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  • July 1990
  • Case

Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (B)

By: Kim B. Clark and Brent D. Barnett
Ceramics Process Systems (CPS) is an advanced ceramics company facing problems with lead time in product/process development, and late delivery of prototype parts to its customers. Engineering is confronted with difficult technical problems and multiple objectives... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Business Processes; Management Practices and Processes; Supply Chain Management; Machinery and Machining; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

activities. We disagree and argue that risk management should function as a Revealing Hand to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in a cost-efficient manner. Done well, the Revealing Hand of risk management adds value to firms by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

"Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?" ask Robert Kaplan and David P. Norton in "The Office of Strategy Management" in the October 2005 Harvard Business Review. "The gap arises, we believe, from a disconnect in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

American Big Three and many other auto companies had done major benchmarking studies, and they and other companies had tried to implement their own forms of the Toyota Production System. There is the Ford... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

company badly needs a jolt of energy and expertise to grow and to resuscitate its declining stock price. The chief executive who promoted Barton is hopeful but hard-nosed; and Barton's IT group—while talented and tech-savvy—is impatient,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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  • November 2019 (Revised September 2022)
  • Case

TripAdvisor: An Itinerary for Growth

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Spencer Rascoff and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, TripAdvisor was one of the best-known and most-trafficked online travel sites. For nearly 20 years, its founder and CEO Steve Kaufer had steered TripAdvisor through many phases of growth and profitability, but recently the company’s growth had started to slow.... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Making; Business or Company Management; Growth Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Operations; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Technology; Travel Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-126 CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and related View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

throughout the region. I’m a huge believer in responsible capitalism and hope I can become one of the people who can push this forward. The "Reimagining Capitalism" course convinced me that business leaders have a responsibility to lead their View Details
  • May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
  • Case

Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure

By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

Green Bank to operations at Tesla.  The 40+ first-year MBA students in attendance were eager to learn what to expect from the internship search cycle, from generating a list of target companies to nailing the interview and accepting the... View Details
  • 11 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

companies to build generic solutions for customers across industries. But for challengers, the more they can focus on solving core business problems, the more successful they will be. They can understand customer needs deeply and... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

companies, and if the teams are solid and continue to execute, a lot of value can be built over the long term. Over time, I have learned to concentrate my time and capital into a very few companies in new,... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Villalonga, “Do Analysts Add Value When They Most Can? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs” ( Strategic Management Journal ). Victoria Ivashina : Named a Hellman Faculty Fellow, 2011–2013. Josh Lerner : Named one of the 100 most influential... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

value of education, changing the world through entrepreneurship, and finding meaning by helping others. Dahod’s first taste of entrepreneurship came as a teenager, when he helped his physician father produce and distribute medication that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

industry?I took Strategy and Value Creation with Professor Benjamin Esty. The course is seen as a capstone that utilizes multiple Required Curriculum (RC), or first year, courses to help understand how to create View Details
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

current career plans in any way? This summer, I interned at CDC Group, the oldest impact investor in Africa and South Asia, and at EquaLife Capital, an East African investment fund. I found the role of value creation in investing to be... View Details
  • 23 May 2018
  • News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

the firm’s president of Personal Investing. “She is hardworking, grounded, passionate, and her values come through. She sets a tremendous example.” That example is evident in Johnson’s commitment to ensuring that Fidelity remains a great... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young