MBA 2001 - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2002 (Revised October 2003)
Case

Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The

Bethlehem Steel's 2001 bankruptcy filing inspires an employee's daughter to evaluate her father's pension plan, weeks after September 11's tragedies exacerbated a weakening U.S. economy and just months before her father planned to retire. Battered equity markets and... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Retirement; Steel Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

existence is only rarely commented upon. The Liverpool-based John Holt & Co with its Nigerian subsidiary John Holt PLC is an interesting case for a pilot study because the company returned in 2001 to an organizational form that is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

depend on the circumstances and, if so, how?” Drawing on 138 interviews with FBI officials and an analysis of 45 congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, the paper details the ways in which design change and identity change interacted... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

Katherine Miller. When Koehn recently taught "Madam C.J. Walker" in her MBA course Entrepreneurial Leadership: Past, Present, and Future, her students in turn discussed Walker's rise against a historical backdrop dominated by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

of Cote and his leadership team and asks them to consider the choices they would have made in the face of the extreme uncertainty surrounding future business conditions in the fall of 2008. Cote joined Honeywell as CEO in 2002. The company was emerging from the View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

leadership of the real estate industry around the world. I also was able to share what we are trying to teach in our real estate MBA curriculum and get feedback on what we now teach or might teach in the future. Several alumni proposed... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

extraordinary” "As long as students really dig hard and ask questions about themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the years," says HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

In separate sessions at the 2001 Global Alumni Conference, HBS professors McFarlan (HBS MBA '61 and DBA '65) and Dorothy A. Leonard dissected the dot.com disaster and found much worth salvaging. In fact,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

model for inflammatory bowel disease in 2001 and 2009, before and after the reorganization. The case can be used to examine health care provider strategy, integrated care delivery, and quality measurement. The case also profiles Sweden's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

1957-1966, the World Bank and IMF-led structural reforms of the 1980s, and the continuation of reforms after the first democratic elections in 1992. Details Ghana's economic and political context and cluster performance in 2001 and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

could include providing updated road maps or allowing a patron to download MP3s before she hops on her next flight. He did not release revenue numbers. Also optimistic about Wi-Fi's future was Sky Dayton, founder of Internet service provider Earthlink, who in View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

The financial field may be permanently changed by the explosive ups and downs of the tech sector, but old standards of quality and planning will still make or break new businesses, HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson said. In his keynote address at the View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

practical use by managers or teaching by instructors of MBAs and executive MBAs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51126 The Climate Custodians By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all 900 first-year View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is it a field that graduating... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to collapse in 1998, threatening the global financial system. The tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

were either out of the paid work force altogether or who had reduced their commitment and felt they were off the professional career track for a while. It turned out in 2001 that we had a very big opening group, but we also found out that... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

their focus to developing countries, which have undertaken ambitious and dramatic infrastructure projects in recent years. India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway received new sections and major upgrades between 2001 and 2006, when 95... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

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