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  • November 1994 (Revised March 2001)
  • Case

Security Plus, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
A company acquires an alarm system company and converts its customers from operating to sale-type leases. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Leasing; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
    • Case

    Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
    Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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    • 07 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Peter Tufano
    • March 2022
    • Supplement

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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    • Research Summary

    Research Summary

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    My research has focused on interorganizational relationships, with an emphasis on interfirm strategic alliances, which include voluntary exchange or co-development of products, technologies, or services between firms.  I examine the factors that influence the... View Details
    • May 2004
    • Supplement

    Slingshot Technology, Inc. Supplement: Partnership Agreements

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
    Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Intellectual Property; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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    • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
    • Case

    Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
    Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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    • May 2003 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    Harlem Children's Zone, The: Driving Performance with Measurement and Evaluation

    By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
    Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, wanted his organization to grow dramatically to reach thousands of poor and underserved children in Harlem. The agency ran a variety of successful social service programs throughout New York City that were separately... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Valuation
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    • September 1976 (Revised January 1977)
    • Case

    Del Norte Paper Co. (C)

    By: William A. Sahlman
    Designed to serve two roles: first, it provides a reasonably comprehensive description of an ongoing capital budgeting system for the international operations of a large American company. Second, it allows the student to focus upon and critically analyze a series of... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; International Relations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Goals and Objectives; Service Delivery; Business Subsidiaries; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 10 Dec 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Vulnerable Banks

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • 19 Nov 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us …)

    Keywords: by William A. Sahlman
    • September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker
    How should the founder and leadership team of a health IT company with more than 45 years of market leadership prepare for the future, while navigating founder transitions and industry changes? Founded by Judy Faulkner in the late 1970s, Epic pioneered electronic... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Electronics Industry
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    • March 2023
    • Case

    Woven Planet - Designing Software for the Car of the Future

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Catherine Piner
    Founded in 2021, Woven Planet Holdings—a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation—was developing Arene, an automotive software platform consisting of an operating system, development and simulation tools, and a cloud-based service that could store and analyze vehicle... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Automated Driving; Innovation; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Safety; Product Launch; Product; Auto Industry; Technology Industry
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    • Spring–Fall 2015
    • Article

    Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? I offer evidence of some important shortfalls, then consider how the legal system might appropriately respond. Though it is tempting to forgive many violations in light of... View Details
    Keywords: Transportation Network Company; Uber; Lyft; Regulation; Lawfulness; Transportation Networks; Laws and Statutes; Law Enforcement; Transportation Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    • January 2020
    • Article

    Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations and Review from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement

    By: O. Allin, R. D. Urman, A. F. Edwards, J. D. Blitz, K. J. Pfeifer, T. W. Feeley and A. M. Bader
    A shift in health care payment models from volume toward value-based incentives will require deliberate input into systems development from both perioperative clinicians and administrators to ensure appropriate recognition of the value of all services... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Outcomes; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Activity Based Costing and Management
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    • April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    The Auction for Travelport (A)

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
    A senior Blackstone director is deciding how aggressively to bid for Travelport, a travel distribution business containing several key services and platforms. Travelport's most important properties were Galileo, one of the top 3 global distribution systems (GDSs),... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Product Positioning; Cost vs Benefits; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Competitive Advantage; Auctions; Industry Structures; Travel Industry
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    • 03 Feb 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

    management services provided by an affiliate network. (Most merchants use affiliate networks to manage the technical infrastructure of the program, but not necessarily the administrative duties.) There are pros and cons to both internal... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing
    • Article

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century

    By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
    After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Dodd-Frank; CFPB; Financial Crisis; Reform; New Agency; Market-based Approach; Evidence-based Analysis; Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies; BEST Practices; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Finance; Financial History; Law; Markets; Organizations; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • Mar 2012
    • Article

    How to Make Finance Work

    and generated new ones. The rest of the economy, however, has not been well served by the financial sector's boom. First, the shift from deposit-based banking to a market-based "shadow banking" system, without adequate regulatory adjustments, has left the... View Details