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  • 06 Mar 2020
  • News

Don’t Hide Bad News in Times of Crisis

  • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Employment; Contracts; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Natural Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues
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  • March 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

Gilead Mexico

By: Michael Chu and V. Kasturi Rangan
With a breakthrough cure for Hepatitis C listing in the U.S. at $1,000/pill, Gilead must now solve the issue of making it available to patients across the world, much as it did for its blockbuster HIV/AIDS antiretrovirals. For Erik Musalem, the new general manager of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Price; Strategy; Management; Pharmaceutical Industry; Mexico
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  • December 1994
  • Case

Alpha-Beta Technology, Inc. (B): Trials with Betafectin

This case follows the development of a firm's first product, the public presentation of research results, and the stock market reactions. In spite of successful research, the stock price falls dramatically. Asks why this happened, how concerned the CEO should be,... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2010
  • News

Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative Adds Two New Members To Advisory Board

    Dwight B. Crane

    Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance.  He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... View Details

    • 12 Sep 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

    social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder capitalism run the risk of losing public investors, such as pension funds in states in which... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett

      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
      • Case

      Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation

      Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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      • 10 Sep 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations

      Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Financial Services
      • January 1999 (Revised March 2004)
      • Case

      Mobile Communications Tokyo, Inc.

      Describes a young Japanese telecommunications equipment and software company. The founder and president, Hatsuhiro Inoue, has just seen revenues double over the last two years and expects further rapid growth. The company currently has three product lines:... View Details
      Keywords: Growth Management; Initial Public Offering; Financial Markets; Telecommunications Industry; Tokyo; United States
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      • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
      • Module Note

      Financing Growth in Family and Closely Held Firms

      By: Belen Villalonga
      This note describes the second of four modules in Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms, an elective MBA course at Harvard Business School. The note analyzes the pros and cons of different equity financing options that are available to family firms such... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Finance; Business Growth and Maturation
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      • November 2007 (Revised August 2009)
      • Case

      WL Ross & Co. and INVESCO

      Wilbur Ross has built a successful private equity firm focused on distressed investing, WL Ross & Co. In 2006, INVESCO, an asset management company, approaches him about acquiring his firm. INVESCO has had weak performance in recent years and is looking to increase its... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry
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      • 16 Mar 2021
      • Blog Post

      2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)

      path of impact investing and develop my craft at Social Finance. What impact has HBS had on your career? HBS has already influenced my career quite a bit. I joined Social Finance as an HBS Leadership Fellow – a program which places graduates in high-impact View Details
      • 04 Jun 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

      such as whether credit card information or social security numbers were at risk of being leaked. However, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, society has become more aware that the misuse of personal but public information can pose... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
      • 2013
      • Article

      The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities

      By: Michael Beer
      Organizations underperform and sometimes fail because their leaders are unable to learn the unvarnished truth from relevant stakeholders about how the design and behavior of the organization is misaligned with its goals and strategy. The Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)... View Details
      Keywords: Organization Alignment; Dynamic Capabilities; Organization Design; Organizational Prototyping; Organizational Silence; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Organizational Design
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      • 07 Feb 2011
      • News

      Harvard eyes start-ups

      • January 2010 (Revised December 2012)
      • Case

      Knight the King: The Founding of Nike

      By: Noam Wasserman and Kyle Anderson
      It had taken Phil Knight 16 long years to build Nike into the number one athletic-shoe company in the country. When Knight had first conceived of the company for an MBA class project, Adidas had had more than 80% market share, but Knight's marketing approach had... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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      • Teaching Interest

      Overview

      By: John F. Batter
      As as Senior Lecturer I teach the EC course Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (cross-listed in the General Management and Entrepreneurial Management Units) in both the Fall and Spring semesters. While I have retired from my public and private company litigation... View Details
      Keywords: Fiduciary Duty; Securities; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Mergers; Law

        Vikram Gandhi

        Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

        Keywords: financial services