Publications

December 1997
Case

Franco Bernabe at ENI (B)

By: Linda A. Hill, Jennifer Suesse and Mara Willard

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Management Style; Strategic Planning; Crisis Management; Privatization; Italy

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

management of all resources that surround that particular scale of operation." Questions raised by Salli's and other of the comments include the following: Can leaders sense successfully when an entity is functioning at its proper... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services; Financial Services

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

Advertising Authors:Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

century's most dynamic and important economies. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516052-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-015 Clare College: Seeking Investment Opportunity in a Financial View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2008
Case

JBS Swift & Co.

By: David E. Bell and Cathy Ross

Brazilian meat packer JBS surprised many in the U.S. beef industry when it acquired Swift & Co.—a company more than five times its size—in 2007, then moved to acquire the U.S.'s fourth and fifth largest beef producers in 2008. The new JBS Swift slashed costs and... View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Global Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Brazil

May 1996 (Revised December 1996)
Case

Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B)

By: Krishna G. Palepu, V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarayu Srinivasan

A new administration/government takes power in a state in India and cancels a power project agreed upon/created by the previous state government and an American-based energy company. The project cancellation is based on allegations of irregularities, exorbitant costs,... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Conflict Management; Energy Industry; India; United States

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

MobSquad

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma

Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data... View Details

Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Labor; Human Capital; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Employment Industry; Canada; United States

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

26 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Business and the Environment

Managing Partner, Generation Investment ManagementJames McCarthy, Harvard University faculty These experts shared their perspectives on global climate change. Professor McCarthy discussed scientific findings; Blood provided an investor's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Forest L. Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

11 Apr 2018
News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

working on crisis management with city officials. “We are working to end intergenerational poverty within a 100-block radius in central Harlem,” says Owusu-Kesse, who joined HCZ in 2008 and became COO in... View Details

23 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

was the result of deleveraging and the post-Global Financial Crisis period, a mere cyclical phase. Distilling the sources and drivers of productivity decline was further complicated by the rise in economic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

professors were really fantastic,” she says. “What they are doing for a generation of students is going to have substantial impact on how financial management practitioners approach theory.” Left to Right:... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

Authentic Leadership by William W. (“Bill”) George (MBA ’66) (Jossey-Bass) Drawing from a decade of experience as CEO and chairman of medical technology company Medtronic, George analyzes the causes of the current crisis in corporate... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

June 2010
Teaching Note

Ebro Puleva (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman

Teaching Note for 510026. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Financial Crisis; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Structure; Globalization; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain

November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
Supplement

Oriflame S.A. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal

Exercise for recording derivative hedging transactions, accompanied by a technical note on IFRS derivative accounting. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Supplement

Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (C)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain

After posting its first-ever quarterly loss in 2008, Goldman Sachs surpassed market expectations for the first quarter of 2009 but came under intensive fire for, among other things, announcing its intention to repay TARP thereby avoiding its compensation limitations. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment Banking; Corporate Disclosure; Policy; Executive Compensation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry