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Directors Survey

By: Jay W. Lorsch
This project, which is just beginning, will be a questionnaire survey of directors of public companies in the U.S. The goal of the survey will be to understand the views of directors about their jobs and the changing legal, regulatory, and institutional climate in... View Details

    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
    • September 2002 (Revised March 2003)
    • Technical Note

    Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 3: Cash-and-Stock Deals

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The consideration paid by an acquiring company to a target can be a combination of cash and stock. During the 1980s and 1990s, for example, approximately 12% to 13% of all deals between public companies involved both cash and stock. This case series describes the basic... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 04 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 4

    Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
    • Case

    Midnight Networks, Inc.

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
    Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Operations; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology Industry; Massachusetts
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      Derek C. M. van Bever

      Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

      • February 2000 (Revised August 2005)
      • Case

      Deep Sight Technology, Inc.

      By: Henry B. Reiling and Catherine M. Conneely
      The founders of a deep sea technology company must refine their tentative capital structure and founders agreement in response to tax factors. Some parties are conveying partnership assets, others are conveying rights to an invention, another will be primarily... View Details
      Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Capital Structure; Alliances; Taxation; Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry
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      • 19 Oct 2011
      • News

      What's the Greenest Building? The Problem With Ranking Systems

      • 03 Sep 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Supply Chain Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure

      Keywords: by Susan A. Kayser, John W. Maxwell & Michael W. Toffel

        Case: Governing PG&E

        The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation's out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company's proposed new board. PG&E, which provided... View Details
        • September 2018 (Revised August 2021)
        • Teaching Note

        Blackstone at Age 30 and Blackstone at 35

        By: Josh Lerner
        This teaching note is meant to guide in the instruction of HBS No. 316-013 "Blackstone at 30" case. It examines the process of institutionalization and scaling in private equity and alternative investments more generally, looking specifically at how Blackstone's size... View Details
        Keywords: Finance; Blackstone; Alternative Assets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business Growth and Maturation; Public Ownership; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Services Industry
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        • January 2008 (Revised January 2009)
        • Case

        The Armstrong Investigation

        By: David Moss and Eugene Kintgen
        In the early 20th century, public outrage at certain life insurance practices led to an investigation in New York State that threatened to curtail growth in the industry. Charles Evans Hughes guided the four-month-long Armstrong Investigation, which made startling... View Details
        Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Annuities; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance Industry; New York (state, US)
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        • May 2022
        • Case

        Byte

        By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Julia Kelley
        In January 2021, Byte co-founders Scott Cohen and Blake Johnson reflected on how far their Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) orthodontics company had come since launching its clear aligners just a little over two years earlier. Cohen and Johnson were both... View Details
        Keywords: Growth; Customer Experience; Customer Focused Organization; Innovation; DTC; Growth Management; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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        • July 2020 (Revised March 2021)
        • Case

        Board Diversity at Amazon (A)

        By: Aiyesha Dey and Anu Atluru
        The case revolves around the decisions that the board of directors of ecommerce giant Amazon would need to make in response to the controversial letter that activist shareholder CtW investment group sent to Amazon’s shareholders, urging them to vote in favor of a... View Details
        Keywords: Board Of Directors; Boards; Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Gender; Race; United States
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        • 10 Sep 2012
        • News

        Join the Insurgency Against the Jobs Crisis

        • 01 Mar 2018
        • News

        Will corporate leaders taking a stand on guns have a contagious effect?

        • December 2014
        • Case

        Groupon: A New CEO Takes Charge

        By: Lynda M. Applegate and Arnold B. Peinado
        On August 7, 2013, Eric Lefkofsky, the chairman and largest shareholder of Groupon was named CEO, replacing founder Andrew Mason, who had run the company since its inception in 2009. When Groupon had its initial public offering (IPO) in November 2011, the company's... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Disruptive Technologies; Growth Strategy; Customer Relations; Service Management; International Business; Business Models; Strategy Execution; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; United States
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        • 01 Aug 2017
        • News

        Index Rules and Analyst Fatigue

        • 09 Apr 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

        regulatory agencies serving the public instead end up advancing the interests of the companies they regulate. The main way companies accomplish this, economists theorize, is... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness
        • April 2006 (Revised September 2009)
        • Case

        BYD Company, Ltd.

        By: Robert S. Huckman and Alan D. MacCormack
        Considers whether BYD Co., Ltd., the largest Chinese maker of rechargeable batteries, should enter the Chinese automobile industry by acquiring Qinchuan Auto, a state-owned car manufacturer. Set just after BYD's initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Labor; Production; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China
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