Publications

September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States

2025
Book

After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create and Scale a Startup

By: Julia Austin

A lot of entrepreneurs are great at the idea part but do not anticipate the details required to actually run and scale a new venture. Drawing on my experience at renowned startups like Akamai Technologies, VMware, and DigitalOcean and the hundreds of founders and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management

November 2007
Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

By: Joseph L. Bower

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning

Find at Harvard

September 1998 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Walnut Venture Associates (B): RBS Due Diligence--Customers

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Plan; Research; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

01 Mar 2016
News

How Do I Get Your Job?

Ravneet Uberoi (courtesy Ravneet Uberoi) Ravneet Uberoi (courtesy Ravneet Uberoi) Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA/MPA 1998) (courtesy Bluemercury) Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA/MPA 1998) (courtesy Bluemercury) Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA/MPA 1998) and Ravneet Uberoi (HBS 2017) share a... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

09 May 2013
News

Road Trip

Ready to roll: (from left) Singer, Gerald, Baker, and Alaoui. Photo Courtesy of MBAxAmerica On or about Independence Day, July 4, four HBS students will pile into their rented RV and set out to discover America. No, this is not Kerouac-inspired wanderlust or a... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

18 Mar 2021

Industry Spotlight Series: From Retail to HBS

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School students formerly working in the Retail Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like, how they plan to utilize their MBA, and maybe even... View Details

Portrait Project

Natalie C. Eckford

Get mud in between my toes, dirt under my fingernails and sing the blues. As a child, my cousin and I would play all day, such that when I came home at night, my sandals and feet would be stained with the Mississippi red clay. I plan to... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Jennifer L. Scott

annual Business Plan Contest, a program that integrated students, faculty, and alumni in a hands-on, real-world entrepreneurial exercise. Following up on an idea conceived by Alison Berkley and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96), Scott worked... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

January 2025
Case

North Forty: Managing Liquidity Through Change

By: Luis M. Viceira and Brad Towne

This case explores the interaction between spending and investment decisions at a family office, specifically the family office of Jeff and Tricia Raikes, with special emphasis on the management of spending, portfolio investments, and asset liquidity in the presence of... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Spending; Planning

February 2002 (Revised March 2003)
Case

Casuarinas Educational Corporation

By: Michael J. Roberts, Howard H. Stevenson and Matthew C. Leib

Casuarinas has developed a very successful elementary, now secondary, school based on excellence in teaching, service, and multilingual education. Peru lacks similar high-quality post-secondary institutions. This case focuses on the potential entry of Casuarinas into... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Management; Market Entry and Exit; Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry; Peru