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  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 1997 (Revised May 1998)
  • Case

ASIMCO: The Alliance Brewing Group

ASIMCO is a direct investment fund with $350 million invested in 17 Chinese joint ventures in the brewing and auto components industries. The CEO must decide whether to invest in distribution to grow the brewing business or to invest in additional manufacturing joint... View Details
Keywords: Production; Distribution; Joint Ventures; Decision Making; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

HBS Records an “Excellent” Year

Fiscal year 2007 “proved to be an excellent financial and operational year for Harvard Business School,” declared CFO Richard Melnick (MBA ’92) in the School’s newly released annual report. He cited continued View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash company based in Argentina, was planning for rapid View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2004 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Strategic Review at Egon Zehnder International (A)

By: Ashish Nanda
The case describes the history of the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) from its inception through 2000. Internal and environmental changes lead EZI leaders to question whether the firm might be at an inflection point in its history. The EZI... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Service Industry
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  • January – February 2008
  • Article

The Dangers of Wishful Thinking

By: Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben
Too many U.S. businesses (including tires, super-markets, and information technology) have been infected with the disease of denial. The answer? In Lincoln's words, “We must disenthrall ourselves.” View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Success; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking
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  • January 1986 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Peripheral Products Company: The 'Gray Market' for Disk Drives

By: Frank V. Cespedes
In mid-1985, the vice president of marketing for a large manufacturer of disk drives is considering how to deal with a growing "gray market" for his company's products. The case provides good background material on the evolution of gray markets throughout the disk... View Details
Keywords: Price; Growth and Development; Code Law; Leadership; Marketing; Distribution; Production; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Distribution Industry
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  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

quick, and (3) learn and adapt. Axiom #1: Make A Bump Plan Military strategist Carl von Clausewitz coined the term friction, "the force that makes the apparently easy so... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • April 2012
  • Case

Man Group (A)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. Clay
The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based hedge fund and fund of funds manager. Through acquisitions, the company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Financial Crisis; Decisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
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  • January 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

The Credit Suisse Group

By: Ashish Nanda and Kelley Elizabeth Morrell
On September 19, 2002, Lukas Muhlemann announced that he would step down as chairman and CEO of the Credit Suisse Group, effective January 1, 2003. The bank had progressed from a small Swiss start-up 150 years ago to a global banking powerhouse. Over the past 5 years,... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Management Succession; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Switzerland
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  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee handbook) includes 100% self-allocated time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Pharma Suits a Farm Gal

lessons. Whether rotating crops, breeding animals, or investing in equipment, “You spend a good deal of your time trying to plan forward in terms of timing and scheduling,” said Graham, who added that living... View Details
Keywords: biopharmaceutical company; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
  • February 2000 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

Gray Security: Building a South African Services Firm

Describes Gray Security Services, an entrepreneurial South African firm that has recently gone through a financial restructuring with the help of Brait Capital Partners, a private equity firm. Gray provides complete security services to companies in South Africa, other... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Entrepreneurship; Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; South Africa
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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 02 Nov 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Tools for Life's Major Transitions

To take charge of a major life transition, we must look beyond the numbers in a financial plan, we must look at our relationships and how they will change, assess our physical health and lifestyle and develop an understanding of how work and play will keep us mentally... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Frei is the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at HBS and is the author of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Joseph Fuller: Focus on doing what is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

business. It asks if the cultural and other factors behind its rapid growth can sustain the company as it seeks growth much further as a top-five beauty company. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women

representatives of businesses led or managed by women will make presentations to over three hundred corporate, angel, and venture investors and strategic partners. Companies... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

to use strategic levers such as market power and channels of distribution, growth in demand leading to diffusion of the new technology through the population, and uncertainty.... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 23 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

simply not sustainable today if we take seriously any of the solid economic history done by historians in China or the West in recent decades. Rather, we have a picture of sustained, reasonably high economic growth during the 1910s,... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby