Publications

April 2009 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Immusol and Novartis

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Keyne M. Monson, Juan D. Betancourt and Victor Li

Should Immusol strive to become a fully integrated pharmaceutical company? How should a small pharmaceutical company structure a deal for its novel technology with the giant Novartis? View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Rights; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Participants; Alliances; Pharmaceutical Industry

01 Feb 1998
News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details

September 2016
Teaching Note

Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change?

By: Michael W. Toffel and Glen W. S. Dowell

This case asks students to take the perspective of a nuclear energy industry association whose objective is convincing politicians and the public about the merits of its industry. The association is considering whether to approach environmental nongovernmental... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Power; Environment; Climate Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Environmental Protection; Environmental Strategy; Energy; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Partners and Partnerships; Alliances; Strategy; Energy Industry; United States

February 2010 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Indus Towers: Collaborating with Competitors on Infrastructure

By: Ranjay Gulati, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Rachna Tahilyani

The case describes the formation of Indus Towers, the largest telecom tower company in the world that has a joint venture created to build and manage the passive infrastructure of wireless telecom operators by bringing together three competitors in India's tough... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cost Management; Infrastructure; Alliances; Competition; Cooperation; Telecommunications Industry; India

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

objectives on which these kinds of actions should be based? Can organized labor form the necessary kinds of alliances with business and government that might be necessary to, in Pinel's words, "address the contemporary issues of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Conservation International in 1998 to help coffee farmers improve production quality, while minimizing the impact on some of the world's most ecologically sensitive areas. Two years later, the company began to offer "Fair Trade" coffee through an View Details

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

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

including the Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys and Girls Clubs and Edible Schoolyard New York City, which focus on increasing the physical activity and healthy eating habits of children and their families in local communities.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

March 1999 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Honda-Rover (C): "The Sting"

By: Ashish Nanda, James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; United Kingdom

Web

Richard Jenrette | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

create an investment arm for DLJ, called Alliance Capital. Dick led DLJ through several transitions, including going public and being sold to Equitable Life. There he served as vice chairman in charge of all of the investment... View Details

Web

Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog

benefits and disadvantages of alliances Class 11: How to develop and run a corporate venture capital fund Class 12: When and how to partner with startups Class 13: When and how to partner with customers Class 14: Summary and panel on... View Details

Profile

Tiera Brown

says Tiera. "We helped them formalize their word-of-mouth program and reinvigorate their brand." For her summer internship, Tiera will work with New Sector Alliance in Boston, a nonprofit consulting firm. Part of her summer... View Details

07 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-462 The Columbus Partnership The Columbus Partnership, a civic alliance bringing together the heads of roughly 50 leading organizations in central... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

firms; and Ashish Nanda, who researches management issues and strategic alliances among professional service organizations and formerly served as an executive with the Tata Group of companies in India. The program also facilitates... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

11 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care and Occupational Medicine physician at Cambridge Health View Details

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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

charity but on the reality that its participants are contributing meaningful skills in the workplace. “In my mind, the progress that we see today in social entrepreneurship is the next step in the civil rights movement,” Chertavian says. “The View Details

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