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  • February 1985 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

Arrow Electronics

Arrow Electronics is the fastest growing distributor of electronic components in North America and the second largest. Its capital structure policy of heavy reliance on debt financing contrasts sharply with that of its leading competitor, Arnet. Students are asked to... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Financial Management; Risk Management; Distribution; Competition; Hardware; Electronics Industry; United States
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  • February 2008 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Apple Inc., 2008

By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
In January 2007, three decades after its incorporation, Apple Computer shed the second word in its name and became Apple Inc. With that move, the company signaled a fundamental shift away from its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC)... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Leadership; Industry Growth; Corporate Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Structure; Social Issues; Boundaries
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    Summer R. Jackson

    Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer... View Details

    • September–October 2024
    • Article

    Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed

    By: Bharat Anand and David J. Collis
    Enterprises that own multiple businesses often have a flawed approach to strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them.
    Strategies for adding value to a corporation’s businesses fall on a... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Management Systems
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    • November 2000 (Revised March 2001)
    • Case

    Iggy's Bread of the World

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Alexis Lefort
    In January 1994, Igor and Ludmilla Ivanovic opened the doors of their bakery, Iggy's Bread of the World. This case describes their unusual mission statement and the way in which they try to bring a social consciousness mentality to a for-profit business. Six years... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Restructuring; Family Business; Power and Influence; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Massachusetts
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    • January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
    • Case

    Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (A)

    By: Stefan H. Thomke and Briana Doerr Luthra
    Describes the Mahindra & Mahindra Group's approach to innovation. The Group is among the top industrial houses in India and its managing director Anand Mahindra has put innovation at the core of its growth strategy. Emphasis is placed on managing the balance between... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Marketing; Business Processes; Product; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Design; Demand and Consumers; Auto Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Robert Simons
    Professor Simons is currently studying how executives make their businesses more competitive using innovative structural designs and performance measurement systems. He has a number of ongoing research projects on this topic, and teaches MBA and executive education... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy Execution; Organization Design; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Competitiveness
    • 20 Mar 2021
    • News

    US security focus on Chinese state ownership is not productive, advisory panel is told

    • December 2014 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Hanoch Feit, Edward A. Minasian and Brandon Van Buren
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
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    • 10 Jun 2019
    • Blog Post

    What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS

    going to structure the rest of my life. I was taking a job in data analytics which I was excited about, but was not sure it would get me to where I wanted to go in my career (a destination that I am still trying to work out). HBS was... View Details

      Leemore S. Dafny

      Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Co-Chair at the Harvard Business School. She also serves as Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an... View Details

      Keywords: health care
      • April 2005 (Revised August 2011)
      • Case

      Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's

      By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
      A five-member team from Berkshire Partners must recommend a final bid and financial structure for a leveraged buyout of William Carter Co., a leading producer of children's apparel. Investorcorp, a global investment group, has put the company up for auction. Goldman... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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        Guhan Subramanian

        Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School.  He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold... View Details

        • November 2008
        • Case

        Eden McCallum

        By: Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. Eccles
        This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures that challenge the work/life balance which was one of the original goals of its two founders. The case also raises... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Work-Life Balance
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        • August 2005
        • Background Note

        Dual Class Share Companies

        By: Samuel L. Hayes III, Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
        Provides a brief historical overview of dual class share companies in the United States, focusing on the New York Stock Exchange's evolving position on dual class structures since the 1920s, the impact of hostile takeovers on their use since the 1980s, and recent... View Details
        Keywords: Acquisition; Debates; Capital Structure; Equity; Business History; Law; Organizational Structure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Perspective; Europe; United States
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        • 2021
        • Working Paper

        MLS as a Sports Product—The Prominence of the World's Game in the U.S.

        By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kenneth Cortsen
        The purpose of this Working Paper is to analyze how soccer at the professional level in the U.S., with Major League Soccer as a focal point, has developed over the span of a quarter of a century. It is worthwhile to examine the growth of Major League Soccer (MLS) from... View Details
        Keywords: Soccer; Major League Soccer; Sports; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure; Business Model; Sports Industry; United States
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        • 16 Jul 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

        Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus
        • 18 Mar 2025
        • Video

        Are corporate AI systems reinforcing inequality? MIT’s Catherine D'Ignazio reveals blind spots in data science

        • 12 Aug 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: August 12, 2008

        http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309003 How Serial Entrepreneurs Build and Manage a Board of Directors in a Venture-Backed Start Up Harvard Business School Case 808-163 This case includes View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne