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  • September 2007 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal

By: Michel Anteby and Nitin Nohria
Michael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the pharmaceutical company Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Management Skills; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Cooperation; Pharmaceutical Industry; India; United Kingdom; Canada
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    Rebecca M. Henderson

    Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also has more than twenty-five years of... View Details

    Keywords: energy; information technology industry
    • March 1990 (Revised June 1991)
    • Case

    IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (A)

    By: Robert L. Simons
    In 1987, IBM changed its strategy in an attempt to become a market-driven company rather than a product-driven company. The case begins with a description of the new strategy and the reasons for the change and then describes the top-down sales planning and quota system... View Details
    Keywords: Commercialization; Competitive Advantage; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Sales; Volatility; System; Information Technology Industry
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    • 24 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

    One December evening in 2011, while preparing a lesson plan, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes picked up the phone for his weekly conversation with Bernie Madoff. Soltes, who was doing an in-depth investigation on... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 1 Nov 2010
    • Other Presentation

    Value-Based Health Care Delivery

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Iceland
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    • 11 Mar 2015
    • News

    Paying more for comparable outcomes in prostate treatment

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    Women's Poker Club

    • June 2020
    • Case

    TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp.

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
    In April 2013, TransDigm, a company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial aircraft, announced an agreement to acquire Aerosonic Corporation for $39 million in cash (1.2 times Aerosonic’s sales of $31... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Valuation; Negotiation; Cash Flow; Contracts; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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      Josh Lerner

      Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
      • 20 Jun 2019
      • News

      What Tech Pioneers Can Learn From Emerging Markets

      • Program

      Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

      transformation strategy Business and technology leaders and contributors who want to understand how they can deploy the latest AI tools to unlock new sources of strategic and operating value Individuals in... View Details
      • October 20, 2023
      • Article

      How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Nearly half of CEOs view climate change as affecting their companies now or within the coming decade, but there is also a wide gap between what CEOs say is progress on tackling climate change and what many of their investors believe are effective actions. Companies... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      • October 2018
      • Case

      Recipe for Success: Growth and Evolution at Cafe Cupcake

      By: Anthony Mayo and Heather Beckham
      Café Cupcake (CC) is a fast-casual restaurant chain that offers artisan cupcakes and light fare throughout the southeastern United States and Texas. This case chronicles the growth and evolution of Café Cupcake. It also considers the specific human resource challenges... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Human Resources; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry
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      • March 1998 (Revised December 2005)
      • Case

      Beta Golf

      By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
      The Beta Group is a technology incubator in Menlo Park, CA that has successfully built a portfolio of businesses in the medical, consumer products, and industrial technology sectors by systematically matching proprietary technologies to unmet market needs. Beta has... View Details
      Keywords: Business Strategy; Investment; Financial Strategy; Information Technology; Commercialization
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      Current Boards

      By: Linda A. Hill
      -Board of Trustees of The ArtCenter College of Design
      -Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
      -Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, Special Representative
      -Board of Directors of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc.
      -Board of Directors... View Details
      • November 2020 (Revised July 2022)
      • Case

      Dell Technologies: Bringing the Cloud to the Ground

      By: Navid Mojir and V. Kasturi Rangan
      The case tells the story of Dell Technologies and its efforts to revitalize its value proposition and escape a commodity trap by acquiring EMC for $67 billion—the largest tech acquisition in history. It also shows the deeply intertwined connections between a company’s... View Details
      Keywords: Value Proposition; Go-to-market; Strategic Positioning; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business Divisions; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry
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      • March 2020
      • Case

      ZEISS Group: Organize by Customer Culture?

      By: Willy C. Shih
      How should ZEISS, the German manufacturer of precision optical and optoelectronic systems manage two historic businesses that operated fairly autonomously? The Industrial Quality Solutions (IQS) business sold measurement equipment to manufacturing companies in sectors... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; Germany
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      • June 2018 (Revised August 2019)
      • Case

      Qualcomm Inc., 2019

      By: David B. Yoffie and Andrew S. Choi
      This case is set in mid-2019, when Qualcomm was struggling with unwanted take-over battles, fights with Apple and the Chinese government, and internal dissension on the board of directors. Ten years earlier Qualcomm was hailed as a monopoly on CDMA technologies and... View Details
      Keywords: Technology Cycles; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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      • March 2022
      • Article

      Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy

      By: Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm
      When can states implement policies against the opposition from powerful interest groups? Research on state capacity has examined bureaucratic sources of capacity, leaving unexplained why countries with similar levels of bureaucratic capacity vary in goal attainment. We... View Details
      Keywords: Power and Influence; Policy; Environmental Regulation
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      • February 2001 (Revised November 2009)
      • Case

      Amazon.com (C)

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
      At the end of 1998, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos ponders the next moves for his company. Having secured the leadership position as the leading online book seller in the United States, Amazon.com has now moved into the product categories of CDs and videos by... View Details
      Keywords: Expansion; Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Books; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
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