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      • November 2000
      • Case

      Geocast Network Systems, Inc.

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Christina L. Darwall and Elizabeth Kind
      Geocast, a venture-backed start-up, had developed innovative technology for "datacasting" broadband information and entertainment content to an external hard drive, where it was cached for later retrieval by a Web-enabled PC. By using terrestrial TV, direct broadcast... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Information Management; Technological Innovation; Marketing Channels; Corporate Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., Christina L. Darwall, and Elizabeth Kind. "Geocast Network Systems, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 801-211, November 2000.
      • September 2000
      • Background Note

      Professional Services Module Five: Serving Clients Effectively

      By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
      It is imperative for the internal systems and processes to be connected to the external processes of client management, competitive adaptation, and service delivery. View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Relationship Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Service Delivery; Performance Effectiveness; Adaptation; Competitive Strategy
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      DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Five: Serving Clients Effectively." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-011, September 2000.
      • September 2000
      • Background Note

      Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage

      By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
      Concerns itself with the strategic dynamics which influence organizations externally. View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Service Operations; For-Profit Firms; Power and Influence; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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      DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-008, September 2000.
      • December 1999
      • Case

      Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A3): Network Computer: Robert Gianni on Answering the Skeptics

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
      The concept behind the network computer (NC) at Sun Microsystems, Inc. was simple: bringing workstation performance to the desktop. Recent technological breakthroughs and changes in the marketplace made the NC project timely. But internal and external skeptics wondered... View Details
      Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Fluctuation; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; Computer Industry
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. "Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A3): Network Computer: Robert Gianni on Answering the Skeptics." Harvard Business School Case 300-077, December 1999.
      • November 1999 (Revised February 2002)
      • Case

      Family Feud (A): Andersen v. Andersen

      By: Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
      Traces the history and development of consulting within Andersen and the history of the schism between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting. Ends with the two units seeking external arbitration of their dispute. View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Design; Corporate Governance; Conflict and Resolution; Consulting Industry
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      Nanda, Ashish, and Scot H. Landry. "Family Feud (A): Andersen v. Andersen." Harvard Business School Case 800-064, November 1999. (Revised February 2002.)
      • September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
      • Case

      Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
      Deloitte & Touche women's initiative changed the workplace culture at the firm, solved retention problems, and brought external benefits. Now a new CEO must decide how to take this a step further as competition for talent was even stronger, young people had different... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. "Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace." Harvard Business School Case 300-013, September 1999. (Revised May 2003.)
      • April 1999
      • Case

      Steve Perlman and WebTV (A)

      By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
      The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Alliances; Internet; Communications Industry
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      Sebenius, James K., and Ron Fortgang. "Steve Perlman and WebTV (A)." Harvard Business School Case 899-270, April 1999.
      • April 1999
      • Case

      Steve Perlman and WebTV (B)

      By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
      The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Value Creation; Alliances; Technological Innovation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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      Sebenius, James K., and Ron Fortgang. "Steve Perlman and WebTV (B)." Harvard Business School Case 899-271, April 1999.
      • April 1999
      • Article

      Diversification Strategies of British Trading Companies: Harrisons & Crosfield c1900-c1980

      By: G. Jones and Judith Wale
      This article examines the diversification strategies and organisational competencies of Harrisons & Crosfield, a British-based multinational, between 1900 and 1980. There is an accumulating body of case study evidence on the historical evolution of British... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Great Britain
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      Jones, G., and Judith Wale. "Diversification Strategies of British Trading Companies: Harrisons & Crosfield c1900-c1980." Business History 41, no. 2 (April 1999): 69–101.
      • March 1999 (Revised January 2000)
      • Background Note

      A Note on Microeconomics for Strategists

      By: Kenneth S. Corts and Jan W. Rivkin
      Summarizes the core ideas about the microeconomics of markets that are most relevant to business strategy. Sections I and II develop two basic building blocks of any market, demand and supply. Section II discusses how demand and supply interact to determine the... View Details
      Keywords: Microeconomics; Cost; Cost of Capital; Market Entry and Exit; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy
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      Corts, Kenneth S., and Jan W. Rivkin. "A Note on Microeconomics for Strategists." Harvard Business School Background Note 799-128, March 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
      • November 1998 (Revised July 2000)
      • Case

