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  • April 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Drexel Burnham Lambert (A): "The Smartest People on Wall Street Can be Had"

By: Boris Groysberg, Anahita Hashemi and Brendan Reed
In February 1990, Drexel Burnham Lambert declared bankruptcy amid a slew of scandals. Equities chief Arthur Kirsch hoped to keep his high-performing 600-person team intact. Could he find a company that would take on such a massive group hire? Competitors were already... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Negotiation; Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Society
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    Aiyesha Dey

    Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faulty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at... View Details

      The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance

      There is a growing belief that scalable and low-cost AI assistance can improve firm decision-making and economic performance. However, running a business involves a myriad of open-ended problems, making it hard to generalize from recent studies showing that generative... View Details
      • 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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      • 16 Dec 2013
      • News

      Crowdtilt hauls in $23 million investment

      • 17 Nov 2015
      • Blog Post

      What is HBS START Week?

      Transitioning to business school is a big change. New place, new people, a new schedule – it’s a lot to adjust to. To ease that shift, HBS hosts something called “START week”: the first official welcome for the new class of MBA students.... View Details
      • 30 Oct 2019
      • News

      From the playing field to the boardroom

      • December 1990
      • Case

      Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s

      By: Nitin Nohria
      Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of innovations from product development to information systems. In 1990 the Ohio-based group announced a major... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Business Organization; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry
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      • February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
      • Case

      Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy

      By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Tracy Manty
      With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry and to develop into a broad business... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Global Strategy; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Vertical Integration; Auto Industry; Hangzhou; United States
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      • 20 Aug 2015
      • News

      Why Employees' Long Hours Can Hurt Your Company's Bottom Line

      • 21 Aug 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

      Why did a group of Harvard Business School professors become interested in an innovative new heart surgery technique? It turns out that a hospital's operating room provides an excellent controlled arena from... View Details
      Keywords: by Hilah Geer
      • Article

      Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century

      By: Tom Nicholas
      This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
      Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
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      • 15 Jan 2020
      • Video

      Rahmi M. Koç

      Rahmi Koç, former Chair of of Koç Holding, the largest diversified business group in Turkey, explains the role of family members in monitoring the performance of professional managers, using his own company... View Details
      • 27 May 2021
      • News

      Will Offices in the Twin Cities Ever Return to the Way They Were?

      • July 2009 (Revised September 2009)
      • Case

      The Blackstone Group: Merlin Entertainment

      The Blackstone Group had conducted a roll-up of theme parks and attractions business in Europe. It was considering how to generate liquidity for its investors. Blackstone entered the theme parks and attractions business in Europe by acquiring a majority stake in... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost vs Benefits; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Risk Management; Leasing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Europe
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      • 15 Feb 2011
      • News

      The Surface To Air Company

      • 26 Oct 2023
      • Blog Post

      Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access

      View Video MBA Class of 2024 students Landon Hollingsworth (MBA/MPA-ID 2024) and Teresa Danso-Danquah (MBA 2024) discuss forming and leading the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG), the challenges and strengths of their own... View Details
      • August 2014 (Revised August 2015)
      • Supplement

      Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)

      By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
      Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
      Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
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      • 08 Sep 2008
      • HBS Case

      The Value of Environmental Activists

      There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

        John Jong-Hyun Kim

        John J-H Kim is a Senior Lecturer and part of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the course Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship—leaders and entrepreneurs who are improving the... View Details