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  • September 2003 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

CCBN.com - 2002

By: William A. Sahlman
Describes some important issues confronting the management of a successful information company in 2002, competitive threat from a larger firm that is also a strategic investor. Management must decide how to respond to the. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment; Management; Problems and Challenges; Competition
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  • Program

General Management Program

program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the... View Details
  • September 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

MyTime

By: Juliane Begenau and Robin Greenwood
Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book appointments with local merchants throughout the... View Details
Keywords: Customer Valuation; Discounted Cash Flow; Software; Valuation Methodologies; Subscriber Models; Financial Management; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; North and Central America
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  • January 2012 (Revised May 2013)
  • Case

Integrated Assurance at Philips Electronics N.V.

By: Robert G. Eccles and Daniela Saltzman
Philips Electronics is a leader in integrated reporting. In 2010 it produced its third generation report. Since its first report in 2008, Philips' integrated reports and its integrated reporting website had grown in sophistication. In planning for its integrated report... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Reports; Organizational Culture
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Travis Welch
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Goodwill Accounting; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Managerial Roles; Agency Theory
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  • January 2021 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

Biobot Analytics

By: Raymond Kluender, Joshua Krieger and Mitchell Weiss
In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; City; Analytics and Data Science; Personal Development and Career; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; Kuwait; Korean Peninsula
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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • 02 Mar 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

    SUMMING UP Why Is It so Difficult to Lead with Candor, Humility, and Trust? Responses to this month’s column, for the most part, represented a celebration of the values of... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • June 2010
    • Case

    The Shaw Group Inc.: Entrepreneurial Innovation

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Edward Watson
    The case describes the founding and evolution of the Shaw Group through acquisition. The case is set at the time that the company is redesigning its business processes, organization, and information technology infrastructure to support aggressive growth and increased... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Information Technology
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    • 11 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

    Keywords: by Bo Becker, Daniel B. Bergstresser & Guhan Subramanian; Financial Services
    • November 1998
    • Case

    Holts (A), The

    By: Howard H. Stevenson
    Focuses on the decision of whether to sell a business or to continue it. Issues regarding the family's roles, the replacement of the business's earning power, and the owner's future roles are discussed. Among the issues raised are the values being transmitted. View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Financial Management; Business or Company Management; Value
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    • 05 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

    however, that it should not be a political one. The role of scholars is to provide the empirical input to inform the political debate. References Agthong, S., and V. Wiwanitkit. 2002. "Cadaver donation:... View Details
    Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
    • October 2023
    • Case

    Lasell University in 2023: Securing the Future

    By: John Jong-Hyun Kim and Mary C. Sauer
    In a groundbreaking move on September 20, 2022, Lasell University's President, Michael B. Alexander, announced an extraordinary 33% reduction in tuition, room, board, and fees, signaling a pivotal shift in higher education. Situated in an affluent Boston suburb,... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Cost; Valuation; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • December 1997 (Revised April 1998)
    • Case

    www.springs.com

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
    Business Week's June 1997 "Rising Star" profile of Springs Industries' president and COO, Crandall Bowles, reported that she was poised to become one of the top two or three women executives in the country. In November 1997, the company announced Bowles' appointment to... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; Product Marketing; Management; Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; South Carolina
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    • January 2008 (Revised August 2009)
    • Module Note

    Competing through Business Models (A)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
    This note defines the concepts of business model and the value loop. It also introduces business model representations and proposes four tests for evaluating business models in isolation. This is the first note in a series of three written for the HBS elective course... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Value
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    • 31 Jan 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Ruomeng Cui, Emory University

    • October 2004 (Revised July 2011)
    • Case

    AT&T 2000-2004

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kerry Herman
    Provides an update on CEO Michael Armstrong's "Project Grand Slam" strategy to build the value of AT&T by offering a complete, integrated telecommunications solution to both corporate and residential customers, including wireless and wire line telephone, Internet,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Customers; Business or Company Management; Failure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Networks; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Wireless Technology; Value Creation; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 24 Mar 2016
    • News

    Grading Yahoo's board

    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can AI and Machine Learning Help Park Rangers Prevent Poaching?

    Keywords: Re: Brian L. Trelstad; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
    • May 2001
    • Supplement

    Asian Strategies: Ian Buchanan

    By: Tarun Khanna
    Ian Buchanan, senior VP of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, comments on Sime Darby and the Asian financial crisis. He also discusses the value propositions of different types of business groups in Malaysia. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry; Asia; Malaysia
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