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  • March 1993 (Revised March 1994)
  • Case

Sierra On-Line, Inc. (A)

Sierra On-Line, a fast growing software developer, is criticized by a Forbes journalist for excessively capitalizing software development costs. In contrast to most other software developers that typically capitalize about 20% of R&D costs, Sierra capitalizes 80%.... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Financial Statements; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

When the Crowd Fights Corruption

    Michael Y. Yoshino

    Professor Yoshino holds the Herman C. Krannert Chair in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and is a Director of Research. He specializes in global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. A founding member of the... View Details

      Paul A. Gompers

      Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
      Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
      • January 2006 (Revised April 2006)
      • Case

      Capitalism and Democracy in a New World

      By: Bruce R. Scott, Sarah Potvin and Alison Adams
      Focuses on the formulation of the Northwestern Ordinance as the core of a development strategy for capitalism and democracy in the United States. A precursor to the Constitution, the Northwestern Ordinance was based on the New England Model to achieve a broad and... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Economic Systems; Income; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Power and Influence; United States
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      • April 1989 (Revised March 1993)
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      ProTech, Inc.

      By: Thomas R. Piper
      A company is considering the elimination of a product line. As part of that consideration, it must develop possible strategies for closing the division, and identify the economic and non-economic implications of the strategy. The situation is complicated by the... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Equity; Problems and Challenges
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        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

        • January 2009
        • Case

        Creating The Partnership Solutions Group at Lehman Brothers

        By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie Creary
        Explores how two senior Wall St. executives created a successful commercial opportunity for Lehman Brothers that focused on building relationships with minority- and women-owned financial services firms. Illustrates how Patricia Miller Zollar and Nadja Fidelia aligned... View Details
        Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Partners and Partnerships; Power and Influence; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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        • 24 Mar 2015
        • News

        Integrated Reporting: Corporate Disclosure for China’s “New Normal”

        • February 2015
        • Case

        Infinite Technology Solutions and the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor

        By: John D. Macomber and Vidhya Muthuram
        The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is an ambitious economic development project linking six of the most competitive states in India with the sea. The corridor is modeled on the Jiangsu Corridor in China (Nanjing to Shanghai) and the Tokyo-Hokkaido Corridor in... View Details
        Keywords: Development Economics; Projects; Economics; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; India
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        • 12 Jul 2016
        • News

        Powering Up Our World

        • November 1995 (Revised January 1998)
        • Case

        Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (A)

        By: H. Kent Bowen, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch and John Schiavone
        Pratt & Whitney is a leader in the development and manufacturing of gas turbine engines for commercial and military aircraft. Economic conditions for the airline and defense industries are forcing the airplane engine builders to restructure. Ed Northern, a new general... View Details
        Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Production; Opportunities; Economy; Aerospace Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Connecticut
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        • 06 Jul 2016
        • News

        For small businesses, a good guide is a good start

        • December 2006 (Revised November 2008)
        • Case

        West Wacker Drive: To Build or Not to Build?

        In 1980, Thomas J. Klutznick, president of a Chicago-based development company, was considering whether he should build a Class A building on a second-rate site outside the Central Loop or not. He had a promising design, but the economic conditions, concurrent... View Details
        Keywords: Development Economics; Interest Rates; Geographic Location; Risk Management; Urban Development; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Chicago
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        • November 2007 (Revised January 2013)
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        Indonesia: Attracting Foreign Investment

        By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
        Describes the economic development of Indonesia from independence after World War II to 2006 and the post-Suharto period. The coverage of the post-Suharto period provides evidence of how political and economic conditions are intertwined after a change in the political... View Details
        Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Policy; Foreign Direct Investment; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia
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        • June 2005 (Revised February 2006)
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        TCL Multimedia

        By: Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and David Lane
        TCL considers the underlying logic behind the globalization of one of China's most prominent companies. TCL, and similarly prominent companies in China, are in the forefront of China's emergence as one of the world's preeminent economic powers. Allows a discussion of... View Details
        Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Success; Business Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; China
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        • November 2007 (Revised September 2010)
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        The Rong Family: A Chinese Business History

        By: Elisabeth Koll
        Provides the complex historical background to understanding the development of family businesses in China from the late 19th century to the present. Using the example of the Rong family, China's most prominent industrialist family in pre-1949 China, analyzes the... View Details
        Keywords: Family Business; Business History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; China
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        • 04 Feb 2020
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        Francis Okomo-Okello

        Francis Okomo-Okello, Chair of the leading Kenyan luxury hotel group Serena and of the subsidiary of a major foreign bank, discusses the need for regional integration in Africa as it would create larger markets... View Details
        • 05 Sep 2013
        • News

        Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus John E. Bishop Dead at 93

        • 08 Dec 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

        Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu; Technology