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    James I. Cash

    Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry
    • April 2006 (Revised June 2008)
    • Case

    New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Robert S. Huckman and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Considers whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok--a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Competition; Consolidation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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      David A. Moss

      David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

      Keywords: insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry
      • October 2005 (Revised July 2009)
      • Case

      MD Beauty, Inc.

      By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind
      Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful natural beauty and skin care company. They are considering selling all or some portion of the company's stock. View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Management Teams; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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      • 11 Aug 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: August 11, 2009

      even in the absence of property rights, SOEs may significantly improve performance, and document 42 Indian state-owned laboratories over 1993-2006—starting from a base of negligible U.S. patents—being granted more patents than all... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 20 Nov 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

      Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, William Easterly & Erick Gong; Technology
      • October 2021
      • Article

      Can Self-Regulation Save Digital Platforms?

      By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
      This article explores some of the critical challenges facing self-regulation and the regulatory environment for digital platforms. We examine several historical examples of firms and industries that attempted self-regulation before the Internet. All dealt with similar... View Details
      Keywords: Self-regulation; Government Regulation; Digital Platforms; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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        P.F. Chang's

        Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang's beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed "nonessential" owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had... View Details
        • December 2020 (Revised June 2021)
        • Case

        France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring

        By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
        These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devastating impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."

        This case series follows the evolution of France... View Details
        Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Human Resource Management; Strategic Change; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership And Managing People; Change; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Health; Human Capital; Human Resources; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Law; Social Psychology; Strategy; Leadership; Leadership Style; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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        Changing the Game

        investor, and other important negotiations. Details Achieve optimal results in key negotiations Realize better outcomes by increasing your effectiveness at the negotiating table Build more effective relationships with the other parties involved Close deals that create... View Details
        • 2009
        • Chapter

        Nonlinear Pricing

        By: Raghuram Iyengar and Sunil Gupta
        A nonlinear pricing schedule refers to any pricing structure where the total charges payable by customers are not proportional to the quantity of their consumed services. We begin the chapter with a discussion of the broad applicability of nonlinear pricing schemes. We... View Details
        Keywords: Price; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Monopoly; Service Operations; Research
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        • 22 Nov 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

        a very good record which are the LBOs, almost never go for that sort of CEO. They look for an industry figure who really knows a lot about the business and that company—often a retired CEO. Q: Is it easy to predict who's going to be the... View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

          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: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
          • Web

          Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

          constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have limited business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional ones, enable companies to straddle View Details
          • Web

          Entrepreneurship

          Entrepreneurship Advisor Program Programs & Resources For Students For Alumni All Programs & Resources Faculty & Research Our world-class Entrepreneurship faculty are the thought leaders with deep understanding of the startup experience... View Details
          • 17 Jan 2008
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Competition in Modular Clusters

          Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & C. Jason Woodard; Consulting; Communications; Telecommunications; Pharmaceutical
          • 24 Jul 2019
          • Lessons from the Classroom

          Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

          former students bring these ideas into their careers in various industries ranging from tech to consulting to finance. We’ve also had students go on to work at BIT and other organizations focused on bringing behavioral economics directly... View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
          • December 2010
          • Article

          The Case for Professional Boards

          By: Robert C. Pozen
          When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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          • 05 Dec 2013
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

          Keywords: by William R. Kerr
          • 02 Sep 2002
          • Research & Ideas

          Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

          performance problems in the United States. This seems surprising at first sight. The United States is by far the world's largest host economy for multinationals. Foreign firms hold large, and sometimes commanding, positions in such major View Details
          Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace