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- April 2011
- Article
What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?
What can one legitimately learn-analytically and/or prescriptively-from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton...
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Keywords:
Learning;
International Relations;
History;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Negotiation Process;
Conflict and Resolution
Sebenius, James K. "What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?" Negotiation Journal 27, no. 2 (April 2011).
- Web
HBS Application Tips from MBA Admissions - 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...
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- 23 Feb 2022
- Video
Thinking Differently: Part One
- 25 Aug 2016
- Video
Paul Kagame responds to MOC class discussion in 2016
John F. Batter
John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
these require scanning for the biggest opportunities and threats that environmental, social, and governance issues pose to your company’s short- and long-term competitiveness. September 2024 Case Cathay...
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- January 1989 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Du Pont Freon Products Division (A)
In 1988, the Du Pont Co. is abruptly confronted with solid scientific evidence that chlorofluorocarbons are destroying the earth's ozone shield. Du Pont, with its Freon brand product line serving markets for foam insulation, electronics solvents, and especially...
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Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Policy;
Management;
Brands and Branding;
Production;
Service Operations;
Natural Environment;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Environmental Sustainability
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Du Pont Freon Products Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 389-111, January 1989. (Revised March 1995.)
- January 2013
- Case
Austal, Ltd. (A)
By: Willy C. Shih, Margaret Pierson and Dawn H. Lau
Austal, Ltd. was an Australian builder of high-speed passenger ferries. It had translated that expertise into a foothold in the defense market on the US Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program with an Alabama assembly facility. In January 2009 it had just completed...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Global Markets;
Economic Downturn;
Design And Manufacturing;
Preservation Of Capabilities;
Shipbuilding;
Global Footprint;
Military Contracts;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Ship Transportation;
Transportation Industry;
Australia;
United States;
Alabama;
Philippines
Shih, Willy C., Margaret Pierson, and Dawn H. Lau. "Austal, Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 613-025, January 2013.
- August 2011 (Revised August 2011)
- Supplement
What Happened at Citigroup? (B)
By: Clayton Rose and Aldo Sesia
The (B) case provides information on actions taken by Citigroup management in 2009-2010 in the aftermath of the financial crisis and massive government intervention to save the bank. It is a supplement to the (A) case.
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Rose, Clayton, and Aldo Sesia. "What Happened at Citigroup? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 312-038, August 2011. (Revised August 2011.)
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- July 2012
- Article
Discrete Choice Cannot Generate Demand That Is Additively Separable in Own Price
By: Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We show that in a unit demand discrete choice framework with at least three goods, demand cannot be additively separable in own price. This result sharpens the analogous result of Jaffe and Weyl (2010) in the case of linear demand and has implications for testing of...
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Keywords:
Discrete Choice;
Unit Demand;
Separable Demand;
Linear Demand;
Demand and Consumers;
Market Design;
Mathematical Methods;
Economics
Jaffe, Sonia, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Discrete Choice Cannot Generate Demand That Is Additively Separable in Own Price." Economics Letters 116, no. 1 (July 2012): 129–132.
- 13 May 2015
- Blog Post
Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive
direction of companies facing critical issues in the case method. This motivated me to aim for a consulting internship. I chose to work in a frontier market, as the stage of...
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- February 2008
- Case
SPECIALISTERNE: Sense & Details
Three-quarters of Specialisterne's expert software testing staff are diagnosed with some form of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Usually a handicap, ASD conveys talents especially suited to software testing and other highly repetitive tasks that require very high...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Health Disorders;
Employees;
Performance Evaluation;
Quality;
Software;
Information Technology Industry
Austin, Robert D., Jonathan Wareham, and Javier Busquets. "SPECIALISTERNE: Sense & Details." Harvard Business School Case 608-109, February 2008.
- April 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
In the wake of George Floyd's killing in May 2020, and widespread protests for social justice in the United States, OneTen was formed by a coalition of 40 large companies to provide one million jobs for African-Americans in 10 years. The case describes the background...
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Keywords:
Labor Market;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Diversity;
Race;
Jobs and Positions;
Opportunities;
Social Issues;
Employment;
Equality and Inequality;
Equity;
United States
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years." Harvard Business School Case 521-093, April 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- November 2011
- Case
Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2011)
An updated "Four Products" case. This 2011 version includes: sliced peanut butter, artificial dirt for thoroughbred race tracks, interactive tombstones, and stride-changing running shoes. These four products form the basis to assess the drivers of new product adoption....
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Gourville, John T. "Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2011)." Harvard Business School Case 512-047, November 2011.
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
and how quoted prices might reflect expectations that are hard to justify. Regardless of which valuation method is employed (e.g., residual income, discounted cash flow, multiples), the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Mara Group
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into.
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Keywords:
Telecommunications Manufacturing;
Business Ventures;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group." Harvard Business School Case 114-060, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- September 2009 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Western Union: Our World, Our Family®
By: Christopher Marquis
In 2006, Western Union spun-off from its former parent, First Data Corporation, and began the process of defining itself as a stand-alone organization. Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Programs;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Alignment;
Value
Marquis, Christopher. "Western Union: Our World, Our Family®." Harvard Business School Case 410-050, September 2009. (Revised December 2010.)
- December 2001
- Case
Alibaba.com (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
The challenges the largest Chinese electronic commerce company faces many challenges at the end of 2001. This case describes how it has completely reoriented its strategy in the past 12 months to become a B-to-B company. The key question is: Will it work and what...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Business Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry;
China;
United States
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Fred Young. "Alibaba.com (B)." Harvard Business School Case 302-073, December 2001.
- November 2013 (Revised September 2015)
- Case
Doing Business in Cambodia
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dawn H. Lau
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Cambodia. It highlights Cambodia's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2013 in the context of its history, culture, and politics.
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