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- August 1994
- Case
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Energy Industry
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program." Harvard Business School Case 195-078, August 1994.
- August 1994
- Case
Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation: Product Line Cost System
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Electronics Industry
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation: Product Line Cost System." Harvard Business School Case 195-066, August 1994.
- 2008
- Simulation
DEC v. Riverside
By: David A. Lax, James K. Sebenius, Lawrence Susskind and Thomas Weeks
Riverside Lumber is a pulp manufacturer in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Riverside regularly dumps effluent into a nearby river. The Division of Environmental Conservation (DEC) claims that the effluent is toxic and jeopardizes the local salmon catch.... View Details
- December 1998
- Case
MD Foods Amba
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In 1998, MD Foods, a Denmark-based dairy cooperative, was searching for growth opportunities that would enable it to become northern Europe's preferred retail dairy supplier. The options being considered included expanding in existing markets, entering into new... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Alliances; Innovation and Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; Denmark
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "MD Foods Amba." Harvard Business School Case 599-052, December 1998.
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not welcomed in some nations where Siemens did business such as the United States—or in Germany after 2000—but old practices continued. Cooperative management-labor relations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?America has withdrawn from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change. Should business leaders care? Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve... View Details
- June 2010 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
Zensar: The Future of Vision Communities (A)
By: David A. Garvin and Rachna Tahilyani
Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices, Vision Communities, is an inclusive forum for innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows,... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Cooperation; Information Technology Industry; India
Garvin, David A., and Rachna Tahilyani. "Zensar: The Future of Vision Communities (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-024, June 2010. (Revised November 2011.)
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
their organizations—even the really, really good ones. Then out of the blue comes a Churchill. Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems? If industry... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- October 1993
- Case
Zen-Noh: ""I Love Gyu (Beef)""--New Challenges for the Beef Business
By: Ray A. Goldberg
- 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
Alvarez, Jose B., Elizabeth C. Williamson, and James Weber. "Paydiant." Harvard Business School Case 511-065, January 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- September 2006 (Revised September 2007)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (B): Should Airbus Build the VLCT Alone?
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Erich Alexander Voigt, and Jordan Mitchell. "Airbus vs. Boeing (B): Should Airbus Build the VLCT Alone?" Harvard Business School Supplement 707-448, September 2006. (Revised September 2007.)
- August 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Australia-Japan Cable: Structuring the Project Company
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
In late September 1999, representatives from Telstri, Japan Telecom, and Teleglobe met to discuss the structure of the Australia-Japan Cable (AJC) project, a $520 million submarine cable system that would run from Australia to Japan. The sponsors, excited by the... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Cooperative Ownership; Organizational Structure; Investment; Ownership; Capital; Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Communication Technology; Projects; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Finance; Telecommunications Industry; Australia; Japan
Esty, Benjamin C., and Carrie Ferman. "Australia-Japan Cable: Structuring the Project Company." Harvard Business School Case 203-029, August 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- June 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (A)
Rambus, Inc. was founded to develop a new type of high-speed memory chip technology to enable DRAMs to keep up with ever-faster microprocessors. After developing the technology, Rambus chose an unusual licensing approach to commercialize it. This case series describes... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Commercialization; Hardware; Cooperation; Technology Industry
Silverman, Brian S., and Briana Huntsberger. "Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (A)." Harvard Business School Case 701-124, June 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017. View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Decisions; Cooperative Ownership; Product Development; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Expansion; Science-Based Business; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Business Subsidiaries; Biotechnology Industry; Sydney
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
effects of corporate governance should be greatest when firms become overvalued. We test this simple yet powerful idea. Using proxies of firm and industry price deviations from fundamentals and standard measures of corporate governance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
only responded to globalization but also driven and framed it. The study of particular industries over the long term, employing deep archival research on individual firms, has generated unique insights on evolving corporate structures,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman