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- January/February 1989
- Article
'Decide How the Company Will Grow...' Comments on The Case of the Expensive Expansion
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Luehrman, Timothy A. "'Decide How the Company Will Grow...' Comments on The Case of the Expensive Expansion." Harvard Business Review 67, no. 1 (January/February 1989): 8–9.
- April 2011 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)
By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress.
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Keywords:
Base Of The Pyramid;
Political Risk;
Microfinance;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Government and Politics;
Investment;
Risk Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Bolivia
Cole, Shawn, and Baily Blair Kempner. "BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-092, April 2011. (Revised March 2021.)
- April 2006
- Article
When Does Client Entertainment Cross the Line? HBR Case Commentary
By: Das Narayandas
Keywords:
Ethics
Narayandas, Das. "When Does Client Entertainment Cross the Line? HBR Case Commentary." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 4 (April 2006): 42.
- 01 Sep 1976
- Conference Presentation
Organizational Structure and Occupational Role Definition: The Case of Managers
By: R. M. Kanter
- 26 Jan 2021
- Video
Faculty Authors Discuss Black History Month Cases
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
HBS Prof: Case Studies Need Diversity — Now
- April 2015 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth
The continent of Europe seemed in the spring of 2015 to be in a weaker position relative to other world regions than it had in centuries. Though comparatively small, it had long played a disproportionate role in world history, to the extent that the modern world system...
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Keywords:
The Great Divergence;
Modern Economic Growth;
Empire;
Disruption;
Economic Growth;
Values and Beliefs;
History;
Globalization;
Europe
Reinert, Sophus A. "The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 715-039, April 2015. (Revised October 2019.)
- 2007
- Article
Convictions, Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions
By: Anette Mikes
Making sense of operational risk practices in the financial services sector is a challenge. There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides.Based on the evidence of...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Risk Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Conflict and Resolution;
Organizations;
Financial Services Industry
Mikes, Anette. "Convictions, Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions." International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 7, no. 8 (2007): 1027–1056.
- 29 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: The Case for Pluralistic Risk Management
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by Anette Mikes & Amram Migdal
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Effect of Shareholder Litigation Risk on the Information Environment: The Case of Cross-Listed Firms
By: Anywhere Sikochi
I document the causal link between shareholder litigation risk and cross-listed firms’ information environment by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a reduction in litigation risk resulting from the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National...
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Keywords:
Cross-listing;
Information Environment;
Shareholder Litigation Risk;
D&O Insurance;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Sikochi, Anywhere. "The Effect of Shareholder Litigation Risk on the Information Environment: The Case of Cross-Listed Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-048, December 2016.
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
financing private ventures, it can also offer unique rewards. Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle highlighted some of the issues confronting entrepreneurs and investors in a case...
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by Julia Hanna
- 11 Sep 2012
- News
Harvard conducts case study on Farhan's Excel Entertainment
- May 1983
- Article
The Resolution of Claims in Financial Distress - The Case of Massey Ferguson
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Scott P. Mason
Keywords:
Finance
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Scott P. Mason. "The Resolution of Claims in Financial Distress - The Case of Massey Ferguson." Journal of Finance 38, no. 2 (May 1983).
- November 2009
- Case
Incentive or Insult? The Case of Joe Torre and the New York Yankees
By: Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben
- November 2008
- Article
The Effects of Colleague Quality on Top Performance: The Case of Security Analysts
By: Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee
Groysberg, Boris, and Linda-Eling Lee. "The Effects of Colleague Quality on Top Performance: The Case of Security Analysts." Special Issue on Professional Service Firms: Where Organization Theory and Organizational Behavior Might Meet, edited by Roy Suddaby, Royston Greenwood, and Celeste Wilderom Journal of Organizational Behavior 29, no. 8 (November 2008): 1123–1144.
- June 1984
- Case
Federal Trade Commission and the Shared Monopoly Case against the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Manufacturers
By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Monopoly;
Courts and Trials;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
McCraw, Thomas K., and Richard S. Tedlow. "Federal Trade Commission and the Shared Monopoly Case against the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Manufacturers." Harvard Business School Case 384-265, June 1984.
- 2022
- Chapter
Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial...
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Austin, James E., Megan Epler Woods, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." Chap. 7 in World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I. Espina, and William R. Meek, 175–196. World Scientific Publishing, 2022.
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
Ted Johnson, a linebacker with the New England Patriots. “This is a great setting for learning how to make a smooth transition.” Players admitted to being pleasantly surprised by how hard they worked. “People have been up late talking...
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- November – December 2011
- Article
Explaining Influence Rents: The Case for an Institutions-Based View of Strategy
By: Gautam Ahuja and Sai Yayavaram
Research in strategy has identified and tried to explain four types of rents: monopolistic rents, efficiency rents, quasi rents, and Schumpeterian rents. Building on previous work on political and institutional strategies, we add a fifth type of rent: influence rents....
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Keywords:
Institutions;
Influence Rents;
Generic Strategies;
Strategy;
Organizations;
Renting or Rental;
Economics
Ahuja, Gautam, and Sai Yayavaram. "Explaining Influence Rents: The Case for an Institutions-Based View of Strategy." Organization Science 22, no. 6 (November–December 2011): 1631–1652.
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose...
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Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.