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    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • November 2019
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • May 2015
    • Teaching Note

    The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity

    By: Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer and Hilary White
    After struggling through the country's longest recession since 2008, the U.K. was expected to grow faster than any other G7 nation in 2014. Analysts wondered whether the return to growth was because, or in spite of, Prime Minister David Cameron's controversial £113... View Details
    Keywords: United Kingdom; Austerity; Fiscal Deficits; Fiscal Policy; Keynesian Multiplier; Government; Government Policy; Recessions; Depression; Inequality; Government Intervention In The Markets; Stagnation; Public Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Public Sector; Economy; Financial Crisis; Taxation; Government and Politics; United Kingdom
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      Extreme Teaming

      Today’s global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry... View Details
      • 06 Jan 2011
      • What Do You Think?

      How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

      view," but to ask how, if at all, organizations can or should be defended against the response from Anonymous? Its actions, triggered by the attacks on Wikileaks, hinted at a future of everything from Internet mischief (a la... View Details
      Keywords: by James L. Heskett
      • 02 Oct 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: October 2, 2007

      consumer collaboration, in which consumers use digital media that lie beyond the control of marketers to communicate among one another, responding to marketing's intrusions by disseminating counterargument, information sharing, rebuttal,... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 16 Jun 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

      the keys to their successful global expansions? By HBS professors David Bell, Rajiv Lal, and Walter Salmon. Global Knowledge Sharing And Performance Drivers Organizing Multinational Companies: Building a... View Details
      Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
      • 11 Apr 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

      the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC,... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
      • 19 Nov 2019
      • Op-Ed

      Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

      Apple Card marked another significant innovation in access to financial services. Fast forward two months, and Apple Card may now find its place in history for a less positive reason—the dark side of the technological revolution rearing its ugly head. Last week, Danish... View Details
      Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services
      • 29 Oct 2007
      • HBS Case

      Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

      interest to Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, be they a movie legend or a third baseman. She wrote the Sharapova case with Margarita Golod (HBS MBA '07) to study and frame classroom discussions on a favorite field of research: the value created and... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
      • 09 May 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

      Every bet—large or small, corporate or personal—puts you into a game. And whatever the game, at some point your participation ends. Sometimes it ends because the game is over for all the players, sometimes because your participation is terminated View Details
      Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson
      • April 2013 (Revised June 2016)
      • Case

      AIG and the American Taxpayers (A)

      By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
      Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
      Keywords: Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Crisis; Property; Insurance Industry; United States
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      • August 2007 (Revised June 2010)
      • Case

      JetBlue Airways: Valentine's Day 2007 (A)

      By: Robert S. Huckman, Gary P. Pisano and Virginia Fuller
      Describes an operational crisis for JetBlue Airways during an ice storm in the eastern United States in February 2007 and chronicles the airline's immediate response. Provides detail concerning the history of the airline from its founding in 1999 through the February... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Crisis Management; Growth Management; Management Teams; Service Delivery; Air Transportation Industry; Eastern United States
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      • November 2004 (Revised August 2008)
      • Case

      KIPP National (A) (Abridged)

      The KIPP Academies are, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the Pisces Foundation, to discuss the... View Details
      Keywords: Middle School Education; Framework; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Programs; Expansion
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      • 12 Oct 2017
      • News

      The US and Israel to Quit Unesco

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        New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller, Chicago Tribune bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Amazon "Best Books of December" pick and... View Details

          Joseph L. Bower

          JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

          Keywords: banking; chemical; electronics; financial services; home appliances; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; insurance industry; private equity (LBO funds); retailing
          • October 2009
          • Article

          Managing Risk in the New World

          By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.
          Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
          Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
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            New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth

            Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

            Most established companies face a... View Details

            • 18 Mar 2008
            • First Look

            First Look: March 18, 2008

              Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace