Publications

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

on who should bear the costs of cracking an iPhone. Is it Apple’s moral and fiscal responsibility to cooperate with national security at stake? Is the FBI’s request an overreach? And what implications does the case have for e-commerce, an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

August 1994 (Revised May 1999)
Teaching Note

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program TN

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Programs; Energy Industry

August 1994
Case

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Energy Industry

August 1994
Case

Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation: Product Line Cost System

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Electronics Industry

January 2009
Case

Supersonic Business Jets

By: Dennis A. Yao and Julia Rozovsky

In the fall of 2002, Brian Barents, ex-CEO of Galaxy Aerospace, faced an important decision: whether or not to enter the supersonic business jet (SSBJ) industry. Supersonic flight-flight faster than the speed of sound-had long tantalized leaders of commercial aerospace... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Governance Compliance; Market Entry and Exit; Business Strategy; Cooperation; Aerospace Industry

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

of business. In 1927, R.L. McMaster opened Kut-Price drug outlets in Fresno and Modesto—as well as in Stockton. Gleason went on the offensive, coordinating Stockton’s Independent Merchants’ Association to open the town’s first View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

December 1982 (Revised August 1986)
Case

Farmland Industries, Inc.: Opportunities in Barter Trade

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

August 1994
Teaching Note

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. TN

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry

August 1994
Case

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan

October 2003 (Revised January 2016)
Supplement

The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: Robin Rhee

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman

Accompanies The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise and provides unique background information on one of the team members. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Knowledge Sharing; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Perspective; Strategy; Cooperation; Telecommunications Industry

January 2011 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Paydiant

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Elizabeth C. Williamson and James Weber

Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to electronic payment methods such as credit cards and debit cards to make purchases.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cooperation; Technology Adoption; Retail Industry

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

about climate change from a political discussion to a practical conversation about risk and reward. Identify eco-friendly partners Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems? George... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

open competition. If you were to divide up the Japanese government's energies between repairing ailing industries and spurring on new ones, how would you do that? Not to be too provocative here, but I would say that this is the wrong way... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

goals. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907409 Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models Harvard Business School Note 907-412 Provides successful models of private-public sector View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

doing so, you have to screen for lone stars. Q: Is there a particular industry or type of firm that is most susceptible to the lone star syndrome? The problem with these people is that they can poison the organization.— Morten T. Hansen... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

June 2010
Teaching Note

Diamond Foods (TN)

By: David E. Bell, Natalie Kindred and Mary Louise Shelman

Teaching Note for 510013.. View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Transformation; Advertising Campaigns; Corporate Strategy; Product; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry

November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Amul and India's National Dairy Development Board

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder

Amul Dairy has been a successful change maker in India's dairy system. How does it move from this success to the new challenges facing the Indian food system--is it an appropriate model? View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Leading Change; Success; Cooperative Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry; India