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  • October 1997 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Komatsu Ltd.: Project G's Globalization

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
This case describes the major strategic and organizational transformation at Komatsu aimed at changing it from a Japan-based producer of construction equipment to a truly global company with the ability to leverage its groupwide portfolio of resources and capabilities... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Construction; Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Global Strategy; Leadership; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • 31 Jul 2009
  • News

India's pockets of prosperity?

  • 27 Jul 2021
  • News

How to Use Your Privilege to Even the Playing Field

  • 13 Jun 2016
  • News

Cos must focus on innovation and production

    Finance, Rhymes, and Section A's Unforgettable Vibes!

    Exciting news from the halls of Harvard Business School. In my latest Fin2 class, I took a creative leap by combining finance with the art of poetry. Yes, a finance poem!

    But what made that semester truly special was the incredible Section A students.... View Details
    • 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
      • 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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      • March 2014 (Revised January 2015)
      • Case

      Ghurka

      By: Jose B. Alvarez, Walter J. Salmon and Christine Snively
      Ghurka was a 38-year-old luxury leather goods brand that specialized in leather and twill luggage, handbags, and accessories. Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a... View Details
      Keywords: Retailing; Luxury
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      • April 1996 (Revised November 1996)
      • Case

      Cleveland Turnaround (A, The: Responding to the Crisis (1978-1988)

      By: James E. Austin and Andrea L Strimling
      Traces the Cleveland community's efforts to move the city from economic, social, and political crisis in the late 1970s into revitalization and progress in the 1980s and 1990s. Special attention is given to the role of business leaders and the public-private... View Details
      Keywords: Transition; Business Cycles; Business and Community Relations; Financial Crisis; Cleveland
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      • January 1999 (Revised March 2001)
      • Case

      Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (C2): Project Explore

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
      The fourth in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Describes Bell Atlantic's planning, implementing, supporting, and assessing elements of the partnership, with special... View Details
      Keywords: Education; Technology Adoption; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Projects; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey
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      • 10 Feb 2020
      • News

      The Gneralist, Not the Specialist, is the Likely Innovator

      • 06 Mar 2014
      • HBS Seminar

      Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

      • September 2002 (Revised January 2003)
      • Case

      Dimensional Fund Advisors, 2002

      By: Randolph B. Cohen
      Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment management firm that prides itself on basing its investment strategies on sound academic research. Many of the best-known finance research papers of the past two decades (especially those by Eugene Fama and Kenneth... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research; Success; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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        Robert F. White

        Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial... View Details

        • 07 Apr 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

        Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Wilbur Chung; Technology
        • 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
        • 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)
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        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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