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- September 1983 (Revised May 1999)
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Allen Lane
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Describes Allen Lane's search for a business to buy. The case explores several failed attempts and the ethical, business, and tax issues that surround the acquisition business. Ends with a description of a new acquisition candidate, an independent valuation report of...
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Stevenson, Howard H., and Michael J. Roberts. "Allen Lane." Harvard Business School Case 384-077, September 1983. (Revised May 1999.)
- 1983
- Article
Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures." Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 8 (1983).
- October 1982 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Steven B. Belkin
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Steven Belkin, 26 years old and 2 1/2 years out of HBS, has decided to leave a group travel company he has run for the last year to start his own similar business. In the course of several months he has written a business plan, attracted several partners and employees,...
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Keywords:
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Decisions;
Equity;
Investment;
Personal Finance;
Recruitment;
Resignation and Termination;
Failure;
Partners and Partnerships
Stevenson, Howard H., and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Steven B. Belkin." Harvard Business School Case 383-042, October 1982. (Revised September 1988.)
- July 1979 (Revised August 2019)
- Background Note
Note on Taxation
By: William J. Poorvu, Arthur I Segel, Glenn S. Miller, Michael D. Kummer, Charles F. Wu, Po Sit and Joseph M. Gerstel
Every real-estate transaction is affected by the tax consequences that result from its form and substance. Structuring a transaction without a thorough understanding of its tax considerations is likely to reduce the transaction's potential value. The failure to utilize...
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Poorvu, William J., Arthur I Segel, Glenn S. Miller, Michael D. Kummer, Charles F. Wu, Po Sit, and Joseph M. Gerstel. "Note on Taxation." Harvard Business School Background Note 379-192, July 1979. (Revised August 2019.)
- July – August 1979
- Article
Power Failure in Management Circuits
By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords:
Management
Kanter, R. M. "Power Failure in Management Circuits." Harvard Business Review 57, no. 4 (July–August 1979): 65–75. (Reprintings include Organization Theory: Selected Readings, edited by D.S. Pugh. London: Penguin, 1989; Classics of Organization Theory, edited by J.M. Shafritz. Chicago, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1986; Harvard Business Review, The Executive Dilemma. N.Y.: Wiley, 1985; The Dynamics of Organization, edited by J.N. Yanouzas 1984; Readings in Organizational Behavior and Performance. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1983. Organizational Influence Processes, edited by Porter and Allen. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1983; Coping with Difficult Employees. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Review Reprint Series, 1983; Perspectives on Public Bureaucracy, edited by F.A. Kramer (Third edition). Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop, 1981; Executive Success, edited by E.G. Collins N.Y.: Wiley, 1983. McKinsey Award Winners, 1970-1980. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1982.)
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Creating a Global Organization: Failures Along The Way
By: Michael Beer and Stanley M. Davis
Beer, Michael, and Stanley M. Davis. "Creating a Global Organization: Failures Along The Way." Columbia Journal of World Business 11, no. 2 (Summer 1976): 72–84.
- December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
First National Bank of Westhaven (A)
Concerns a loan that has gone bad.
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Hayes, Samuel L., III. "First National Bank of Westhaven (A)." Harvard Business School Case 262-005, December 1961. (Revised January 1994.)
- December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
First National Bank of Westhaven (B)
Describes the events leading to deterioration of a goose farming operation.
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Hayes, Samuel L., III. "First National Bank of Westhaven (B)." Harvard Business School Case 262-006, December 1961. (Revised January 1994.)
- May 9, 2024
- Article
Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It
Business schools have lost their way. Students are schooled in a system that, having raised the standard of living for millions of people over centuries, is now facing systemic failures in both the environmental and social domains—failures that market forces cause and,...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It." Inspiring Minds (May 9, 2024).
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Dealforum Design for Large, Multiparty Negotiations
When large projects such as mines, pipelines, oilfields, or powerplants are proposed, negotiations often commence with many kinds of interested parties. Such 'stakeholders' can range from corporate or government project sponsors to international financial...
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Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation
Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Failure
Most startups fail. Why? Are there recurring patterns that can be anticipated and avoided? If entrepreneurs fail, how can they do so in ways that leave their reputations, relationships, and integrity intact? And, how can they learn from the experience, heal, and...
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Managing Product Development in Rapidly Changing Environments
A consistent finding in many studies of innovation is the repeated failure of established firms when faced with radical changes in their core markets or technologies. Professor MacCormack's research takes the view that many of these failures can be attributed to the...
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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
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By: Nancy F. Koehn
My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is...
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By: Michael Chu
Chu's teaching focuses on businesses providing goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income sectors that constitute the market below the well-served top of the socio-economic pyramid. In developed countries such as the USA, this may be 40-50% of the...
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By: Nancy F. Koehn
My research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Using the lens of history, my work examines how individual leaders from business, government and other walks accomplish important—often seemingly...
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In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is...
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By: Shikhar Ghosh
I am focused on exploring the human side of developing early stage entrepreneurial ventures. These enterprises are characterized by the pursuit of opportunity, shortage of resources to pursue their goals and uncertainty at every step of the journey. Some of the...
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details