Values - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
News

Good Day, Sunshine

developments at the School, and enjoying faculty presentations. "Our alumni are the measure of the School," said Dean Kim B. Clark in a welcoming address to all classes. "I am grateful for what you do in your lives, for the standards that you set, and for the View Details

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

overseeing them as loci of production, managers help to realize important market-specific social values. These values in turn ground responsibilities on the part of managers to pursue specific ends. By framing managerial responsibility in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2015 (Revised March 2016)
Supplement

Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (C): Transformation Year 2 Results

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the second year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2014). View Details

Keywords: Turnaround; Corporate Restructuring; Female Ceo; Transformation; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Management Succession; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Value Creation; Leadership; Travel Industry; United Kingdom

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August 2000 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Omnitel Pronto Italia

By: Rajiv Lal, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju

Describes the situation faced by Omnitel soon after launching its mobile telecommunication services in Italy in December 1995. Competing against the Italian monopoly, TIM, Omnitel had positioned its services to be better on the quality dimension. However, sales were... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Product Development; Sales; Competition; Segmentation; Value Creation; Telecommunications Industry; Italy

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August 26, 2009
Comment

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

By: John A. Quelch

Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S. taxpayer: the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) program.

True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details

Keywords: Government Programs; Environmental Impact; Government Waste; Customer Behavior; Economic Growth; Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Leadership; Marketing; Programs; Value; Auto Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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March 2006 (Revised April 2006)
Case

International Place (A): Boston Real Estate Playoff

First International Place, one of Boston's premier office buildings, was the subject of a control contest in 2005, as the New York real estate firm Tishman Speyer purchased the mortgage on the property through a sealed bid auction process and then sought to foreclose... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Mortgages; Auctions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy

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May 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Exercise

Endeca Negotiation, The: Charlie Yie

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Students play the role of Charlie Yie, a venture capitalist considering an investment in a venture-backed enterprise software company. In the challenging financing climate of the Fall of 2001, he is trying to decide what terms to offer the company as an outside... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Offer; Management Teams; Venture Capital; Valuation; Software; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry

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18 Nov 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job

Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but research shows hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or business—can quickly increase your value even if your pay is less.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2025
News

Assets: These Little Piggies

Not long after Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) cofounded the consultancy Monitor Group in 1983, a competitor made it known that pigs would fly before the firm succeeded. “That became our rallying cry,” Fuller says. He hung a terra-cotta flying pig from the ceiling of one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Venturing into VC

investors, and my team to learn about new companies, discuss emerging trends, and to find ways that we can add value to our portfolio companies and the broader startup ecosystem. Some highlights from this summer include, co-hosting Rosé... View Details

01 Mar 2022
News

2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced

their work, whose creativity and innovation inspire those around them, whose character and values are exemplary, and whose leadership—in their careers and communities—is an example for others to follow. They truly are leaders who make a... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Advancing Racial Equity

racial justice. HBS Addresses Racial Equity The Value of Difficult Conversations Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy Diversifying HBS's Case Collection View Details

31 Jul 2019
News

Honoring the Code

law is going to be, I'm going to carry it out. “But in 2008, I'm now chairman, much different from 1993 when I wasn't involved. It just struck me that I'm leading an institution whose main value is integrity. And yet, I am asking young... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

been reporting. Arthur Rock (MBA ’51) San Francisco, CA Lodge Foresaw Big Issues Thirty years ago my OPM 3 classmates asked Professor Marty Marshall about the ethical values in a case. Marty regretted that he had no cases on ethics but he... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
News

Kresge’s Afterlife

on the site where the Chao Center will be built. (The Kresge name remains on campus, though: East Drive has been renamed Kresge Way.) “If we can take a piece of furniture and send it to someone who can reuse it, we really value that more... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2006
News

Faculty Books

evolving, mutually beneficial channel strategies. To navigate the complex distribution environment successfully, companies must map the industry channel, build and continually edit their own channel to best serve customers, and align and influence their own channel... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2003
News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

value to the world,” he says simply. So, with support from the School, he expanded upon his role as section cohistorian and asked the entire Class of 2002 to respond to the question. Deifell, a media artist and social documentarian, also... View Details

Keywords: HBS; portrait project; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2003
News

Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes

of the authors’ research, marketers may need to re-examine the idea that they should imbue their brands with either respectability or rebellion. Instead, as Holt and Thompson’s study suggests, it is in the tensions between the two where the most View Details

Keywords: Douglas; Holt; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

January 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

Framedia (A) Abridged

By: Li Jin, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Li Liao, Huabing Li and Jielun Zhu

Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive outdoor media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction leads to eventual consolidation of the whole industry and positive stock reactions. Discusses equity consideration in the context of an M&A... View Details