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November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
Teaching Note

Assessing a Company's Future Financial Health (TN)

By: Thomas R. Piper

Teaching Note for 911412. View Details

Keywords: Financial Condition; Forecasting and Prediction

07 Jul 2016
News

Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa

Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977) is helping empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly women—cope with the impact of climate change through sustainable food, water, energy, and... View Details

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

opportunities relative to similar private firms. A blow to the stock price induced by today's investment might be impossible to avoid, says Farre-Mensa. Ideally, public-firm managers would be able to convey to analysts and investors that... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

September 1995 (Revised March 1999)
Teaching Note

Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (A) and (B) TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Air Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Air Transportation Industry; Canada

December 2024 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Future (Im)Perfect? Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and the Hereafter of Capitalism

By: Sophus A. Reinert

May – June 2007
Article

Neo-Carnegie: The School's Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future

Keywords: Education

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June 2010
Teaching Note

Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

Teaching Note for 709007. View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Natural Environment; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Australia

05 Oct 2022

Future Leadership MBA + Engineering Multi-School Webinar

Join Cornell University, Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, Kellogg School of Management, UC Berkeley Haas, University of Michigan's Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and MIT Leaders for Global Operations to learn more... View Details

17 Jul 2019

Future Leadership MBA + Engineering Multi-School Webinar

Join Cornell University, Kellogg School of Management, University of Michigan Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and MIT Leaders for Global Operations to learn more about specialized MBA... View Details

June 2021
Teaching Note

The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition

By: Meg Rithmire

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-045. View Details

Keywords: 5G; Technology; China

26 Feb 2025
Podcast

David Deming on workforce shifts and the future of college

AI's early impact on the labor market: Are claims of revolutionary change overblown? The Harvard economist presents the long view on technological disruption and updates the post-secondary picture. View Details

October 2016 (Revised October 2017)
Case

Phipps Houses and the Future of Affordable Housing in NYC

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa A. Chase

Article

Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace

By: Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull and William Kerr

Is keeping pace with the future of work incompatible with using purpose to guide the organization? Unilever is stretching its well-known commitment to purpose for a new and daunting challenge—the transformation of its workforce of more than 149,000 employees. Its... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Purpose; Unilever; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Talent and Talent Management; Transition; Decision Making; Transformation

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July 2010 (Revised November 2011)
Supplement

Zensar: The Future of Vision Communities (B)

By: David A. Garvin and Rachna Tahilyani

Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices, Vision Communities, is an inclusive forum for innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows,... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Leadership Style; Employee Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Information Technology Industry; India

03 Dec 2019
News

What Is The Future Of Work In The Tradable Sector?

2018
Working Paper

Averaging Probability Forecasts: Back to the Future

By: Robert L. Winkler, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. and Victor Richmond R. Jose

The use and aggregation of probability forecasts in practice is on the rise. In this position piece, we explore some recent, and not so recent, developments concerning the use of probability forecasts in decision-making. Despite these advances, challenges still exist.... View Details

Keywords: Probability Forecast; Forecast Combination; Forecast Evaluation; Decision Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Making; Analysis

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April 2018 (Revised November 2019)
Case

JD: Envisioning the Future of Retail (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Shirley Sun

JD, China’s second largest e-commerce company by gross merchandise volume (GMV) after Alibaba, had expanded rapidly from 2012 to 2016. When the company celebrated its 13th birthday in 2017, Richard Liu, its founder, deliberated on the company’s growth strategies. The... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Retail Industry; China

October 2023
Case

Lasell University in 2023: Securing the Future

By: John Jong-Hyun Kim and Mary C. Sauer

In a groundbreaking move on September 20, 2022, Lasell University's President, Michael B. Alexander, announced an extraordinary 33% reduction in tuition, room, board, and fees, signaling a pivotal shift in higher education. Situated in an affluent Boston suburb,... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Cost; Valuation; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts