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  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

After being awarded the CCI, Chan must make some tough decisions about how to carry out the CCI. Despite Far East Hospitality's leading market share in mid-tier hotels and serviced residences, there had been... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino

    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
    • January 2025 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Creating Value by Splitting Aster: Can One Minus One Equal Two?

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Kairavi Dey
    Aster DM Healthcare (Aster), founded by Dr. Azad Moopen in 1987, is a prominent healthcare conglomerate with operations spanning hospitals, clinics, retail pharmacies, and diagnostic centers across India and the GCC. After its 2018 listing on India’s National Stock... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Change Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Negotiation; Valuation; Health Industry; Asia; India; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
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    • May 2011
    • Case

    Baria Planning Solutions, Inc.: Fixing the Sales Process

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and William Schmidt
    Baria Planning Solutions (BPS) is a consulting firm that specializes in using spend analysis to help companies identify savings through reduced procurement costs and improved supplier performance. Management is concerned about the disappointing performance of the sales... View Details
    Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Technology; Operations Management; Product Lines; Manufacturing; Capacity Planning; Production Planning; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Supply Chain Management; Salesforce Management; Planning; Consulting Industry; North and Central America
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    • Web

    Impact - Health Care

    Impact Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School Influencing the Industry With global health care spending greater than $8.5 trillion, there is no shortage of opportunities to make an impact in this demanding sector. HBS... View Details
    • May 2004 (Revised April 2006)
    • Case

    Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)

    By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
    Ultra is one of a small group of competing Brazilian petrochemical companies, each of which buys raw material and is a minority owner of Copene, a "cracking" company that provides ethylene and other materials. Because of an industry restructuring, an auction of shares... View Details
    Keywords: Capital; Capital Budgeting; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Industry Structures; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Bids and Bidding; Economy; Ownership Stake; Chemical Industry; Brazil
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    • 25 Jun 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

    either way, labor market competition among firms would close these gaps over time for mobile workers. Immigrants account for large percentage of patents Outside immigrant business owners, Kerr’s previous research shows that immigrants... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Service; Service
    • April 2009 (Revised April 2012)
    • Case

    Bono and U2

    By: Nancy F. Koehn, Katherine Miller and Rachel Wilcox
    This case traces the 30-year development of the rock band U2 and the development of its four members as artists, business leaders, and humanitarians (with particular attention paid to lead singer Bono's global humanitarian work). The case examines the beginnings of the... View Details
    Keywords: Arts; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Globalized Markets and Industries; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career; Social Enterprise; Music Industry
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    • January 1989 (Revised March 1995)
    • Case

    Du Pont Freon Products Division (A)

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt
    In 1988, the Du Pont Co. is abruptly confronted with solid scientific evidence that chlorofluorocarbons are destroying the earth's ozone shield. Du Pont, with its Freon brand product line serving markets for foam insulation, electronics solvents, and especially... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Policy; Management; Brands and Branding; Production; Service Operations; Natural Environment; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Sustainability
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    • 07 Jul 2021
    • Book

    Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

    investigating its own supply chain for worker exploitation. The authors say companies that are adept at building trust focus on four key elements: Competence: While every company needs to be competent—capable of creating and delivering products and View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • September 2009 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    OnStar: Not Your Father's General Motors

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    After two years of less than stellar performance resulting in sales well below plan, senior management at General Motors (GM) mobile telecommunications service start-up, OnStar, recognized that without a substantial change in their strategy, support for the venture... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Joint Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Risk Management; Auto Industry; Auto Industry
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    • 22 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 22, 2006

      Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern cartel movement properly... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2012
    • Article

    Reviving Entrepreneurship

    By: Josh Lerner and William Sahlman
    New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Policy; Economy; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • September 2024
    • Case

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners: Leading the Energy Transition

    By: John Macomber and Maxwell Nii Laryea
    A leading global infrastructure fund debates whether and when to become engaged in the electrolysis and distribution of hydrogen, as part of the hydrogen economy and the global transtion to a net zero energy world. The proposed billion dollar project consists of wind... View Details
    Keywords: Infrastructure; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Project Finance; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Energy Industry; Spain
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    • Web

    Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

    type of board opportunity that interests you Seek out CEOs, board members, organizational leaders, and investors who could be helpful. Then, develop a strategy to connect with them (through industry meetings, informal networks, LinkedIn,... View Details
    • June 1989 (Revised May 1993)
    • Case

    Rossin Greenberg Seronick & Hill, Inc. (A)

    By: John A. Quelch
    Rossin Greenberg Seronick & Hill (RGSH), a New England advertising agency, was keen to secure the account of Microsoft Corp. The case describes the bid for the account, which included the submission of a "flier" referring to knowledge of a competitor's plans, as a... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Industry; New England
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    • January 2021
    • Supplement

    Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Brands and Branding; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; California
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    • 06 Jul 2023
    • News

    Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

    of other companies would want to take advantage of that scale as well. We did the same thing with our streaming product. And so we built a third-party business, we started to offer that service to other clients. And then we realized that... View Details
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

    credit, especially for people who may be traditionally left out of capital markets.” BrightUp blends technology and behavioral science to help under-supported people become more financially healthy, delivering services to the View Details
    • 09 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 9, 2010

      PublicationsDid Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne