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  • 21 Jun 2017
  • News

Meet the Oddball Entrepreneurs Who Invented Green Businesses

  • December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World

By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative... View Details
Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Wealth; Business History; Vertical Integration; Consolidation; Personal Development and Career; Energy Industry; United States
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    Nancy F. Koehn

    Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

    Keywords: beauty products; clothing; consumer products; entertainment; fashion; marketing industry; retailing; health care; advertising; media
    • 20 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

    October 11 is National Coming Out Day (NCOD) and HBS is participating in events that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community throughout October as part of the broader LGBTQ+ History Month—a month focused on acknowledging and celebrating the... View Details
    • November 1999 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Family Feud (A): Andersen v. Andersen

    By: Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
    Traces the history and development of consulting within Andersen and the history of the schism between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting. Ends with the two units seeking external arbitration of their dispute. View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Corporate Governance; Conflict and Resolution; Consulting Industry
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    • May 1991 (Revised October 1998)
    • Case

    NIKE (A) (Condensed)

    By: David B. Yoffie
    Describes the history of Nike, its strategy, and the industry in which it competes. The teaching objective is to ask the student to identify and evaluate Nike's economic/technical strategy. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Economics; Consumer Products Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • April 2005 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    IBM's Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin and Elizabeth Collins
    Describes IBM's decade of transformation. Provides background on the company's history and the factors that led to its near death in the early 1990s and to its remarkable turnaround during Gerstner's reign as CEO. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
    Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • 25 Jan 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

    on how the economic system works and what history teaches us, business readers might turn to A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, by Harvard Business School professor David A. Moss, who... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Tom Nicholas

      Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

      Keywords: financial services; high technology
      • November 2004 (Revised November 2005)
      • Case

      Kodak and The Digital Revolution (A)

      By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
      The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
      Keywords: History; Information Technology; Business Model; Leadership; Disruption; Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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      • 08 Dec 2015
      • Research Event

      Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference

      Scholars from around the world discussed the history and current business trends in India and Southeast Asia at Harvard Business School. The Business History of India and South Asia: Recent Trends in... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
      • January 2004 (Revised May 2008)
      • Case

      Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Credo

      By: Thomas R. Piper
      No corporate credo is better known than that of Johnson & Johnson. Describes the history of the credo, including the credo challenge initiated by the CEO, James Burke, in 1975 and the role the credo played during the Tylenol poisoning crisis. View Details
      Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Accountability; Reputation; Crisis Management; Corporate Governance; Management Teams
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        Mattias E. Fibiger

        Mattias Fibiger is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy (BGIE) Unit. A historian by training, he conducts research on Asia's twentieth century. He teaches in the Business, Government, and... View Details
        • 29 Oct 2020
        • Blog Post

        Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

        history on my grandpa’s walking tours of Lagos Island, celebrating Eid holidays with family, and working on craft projects with my twin sister. My family bonded over storytelling. Older family members recounted tales of their past... View Details
        • March 2004 (Revised February 2005)
        • Case

        Emerging Business Opportunities at IBM (A)

        By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
        By June 2003, IBM had made significant progress in changing the way it managed new, emerging businesses. Describes the development of a separate management program at IBM designed to identify, fund, and shepherd new businesses through growth. Traces the history of the... View Details
        Keywords: History; Business or Company Management; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy
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        • January 2009
        • Case

        Berkshire Hathaway

        By: Bharat N. Anand and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
        Berkshire Hathaway describes the history and strategy of one of the best known investment firms over the last forty years. The case describes the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett, its legendary chairman and CEO, the gradual diversification of its portfolio, its... View Details
        Keywords: History; Private Equity; Diversification; Resource Allocation; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Corporate Governance
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        • April 2011
        • Case

        Online Portals: Searching and Shaping Opportunities

        The case illustrates the strategic history of the internet portal business. View Details
        Keywords: Business History; Opportunities; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Web Services Industry
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        • April 2020
        • Case

        Apple Inc. in 2020

        By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
        After a decade as CEO, Tim Cook is facing one of his biggest strategic transitions of his tenure. While Apple had performed spectacularly well under Cook, Apple's core business was maturing. Sales of iPhones, iPads, and Macs were flat or down. However, Apple's new... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation; Market Positioning; Marketing Implementation; Planning; Products; Strategic Positioning; Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Product Positioning; Communication; Competition; Leadership; Strategic Planning; Computer Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry
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        • January 2011 (Revised October 2014)
        • Case

        Dropbox: 'It Just Works'

        By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Michael Pao and Lauren Barley
        Dropbox is a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup, founded in 2006, that provides online storage and backup services to millions of customers using a "freemium" (free + premium offers) business model. The case recounts Dropbox's history from conception through... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Distribution; Product Design; Product Development; Internet; Service Industry; California
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        • 17 Feb 2023
        • News

        Now at Harvard Business School: The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash