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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • News

Massachusetts' Hard Look at Hospital Mergers

  • 21 May 2021
  • News

Buoyed by Federal Covid Aid, Big Hospital Chains Buy Up Competitors

  • October 2020 (Revised August 2025)
  • Case

Divesting Harvard's Endowment

By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • September 1985 (Revised January 1986)
  • Case

Peter Wendell

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of a decision confronting an employee of IBM in late 1981. Should he leave IBM to become head of a new venture capital fund which will specialize in technology investments? The case is designed to expose students to the nature of the opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Jobs and Positions; Opportunities; Valuation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Resignation and Termination; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Computer Industry
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  • 28 Jan 2020
  • News

A Harvard Business School Professor on the Valuable Lesson Businesses Can Learn from a Gas Station Chain

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT, 24 May 2021
    • Virtual Programming

    Being Asian in America: Perennial Other

    Join us, the Association of Harvard Asian and Asian American Faculty and Staff in a discussion on the examination of the roots of anti-Asian racism in America and ongoing efforts towards a pan-Asian and intersectional approach to social justice for all. Our special... View Details
    • July 2003 (Revised December 2003)
    • Case

    Investment Policy at New England Healthcare

    By: Jay O. Light, Luis M. Viceira and Akiko M. Mitsui
    The Investment Committee of New England Healthcare must decide how to invest three long-term investment pools: a long-term, endowment-type fund and two pension plans. In particular, the committee is evaluating whether the two pension funds--one is a "final salary"... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Asset Management; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Policy; Taxation; Health Industry; England
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    • 24 Oct 2014
    • News

    Series Is On, and Everybody’s Watching ... Football

    • 23 Mar 2020
    • News

    Why Mundane Moments Truly Matter

    • March 2021
    • Case

    The U.S. Home Improvement Sector in 2020

    By: José Alvarez and David Lane
    Provides an overview of the U.S. home improvement sector in 2020, reviewing sources of growth in the decade ending in 2020, with special attention to the impact of COVID-19 on market leaders Home Depot and Lowe’s and the spike in online revenues for both. Also noted... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Trends; Leading Change; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Technology; Construction Industry; United States
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    • May 2012 (Revised October 2012)
    • Case

    Yum! Brands

    By: Jordan Siegel and Christopher Poliquin
    Yum!, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, asks what might be the lessons from its success in China for currently contemplated expansion into India and Africa. Also, the company contemplates whether Taco Bell can succeed abroad as part of a new expansion push.... View Details
    Keywords: International Business; International Marketing; Global Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe; Australia; Africa; Asia
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    • November 1996 (Revised December 1996)
    • Case

    SAP America

    By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March
    SAP America has grown at an explosive rate. This case describes the company's strategy, organization, and culture, with special attention to its approach to partnering and its sales and consulting process, which have been instrumental in allowing growth to proceed. Now... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; United States
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    • 15 Feb 2012
    • News

    Welcome to the American Competitiveness Insight Center

    • May 2010 (Revised July 2010)
    • Case

    Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (A)

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Charles E. Beresford
    On December 22, 2008, Bank of America (BofA) chairman and CEO Ken Lewis convened a special board of directors meeting to review his company's pending acquisition of investment bank Merrill Lynch. Negotiations for the acquisition had begun a few months earlier, during... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Corporate Governance; Government Legislation; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry
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    • August 2009 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (A)

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Alex Curtis Rosenfeld
    Joe Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora, one of the largest and most popular web (Internet) radio broadcasters, had just received bad news. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) had announced its decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio... View Details
    Keywords: Profit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Copyright; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Internet and the Web; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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      Tsedal Neeley

      Tsedal Neeley is the Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School, where she is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Faculty Chair of the... View Details

      • January 2018
      • Article

      Innovation Incentives and Biomarkers

      By: Ariel Dora Stern, Brian M. Alexander and Amitabh Chandra
      Previously, we have discussed the importance of economic incentives in shaping markets for precision medicines. Here we consider incentives for biomarker development, including discovery and establishment. Biomarkers can reveal valuable information regarding diagnosis... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Markets
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      • December 1998
      • Case

      Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (A): The Intelligent Network

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
      The first in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Provides an overview of the telecommunications industry in general and Bell Atlantic in particular, with special attention to... View Details
      Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; New Jersey
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      • March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
      • Case

      Egon Zehnder International: Implementing Practice Groups

      By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
      Since its creation in 1964, executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) marketed its consultants as "generalists." As searches became more global and industry-specific in the 1990s, CEO Daniel Meiland decided the firm needed to offer specialized services. By... View Details
      Keywords: Business Units; Global Strategy; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Consulting Industry; Service Industry
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