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  • June 1989 (Revised July 2006)
  • Case

Chaircraft Corporation, 1988

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Illustrates the difficulty of effective production planning and production control in a multistage production process affected by seasonal demand. A rewritten version of an earlier case by S.C. Wheelwright. View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Demand and Consumers; Production; Performance Effectiveness; Planning
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Wheelwright, Steven C. "Chaircraft Corporation, 1988." Harvard Business School Case 689-082, June 1989. (Revised July 2006.)
  • July 2005 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Tanpin Kanri: Retail Practice at Seven-Eleven Japan

By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han
Toshifumi Suzuki, chairman and CEO of Seven and I Holding Co., was widely credited as the mastermind behind Seven-Eleven Japan's spectacular rise. Although Seven-Eleven Japan began as a small licensee of U.S. convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Inc. (then Southland... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Distribution; Logistics; Technology; Retail Industry; Japan
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Lal, Rajiv, and Arar Han. "Tanpin Kanri: Retail Practice at Seven-Eleven Japan." Harvard Business School Case 506-002, July 2005. (Revised February 2011.)

    Jung Koo Kang

    Jung Koo Kang is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Kang’s research focuses on financial technology and innovation, alternative data,... View Details

    • January 2000 (Revised September 2002)
    • Case

    Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices

    By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns
    In the mid-1990s Nike, one of the world's most successful footwear companies, is hit by a spate of alarmingly bad publicity. After years of high-profile media attention as the company that can "just do it," Nike is suddenly being portrayed as a firm that relies on... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; Developing Countries and Economies
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    Spar, Debora L., and Jennifer Burns. "Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices." Harvard Business School Case 700-047, January 2000. (Revised September 2002.)
    • October 1992 (Revised August 1994)
    • Case

    Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Edward Prewitt
    Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further... View Details
    Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Environmental Sustainability; Programs; Cost Management; Policy; Government Legislation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Governance Compliance; Legal Liability; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe
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    Vietor, Richard H.K., and Edward Prewitt. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk." Harvard Business School Case 793-044, October 1992. (Revised August 1994.)
    • 09 Nov 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University

    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

    By: Erik Stafford
    Private equity funds tend to select relatively small firms with low EBITDA multiples. Publicly traded equities with these characteristics have high risk-adjusted returns after controlling for common factors typically associated with value stocks. Hold-to-maturity... View Details
    Keywords: Value Investing; Endowments; Investment Management; Asset Pricing; Private Equity; Investment; Management; United States
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    Stafford, Erik. "Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-081, January 2016.
    • July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    EXP Systems

    By: Malcolm S. Salter and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Discusses selecting investors and avoiding board-level conflicts of interest in start-ups. Using the "term sheet" in third-round financing as a negotiation over future governance and control rights. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Management Teams
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    Salter, Malcolm S., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "EXP Systems." Harvard Business School Case 903-022, July 2002. (Revised August 2003.)
    • August 2023
    • Case

    Floward

    By: Krishna Palepu and Namrata Arora
    In 2022, Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani, CEO and co-founder of Floward, an online flower and gifting company established in Kuwait in 2017, contemplated the firm's growth trajectory. Floward, an e-commerce enterprise that offered fresh-cut flowers sourced directly from... View Details
    Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Information Technology Industry; Middle East; North Africa; Saudi Arabia; Kuwait; United Arab Emirates; Jordan
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    Palepu, Krishna, and Namrata Arora. "Floward." Harvard Business School Case 124-010, August 2023.
    • 30 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

    loss of control and precision of information). Before the 1920s at least, most German industrial firms did not have an extensive middle management staff. Large German firms remained much more diversified and decentralized than unitary,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2007 (Revised February 2010)
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    Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Belen Villalonga
    In 2002, a massive accounting fraud and corporate looting scandal involving the founding Rigas family made Adelphia the 11th largest bankruptcy case in history, and the third-after WorldCom and Enron-among those triggered by fraud. Set in 2005, when Adelphia is... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Family Ownership
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    Gilson, Stuart C., and Belen Villalonga. "Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Case 208-071, October 2007. (Revised February 2010.)
    • 02 Aug 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

    an entire group of lower level functions and staff." Rich Lanza pointed out that "(Section 404) is a necessary step ... (but) more continuous controls monitoring is needed that independently analyze company databases daily for... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 09 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Incentives and Operational Excellence

    incentives, many operational problems can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings: interorganizational because the medical supply company deals with a hospital group and the video store acquires its products from movie... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

    By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
    We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Controls; Political Elections; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Societal Protocols; India
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    Iyer, Lakshmi, and Anandi Mani. "Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-006, July 2008. (Revised April 2009, November 2009.)
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Lucía Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom and Mariano Sigman
    We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated... View Details
    Keywords: Crime; Biological Markers; Experiment; Victimization; Desensitization; Crime and Corruption; Perspective; Attitudes; Behavior
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    Di Tella, Rafael, Lucía Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom, and Mariano Sigman. "Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-039, October 2017.
    • June 1989 (Revised November 1991)
    • Supplement

    Ingersoll-Rand (B): Managing Multiple Channels--1986

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Peter Baldwin takes over Clabough's job and is charged with the responsibility to improve sales force morale, control expenses, and improve market share. View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management; Supply and Industry; Management Teams; Industrial Products Industry
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    Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Ingersoll-Rand (B): Managing Multiple Channels--1986." Harvard Business School Supplement 589-122, June 1989. (Revised November 1991.)
    • 2020
    • Book

    Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

    By: Stefan Thomke
    Don’t fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition,... View Details
    Keywords: Experimentation; Experiments; Market Research; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Customers; Research
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    Thomke, Stefan. Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
    • November 1998 (Revised April 1999)
    • Case

    Wireless Telecom Negotiation

    By: Jay O. Light
    A venture capital/private equity fund is preparing to negotiate with the two parties in a prospective PCS joint venture: the entrepreneur and AT&T Wireless. The negotiation will decide how equity and control are shared in the venture. View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Governance Controls; Negotiation Deal; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry
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    Light, Jay O. "Wireless Telecom Negotiation." Harvard Business School Case 299-029, November 1998. (Revised April 1999.)
    • May 1992 (Revised August 1996)
    • Case

    NIKE in Transition (A): The Ascendancy of Bob Woodell

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    Explores Bob Woodell's tenure as Nike's first COO. Describes development of Woodell's management style, his attempts to develop the organization, and his responses to unforeseen business problems. Changing market forces, new competitors, a build-up of low-end... View Details
    Keywords: Conferences; Crisis Management; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Competition
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    Bartlett, Christopher A. "NIKE in Transition (A): The Ascendancy of Bob Woodell." Harvard Business School Case 392-105, May 1992. (Revised August 1996.)
    • April 1991 (Revised December 1997)
    • Case

    Southland Corp. (A)

    By: Richard S. Ruback
    Examines the Thompson's $4.9 billion leveraged buyout of the Southland Corp. in 1987. As the original founders of Southland, the Thompsons were concerned about losing control over the company upon learning of the Belzberg family's acquiring interest. The teaching... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Governance Controls; Corporate Governance; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Forecasting and Prediction; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy; Cash Flow
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    Ruback, Richard S. "Southland Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 291-038, April 1991. (Revised December 1997.)
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