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  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Video

What is Your Best Self?

  • October 1997 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

HansaBank AG

The top management of a prestigious German bank is trying to understand why it has failed to develop the next generation of management. View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Germany
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  • October 1984 (Revised April 2002)
  • Case

NIKE (C)

Explores the president of Nike's leadership, and focuses on his general management style, his personal philosophy, and his pattern of working with key members of management. View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Leadership Style; Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
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  • September 1996 (Revised March 1999)
  • Case

EMDICO (A)

By: John A. Quelch
The general manager of Fuji Film's Saudi distributorship must decide on a relaunch strategy for Fuji film and cameras in Saudi Arabia. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia
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  • October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
  • Case

Executive Shirt Company, Inc.

By: Janice H. Hammond and Sylvie Ryckebusch
The Executive Shirt Co. is contemplating a move into custom-made shirts. The company's general manager has charged two of his managers to come up with plans for incorporating production of custom shirts into the existing manufacturing process. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • August 1979
    • Case

    Claire McCloud

    Describes the situation faced by a young MBA with an economics background who is offered the opportunity to manage a high technology fiber optics business. Designed to facilitate exploring the skills and knowledge that the general manager of a technology-based firm... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Skills; Technology Industry
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    • 09 Jan 2024
    • In Practice

    Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

    improve efficiency to using AI as a driver of strategic differentiation. Here are five shifts 2024 may bring: Broadening access to computing. Generative AI will become further integrated in the software we already use, allowing a broader... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
    • April 2013
    • Case

    Grupo RBS (A)

    By: John A. Davis and Courtney Collette
    This case reviews the two-generation history of the Brazilian media company, RBS, and examines how the second generation family CEO manages through a crisis facing the company. View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Family Ownership; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Brazil
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    • 26 Aug 2013
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Built for Global Competition from the Start

    Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
    • Fall 2012
    • Article

    How 'Big Data' Is Different

    Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be able to unleash new organizational capabilities and value. But what does the term "big... View Details
    Keywords: Big Data; Analytics; Mathematical Methods; Information Management; Information Technology Industry
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    • 01 Jan 2005
    • News

    • 1998
    • Case

    Nucor Corporation (A)

    By: Vijay Govindarajan
    Under the leadership of CEO Ken Iverson, Nucor thrived. Nucor's structure was decentralized, with only four management layers. Only 22 employees worked at the corporate headquarters; plants were located in rural areas across the U.S. and the general manager of each... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy
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      Jeffrey J. Bussgang

      General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

      Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

      Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

      • Video

      Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez

      Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former General Manager of the FNC, outlines the factors which led to the end of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989. View Details
      • August 1999 (Revised May 2000)
      • Background Note

      Pricing: Design and Implementation

      Provides general managers with a framework with which they can structure and understand pricing decisions. Draws examples from existing HBS case materials. View Details
      Keywords: Price
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      • September 2004 (Revised April 2005)
      • Background Note

      Note on Individual and Corporate Liability

      By: Lynn S. Paine
      Answers some of the most common questions managers ask about potential corporate and individual liability for corporate misconduct under U.S. law. Describes a few general principles of liability that managers should be aware of. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Legal Liability
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      • March 2019 (Revised July 2021)
      • Case

      Waymo LLC

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      On December 5, 2018, Waymo LLC, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., launched the United States’ first commercial driverless-car ride-hailing service (Waymo One), based in Phoenix, Arizona. As with other ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, Waymo One riders... View Details
      Keywords: Vehicle; Automation; Automobiles; Automotive; Driverless Car; Automotive Industry; Autonomy; Google; Self-driving Cars; Technological And Scientific Innovation; Technological Change; Technology Change; Ride-sharing; Uber; Lyft; General Motors; Innovation; Disruptive Technology; Disruptive Technologies; Tesla; Waymo; Operating Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous Vehicles; Transportation; Technological Innovation; Disruption; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry
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        Michael T. Moynihan

        Michael Moynihan is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. Mike is currently teaching Creating Brand Value, an MBA elective course on brand strategy.  He has also served as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business... View Details

        • August 1974 (Revised April 1983)
        • Case

        Peter Olafson (A)

        By: John J. Gabarro
        Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a cable television company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be... View Details
        Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Television Entertainment; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges
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