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  • January 2002 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Corporate Renewal in America

By: Bruce R. Scott and Thomas S. Mondschean
Discusses various macroeconomic, regulatory, technological, and financial forces that led to increased corporate restructuring in the United States beginning in the mid-1980s. The U.S. financial system is often viewed as the most developed in the world and a model for... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Restructuring; Markets; Private Sector; Corporate Finance; Germany; Japan; United States
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Scott, Bruce R., and Thomas S. Mondschean. "Corporate Renewal in America." Harvard Business School Case 702-018, January 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
  • 24 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Andrei Hagiu; Technology

    Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

    From Apple to Merck to Wikipedia, more and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage

    By: Hashim Zaman and Karim R. Lakhani
    We investigate the conditions that motivate managers to impede the growth of talented subordinates due to fears of future competition for their own positions. Our research expands on existing tournament and contest theory literature that considers peer-to-peer sabotage... View Details
    Keywords: Succession Planning; Organizational Hierarchy; Compensation; Promotions; Tournaments; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Management Skills
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    Zaman, Hashim, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-007, August 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
    • 13 Dec 2016
    • News

    Eye Appeal Is Buy Appeal: Business Creates the Color of Foods

    • 03 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is the Future of MBA Education?

    with team projects and experiential learning. Training might come initially through the collective work of multiple business schools, with cohorts of alumni who receive a short dose of either functional knowledge or research skills or... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
    • April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
    • Case

    Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
    Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States
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    Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Kieron Stopforth. "Handy: The Future of Work? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 319-103, April 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
    • January 2009 (Revised December 2017)
    • Case

    Who Broke the Bank of England?

    By: Niall Ferguson and Jonathan Schlefer
    In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros was contemplating the possibility that the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) would break down. Designed to pave the way for a full-scale European Monetary Union, the ERM was a system of fixed exchange rates... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; European Union
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    Ferguson, Niall, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Who Broke the Bank of England?" Harvard Business School Case 709-026, January 2009. (Revised December 2017.)
    • 29 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 29

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1471435 Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect Authors:Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton Abstract The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • September 1974 (Revised January 1988)
    • Case

    Midwest Ice Cream Co.

    Midwest Ice Cream (a disguised name) serves as an example to examine a planning and control system. Useful management information, which otherwise would not be apparent, is derived by preparing a basic profit variance analysis. This illustrates how the company is doing... View Details
    Keywords: Small Business; Management Systems; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Shank, John K., and Wm J. Rauwerdink. "Midwest Ice Cream Co." Harvard Business School Case 175-070, September 1974. (Revised January 1988.)
    • 25 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

    continues to serve the needs of its preferred customers: the small number of hardcore primary voters, big-pocketed donors, and special-interest groups, the study says. That closed loop is no accident, the authors believe. Democrats and Republicans View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
    • 05 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

    The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details
    Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
    • 24 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Do We Tax?

    fixing this gap. For 40 years, economists have drawn from the well of Utilitarian theory—which has the goal of maximizing overall well-being in society—to help design tax systems in the United States and around the world. Although the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
    • 03 Feb 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

    more fraud than programs handled by in-house managers. Some big affiliates were better than others at controlling fraud. The now-defunct GAN merchants suffered, on average, less than half as much adware and cookie-stuffing as the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

      F. Warren McFarlan

      Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
      • 11 May 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

      Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
      • August 2006
      • Case

      Dreyer's Slow Churned(TM) Ice Cream

      By: Noel H. Watson, Steven C. Wheelwright and Brian DeLacey
      Examines capacity forecasting and planning in a complex new product introduction scenario. The introduction at Dreyer's, a large dairy snack manufacturer, involves not only a new product but a new manufacturing process and product package, thus implying a significant... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Forecasting and Prediction; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Watson, Noel H., Steven C. Wheelwright, and Brian DeLacey. "Dreyer's Slow Churned(TM) Ice Cream." Harvard Business School Case 607-018, August 2006.
      • 23 Mar 2023
      • HBS Seminar

      Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins

        Robert S. Kaplan

        Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

        Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
        • February 1991 (Revised November 2010)
        • Case

        Tennessee Controls: The Strategic Ranking Problem

        By: Robert L. Simons and Dale Geiger
        Tennessee Controls has instituted a new formal asset acquisition process to rank competing proposals. Judy Starnes, the new division manager, is asked to rank three proposals by using techniques to quantify economic returns, risk, as well as the credibility of the... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Electronics Industry
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        Simons, Robert L., and Dale Geiger. "Tennessee Controls: The Strategic Ranking Problem." Harvard Business School Case 191-083, February 1991. (Revised November 2010.)
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