Publications

Program

PLD Module 5

company build and sustain a competitive advantage. You will emerge with the leadership skills and confidence to make high-level decisions that support your organization's financial needs, legal requirements,... View Details

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

pressures, Dollarama recently took the risky decision to move from the single one-dollar price point to multiple price points. The additional price points offer some flexibility, but customers' appetite for purchasing products priced... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 1992 (Revised November 1992)
Case

Lockheed Aeromod Center, Inc.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Corp. has an $11 million expansion underway in South Carolina. The company must decide how best to take advantage of the opportunity to issue tax exempt debt. Specifically, the decision involves choices about the maturity and... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Strategy; Taxation; Opportunities; Expansion; Valuation; South Carolina

17 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

ability to examine financial information and the decisions of crypto and non-crypto investors to make comparisons. The breadth of the data also allowed the team to compare crypto investing behavior to... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

03 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

employees and asking the fundamental questions: What exactly does a company owe its employees? How will they be engaged in designing, communicating, and carrying out workplace change programs? What is the policy on severance pay, and how are View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

Web

Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

J.P. Morgan. In our chapter, we outline six key decisions every board must address: What is the board’s purpose? Who should serve on it? How should the board be structured? How to clearly define roles and responsibilities? Which processes... View Details

27 Oct 2021
News

If Money Is Tight, That’s Nothing to Be Ashamed Of

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

the capacity to curb its influence. Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions Author:Yuhai Xuan Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

organizations is circumscribed by their impact on financial results. The social impact of organizations essentially took a back seat. This tendency concerns us for two reasons. First, as many critics of leadership have argued, the ability... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 2023
Case

Kariyer.net: Recruiting AI

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Fares Khrais and Namrata Arora

In 2017, Fatih Uysal (AMP 2021) became CEO of Kariyer.net. By then, the business was already the industry leading online job board in Turkey. However, faced with stalling growth, a turbulent macroenvironment, and growing competition from international players, Uysal... View Details

February 2004
Case

Bradman and Tendulkar, LLC

By: Ananth Raman and Vishal Gaur

An investment firm is trying to project inventory turns for Radio Shack, a chain of consumer electronics stores. The investment firm has access to public financial data but not to internal operational metrics. It needs to project inventory turns because inventory... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Mathematical Methods; Valuation

12 May 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting on the JD/MBA Experience

I entered the JD/MBA program as an admitted student from Harvard College, where Ispent each of my summers working in government and financial services. At that time, I hoped to pursue a career in law after graduation, but I definitely... View Details

December 1999
Case

Sendwine.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Charmaine C Ess and Ann A. O'Hara

Sendwine.com, an online retailer of premium gifts of wine by the bottle, faced decisions about its growth strategy in mid-1999. Mike Lannon, president and founder, had established his company as a prominent player in an increasingly crowded field. But with success came... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Luxury; Diversification; Internet; Web Services Industry