Publications

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

city of Dallas. This last spring, 1,000 students in Dallas graduated with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree. The employer hiring the largest number of students in Texas and in Dallas is Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters had... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

Academie in Rotterdam, and a version is currently taught at University of Rochester Simon School of Business and the Erasmus University Law School. This course will be taught at the Mays School of Business, Texas A&M University June 9... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points out, the choices of these... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

exercising leadership effectively. The course material is based on our work over the last seven years in developing a course of the same title at the University of Rochester Simon School of Business. (The course is also taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy, was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2025
Supplement

Lisa Su and AMD (B)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Matthew Preble and Dave Habeeb

This multimedia case study focuses on CEO Lisa Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused the company’s culture,... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Turnaround; Transformation; Semiconductors; Artificial Intelligence; Semiconductor Industry; Computer Industry; United States; California; Texas

January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield

In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

store's charge-account customers received a small, white printed card with gold lettering that read: "Saks Fifth Avenue is proud to present the Estée Lauder line of cosmetics: now available at our cosmetics department." Introducing her brand in Neiman Marcus,... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

April 2025
Case

Lisa Su and AMD (A)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Matthew Preble and Dave Habeeb

This multimedia case study focuses on CEO Lisa Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused the company’s culture,... View Details

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

never gave up. His success lay not only in his indefatigable competitive spirit, but also in his ability to maintain a focused approach to running Southwest—an approach that transformed the tiny Texas commuter airline of the 1970s into... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

31 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 31

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110025-PDF-ENG The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis Robert C. Pozen and Benjamin SchneiderHarvard Business School Case 310-141 The Southeast Bank of Texas, like most other... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2025
Case

Cyber Oversight: SolarWinds Board of Directors

By: Lynn S. Paine

In 2020, just two years after its IPO, information technology company SolarWinds discovered that it was the victim of an attack on its information systems by Russian hackers. The incident, known as the Sunburst attack, was costly for the company, and certain... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cybersecurity; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk Management; Information Technology Industry; United States; Texas; Delaware

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

faculty as a senior fellow to study health-care reform. Feeley, the Helen Shafer Fly Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is on a quest to make the payment process easier and,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

names: Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, and many others. All that said, it is simply irresponsible for us to tell students, managers, investors, or inventors to just go out and be entrepreneurial. As we are well aware,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408128 Lehman Brothers and Peabody Coal Harvard Business School Case 209-009 When Texas Utilities Company (TXU) wanted to acquire The Energy Group, the latter needed to spin-off its coal mining assets,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

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

leverage and reforming the credit rating system. The Case Against A Systemic Risk Regulator In a lengthy minority dissent, the oversight panel's two Republicans, Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling and former New Hampshire Senator John... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
Case

Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn

Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details

Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas