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  • October 2012 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Kelly Baker
The case presents the opposition by a leading institutional investor in Goldman Sachs to the re-election of Jim Johnson to the board of directors of the company. The investor, Sequoia Fund, opposes the re-election citing Jim Johnson's prior track record as the CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Director Elections; Goldman Sachs; Reputation; Institutional Investing; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Accountability; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • December 2008 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

Wal-Mart Stores in 2003 (Abridged Version)

By: Frank V. Cespedes
Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter business has surpassed its domestic business as the largest generator of revenues. Its international operation... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Advantage; Labor Unions; Operations; Global Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Retail Industry; United States
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  • July 1998 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

Bank of Ireland (BOI): Internet Strategy

Conor O'Toole, Internet business executive, must consider how to take the Bank of Ireland on-line. The bank, and Ireland, and most of continental Europe, lagedlagged behind the United States in adopting Internet techologytechnology. O'Toole wondered how he should... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Internet; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Republic of Ireland
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  • November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar: A Rural Business Initiative

By: David E. Bell, Nitin Sanghavi, Virginia Fuller and Mary L. Shelman
In rural India, farmers historically had limited access to quality input items for both their fields and homes. Indian conglomerate DSCL has undertaken a Rural Business Initiative to address this issue, establishing a chain of retail outlets throughout rural India... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Conglomerates; Agribusiness; Rural Scope; Customer Relationship Management; Business Strategy; Service Operations; Networks; Alliances; Retail Industry; India
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
    • March 2011 (Revised January 2015)
    • Case

    H Partners and Six Flags

    By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Gorzynski
    Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds of U.S.-based Six Flags, following that company's bankruptcy filing. View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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    • 13 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 13

    how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    objective. Combining the two banks created opportunities to eliminate overlaps in such areas as back-office staff, branch offices, and computing infrastructure. Management of both banks also believed that larger and more diversified View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
    • Web

    Loan Assistance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Financial Aid Office and the Social Enterprise Initiative. All determinations made by the School and the Selection Committee are final. The School and the Selection Committee reserve the right to restructure or discontinue the Program as... View Details
    • Web

    Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    science and learning. His papers include memos, correspondence, lecture notes, speeches, reviews, certificates, and financial records, as well as documentation regarding the effects of fatigue on productivity and the need for... View Details
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Information Dispersion and Auction Prices

    Keywords: by Pai-Ling Yin; Web Services; Web Services
    • 05 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

    colleagues looked at data on 3 million employees who began working at Fortune 250 companies between 2017 and 2021, as well as the job requirements of more than 40 million online job postings. They focused on roles like office manager or customer View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 26 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 26, 2006

      Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 1990 (Revised October 1999)
    • Case

    Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (A)

    By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
    Describes the incentive system by which Mary Kay Cosmetics motivates the sales force of 200,000 independent agents who comprise the firm's only distribution channel. Illustrates the powerful effect on sales-force behavior that results when creative types of employee... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Cost Management; Salesforce Management; Distribution Channels; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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    • 22 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

    the desired direction of the business. Strategic boundaries can also protect you from the types of errant actions that destroyed Enron and brought financial service firms such as Fannie Mae and Lehman... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

    By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
    This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Africa; United States
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    • 26 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns

    Keywords: by Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz & Annette Vissing-Jørgensen; Financial Services
    • 16 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Times Captures History of American Business

    developments and people. The Times's business news is important not only for consumers, households, employees, but also for managers and leaders at the top of organizations. If business leaders today are to make sense of the financial... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

    By: Michael Luca
    Do online consumer reviews affect restaurant demand? I investigate this question using a novel dataset combining reviews from the website Yelp.com and restaurant data from the Washington State Department of Revenue. Because Yelp prominently displays a restaurant's... View Details
    Keywords: Revenue; Network Effects; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Washington (state, US)
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    • 17 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services