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      • May 2004 (Revised June 2004)
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      Brief Biographical Note on P. Roy Vagelos

      By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
      Provides background biographical information on P. Roy Vagelos, chief executive officer of Merck Pharmaceuticals. Teaching Purpose: To chart the development of a leader in the pharmaceutical industry. View Details
      Keywords: Biography; Teaching; Leadership Development; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Ethics; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Brief Biographical Note on P. Roy Vagelos." Harvard Business School Case 404-132, May 2004. (Revised June 2004.)
      • March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
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      Midwest Office Products

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Presents an easy introduction to time-driven activity-based costing (ABC) that allows students to build a simple ABC model of order profitability. Midwest's time-driven ABC approach is based on two categories of parameter estimates. The first is the cost per hour of... View Details
      Keywords: Cost; Price; Activity Based Costing and Management; Time Management; Financial Reporting; Profit; Performance Improvement; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Performance Evaluation
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Midwest Office Products." Harvard Business School Case 104-073, March 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
      • June 2003 (Revised October 2006)
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      George McClelland at KSR (A)

      By: Joshua D. Margolis, Ayesha Kanji and Wan Wong
      George McClelland accepts a position as the chief administrative officer/chief operating officer at Kendall Square Research (KSR), a fledgling computer company that is taking its promising parallel computer technology to market. McClelland is a veteran of the computer... View Details
      Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Business History; Accounting; Problems and Challenges; Business Strategy; Growth and Development; Computer Industry; Technology Industry
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      Margolis, Joshua D., Ayesha Kanji, and Wan Wong. "George McClelland at KSR (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-163, June 2003. (Revised October 2006.)
      • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
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      Accel Partners' European Launch

      By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner
      In spring 2001, with the venture market crashing all around, the London office of Accel Partners, a major west coast venture capital firm, needs to make a decision about investing in an Irish software company. As the first investment of the new European operation, the... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Global Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Expansion; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; London; United States
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, and Josh Lerner. "Accel Partners' European Launch." Harvard Business School Case 803-021, February 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
      • November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
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      Corning, Inc.: Technology Strategy in 2003

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      Corning, Inc. has a 150-year history of building a strategy around innovation. Founded as a glass manufacturer in 1851, the company quickly established itself as a maker of specialty glass products and over the next 100 years diversified into light bulbs, television,... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Situation or Environment; Research and Development; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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      Henderson, Rebecca. "Corning, Inc.: Technology Strategy in 2003." Harvard Business School Case 703-440, November 2002. (Revised June 2003.)
      • July 2002 (Revised October 2002)
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      Bradley Marquez: Reduction in Force (A)

      By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
      The Bradley Marquez advertising agency had created a successful niche delivering ethnic markets to their clients, corporate giants like Compaq, Sprint, Texaco, and British Airways. The company was operating in aggressive growth mode when, in 2000, the stock market... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Price Bubble; Human Resources; Employees; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Advertising Industry
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      DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "Bradley Marquez: Reduction in Force (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-005, July 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
      • February 2002 (Revised February 2002)
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      Morgan Stanley Japan, 2002

      By: Tarun Khanna and Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jr
      Thierry Porte, president of Morgan Stanley Japan, had spent the brisk November day in Tokyo with Eric Best, Morgan Stanley's head of scenario planning, outlining the exercise that all of the managing directors in Japan would participate in shortly. Japan remained mired... View Details
      Keywords: Planning; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Investment Banking; Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Japan; United States
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      Khanna, Tarun, and Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jr. "Morgan Stanley Japan, 2002." Harvard Business School Case 702-458, February 2002. (Revised February 2002.)
      • December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
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      Poland's A2 Motorway

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
      Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. (AWSA) is a consortium of 18 firms that won a concession to build and operate Poland's first private toll road. In June 2000, AWSA's chief financial officer, Wojciech Gebicki, is preparing for a meeting with the projects' lead bankers to... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Projects; Construction Industry; Transportation Industry; Poland
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "Poland's A2 Motorway." Harvard Business School Case 202-030, December 2001. (Revised April 2003.)
      • August 2001 (Revised March 2016)
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      Doral Costa

      By: William J. Poorvu, John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel and Amy Silverstein
      Doral Costa is a proposed 277,803 square foot Class A office park development in Miami, FL. Trammell Crow Co. would like to develop this office park in joint venture with a partner. Samantha Spar, the acquisitions partner at Titan Associates, a large real estate... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Joint Ventures; Acquisition; Investment; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Fair Value Accounting; Construction; Property; Real Estate Industry; Consulting Industry; Miami
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      Poorvu, William J., John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel, and Amy Silverstein. "Doral Costa." Harvard Business School Case 802-023, August 2001. (Revised March 2016.)
      • August 2001 (Revised February 2005)
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      Dakota Office Products