      Deere & Company: Sustaining Value

      By: Malcolm S. Salter and Marlowe Dayley
      The question facing Deere & Co. is whether or not to adopt some of the organizational technologies of private equity investors (decentralized equity holdings, use of leverage to control the disposition of cash flows, the externalization of the capital budgeting... View Details
      Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Wealth; Adoption; Manufacturing Industry
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      Salter, Malcolm S., and Marlowe Dayley. "Deere & Company: Sustaining Value." Harvard Business School Case 899-001, November 1998. (Revised July 2000.)
      • March 1998 (Revised August 1998)
      • Case

      BSkyB

      By: Debora L. Spar
      In 1983, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought a floundering two-year-old British company called Satellite Television plc. and renamed it Sky. Without external financing, without having been allocated any space on Britain's existing satellites, and over the opposition of... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Change Management; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Great Britain
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      Spar, Debora L., and Paula Zakaria. "BSkyB." Harvard Business School Case 798-077, March 1998. (Revised August 1998.)
      • February 1998 (Revised August 1998)
      • Case

      Teradyne, Inc.: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

      By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
      Alexander d'Arbeloff, Teradyne's founder and CEO, is launching his company into the software and network testing business. He has acquired three external start-ups and is beginning to integrate them with the rest of the company. While Teradyne's core... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Success; Horizontal Integration
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      Lassiter, Joseph B., III. "Teradyne, Inc.: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained." Harvard Business School Case 898-190, February 1998. (Revised August 1998.)
      • 1997
      • Chapter

      Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China's Foreign Relations

      By: William C. Kirby
      Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; International Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Economies and Regions; China
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      Kirby, William C. "Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China's Foreign Relations." In China's Quest for Modernization: A Historical Perspective, edited by Frederic Wakeman and Wang Xi, 219–248. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1997. (published first in Zhongguo xiandaihua wenti [Issues of Chinese modernization] (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 1994))
      • October 1997 (Revised April 2002)
      • Case

      Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman
      Outlines the dynamic shifts in the external environment surrounding Planned Parenthood's operations in 1994. Health care reform was threatening some of its core customer base. The organization had to come up with a strategy and a process for adapting to the new... View Details
      Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Elaine V. Backman. "Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 598-001, October 1997. (Revised April 2002.)
      • 1996
      • Chapter

      External Integration in Product Development

      By: T. Fujimoto, M. Iansiti and K. B. Clark
      Keywords: Integration; Product Development
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      Fujimoto, T., M. Iansiti, and K. B. Clark. "External Integration in Product Development." In Managing Product Development, edited by T. Nishiguchi. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
      • January 1996 (Revised May 2005)
      • Case

      Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Inc.: A Period of Transition

      By: David J. Collis and Melinda B. Conrad
      Bob Holland takes over as CEO of this iconoclastic ice cream company in February 1995 when it faces a major crisis. Holland must now develop a strategy that both adapts to the external environment and is consistent with the company's unique heritage. View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Business Strategy; Adaptation; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Collis, David J., and Melinda B. Conrad. "Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Inc.: A Period of Transition." Harvard Business School Case 796-109, January 1996. (Revised May 2005.)
      • May 1995 (Revised March 1996)
      • Case

      ToyWorld, Inc.: Information Technology Planning

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      ToyWorld, a fast growing retailer, was revitalizing its information technology (IT) infrastructure and called in AT&T to help plan for the future. Five strategic alternatives for use of information and communications technology were identified through value chain... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Growth and Development; Expansion; Partners and Partnerships; Retail Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "ToyWorld, Inc.: Information Technology Planning." Harvard Business School Case 195-262, May 1995. (Revised March 1996.)
      • April 1995 (Revised July 1996)
      • Case

      Microsoft, 1995

      By: Tarun Khanna, David B. Yoffie and Israel Yellen Ganot
      Explores Microsoft's core desktop computing software business and its newer endeavors in 1995. Designed to explore the sustainability of its phenomenal success, and to examine the logic behind its renewed emphasis on some areas, particularly the home computing software... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Software; Computer Industry
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      Khanna, Tarun, David B. Yoffie, and Israel Yellen Ganot. "Microsoft, 1995." Harvard Business School Case 795-147, April 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
      • 1995
      • Article

      The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning

      By: R. Conti, T. M. Amabile and S. Pollack
      This study assessed the effectiveness of engaging students in a creative activity on a topic as a means of encouraging an active cognitive set toward learning that topic area. This technique was examined in three motivational contexts. Before reading a short... View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Behavior; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Training
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      Conti, R., T. M. Amabile, and S. Pollack. "The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 21 (1995): 1107–1116.
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