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- July 2010 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph
By: Geoffrey Jones and Bjoern von Siemens
This case describes the nineteenth century founding by Werner Siemens of the Siemens electrical business in Germany. Werner's dual role as inventor and entrepreneur is explored as he created one of the world's first multinational enterprises, whose growth initially... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Electronics Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Germany
Jones, Geoffrey, and Bjoern von Siemens. "Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph." Harvard Business School Case 811-004, July 2010. (Revised September 2023.)
- Research Summary
Risk, Trust and Escalation Behavior of Owner Managers
Professor Montgomery and Professor Deepak Malhotra (HBS), together with scientists from Harvard's Program on Evolutionary Dynamics, are studying risk-related decision making of owner managers in newly-founded and established companies. This experimental... View Details
- August 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Supplement
Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats. "Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 415-016, August 2014. (Revised August 2015.)
- March 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás Ibáñez and David Cotterman were considering how best to continue to diversify their investor base and how to optimize... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Family Business; Investment; Ownership; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; Latin America; Chile
Wing, Christina R., and David Lane. "Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners." Harvard Business School Case 621-065, March 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- July 2012 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Dragonfly Corporation
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Jim Sharpe
After 3 years of losses and under legal threats from their landlord, a husband and wife team are faced with shutting the company down, buying time with the landlord or turning to their parents for additional funds. Despite opening a new location and seeing that sales... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Management; Turnarounds; Bankruptcy; Bank Loan; Crisis Management; Family Business; Retail Trade; Financial Crisis; Financial Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Retail Industry; United States
Stevenson, Howard H., and Jim Sharpe. "Dragonfly Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 813-042, July 2012. (Revised November 2012.)
- November 1997
- Supplement
Washington Post Company,The: Conversation Between Katharine and Don Graham (Video)
By: Louis B. Barnes and John A. Davis
Presents a conversation between a mother and son about such issues as family business, going public, the son coming into the business, and succession. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Family Business; Interpersonal Communication; Management Succession; Going Public; Family and Family Relationships
Barnes, Louis B., and John A. Davis. "Washington Post Company,The: Conversation Between Katharine and Don Graham (Video)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 498-502, November 1997.
- Article
Guanxi versus Networking: Distinctive Configurations of Affect- and Cognition-based Trust in the Networks of Chinese and American Managers
By: Roy Y.J. Chua, M.W. Morris and P. Ingram
This research investigates hypotheses about differences between Chinese and American managers in the configuration of trusting relationships within their professional networks. Consistent with hypotheses about Chinese familial collectivism, an egocentric network survey... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Trust; China; United States
Chua, Roy Y.J., M.W. Morris, and P. Ingram. "Guanxi versus Networking: Distinctive Configurations of Affect- and Cognition-based Trust in the Networks of Chinese and American Managers." Journal of International Business Studies 40, no. 3 (April 2009): 480–508.
- June 2013
- Teaching Note
Dragonfly Corporation
By: Jim Sharpe and Michael Norris
This is the teaching note to HBS Case 813042. View Details
- 29 Oct 2012
- Video
The Life and Legacy of Ruth Mulan Chu Chao
- June 1997 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions
By: Robert L. Simons and Ramsey Walker
Ramsey Walker, a second-year MBA student, must decide how to control a family business as an absentee owner. After providing background details on the publishing industry, the case requires the reader to: 1) make a product segmentation decision; 2) prepare a profit... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Family and Family Relationships; Market Design; Management Systems; Planning; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Segmentation; Corporate Strategy; Investment Return; Publishing Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Ramsey Walker. "Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions." Harvard Business School Case 197-084, June 1997. (Revised February 2000.)
- March 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
Opportunity Insights: Research and Policy for Social Mobility
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Jeffrey Huizinga and Allison Ciechanover
Opportunity Insights -- a non-profit that researches drivers of economic opportunity and develops policy solutions to help families achieve better life outcomes -- seeks to expand its impact. View Details
Keywords: Economic Opportunity; Social Mobility; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Housing; Policy; Opportunities
Kominers, Scott Duke, Jeffrey Huizinga, and Allison Ciechanover. "Opportunity Insights: Research and Policy for Social Mobility." Harvard Business School Case 820-714, March 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
maximizing productivity? How do we help employees with work/life balance?” “How to keep people engaged and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- June 2006
- Exercise
Matthew A. Hunter
By: John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must manage the performance of a key manager in his company. Looks at the impact of family relationships on performance management. View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Conflict Management; Negotiation; Family Business; Performance; Managerial Roles
Davis, John A., and Deepak Malhotra. "Matthew A. Hunter." Harvard Business School Exercise 806-203, June 2006.
- June 2019
- Article
Learning From Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Mayra Ruiz Castro and Elizabeth Long Lingo
Analyses relying on two international surveys from over 100,000 men and women across 29 countries explore the relationship between maternal employment and adult daughters’ and sons’ employment and domestic outcomes. In the employment sphere, adult daughters, but not... View Details
Keywords: Female Labor Force Participation; Gender Attitudes; Household Labor; Maternal Employment; Social Class; Social Learning Theory; Social Mobility; Employment; Gender; Attitudes; Household; Labor; Learning; Outcome or Result
McGinn, Kathleen L., Mayra Ruiz Castro, and Elizabeth Long Lingo. "Learning From Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes." Work, Employment and Society 33, no. 3 (June 2019): 374–400.
- June 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Schering-Plough and Genome Therapeutics: Discovering an Asthma Gene
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Marc Aquino
Personalized medicine requires the identification of mutated genes. Schering-Plough's search for the one related to asthma requires finding families with the disease. Examines the industry that helps conduct such research, including contract research organizations. View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Research and Development; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Marc Aquino. "Schering-Plough and Genome Therapeutics: Discovering an Asthma Gene." Harvard Business School Case 303-044, June 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
- 08 Jan 2022
- News
Harvard And Stanford Professors Predict The Future Of Work
- 07 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
- June 2006
- Case
Matthew B. Hunter
By: John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must manage the performance of a key manager in his company. Looks at the impact of family relationships on performance management. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Performance Evaluation; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management; Corporate Governance; Family and Family Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation Process
Davis, John A., and Deepak Malhotra. "Matthew B. Hunter." Harvard Business School Case 806-204, June 2006.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt
We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee of a 401(k) plan. This affords the plan sponsor potential... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Conflict of Interests; Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, and Breno Schmidt. "Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-054, January 2008. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association 2006. Winner of the Society of Quantitative Analysts Award, Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, Western Finance Association 2007.)
- January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Fojtasek Companies and Heritage Partners, The: March 1995
By: Samuel L. Hayes III and Josh Lerner
The Fojtasek Companies, a family business, faces several financing choices to address generational succession issues. Several buyouts have expressed interest in acquiring the firm outright; an investment bank has proposed a leveraged recapitalization; and a private... View Details
Keywords: Family Ownership; Financing and Loans; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Banking; Partners and Partnerships; Management Succession; Capital Structure; Financial Strategy
Hayes, Samuel L., III, and Josh Lerner. "Fojtasek Companies and Heritage Partners, The: March 1995." Harvard Business School Case 297-046, January 1997. (Revised November 1997.)