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The senior management team of Dakota, an office products distributor, is concerned about the company's first loss in history. Explores the role for activity based costing and customer profitability measurement in a distribution company. Dakota's customers are... View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Profit; Distribution; Customers; Distribution Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Dakota Office Products." Harvard Business School Case 102-021, August 2001. (Revised February 2005.)
      • June 2001
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      GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (A)

      By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
      GE's chief litigation counsel sought to rationalize litigation flow by viewing it as a manufacturing process. By applying the principles of Six Sigma, P.D. Villareal created an Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) system that enabled both lawyers and managers to work... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Lawsuits and Litigation; Six Sigma; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-395, June 2001.
      • 2000
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      Empirical Determinants of Chief Political Officer Pay

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Ray Fisman
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Ray Fisman. "Empirical Determinants of Chief Political Officer Pay." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-040, December 2000.
      • November 2000 (Revised March 2001)
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      Yale University Investments Office: July 2000

      By: Josh Lerner
      David Swensen, chief investment officer at Yale University, reviews the $10 billion endowment strategy, that places an unusually heavy emphasis on private equity and other illiquid securities. Changing market conditions in July 2000 cause him to rethink historically... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Strategy; Education Industry
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      Lerner, Josh. "Yale University Investments Office: July 2000." Harvard Business School Case 201-048, November 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
      • October 2000 (Revised March 2004)
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      Software Associates

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The president of a small consulting firm has just seen his second-quarter profit and loss statement, showing an increase in revenues but a substantial decline in profits. He asks his chief financial officer to explain the results. The CFO works hard to accumulate... View Details
      Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost; Financial Statements; Production; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Software Associates." Harvard Business School Case 101-038, October 2000. (Revised March 2004.)
      • September 2000
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      Jardines: Tapping the Asian E-Commerce Market

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Melissa Dailey and Fred Young
      "We have made significant progress in reshaping the group in the current cycle of change," announced the homepage of Jardine Matheson & Co.'s web site. Percy Weatherall, newly appointed managing director of the company, knew all too well about change. In his previous... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Decisions; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, Melissa Dailey, and Fred Young. "Jardines: Tapping the Asian E-Commerce Market." Harvard Business School Case 301-045, September 2000.
      • May 1999 (Revised December 2007)
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      The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Development Strategy

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
      Despite revenues in excess of $93 million in 1998, world-renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute constantly faces an operating shortfall and looks to its highly successful development office to help cover the deficit. The development office raises money annually (with a... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Development Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 599-104, May 1999. (Revised December 2007.)
      • January 1999 (Revised June 2006)
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      Advanced Technologies, Inc.

      By: Thomas R. Piper
      The CEO of a semiconductor equipment manufacturer is assessing the financial forecasts and financing plan prepared by the chief financial officer. Continued rapid growth will create substantial financing pressures, especially if profitability fails to recover and/or if... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Earnings Management; Financial Condition; Financial Reporting; Risk and Uncertainty; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development; Crisis Management; Profit; Financial Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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      Piper, Thomas R. "Advanced Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 299-042, January 1999. (Revised June 2006.)
      • January 1999
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      State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)

      By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter
      With Multi-currency HORIZON, a real-time multi-currency accounting system that replaced the traditional batch-oriented single-currency accounting system, successfully launched, State Street Corp. (State Street) began to focus on growing the scope of its business... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Trends; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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      Bradley, Stephen P., and Kelley Porter. "State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)." Harvard Business School Case 799-034, January 1999.
      • December 1997 (Revised September 1998)
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      Yale University Investments Office: November 1997

      By: Josh Lerner
      David Swensen, chief investment officer at Yale University, reviews the $6 billion endowment strategy, which places an unusually heavy emphasis on private equity and other illiquid securities. Changing market conditions in November 1997 cause him to rethink... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Marketing Strategy; Strategy; Education Industry
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      Lerner, Josh. "Yale University Investments Office: November 1997." Harvard Business School Case 298-077, December 1997. (Revised September 1998.)
      • October 1997 (Revised January 2008)
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      Asda (A)

      By: Michael Beer and James Weber
      In the mid-1980s, Asda was one of the most successful retail companies in the United Kingdom. By 1991, the chain of 200 grocery stores had a lack of direction, a demoralized workforce, declining profits, rising debt, collapsing stock price, and was facing bankruptcy.... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
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      Beer, Michael, and James Weber. "Asda (A)." Harvard Business School Case 498-005, October 1997. (Revised January 2008.)
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