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  • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)

By: David F. Hawkins
The IASB and FASB propose new contingency loss recognition, measurement, and disclosure rules (A case). The B and C cases apply these proposals to British Petroleum's Mexican Gulf oil spill and Union Carbide's Bhophal gas discharge. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Trade; International Finance; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry; India
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  • June 1999 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

Eckerd Corporation

By: Michael E. Porter and John E. Kelleher
Describes the history and current situation in the retail pharmacy industry, including competition from new merchants and Internet drugstores. Eckerd, one of the top four drug chains, must decide how to position itself for the future. View Details
Keywords: Competition; Alignment; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 23 Jun 2015
  • News

The High Price of Safer Banks

  • 26 Mar 2015
  • News

Welfare Makes America More Entrepreneurial

  • 17 Aug 2014
  • News

Authenticity, Repurposed, in a Mason Jar

  • 11 Jun 2014
  • News

Across Europe, Anti-Uber Protests Clog City Streets

  • 12 Jul 2012
  • News

HBS Alumni Achievement Award Winner Marvin Traub Dead at 87

  • Blog

Exceptional Learning—Wherever You Are

Can a virtual learning experience be as dynamic, energetic, and powerful as a classroom session? With its Live Online Classroom, HBS proves that the answer is a resounding yes. Through an initiative that started long before COVID-19 mandated a View Details
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

have been obvious even without the devastation we have just witnessed. First is that the new economy never was all that different from the old. In the ancient, heady days of the Internet boom, it became fashionable to declare that the... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • February 1995
  • Case

Promus Companies, The: Harrah's Casinos

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of the U.S. gambling industry and the rapid expansion of gambling beyond Nevada and New Jersey since 1988. Focuses on Harrah's, a traditional top-tier casino company, which was the first to aggressively expand into emerging gaming markets and that... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Las Vegas; New Jersey
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  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

decline"? Growth at the organizational level opens up opportunities for new customers, new hiring, acquisitions, increased profitability, and generally more liberal policies as a result of the removal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Nov 2023
  • News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

1953, MBA 1955). William A.M. Burden Sr. made a mark at Harvard as First Marshal of his graduating class and captain of the football team. Returning to his native New York, he launched a career on Wall Street with the firm James D. Smith... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

this happens is one of the many subjects discussed in the new book Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know, by authors Marc J. Epstein of Rice University and F. Warren McFarlan of Harvard Business School. In this excerpt from the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

experimentation. Uncertainty in this sense refers not to scientific questions about the coronavirus, but to what effect the virus will have on the future. What new realities will it generate? What will recovery look like? How long will it... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

potentially serious drawback threatened to stand in the way of further progress. As HBS Dean Kim Clark, and his colleague, Professor Carliss Baldwin, write in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, Volume I (The MIT... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Fighting Poverty in New York City: SE Summer Fellow Clara Steiner (MBA 2026) Clara Steiner 15 Jul... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

new administration began telling our students that they were customers. In hindsight, the result was predictable: As paying "customers," students demanded that their professors respond promptly to their preferences. Professors... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 23 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

cables to Germany, after war broke out in 1914. The Lusitania (which was sunk on May 7, 1915) is simply a good symbol for the end of this first age because so much had previously depended on safe navigation between New York and Europe. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell