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Europe; United States; Australia

April 2018
Teaching Note

Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

This Teaching Note assists classroom instructors in teaching HBS case, “Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials,” (HBS No. 316-127), which describes Levy's efforts to transform the Groupe. View Details

Keywords: Digital; Advertising; Managing Change; Collaboration; Synergies; Integration; Millennials; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Change Management; Restructuring; Marketing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Innovation and Management; Digital Marketing

June 2016
Case

Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

Having built Publicis Groupe through acquisitions maintained as separate brands, CEO Maurice Lévy wanted to transform the advertising and marketing firm to an integrated digital-ready enterprise to address industry changes. In early 2016, following a reorganization, he... View Details