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  • 07 Mar 2016
  • News

The Limits of the Lean Startup Method

  • March 2008
  • Supplement

Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (B)

By: Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Alok Patel, the founder and chairman of a Gujarat-based, privately held edible oils processor, has hired a CFO and the company is doing extremely well. He wants to add a new plant to process oilive oil, but estimates he will need $20 million. He must decide among... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Chemical Industry; Gujarat
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  • 1996
  • Article

Limits on Interest Rate Rules in the IS Model

By: William R. Kerr and Robert G. King
There has been a substantial amount of research on interest rate rules. This literature finds that the feasibility and desirability of interest rate rules depends on the structure of the model used to approximate macroeconomic reality. We employ a series of... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Interest Rates; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Expectations
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  • October 2006 (Revised April 2011)
  • Teaching Note

Strategic Outsourcing at Bharti Airtel Limited (TN)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching Note to (107-003) and (107-004). View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing
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  • June 12, 2023
  • Article

The Limits of Capacity Building for Investment Contract Negotiations

By: Karl P. Sauvant, Vanessa Sze Wai Tsang and Louis T. Wells
Developing countries must negotiate the best possible investment contracts with foreign investors at the outset. Donor organizations regularly push for “capacity building” to create technical expertise for negotiations within host country governments. But building and... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Contracts; Negotiation
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  • 13 Feb 2014
  • News

Co-Investments Aren't Paying Off for Limited Partners

  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Providing opportunities for students with limited options

Thomas S. Schreier Jr. (MBA 1988) has applied his business leadership experience to a variety of roles in advancing secondary education. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 2017
  • Article

Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less-Hierarchical Organizing

By: Michael Y. Lee and Amy C. Edmondson
Fascination with organizations that eschew the conventional managerial hierarchy and instead radically decentralize authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in radical... View Details
Keywords: Self-Managed Organizations; Self-Managed Teams; Self-organizing Systems; Self-managing Organizations; Flat Organization; Decentralization; Organization Design; Non-hierarchical Organizations; Less-hierarchical Organizing; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Research
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  • 11 Oct 2013

Women’s Outreach Event in Mexico City

This event is for women prospective students to learn more about the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The event will include a panel of HBS women alumni. The event will be from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM CDT. Appetizers and beverages will be served. Location: Club de... View Details
  • March 2014
  • Editorial

Limits on Use of Health Economic Assessments for Rare Diseases

By: Hanna I. Hyry, Ariel Dora Stern, Jonathan CP Roos and Timothy M. Cox
Funding of expensive treatments for rare ('orphan') diseases is contentious. These agents fare poorly on 'efficiency' or health economic measures, such as the QALY, because of high cost and frequently poor gains in quality of life and survival. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the limits of less-hierarchical organizing

    Fascination with organizations that eschew the conventional managerial hierarchy and instead radically decentralize authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in... View Details

    • 31 May 2015
    • News

    The trend towards board term limits is based on faulty logic

    • 30 Aug 2010
    • News

    Indian companies are left with limited choice

    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    The Limits of Decentralized Administrative Data Collection: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

    By: Natalia Garbiras-Diaz and Tara Slough
    States collect vast amounts of data for use in policymaking and public administration. To do so, central governments frequently solicit data from decentralized bureaucrats. Because central governments use these data in policymaking, decentralized bureaucrats may face... View Details
    Keywords: Decentralization; Policy-making; Policy/economics; Policy Evaluation; Governance; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Policy; Public Opinion; Analytics and Data Science; Latin America; South America; Colombia
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    G.I. Joe Phenomena: Understanding the Limits of Metacognitive Awareness on Debiasing

    By: Ariella S. Kristal and Laurie R. Santos
    Knowing about one’s biases does not always allow one to overcome those biases— a phenomenon referred to as the G. I. Joe fallacy. We explore why knowing about a bias doesn’t necessarily change biased behavior. We argue that seemingly disparate G. I. Joe... View Details
    Keywords: Biases; Judgment; Decision-making; Nudge; Debiasing; Illusions; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Behavior; Change
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    • December 2007
    • Case

    Ruling the Modern Corporation: The Debate over Limited Liability in Massachusetts

    By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen
    In 1830, Governor Levi Lincoln, Jr. urged the Massachusetts state legislature to introduce a limited liability regime for manufacturing corporations similar to that adopted in neighboring states. At least since 1809, shareholders in the state's manufacturing... View Details
    Keywords: Capital; Debt Securities; Legal Liability; Production; Business and Shareholder Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts
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    • 2022
    • Chapter

    The Merits and Limits of China's Modern Universities

    By: William C. Kirby
    China has a long history of advanced learning, but its modern universities are quite young. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the establishment of Chinese universities based on international models signaled the end of a millennium of promoting talent through... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Education Industry; China
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    • January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
    • Supplement

    Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (B): US Treasuries in December 2008

    The B case briefly recounts the action that investment manager James Franey takes in the matter of two U.S. Treasury bonds with identical maturity dates but widely different yields. He must decide what to do next. View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Financial Management; Investment Return; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 20 Sep 2010
    • News

    Limits of Productivity Growth Bode Well for Jobs

    • 06 Sep 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

    CEOs face difficult choices when deciding to speak out under the company's brand. Credit:  fizkes Summing Up: Should Boards Specify Limits on CEO Activism? Opinions about suitable CEO activism—taking public... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett