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- October 1991 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Becton Dickinson & Company: VACUTAINER Systems Division (Condensed)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Frank V. Cespedes
Becton Dickinson, a phenomenally successful company with an 80% market share in the blood collection needles and syringes market faces a change in the customer buying environment (cost containment pressures at hospitals). This forces a reevaluation of the company's...
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Business Divisions;
Customer Satisfaction;
Demand and Consumers;
Market Participation;
Distribution Channels;
Success;
Corporate Strategy;
Value Creation;
Health Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Frank V. Cespedes. "Becton Dickinson & Company: VACUTAINER Systems Division (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 592-037, October 1991. (Revised August 2000.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
CGLV Plenary Session
Last May, a plenary session was held to summarize and integrate the findings and recommendations gleaned from four workshops held at HBS during the academic year. Known as Corporate Governance, Leadership, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
international business. Professor Ghemawat and his coeditors have collected articles by leading scholars that focus on five topics in international business: creating value through international expansion, sources of View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
Smith Professor of Corporate Finance. “Cross-cultural communication is, at its core, about empathy. Each time you interact professionally in a different environment, you enhance your ability to stand in another person’s shoes and consider...
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- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable...
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by Jim Heskett
- November 2017
- Case
Third Point Paints a Target on Sotheby's
By: Lena G. Goldberg
When faced with the increasing accumulation of its stock by activist investors led by Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC and the activists’ stated objective to replace management and at least some Sotheby’s Board members, Sotheby’s, the world’s oldest auction house,...
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Keywords:
Fiduciary Duties;
Activists;
Activist Investors;
Rights Plan;
Poison Pills;
Takeover Defenses;
Corporate Governance;
Laws and Statutes;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Ownership Stake;
Value Creation;
Crisis Management
Goldberg, Lena G. "Third Point Paints a Target on Sotheby's." Harvard Business School Case 318-086, November 2017.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
Membership on a corporate or advisory board seems like a natural fit for MBAs with solid managerial skills and career experience. But according to the experts, unless you are a prominent CEO, finding a seat at the boardroom table today...
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- Web
Deals Q2 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Deals Q2 Course Number 2265 Professor Guhan Subramanian Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions (120 minutes, across two time slots) Paper Enrollment: Limited to 42 HBS and 42 HLS students This advanced negotiation course examines complex View Details
- Fast Answer
Companies: rankings
Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. Look for link to Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands an analysis of brand value produced by BrandZ. Fortune Rankings includes...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
overlooks the fact that managers don’t always do the right thing for shareholders. If managers are opportunistic, then the extra latitude provided by the dual- reporting system can be costly to investors. Indeed, research shows just that: View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
for a 26-year-old backpacker. I might be willing to pay quite a bit for a service that caters to my needs and puts me in touch with other similarly-minded people. The key is to identify what the value is to your customer and build your...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
values against what's expected of them as responsible professionals. We don't teach them about the dysfunctional aspects that we've been discussing here, and we should. As someone who's interested in View Details
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Garry Emmons
- Web
Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
establishing corporate archives include: substantial cost with indefinable pay-off, issues of confidentiality, convincing business leaders, who tend to be future-facing, of the value and relevance of...
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- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
behavior whose work includes corporate consulting. "And I thought, did I ask an awkward question? So I asked again, 'How do you add value to your organization?' I got more nervous laughter." “If...
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by Carmen Nobel
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
The Transformation of Microsoft
By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-048. In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower...
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog
Brand Value Marketing Michael Moynihan Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Creating Brand Value Marketing Julian de Freitas Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Creating Value Through View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
analyze why such partnerships occur and show how they are improving social conditions across Latin America as well as creating value for businesses. The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network is a collaboration among HBS, the AVINA...
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- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of self-employment relative to pay in a single year. This paper...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer...
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- October 1999
- Case
Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine
This case describes the decisions made by Shell in response to the situation presented in the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Public Opinion;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Transformation;
Energy Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)." Harvard Business School Case 300-040, October 1999.