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- October 1997 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Asda (A)
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
In the mid-1980s, Asda was one of the most successful retail companies in the United Kingdom. By 1991, the chain of 200 grocery stores had a lack of direction, a demoralized workforce, declining profits, rising debt, collapsing stock price, and was facing bankruptcy....
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Restructuring;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Crisis Management;
Management Teams;
Business Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United Kingdom
Beer, Michael, and James Weber. "Asda (A)." Harvard Business School Case 498-005, October 1997. (Revised January 2008.)
- 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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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.)
- December 1998
- Case
Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (B): Education Reform in Union City
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
The second in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the education reform efforts planned and implemented in the school system, which coincided with the partnership and...
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Middle School Education;
Secondary Education;
Change Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Information Technology;
Education Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
New Jersey
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ellen Pruyne. "Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (B): Education Reform in Union City." Harvard Business School Case 399-043, December 1998.
- 29 Dec 2021
- News
Should Retailers Split E-Commerce From Stores? A High-Level Debate
- 10 Oct 2020
- News
To Save the Climate, We Have To Reimagine Capitalism
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
School Case 218-090 The Fidelity Growth Company Fund No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218090-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-050 Big Apple Circus: Time to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
tax obligation for HBS, create an employment relationship, create a business presence or similar. This list is not inclusive and each payment will be analyzed on a case by case basis. The final determination...
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- Web
Chase Hall | About
appointed him treasury secretary, and in that position, Chase implemented the National Bank Act, which established the basis for the US paper money system that is still in use today. In 1864, Lincoln appointed Chase the sixth chief justice of the US Supreme Court....
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- 16 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Marketplace or Reseller?
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries....
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Educator Resources - Race, Gender & Equity
Educator Resources Tackling Diversity in Case Discussions We are working to create a culture of dialogue and equity in the classroom. Case Collections Diversity, Belonging & Inclusion Resources MAY 2021 |...
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure...
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- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
candidates and choose collaborators who reframed their distress as passion compared to those who did not. Expresser gender did not moderate these effects. Results suggest that in cases when distress expressions cannot or should not be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
investors with longer-term horizons and incentives that are more consistent with the long-term strategy of the company. The managers of most companies take their investor base as a "given" that cannot be changed through their actions or words. Using the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2024
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and...
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Restructuring;
Talent and Talent Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Consulting Industry
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-704, January 2024.
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
By investing in training that is not likely to yield a good return, senior executives and their HR professionals are complicit in what we have come to call the "great training robbery." Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Office of Senator Wendy Davis, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs HBS ACTIVITIES Black New Venture Competition Co-Director, Women in Investing Club Board Member, African-American Student Union Maren Quezada “I came from a background where I was expected to just...
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- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
years. We get to market size by estimating how many customers feel the pain. We like customer pain. We also look at the technology to see how proprietary and difficult the solution to the problem is. The ideal case is four Ph.D.s solving...
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by Lauren Barley
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
you give an example? Israeli: Suppose that women are more likely to buy red iPhone cases compared to other groups. Now, I decide to exclude gender when I train my algorithm to predict something, in order to prevent any biased outcome. But...
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by Rachel Layne