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- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
"Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels." Sean Silverthorne: First, what gave you the idea for this study? How did you do the research? Anita Elberse: As with most View Details
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
as well as door prizes and a surprise video greeting from HBS Dean Srikant Datar. “We’ve been here since 1947, which is pretty amazing,” says the club’s president, Megan... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members,... View Details
- Web
Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Geography of Care Geography of Care... View Details
- October, 2022
- Article
The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources." Art. 112758. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 168 (October, 2022).
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do... View Details
- 26 Dec 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
way when it introduced faster, larger expresso machines that ruined the service experience for baristas and customers alike by shortening the contact time and obstructing their view of each other. Satisfying... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
of 'we're all in the same lifeboat' is a useful one, both for management . . . and for unions . . . " Tim Pinel is more optimistic. He says "Perhaps the lack View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
create potential upside, Honeywell’s management team took a portion of the bonus pool, and distributed it to employees as restricted stock, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
providing another and perhaps better way to measure international influence than traditional measures such as counting the number of tanks and bombs countries possess.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Business of Animal Protection Club
whether they are devoting their career to the cause or just want to find small ways they can pitch in. BOAP is an inclusive, big tent organization. We have zero dues, and we welcome all, regardless of... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
increased allocations will take a number of years to implement. This growth naturally begs the question of sustainability. As has been... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
and Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, together with Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), executive director of the Europe Research Center,... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
Japan Industrial Partners Powers the Leveraged Buyout of Toshiba
By: Brian K. Baik, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
The case explores Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) $14 billion takeover of Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba). JIP was a private equity firm that took over the troubled electronics corporation in late 2023. The deal, which had been labeled one of the largest leveraged... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Borrowing and Debt; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Accounting Industry; Electronics Industry; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; Japan
Baik, Brian K., Joseph Pacelli, and James Barnett. "Japan Industrial Partners Powers the Leveraged Buyout of Toshiba." Harvard Business School Case 125-055, April 2025.
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
with a grounding in the construction of business theories and bridging those theories to the world of practice. The hope is that we can then recognize well researched theories... View Details
- August 2008
- Case
Du Pont: The Birth of the Modern Multidivisional Corporation
By: Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben
Du Pont's realization in 1921 that its "U-form" corporate structure was ill-suited to its new diversification strategy led to a pioneering new kind of organization—the "M" or multidivisional form—that has been called the most important innovation of capitalism in the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Alignment; Corporate Strategy
Tedlow, Richard S., and David Ruben. "Du Pont: The Birth of the Modern Multidivisional Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 809-012, August 2008.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
Canada for prescription drugs as a form of civil disobedience. This kind of grassroots response is an important preliminary step toward... View Details