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  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

case where General Motors dealt with a serious recall crisis translated these concepts into the reality of managing a global enterprise in a trustworthy manner. BOOK ABSTRACT: The role of the chief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
PPL Corp., an electric utility in Pennsylvania, needs to finance $1 billion of peaking plants as part of its new growth strategy. In February 2001, Steve May, director of finance for PPL's Global Division, is responsible for recommending a finance plan. After... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Project Finance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Leasing
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  • October 1991 (Revised November 1993)
  • Case

Play Time Toy Co.

By: Thomas R. Piper
The president of a toy company is considering the adoption of level production in a business characterized by highly seasonal sales. The issues include balancing the cost savings and the inventory risk, estimating the seasonal financing need, and determining the... View Details
Keywords: Production; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Sales; Goods and Commodities; Financial Management; Risk Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 28 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

brother, Jacob, immigrated to Queens in 2000. They later established Bean&Bean, located in Manhattan near the Wall Street subway station, right before the financial crisis hit in 2008. The family... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

that owns 53 Planet Fitness Health Clubs, has to choose: continue in private equity or shift his career to managing and growing the health clubs. An African-American graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, Simmons... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

banking" experience. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110049-PDF-ENG Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year? Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. WeinzierlHarvard Business School Case 710-051 In response to the economic and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 27, 2020
  • Other Article

Lessons from Italy's Response to Coronavirus

By: Gary P. Pisano, Raffaella Sadun and Michele Zanini
Policymakers in many parts of Europe and the United States are struggling to bring the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic under control. In doing so, they are repeating many of the mistakes made in Italy, where the pandemic turned into a disaster. A major contributing... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; Decision Making; Italy
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  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

example, while Korea has a great education system, its industry structure is still rather inefficient. The Asian financial crisis induced a healthy shakeout, and now private equity firms are very active... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • March 2023
  • Teaching Plan

Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-014. View Details
Keywords: Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Failure; Groups and Teams; Rank and Position; Shipping Industry; United States; Puerto Rico
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Do Active Funds Do Better in What They Trade?

By: Marco Sammon and John J. Shim
We develop two new, simple measures to quantify active fund decisions at the individual position level. The intuition is to separate passive rebalancing induced by flows and position changes from active rebalancing decisions. We find that additive active rebalancing --... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Financial Management
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  • February 2004 (Revised November 2012)
  • Exercise

Capital Investment Analysis

By: Dwight B. Crane and Josh Lerner
Teaches techniques of evaluating investment alternatives. A rewritten version of an earlier exercise. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Investment Return
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  • Article

The Trouble with Executive Stock Options

By: Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
Keywords: Stock Options; Management
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  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management team and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2022
  • Case

Operation Overlord

By: Boris Groysberg, Greg Goullet, Katherine Connolly Baden and Sarah L. Abbott
On June 6, 1944, nearly 5,000 ships, 11,000 planes, and 160,000 infantrymen under an Allied joint-command of American, British, and Canadian leaders were sent across the English Channel, with hopes of re-establishing a foothold in Nazi-occupied France. Known as D-Day,... View Details
Keywords: Execution; Data Analytics; Leadership; Planning; Operations; Crisis Management; War; Organizational Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Management; France; England
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  • March 1998 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

Corposol (Abridged Version)

By: James E. Austin
The social enterprise Corposol has become the largest lender to microentrepreneurs in Colombia. Its rapid growth and diversification into other services and geographical areas has created organizational and resource strains. View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Growth Management; Diversification; Microfinance; Financial Services Industry; Colombia
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  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

The Hard Way

Australia’s leading public financial services companies with assets, investments, and loans under management of more than A$36 billion. Secure in her own success, Russo has made good on her desire to include... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

What’s the Big Idea?

confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Management; Management; Management; Management
  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
Teaching Note for 709007. View Details
Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Natural Environment; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Australia
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  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

types of investments? In relation to manager selection, how could the Notre Dame investment team continue to find the best managers to create alpha? To what extent would the performance of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2008
  • Supplement

Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (B)

By: Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Alok Patel, the founder and chairman of a Gujarat-based, privately held edible oils processor, has hired a CFO and the company is doing extremely well. He wants to add a new plant to process oilive oil, but estimates he will need $20 million. He must decide among... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Chemical Industry; Gujarat
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