Publications

May 2020 (Revised April 2024)
Case

Gavi and COVID-19: Pandemic of the Century

By: Tarun Khanna and Sid Misra

Gavi has helped immunize over 760 million children in the world's poorest countries over the past 20 years saving 13 million lives. How should Gavi respond to the need for a vaccine for the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic? View Details

Keywords: Vaccine; Pandemics; Healthcare; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Emerging Markets; Crisis Management; Alliances

2008
Book

Managing Up

By: Linda A. Hill

Managing up is not political game playing. Rather, it's a conscious approach to working with your supervisor toward goals that are important to both of you. Through managing up, you build a productive working relationship with your boss and create a way to use the... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Alliances; Value Creation

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July 2003 (Revised August 2006)
Case

House of Tata-2000: The Next Generation (B)

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Catherine M. Conneely and Kirsten O'Neil Massaro

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Alliances; Business Conglomerates; Emerging Markets; Cost; Management Teams; India

November 2010 (Revised August 2013)
Case

Chrysler Fiat 2009

By: J. Bruce Harreld, Paul W. Marshall and David Lane

In spring 2009, Chrysler entered a prepackaged bankruptcy and exited 40 days later in a deal with Fiat, the U.S. Treasury, and the UAW that kept the automaker alive. Looking forward, what was necessary for Chrysler to move beyond the life support it had received? What... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Leadership Development; Alliances; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Condition; Auto Industry

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh

in both engineering and creative writing, Yeh helped launch Juno Online Services, one of the pioneers of free e-mail. He then moved on to D.E. Shaw, where he developed strategic alliances for the firm's online brokerage division. But the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2004
News

Starting Off on the Right Foot

Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and influence? Are there View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

technologies. He reminded listeners that the key to Microsoft's success has been not through technology excellence, but rather by its ability to have the industry embrace standards built around its products. Companies must also become smarter at business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 1994
Case

Bose Corp.: The JIT II Program (A)

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Bruce Isaacson

Bose Corp. is evaluating an unusual plan to manage relationships with vendors that supply components for Bose speakers. The company must decide: 1) which planning and ordering activities should be performed by Bose and which can be performed by vendors, 2) how much... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Planning; Production; Alliances; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Electronics Industry

1995
Chapter

Dealing with Blocking Coalitions and Related Barriers to Agreement: Lessons from Negotiations on the Oceans, the Ozone, and the Climate

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Negotiation; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

enable more sustainable social impact increasingly relevant. Social entrepreneurs stay relentlessly focused on their missions and seek to continually innovate to achieve greater impact with the resources that they are able to mobilize. Q: On the theme of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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