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  • July 2014 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

American Airlines in 2011

By: Willy Shih
The American Airlines in 2011 case was developed to provide a setting for the comparative analysis of two very different business models in the U.S. domestic airline industry—the network carrier and the low cost carrier (LCC). These models offer very different value... View Details
Keywords: American Airlines; Network Carrier; Low-cost Carrier; LCC; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Disruption; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • 24 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24

    argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai
    In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Food; Agribusiness; Expansion; Diversification; Growth Management; Consumer Behavior; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Government and Politics; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Transformation; Volatility; Business Cycles; Goods and Commodities; Supply Chain; Product; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China; Asia
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    • 15 Oct 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Mixed Source

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Gastón Llanes; Technology
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
    Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one’s own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge... View Details
    Keywords: Immigrants; Networking; Advice; Entrepreneurs; Inventors; Start-up Employees; Venturing; Co-working; Agglomeration; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • 22 Jul 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors

    Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein & Robert W. Vishny; Banking
    • December 2009
    • Article

    Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital

    By: Richard Bohmer, Jonathan David Bloom, Elizabeth Mort MD, Akinluwa Demehin and Gregg Meyer MD
    Recent focus on the need to improve the quality and safety of health care has created new challenges for academic health centers (AHCs). Whereas previously quality was largely assumed, today it is increasingly quantifiable and requires organized systems for... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Quality; Safety; Massachusetts
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    • December 1994
    • Case

    CNW Corporation

    The Blackstone Group, an LBO firm, is considering a $1.7 billion leveraged acquisition of CNW Corp., a railroad holding company. Information is provided concerning historic and protected results and the proposed financial structure of the entity. Data is presented... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Capital Structure; Leveraged Buyouts
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    • 31 Oct 2006
    • HBS Case

    Governing Sumida Corporation

    governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed like a way to understand the economic, legal, and cultural changes that were taking place in... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics
    • February 2006
    • Case

    Millions of Customers and the Search for a Business: the Challenge of IRC-Hispano

    Like many online services, IRC-Hispano, the world's largest Spanish-language chat organization, has many customers but sees few revenues. As an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Revenue; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry; Spain
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    • Article

    How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan and Ilya Strebulaev
    For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they’ve backed—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more—are constantly in the headlines, very little is known about what VCs actually... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making
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    • 18 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

    of scope for managerial diversion, having the state enforce its claim can be a wonderful thing for shareholders. Similarly, tax avoidance in the United States is only valued fully for firms that are considered well-governed firms. Some... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • 13 Oct 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Employee Selection as a Control System

    Keywords: by Dennis Campbell; Banking
    • 03 Oct 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Chad Syverson, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    • Summer 2014
    • Article

    Delegation in Multi‐Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

    By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran
    This paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining... View Details
    Keywords: Integration; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Adaptation
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    • March 1992 (Revised June 1992)
    • Case

    Thermo Electron Corp.

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    George Hatsopoulos, CEO at Thermo Electron Corp., is considering whether to issue shares in a subsidiary via an initial public offering (IPO). The company has developed an unusual corporate structure in which subsidiaries fund new ventures by raising debt and equity in... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Business Subsidiaries; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Initial Public Offering; Capital Structure; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry
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    • 2018
    • Book

    Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business

    By: Sunil Gupta
    Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted entire industries and incumbents have often struggled in this new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency,... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Transformation; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Organizational Structure; Digital Strategy
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    • 19 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 19, 2006

    demand. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12756 The Value of a 'Free' Customer Authors:Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela, and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Abstract Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenue and profit... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 12

      Working PapersA Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace