Publications

March 2001
Case

Breakup of AT&T, The: Project "Grand Slam"

Focuses on AT&T's 2000 restructuring, in which the company broke itself into four units: business services, consumer services, broadband, and wireless. Examines the strategy of the company during this time: (1) to deliver information in any form (voice, video, data)... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Telecommunications Industry

Educators

December 1999 (Revised April 2001)
Supplement

Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A) Survey

By: Lynn S. Paine

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Business Ventures

March 2007
Article

The Internal Markets of Multinational Firms

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Markets; Business Ventures

July–August 2004
Article

What Every CEO Should Know About Creating New Businesses

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Management; Business Ventures

1997
Article

Value Creation Among Europe's Leading Firms

By: Marc L Bertoneche, R. Knight and D. Dragun

Keywords: Value; Business Ventures; Europe

November 1988
Case

Martin Marietta: The Bendix Takeover

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Acquisition

March 1986
Case

AT&T at the Crossroads--December 1981

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Restructuring; Telecommunications Industry

17 Nov 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. Optimism and pessimism are strong, stable traits that reflect our coping strategies. We live in an uncertain world. To cope with... View Details

July–August 1999
Article

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy

August 1997 (Revised November 1998)
Case

Cambridge Technology Partners - 1991 Start Up

By: Paul A. Gompers and Catherine M. Conneely

Jim Sims tries to close the deal to create Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) in a spin-out from a troubled technology consulting firm. The deal looks tenuous. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Negotiation Deal; Information Technology; Organizations; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry; Cambridge

March 19, 2015
Article

Dealing with the Unique Work-Life Challenges of Family Businesses

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer

Maintaining a work-life balance in family businesses can be challenging. The extremes of being "all in" or "all out" are unproductive. The article highlights the importance of setting boundaries, separating family time from work time, using effective communication,... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Work-Life Balance

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January–February 2023
Article

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp

Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship

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1998
Chapter

Putting Your Company's Whole Brain to Work

By: D. A. Leonard

Keywords: Business Ventures; Competency and Skills; Business or Company Management

January 2020
Teaching Note

GeBBS Healthcare Solutions: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (A) and (B)

By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein

This teaching note is meant to accompany “GeBBS Healthcare Solutions: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (A),” HBS No. 820-041, and “GeBBS Healthcare Solutions: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (B),” HBS No. 820-074. The cases follow Nitin Thakor, President... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Decision Making; Health Industry

May 30, 2019
Article

Twitter Is Showing More Ads Instead of Better Ideas

By: Scott Duke Kominers

A social media company that doesn’t know much about its users needs to work harder on its business model. View Details

Keywords: Twitter; Business Model; Advertising; Strategy; Social Media

December 2018
Supplement

Formula E Championship Racing (B)

By: Robert F. Higgins, Susie Ma and James Weber

Formula E's season three is nearly complete. CEO Alejandro Agag needs to examine his business model to ensure the racing series is positioned to grow sustainably in the years to come. View Details

Keywords: Electric Car Racing; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy

October 1990
Article

Troubled Debt Restructurings: An Empirical Analysis of Private Reorganization of Firms in Default

By: S. C. Gilson, J. Kose and L. H. P. Kang

This study investigates the incentives of financially distressed firms to restructure their debt privately rather than through formal bankruptcy. In a sample of 169 financially distressed companies, about half successfully restructure their debt outside of Chapter 11.... View Details

Keywords: Theory; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring

2017
Working Paper

What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Deepak Hegde and Alexander Ljungqvist

We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents. Using unique data on all first-time applications filed at the U.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention

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