West Point - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

A&M Vice Chairman Steve Berman, Live Nation's global touring CEO Arthur Fogel, William Morris Endeavor agent Marc Geiger, and producer Vincent Herbert. Go Big or Go Home? In the autumn of 2009, Lady Gaga was set to go on the road with rapper Kanye View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

help people achieve their own goals. It can’t be about the leader alone. And the more there are some specific demonstrations to point to, the more a leader awakens hope and ensures belief. Change requires a belief in possibility.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

permitted to seek diversification opportunities beyond West Africa by buying all manner of businesses in Europe. There had been major progress at cutting costs, but less in creating an atmosphere for more dynamic risk-taking. Van den... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

between the Army crew's difficulties and the problems that business teams experience. "We pursued the idea for the case," he says, "after Scott, who is a West Point grad and former teacher... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

founder and chairman of Apollo Hospitals, says he spent a lot of time studying specialists almost like an executive search firm would, to identify their pleasure points and pain points in terms of building a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

able to begin talking about such a difficult episode and fraught question.” Those opposed to reparations point to the fact that so much time has passed since the damage, and that neither the victims nor the perpetrators are still living.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

instability in Third World countries, and last year's shutdown of West Coast shipping docks—have awakened managers as never before to supply chain risks, some of which had been introduced or heightened by the very actions companies had... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1991 to 1994, Heinz Dürr played a leading role in unifying the East and West German railroads into one national system that is scheduled to be fully privatized in... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

a trigger point for his classes to start broader discussions about how to grow a sustainable, profitable business. They need to weigh what Thomke calls the P’s: production, pricing, products, and productivity. It also raises the question... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down. The general View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

bit more complicated than originally anticipated. A new Harvard Business School case study called "Marketing the '$100 PC'" spells out these opportunities, problems, and challenges from a marketing point of view. As the case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

with a commitment to social impact through or alongside their professional careers. Shirley Spence: While our book primarily focuses on the social impact of today’s business graduates, we wanted to point out that this is not a new... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

unrestricted funds. Improved visitor services. Renovation of the David Rubenstein Atrium/Visitor Services became the central launch point for all information about the center and its 10 organizations. It now houses a 42-foot-wide media... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

challenging for an individual to develop, and why? A: Upon his return from the first Gulf War, General Norman Schwarzkopf addressed the United States Military Academy at West Point and told the Corps of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, which is only now partially closing. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurship-Multinationals-Global-Business-Making/dp/1781951942 August 2013 The European Financial... View Details