Publications

September 1974 (Revised June 1986)
Case

William D. Ruckelshaus and the Environmental Protection Agency

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Government Administration; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Government Relations; United States

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December 2013
Supplement

Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-Era Asset Restitution (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green

This case carefully traces the process by which Stuart Eizenstat handled the negotiation challenges outlined in "Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-Era Asset Restitution (A)". It describes the outcome of the Swiss negotiations and briefly sketches... View Details

Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Disputes; Mediation; Dispute Resolution; Governance; History; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Insurance Industry; Switzerland; Germany; Austria; France; Israel

January 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Supplement

Mittal Steel's Pursuit of Arcelor (B)

By: Paul M. Healy and Penelope Rossano

Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of Mittal Steel, a UK-based company with Indian roots, took advantage of a weakened Arcelor that had successfully won a bidding war for Canadian steel company Dofasco, with an unsolicited bid to buy the company. Mittal's plans for acquiring Arcelor... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Fiduciary Duty; Negotiation; Steel; India; Europe; Governance; Mergers; Board Decisions; White Knight; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Economics; Steel Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; India

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

preventable deaths, despite its world-class resources and medical technology. The Democratic presidential candidates have been debating the benefits of the “Medicare for All” approach versus a public insurance option. The former would... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

November 1990 (Revised February 1991)
Case

L. William Seidman and the Resolution Trust Corp.

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Organizational Design; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry

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October 1997 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Eli Lilly and Company: Drug Development Strategy (A)

By: Stefan H. Thomke, Ashok Nimgade and Paul Pospisil

Describes how Eli Lilly and Co. tries to accelerate its new drug development process with the aid of "combinatorial chemistry"--a rapidly emerging and revolutionary approach to preclinical drug discovery. The product manager of a potential blockbuster migraine drug... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Markets; Product Development; Organizations; Business Processes; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Competition; Pharmaceutical Industry

06 Nov 2016
News

A SEAL And A Harvard Professor Walk Into A Room...

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions

Just before the MBA reunions last spring, a group of women graduates met for a new program that provided a special opportunity to discuss their business and leadership goals in the broader context of their... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

January 2007 (Revised April 2007)
Case

The Tale of the Lynx (A and B)

By: Noam T. Wasserman

The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Growth and Maturation; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Succession; Conflict and Resolution; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry

07 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

must constantly attend to both top and bottom lines by launching new products, services, and experiences consistently. Leaders from software-as-a-service (SaaS) business... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

June 1995
Case

Northern Telecom and Netas (A): Turkey's Telecommunications Team

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum and Pamela A. Yatsko

The Turkish general manager of a successful telecommunications equipment-manufacturing joint venture between the Canadian company Northern Telecom and local partners in Turkey reviews the solutions to a crisis in 1989 and wonders whether the company will be able to... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Political Elections; Telecommunications Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Turkey; Canada

October 2001 (Revised December 2001)
Background Note

Extraterritorial Applications of Antitrust Law: U.S. and Japanese Approaches

By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka

This case describes the differebt approaches the United States and Japan have taken to extend the jurisdiction of their antitrust laws to foreign companies. The section on the United States, in particular, focuses on the evolving logic of the Supreme Court in dealing... View Details

Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Government Legislation; Policy; Business or Company Management; Government and Politics; Pulp and Paper Industry; United States; Japan

Research Summary

Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

business and civic leaders helped the city clean up its act, but by the early 1980s, most of the smokestacks had shut down anyway, as manufacturing jobs moved out of the area. People left in droves. Visitors... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Government; Government

January 2021
Case

Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (A)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Erik Snowberg and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago

In 2011, Daniel Herrero, CEO of Toyota Argentina (TASA) since 2010, was about to meet with the Secretary-General of the union representing automotive industry workers in the country. The company produced vehicles in Argentina since 1997 at their plant at Zárate, and,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Performance; Bargaining; Production; Performance; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Fairness; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Auto Industry; Argentina

March 2021
Case

Phillips 66 and the Washington State Carbon Tax

By: Rebecca Henderson, Mariana Oseguera and Christopher Musser

March 2009
Background Note

Note on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)

By: Stuart C. Gilson

In 2005, new legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President that introduced a number of major amendments to U.S. bankruptcy law, affecting both business and consumer bankruptcies. This legislation, called the Bankruptcy Abuse... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Restructuring; Personal Finance; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Finance

November 2009
Article

Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry

By: Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar and Tatiana Sandino

Many companies operate units that are dispersed across different types of markets, and thus serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarter's ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy... View Details

Keywords: Market Dispersion; Decentralization; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Distribution; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Retail Industry