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- December 2006 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
The New York Jets--A West Side Story
In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with finding a new home for the football team he heads after New York's Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Investment;
Negotiation Deal;
Negotiation Process;
Partners and Partnerships;
Urban Development;
Sports;
Real Estate Industry;
Sports Industry
Kohn, A. Eugene, and Boyd Edward Bishop. "The New York Jets--A West Side Story." Harvard Business School Case 207-027, December 2006. (Revised November 2008.)
- July 2000 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
Embraer: The Global Leader in Regional Jets
By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Gustavo A. Herrero and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Embraer is the story of a company from a developing country, Brazil, that has become the leader in a high-tech field, regional passenger jets. Embraer's first family of regional jets has been highly successful and, at the time of the case, it is embarking on a major...
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Air Transportation;
Capital Structure;
Corporate Strategy;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Air Transportation Industry;
Brazil
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Gustavo A. Herrero, and Luiz Felipe Monteiro. "Embraer: The Global Leader in Regional Jets". Harvard Business School Case 701-006, July 2000. (Revised June 2009.)
- 02 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Mobile Money: The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
Parthenon Group 2008 Named Managing Director, Parthenon Group 2011 Cofounds Social Finance 2011 Named Board Chair, Facing History and Ourselves 2013 Social Finance launches first Social Impact Bond 2017...
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Susan Young
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
exam Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Credential of Readiness from HBS Online. What you earn. Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Apply Now Key Concepts Analyze and interpret data to inform business decisions Implement analytical...
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- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Marv Tseu at Active Reasoning
By: William A. Sahlman and Christina Darwall
Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of an early-stage software company. The company has made considerable progress in developing its software but will need additional capital to move forward. Unfortunately, conditions in the capital market are...
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Applications and Software;
Financing and Loans;
Capital;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Christina Darwall. "Marv Tseu at Active Reasoning." Harvard Business School Case 804-077, November 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
that make this possible. Together, they reveal a systematic approach to managerial work at the top, which is seldom found in the literature. By building on the engagement of many in the development of the organization, the practices are...
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Martha Lagace
- December 1987 (Revised May 1991)
- Case
One Leather Street
By: William J. Poorvu and Jeffrey A. Libert
Presents a problem involving rehabilitating a small office building in Boston. Describes an investment decision which is knowingly underfunded. As construction proceeds, the developer realizes that it is not up to building code and faces difficult business and ethical...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Ethics;
Investment;
Decisions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Property;
Real Estate Industry;
Construction Industry;
Boston
Poorvu, William J., and Jeffrey A. Libert. "One Leather Street." Harvard Business School Case 388-084, December 1987. (Revised May 1991.)
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change....
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- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-054.pdf Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Belén Villalonga...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 1990 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
First Chicago Corp.: Global Corporate Bank (A)
Presents the human resource challenges associated with First Chicago Corp.'s strategy in the corporate banking market. They want to maintain strong "relationships" with customers, while also developing strong investment banking capabilities. They face three problems:...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Corporate Strategy;
Human Resources;
Commercial Banking;
Banking Industry;
United States
Friedman, Raymond A. "First Chicago Corp.: Global Corporate Bank (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-058, November 1990. (Revised September 1991.)
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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We compare the liquidity that six developed countries have built into their employer-based defined contribution (DC) retirement schemes. In Germany, Singapore, and the UK, withdrawals are essentially banned no matter what kind of transitory income shock the household...
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Saving;
Financial Liquidity;
Retirement;
Canada;
Germany;
Australia;
United Kingdom;
United States;
Singapore
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 420–425.
- September 2005 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
E-Duction, Inc.
By: Peter Tufano
E-Ductions, a small privately held start-up, developed a new voluntary employee benefit: a payroll-deduction-linked credit card. The CLEAR card provided workers, especially low-income and credit-challenged employees, access to a card with tight credit limits, zero APR,...
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Tufano, Peter, and Daniel Schneider. "E-Duction, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 206-006, September 2005. (Revised January 2009.)
- February 2008
- Case
Cincom Systems, Inc.
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
Tom Nies, charismatic CEO of Cincom Systems, is considering a public offering of his software enterprise, but the 1987 stock market crash checks his plans. Nies reflects that capital for expansion will keep Cincom at the frontier of technological development in a...
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Keywords:
Customer Satisfaction;
Capital;
Initial Public Offering;
Organizational Culture;
Going Public;
Corporate Strategy;
Information Technology Industry
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Cincom Systems, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 808-084, February 2008.
- February 2000 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Owens & Minor, Inc. (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
A forward-thinking manager at Owens & Minor (O&M), a large national medical and surgical distribution company, enlisted the help of both logistics and cost managers to develop an innovative pricing schedule based on the customer's activities instead of the price of the...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Logistics;
Distribution;
Price;
Supply Chain Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Distribution Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Owens & Minor, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 100-055, February 2000. (Revised February 2002.)
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
conflict between the old and the new. Successful CEOs first develop a broad, forward-looking strategic aspiration that sets ambitious targets both for innovation and core business growth. They then hold the tension between innovation unit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 1994 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (A)
Martha Radosevich, president of Health Payment Review, a small software start-up, confronts a serious cash-flow problem: Health Payment Review has built a PC-based prototype but has run out of funds to build a commercially acceptable mainframe product. As a stop-gap...
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Keywords:
Negotiation;
Cash Flow;
Entrepreneurship;
Applications and Software;
Sales;
Information Technology Industry
Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-204, June 1994. (Revised February 1999.)
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Jumia's Path to Profitability
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company’s path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company...
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Keywords:
Retail;
Business Models;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Emerging Markets;
For-Profit Firms;
Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Value Creation;
Globalization;
Entrepreneurship;
Competition;
Expansion;
Logistics;
Profit;
Resource Allocation;
Diversification;
Corporate Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Jumia's Path to Profitability." Harvard Business School Case 721-355, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
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The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities. Article Corporate Social...
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