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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
and the government stepped in with such programs as the TARP, BofA found itself tied to a financial anchor with a hard-line from the government that prevented BofA from abandoning ship. This case provides background on the financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Shendure, who stepped down as CEO in 2016 but continues to serve as chair of the company’s board. The Oscilla team therefore abandoned its original approach and began modifying off-the-shelf generators for use with its Triton system. The... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Business School Case 715-024 Bhutan: Governing for Happiness Unique among the world's countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
abandon people who have helped him at one stage of his career in order to succeed at another. Such choices—such moments of truth—are fraught with drama, the drama enacted in the conflict between being great and being good. The two have... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
reliable ones? Should we abandon our current business model for an entirely new one? Making bold changes demands bold leadership and, often, massive cultural transformation. Li points to organizations that beat the odds and succeeded at... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley pointed out, was really very narrow. “Standing on the left bank, embittered because of what’s happening on the other side—that doesn’t make sense. My job is to get every one of us across the river.” Embrace the potential of new technologies—but don’t View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“Right now, our affiliates are often able to make a purchase at 50 percent of what it might have cost in 2007.” Many affiliates are also buying foreclosed and abandoned properties, rehabbing and reselling them to Habitat families. “We are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
me for. Leaving it meant abandoning the part of me that I felt most secure about," she says. Ana Maria ("Ania") Camargo (MBA '93) had her first daughter in 1997 and kept her job with CSC Healthcare, a large health-care consulting company... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
whether they should modify this strategy somewhat, or whether they should abandon their current strategy entirely. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/advising-families-on-estate-planning/an/314088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
from Sealed Air. Should the company abandon its exclusive commitment to coated bubbles in order to fend off this challenge? I'm not worried that there will be a diminishing role for unions, because most of you are too dumb to run your... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
you can't start something like that and abandon it. And I don't regret. Believe me, I don't regret any lost income or anything like that because the psychic income that you get from doing something that you're truly passionate about is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that threatened to take market share away from Sealed Air. Should the company abandon its exclusive commitment to coated bubbles in order to fend off this challenge? Says Robert Dolan, the author of... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Leads chose to pursue transformative impact, abandoning its original core model to focus on new system-wide collaborations, a process which we call “zagging.” Combining these strategies, YU and KaBoom! have zig-zagged by alternately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Because of the different competencies and business models required for the traditional pharmaceutical business vs. pharmaceutical compounding, Imprimis did not have the resources to pursue both of these options at once. Instead, Baum had to decide whether or not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book’s distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the willingness to engage with... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
then the sellers surprisingly asked to renegotiate the terms of the note they had agreed to early in the acquisition process. Medoff must decide whether to renegotiate the debt or abandon the transaction. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of the Nano, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Authors such as Adler (2006), however, note that an increasing number of companies are abandoning the notion that art practice within business signifies a problem; they've embraced artistic processes in approaches to strategic and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
that his mother is dead. His father soon abandons him in order to seek employment, leaving his son behind in a string of foster homes and orphanages. This establishes a pattern of neglect and desertion that continues for Hajim’s entire... View Details