Publications

01 Jun 2004
News

Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

Sheeroy Desai, EVP and COO for Sapient, noted that his company saves 30 to 40 percent by offshoring IT — but the move has involved a significant investment in training. “Most IT organizations tend to underestimate the costs of management... View Details

Keywords: cyberposium; cost; Corporate Services

01 Jun 2003
News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

Executive Education program Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management. Past recipients have included Janice Price, president and CEO of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

July 1999 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Chrysler and BMW: Tritec Engine Joint Venture

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington

A gifted project leader lacks significant new product development experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project strategy: organizing senior management approvals and support for creating a "heavyweight" team; aligning the... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Joint Ventures; Projects; Business Strategy; Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Machinery and Machining; Design; Business Processes; Product Design; Product; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Auto Industry

December 1998
Case

John Hancock Sports Sponsorship: 1993-2000 and Beyond

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John Teopaco

Examines sports sponsorship at John Hancock through 1998 and prospectively beyond. From its early sponsorship of the legendary Boston Marathon, the company had expanded its activities substantially. It was one of the worldwide "Top Sponsor" companies of the Olympics, a... View Details

Keywords: Opportunities; Values and Beliefs; Marketing Strategy; Sports

October 1999
Case

CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (C): 1997-1999

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor

By 1997 the turnaround of CIBC's troubled investment bank, Wood Gundy, and its integration with corporate banking activities was complete. Marketplace results were encouraging, but scuttled mergers and tumultuous succession issues made the future uncertain. View Details

Keywords: Integration; Investment Banking; Success; Risk and Uncertainty; Management Succession; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Services Industry

Web

Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

sessions covering topics such as designing turnaround programs, successfully driving necessary cultural change, and transformation performance management techniques and systems. Some of these sessions will... View Details

April 2015 (Revised December 2015)
Case

Resuscitating Monitter

By: Benjamin Edelman and Wei Sun

After a Twitter API change and policy change block his fledgling startup, solo entrepreneur Alex Holt evaluates his options. Should he double-down with a major investment in new servers, rewriting his app from scratch, and charging users for a service that he had... View Details

Keywords: Platform Strategy; Envelopment; Dependence; Social Media; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Advertising Industry; Information Technology Industry; Australia

13 Oct 2014
News

Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Keywords: organizational change; behavioral economics; strategy

02 May 2016
News

What You Won’t Hear About Trade and Manufacturing on the Campaign Trail

19 Oct 2009
News

Connecticut Business and Industry Association Newsroom

July 2013
Article

Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr

This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the... View Details

Keywords: Technology Transfer; Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Patents; Diasporas; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; United States

Read Now

11 Jun 2015
News

Making connections at Harvard and beyond

In his role as executive director of External Relations at HBS, Ralph James (MBA 1982) takes the work of developing connections to a whole new level. While embracing the work of building lasting relationships between the School View Details

1994
Comment

Exchange Rates and Corporate Strategic Management

By: K. A. Froot

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Corporate Strategy; International Finance

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1991 to 1994, Heinz Dürr played a leading role in unifying the East and West German railroads into... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

to be depleted in “bad” times. Instead, issuing domestic debt while accumulating reserves acts as a hedge against external shocks. A quantitative exercise of the Brazilian economy suggests this strategy to be effective for smoothing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Healthcare and Harvard Business School Alumni in 2008

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cara Sterling

This case chronicles the role that Harvard Business School alumni play in the healthcare industry. Overall data on alumni is given, and the industry is broken into seven areas in which the careers of twenty-five alumni are highlighted. View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Executive Education; Personal Development and Career; Practice; Health Industry

June 2013 (Revised March 2016)
Case

Estonia: Transition, EU Membership, and the Euro

By: Michael E. Porter, Christian Ketels and Örjan Sölvell

The case discusses the economic development of Estonia, covering specifically the period from regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 until 2015. It tracks the process from the initial transition towards a market economy to becoming an EU member country,... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Estonia