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August 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Disney's "The Lion King" (C): Repeat Performance?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

Three of Disney's animated films that followed "The Lion King"—"Pocahontas," "Toy Story," and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"—were significantly less successful at the box office and in retail sales. Meanwhile, Disney was focusing on developing live-action blockbusters. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Animation Entertainment; Success; Failure; Film Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been applied at several levels of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

and instead focus on hedging their long-term spending needs. Q: With the lowering of the bar to entry in hedge funds, many more people and institutions are investing in these funds. Given your research, do you think this is a good thing? A: The investment management... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

December 1989 (Revised February 1993)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate

In 1989, Frito-Lay designed an information technology infrastructure to support time-based competition and organizational restructuring. The company planned to provide timely flexible information to all major decision makers at all levels. This case describes the... View Details

Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Time Management; Organizational Structure; Information Management; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants favored the increase in industrialization as well as the establishment of more and larger firms, and then grew over time. “After 1880, parts of the US West that were more impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act grew at... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

September 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Hitachi Rail Limited (A)

By: David J. Collis, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato

Hitachi must decide whether to make a British executive, who has successfully built its European rail business from scratch, head of its global rail division even though the bulk of revenues for the unit still come from Japan. The case describes the history of Hitachi... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry; Japan

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

increase their total equity allocation as the horizon increases, the mean value tilt of the optimal allocation is shown to be positive and stable across time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/JV_GV_20100223.pdf Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

how much to bid for the loans. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209088 The Suzlon Edge Harvard Business School Case 708-051 With prices of oil, coal and gas at historically high levels, the wind View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

studied at Harvard Business School. Credit: Bartosz Hadyniak For perspectives on what has been learned so far, HBS Working Knowledge conducted an email interview with four of the key drivers of CEM: Project coordinators Geoffrey Jones,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

you'll find that very few actually wind up in the industrial sector, which had been the focus of the long-standing Business Policy course. When Kim Clark became Dean, he stressed that entrepreneurship—the pursuit of opportunity beyond the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

September 1984 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Nestle S.A.: International Marketing (A)

By: John A. Quelch

A senior manager at Nestle's headquarters is reviewing the role of the central marketing staff with respect to Nestle's operating companies around the world. Two specific examples of the role of the central staff in guiding the advertising and packaging decisions of... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Marketing; Operations; Advertising; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland

December 2023
Teaching Note

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Learning; Health Industry; Netherlands

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

analyses of data covering 69 two-digit SIC industries at two points in time, 1991 and 1999. Across industries, we find that the likelihood of internalization of advertising services decreases as the size of advertising outlays increase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

18, no. 3 (fall 2009): 817-844 Abstract This paper examines how organizational structure affects behavior and outcomes, studying the performance of different types of venture capital organizations. We find a strong positive relationship... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2003 (Revised August 2003)
Case

Pension Policy at The Boots Company PLC

By: Luis M. Viceira and Akiko M. Mitsui

In early 2000, the trustees of the pension scheme at Boots considered a proposal to move 100% of the pension assets into a bond portfolio, which would be passively managed. The Boots Co. PLC was a leading retailer of cosmetics and toiletries in the United Kingdom, and... View Details

Keywords: Performance Productivity; Employees; Asset Management; Capital Structure; Investment Portfolio; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom