Publications

July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih

For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

powerful economic incentive to lend to companies in Chapter 11. (Although American did not need such debtor-in-possession financing, United and Delta together raised almost $3.5 billion in DIP financing in their bankruptcies.) Chapter 11 also allows a company to reject... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated instances. As most View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2022
Teaching Note

Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms

By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan

Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

multiple business contexts, the field of operations and supply chain management have not yet explored the possibilities it offers in improving firms' operational decisions.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan

By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when, post-announcement, management insiders... View Details

May 2001
Supplement

Asian Strategies: Ian Buchanan

By: Tarun Khanna

Ian Buchanan, senior VP of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, comments on Sime Darby and the Asian financial crisis. He also discusses the value propositions of different types of business groups in Malaysia. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry; Asia; Malaysia

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

The case forces students to grapple with the challenges and barriers involved in disrupting an established industry, examine alternative go-to-market strategies and the timing of implementing them, and consider different business models to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

sufficient. Instead, the problem we have to deal with has as much to do with the supply side as the demand side. That's very different from the 1930s. Additionally, the demand-side problem that we’re facing now is fundamentally different... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih. They won the prestigious... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

August 2022
Case

Air Wars: Deregulating the U.S. Airline Industry

By: Tom Nicholas and James Weber

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the U.S. government assisted in the development of an airline industry by subsidizing the delivery of mail and allowing mail carriers to also fly passengers. Because the government awarded mail routes to the lowest... View Details