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  • May 2005 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

HNA Group: "A Miracle in Civil Aviation"

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Carole Winkler
Chen Feng and three others started Hainan Airlines in China during a historic transformation and privatization of the civil aviation industry. From a small loan from the local province in 1992, Chairman Chen built the company into a conglomerate that, by 2003, owned... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Air Transportation; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Advantage; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Air Transportation Industry; China
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  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

lower the better, with the logic being that more money can then go to actual programs. So an organization might report, "We spend 6 percent on fundraising, whereas the industry average is 12 to 14 percent." That's typical, but... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

carry out community service projects, to which they gave more than twenty thousand employee hours in 1998. Each organization considers the relationship with the other to be of central strategic importance. That these emerging strategic... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

through successive stages of industry evolution. We then show how this strategy was used by Sun Microsystems against Apollo Computer in the 1980s and by Dell against Compaq and other personal computer makers in the 1990s. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1995 (Revised December 1995)
  • Case

Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc. (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
A Wall Street analyst has just learned that FPL (the holding company for Florida's largest electric utility) may cut its dividend in several days despite a 47-year streak of consecutive dividend increases. In response to the deregulation of the electric utility... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Corporate Strategy; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Financial Strategy; Fluctuation; Energy Sources; Emerging Markets; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Florida
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  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/bgjs13_84709dcc-425f-4fe2-8600-0f8cbb50be16.pdf August 2013 The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management The Case Method By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The case method was developed concurrently with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

order to build and grow teams that they understand and can help motivate over time to deliver.” Now back in Dearborn, Michigan, Fields works with what’s become an emerging and increasingly high-profile issue for global managers,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

dairy industry by 2010, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group had ambitious plans. As one of China's biggest national dairy companies, its main challenge was competing as a local company against joint-venture rivals who benefited from perks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

of government programs and financial investment in driving this growth, exploration, and learning will center on a few key questions: The State of Singapore – How does the country’s industrial policy work? Singapore’s View Details
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The Levitt Brand

Globalization of Markets” (1983). With nearly 900,000 reprints sold to date, “Marketing Myopia” posed a question that reverberates nearly fifty years later: “What business are you really in?” “An industry begins with the customer and his... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

Japanese system, combining its traditional low-cost manufacturing prowess with an ability to bring high-quality, high-margin branded products swiftly to market. Like Samsung, today's emerging giants—Haier in China, Infosys in India, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Post-Office

call with his team. “I think the decision drove a tremendous amount of confidence,” he says. He saw many of his peers in the tech industry scrambling; Stack Overflow, in contrast, was inherently prepared for the transition. Lumry Family... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students... View Details
  • April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
  • Case

General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to generate discussion on the issues of outsourcing from the perspective of a firm thinking about turning over its IS activities to a third-party vendor. View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Management Style; Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business Strategy; Economic Systems; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Processes; Employment; Emerging Markets; Activity Based Costing and Management; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution. When a world of newly independent states emerged from... View Details
  • 24 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

from looking at one sector and finding something analogous that's applicable to another sector. The more I work in different places and with different people, the more I see that cross-pollinating between industries ends up being... View Details
  • Web

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details