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  • November 2013 (Revised September 2014)
  • Case

Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Dana M. Teppert and Allison J. Wigen
Explores the role of CEO Man Jit Singh and his senior management committee in leading Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd. (formerly SET Pvt. Ltd.), a leading television broadcaster in India. Describes Singh's decision to evaluate employees based on values as well as... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisals; Performance Management; Performance Evaluation; Leadership Style; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Change Management; Decision Making; Emerging Markets; Media and Broadcasting Industry; India
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  • January 2018 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Capital Allocation at HCA

By: W. Carl Kester and Emily R. McComb
In early 2017, HCA Holdings, an investor-owned hospital management company, faced a strategically important capital allocation decision. After the exit of its private equity sponsors in 2016, HCA had to determine how best to allocate its substantial annual free cash... View Details
Keywords: Capital Allocation; Cash Distribution Policy; Dividends; Share Repurchases; Growth Strategy And Execution; Growth Investing; Capital Expenditures; Debt Management; Debt Reduction; Debt Policy; Hospital Management; Investor-owned Hospital Chains; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; United States
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  • 08 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

business, but then the ability to step out of big business at an identified point to make my transition. How long was your deferral (2,3, or 4 years)? I deferred for three years: I left my job at ExxonMobil at three years on the dot,... View Details
  • January 2005
  • Tutorial

Buying Time

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Managers must frequently make decisions involving trade-offs between cash flows to be paid or received at different points in time. Accountants, in turn, must describe transactions that involve the payment and/or receipt of cash far in the future. This interactive... View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Value; Interest Rates; Financial Statements
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  • June 2004
  • Case

Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Eight executives at Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc must make four crucial decisions on the eve of merging their companies to become Aventis--what would become the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm. In addition to formulating a vision and strategy, the two firms must... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • Program

Managing Turbulence

career decisions Who Should Attend Senior vice presidents and senior executives one to two levels from the C-suite at well-established organizations and startups of any size in any industry. Future-focused executives who are responsible... View Details
  • March 2013
  • Article

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking place in adjacent... View Details
Keywords: Professions; Disciplines; Neo-Liberalism; Education; Economics; Finance; Society; United States
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    Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

    The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details

    • 05 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 5

    means to navigate their way through the decisions they will face and formulate an effective business strategy. This is a much-needed guide to the common strategic issues that arise when firms compete... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Program

    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

    sale of creative goods and services Balance risks and rewards to manage multiple new releases simultaneously Execute strategic marketing decisions that take into account different industry players' roles... View Details
    Keywords: Media & Entertainment; Media & Entertainment
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Bayesian Ensembles of Binary-Event Forecasts: When Is It Appropriate to Extremize or Anti-Extremize?

    By: Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Victor Richmond R. Jose and Robert L. Winkler
    Many organizations face critical decisions that rely on forecasts of binary events. In these situations, organizations often gather forecasts from multiple experts or models and average those forecasts to produce a single aggregate forecast. Because the average... View Details
    Keywords: Forecast Aggregation; Linear Opinion Pool; Generalized Additive Model; Generalized Linear Model; Stacking.; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift

    By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo and Kris Ferreira
    Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). These outliers often originate from covariate shift,... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • 03 Oct 2013
    • News

    Study: Rankings Affect Student Applications

    • Research Summary

    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
    • Profile

    Kamen Bliznashki

    Why is getting a HBS MBA important to you? Coming from an investment banking background, I lacked deep understanding of the larger strategic challenges of clients. I see my HBS experience as an opportunity to broaden and deepen my skill... View Details
    Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing
    • January 2000 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    Cachet Technologies

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Howard Reitz
    Describes the decision facing Danny Lewin, Jonathan Seelig, and Tom Leighton, the founders of Cachet Technologies, an MIT spin-out. The firm has done poorly in the annual MIT business plan competition and the founders have to decide whether to continue. View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Business Startups; Business Plan; Failure; Cooperative Ownership; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2022
    • Case

    Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    This case describes Salesforce's development of Sustainability Cloud, a suite of software tools built to help companies measure, track, and report carbon emissions and other sustainability metrics. The goal of this case is to provide students with a background and... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Applications and Software
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    • 2010
    • Simulation

    Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting: Product No. 3357.

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman
    In this single-player simulation, students act as members of the Capital Committee of New Heritage Doll Company, tasked with selecting and allocating capital across the company's three divisions. Students evaluate a diverse set of competing investment proposals and... View Details
    Keywords: Resource Allocation; Investment; Projects; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance
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    • 05 Sep 2023
    • News

    Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

    • 26 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 26, 2008

    conclude by briefly reviewing two additional strategies for coping with such difficult situations: forgoing making decisions and forgetting those decisions altogether. How Well... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace