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  • HBS Online

HBS Online Financial Accounting

Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making. Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
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Strategy and Location

An increasing number of companies finds that their individual success is more and more not only a function of their own decisions but also of the local business environment they operate in. In a globalized world economy, these geographically bound factors are among the... View Details

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • June 2010
    • Case

    Managing the Client Portfolio

    By: Nitin Nohria and Ashish Nanda
    The German country managing partner of a global law firm must decide how to respond to a corporate mandate to restructure its client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative... View Details
    Keywords: Attorney and Client Relationships; Management Style; Corporate Governance; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Conflict and Resolution
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    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

    what happens when people make decisions based on their confidence about how strongly to volunteer their own opinion in group decisions. Organizations thrive or fail based on the strategic View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • March 1993 (Revised June 1993)
    • Supplement

    McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (B)

    Describes McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.'s investment decision and strategic plans in 1990, following the situation in the (A) case. Outlines the competitive situation in other types of mobile communications in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1991. View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Communication Technology; Competition; Mobile Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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    • July 2020
    • Case

    Karen Bruck: Growing Managers at MercadoLibre

    By: Joshua D. Margolis, Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
    Karen Bruck, Corporate Sales Director at MercadoLibre, Latin America's largest e-commerce platform, needs to make a decision about one of her managers, who, while analytically savvy, has an approach that does not fit in with the company's culture. View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Employee Relationship Management; Decision Making; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Retail Industry; Latin America; Argentina
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    • January 2017
    • Case

    Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Marc Baaij and Arjen Mulder
    Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer Care Division (a collection of "over-the-counter" (OTC) products with sales totaling $2 billion), the Bayer M&A team was given a chance to revise their bid because another potential... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Bidding Strategy; Valuing Synergies; Negotiations; Corporate Strategy; Business Unit Strategy; Bidding Process; Discounted Cash Flow; Cross-border M＆A; Tax Shields; Valuation; Competitive Strategy; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Germany; United States; United Kingdom
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    • 29 Jul 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms

    Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Matthew Lee
    • January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
    • Supplement

    Food for Thought: Exiting Russia? (B)

    By: Clayton S. Rose, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Lena Duchene
    The (B) case examines the actions of Bonduelle and Danone as they responded to ongoing pressure to reevaluate their presence in Russia. While the (A) case explored the ethical and strategic dilemmas both companies faced after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the (B) case... View Details
    Keywords: Public Opinion; Ethics; War; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; France; Russia
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    • 10 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

    the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product management by the broad range of creative and strategic activities. I felt that product design and pricing were important determinants of success. It was a function that... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 10 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

    like product attributes, pricing, and distribution. My vision of the future changed to product management in the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product management by the broad range of creative and strategic activities.... View Details
    • December 2006 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Prosper Marketplace, Inc.

    By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind
    Describes a set of financial and strategic decisions confronting the founding management team of a new online financial services company. Prosper Marketplace is an internet-based market for individuals to borrow money from other individuals who wish to invest in such... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Financial Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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    • 07 Sep 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974)

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron; Auto
    • 28 Oct 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

    Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen; Technology
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    hospital business and a health insurance business, management decided to split the businesses apart through a corporate spin-off because it realized the businesses were strategically incompatible—the... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
    • June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
    • Case

    Becton Dickinson (C): Human Resource Function

    By: Michael Beer
    The new vice president of Human Resources (HR) for Becton Dickinson must develop a strategy to reconceptualize the HR function as mandated by the CEO who has introduced formal strategic planning procedures in the organization. The teaching objective is to understand... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry
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      Suraj Srinivasan

      Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
      • November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
      • Case

      AT&T Foundation, The

      By: Diana Barrett, Cassandra Hanley and Sarah Aaron
      Explores the corporate philanthropic activities at AT&T, formed in 1983. Addresses the difficulty of making centralized decisions after the break-up for the four new entities, each with a diverse and sometimes cross-competitive strategy. View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; For-Profit Firms; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Telecommunications Industry
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      • March 2023 (Revised January 2025)
      • Case

      Wilshire Lane Capital

      By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Lindsay N. Hyde and Stacy Straaberg
      In September 2021, Adam Demuyakor (MBA 2017) was faced with decisions about how to launch his venture capital (VC) investment firm. His previous investment activities were a series of angel investments and special purpose vehicles alongside two part-time general... View Details
      Keywords: Ownership Stake; Investment Funds; Venture Capital; Business and Shareholder Relations; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
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