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Competing on a Common Platform
Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
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Overview
Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
- 18 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
- Research Summary
Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities
My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)
Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details
- June 2015
- Supplement
TAV Airports Holding (B)
By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
This case explores the strategic options available to TAV Airports Holding, a Turkish firm, after it withdraws from a bid to build Istanbul's newest airport. The new airport would eventually replace Istanbul Atatürk Airport, where TAV makes 43% of its current revenue,... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; International Expansion; Infrastructure; Emerging Markets; Horizontal Integration; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Globalization
Alcácer, Juan, and Esel Çekin. "TAV Airports Holding (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 715-470, June 2015.
- March 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Module Note
Corporate Strategy
By: Ashish Nanda
As a strategist, you must decide for your firm what products to produce, what customers to serve, what geographies to operate in, and what activities to perform. This note on Corporate Strategy, which introduces the fifth module of the RC Strategy course, offers a... View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 720-448, March 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- January 2005 (Revised February 2006)
- Background Note
Note on Corporate Strategy
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Introduces students to the study of corporate strategy. Focuses on questions of scope and ownership. Examines both horizontal and vertical integration. Underscores the point that economies of scope, or the existence of relationship-specific investments, are... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Contracts; Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Note on Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-449, January 2005. (Revised February 2006.)
- August 2008
- Teaching Note
System on a Chip 2008: Global Unichip Corp. (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [608159] and [609001]. View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry
- September 2007
- Supplement
The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest (CW)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
- October 2005 (Revised March 2010)
- Teaching Note
Arauco (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Jorge Tarzijan and Jordan Mitchell
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
the key descriptor is not simply a difference in size but rather in kind. We are not referring to every small company, but only to those that have become social icons because an integral part of their distinctiveness and success is rooted... View Details
- fall 2005
- Article
Takeover Defenses and Bargaining Power
Subramanian, Guhan. "Takeover Defenses and Bargaining Power." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 17, no. 4 (fall 2005).
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
first published in Chapter 5: “Materiality” in author Eccles’ recent book, The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality (Wiley, 2014), to which Youmans was a significant contributor. They are research... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- June 1998
- Article
A New Takeover Defense Mechanism: Using an Equal Treatment Agreement as an Alternative to the Poison Pill
Subramanian, Guhan. "A New Takeover Defense Mechanism: Using an Equal Treatment Agreement as an Alternative to the Poison Pill." Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 23, no. 2 (June 1998).
- 1996
- Chapter
Features of Good Integration: Two Cases and Some Generalizations
By: J. A. Deighton
Keywords: Integration
- Summer 1991
- Article
Inanimate Integrators: A Block of Wood Speaks
Keywords: Integration
Leonard-Barton, D. A. "Inanimate Integrators: A Block of Wood Speaks." Design Management Journal 2, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 61–67.
- 1991
- Book
Japanese Takeovers: The Global Contest for Corporate Control
By: W. C. Kester
Kester, W. C. Japanese Takeovers: The Global Contest for Corporate Control. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1991.
- January 2007
- Background Note
Choosing Corporate and Global Scope
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Introduces students to the study of corporate strategy, while providing an overview framework for understanding international strategy. Focuses on questions of scope and ownership. Examines both horizontal and vertical integration. Underscores the point that economies... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Investment; Framework; Global Strategy; Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Choosing Corporate and Global Scope." Harvard Business School Background Note 707-496, January 2007.