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- May 2012
- Case
Westlake Lanes: How Can This Business Be Saved?
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Alisa Zalosh
Shelby Givens, a new MBA, is the general manager of Westlake Lanes, a near-bankrupt bowling alley that her grandfather founded decades earlier. Givens has been given one year to turn a profit; if the goal is not met Westlake will close. During the first few days on the... View Details
Keywords: United States; Operations Management; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Turnarounds; Strategy; Leading Change; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Alisa Zalosh. "Westlake Lanes: How Can This Business Be Saved?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 124-431, May 2012.
- 1994
- Book
The Making of Global Enterprises
By: G. Jones
This volume presents new insights on the history of international business. Two main themes are addressed: how and when has global business developed over the last century? and what has been its impact on host economies? The volume includes a pioneering study by Mira... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business Subsidiaries; Economy; Trade; Globalized Firms and Management; Information Technology
Jones, G., ed. The Making of Global Enterprises. London: Frank Cass, 1994.
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
Enterprise Risk Management in Action
By: Anette Mikes
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management in Action." ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation Discussion Paper, October 2005.
- January 1994
- Article
The Making of Global Enterprise
By: G. Jones
Jones, G. "The Making of Global Enterprise." Business History 36, no. 1 (January 1994): 1–17.
- 2020
- Book
Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead
Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
Bower, Joseph L., Dutch Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead. Updated and expanded ed. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Advantage Horizon
A technical note that defines advantage horizon. View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Advantage Horizon." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-128, August 2000. (Revised July 2002.)
- December 1982 (Revised April 1983)
- Background Note
Management Issues in State-Owned Enterprises
By: James E. Austin
Austin, James E. "Management Issues in State-Owned Enterprises." Harvard Business School Background Note 383-103, December 1982. (Revised April 1983.)
- August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Invested Capital
A technical note that defines invested capital (IC). View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Invested Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-122, August 2000. (Revised July 2002.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case
By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and David Dreyfus
We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and their relationships in an enterprise... View Details
Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and David Dreyfus. "Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-105, June 2013.
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System (TN)
By: Ranjay Gulati and Marlo Goetting
Teaching Note for 409062. View Details
- 2001
- Working Paper
Social Enterprise Series No. 19 -- Misery Loves Companies: Whither Social Initiatives by Business
By: Joshua D. Margolis and James P. Walsh
Margolis, Joshua D., and James P. Walsh. "Social Enterprise Series No. 19 -- Misery Loves Companies: Whither Social Initiatives by Business." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-058, June 2001.
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community
By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards
Iansiti, Marco, and Gregory L. Richards. "The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-028, November 2006.
- April 1990 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Enterprise Development, Inc. (A) (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Business Ventures
Austin, James E. "Enterprise Development, Inc. (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 390-102, April 1990. (Revised December 1992.)
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
Social enterprise groups are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. Most social View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- November 2007 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise
By: Robert F. Higgins, Rosie O'Donnell, Sophie LaMontagne and Brent Kazan
In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder sat in his office and thought about how to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder and CEO of D2Hawkeye, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based healthcare analytics company, Kryder had grown the firm from a... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Development; Strategic Positioning; Strategic Vision; Venture Capital; Small Business; Investment; Growth Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Business Strategy; Service Industry; Health Industry; Waltham
Higgins, Robert F., Rosie O'Donnell, Sophie LaMontagne, and Brent Kazan. "D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 808-006, November 2007. (Revised August 2014.)
- February 2008 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills
By: Elisabeth Koll
This case focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by... View Details
Keywords: History; Law; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; State Ownership; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Entrepreneurship; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Shanghai; China
Koll, Elisabeth. "Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills." Harvard Business School Case 308-068, February 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
- 15 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community
- 2012
- Article
Organization Design for Business Ecosystems
The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Business Ecosystems; Distributed Innovation; Problem Solving; Property Rights; Organization Design; Networks; Integration; Competition; Organizational Design; Innovation and Management
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Organization Design for Business Ecosystems." Special Issue on The Future of Organization Design. Journal of Organization Design 1, no. 1 (2012).
- October 1990
- Article
The Structure and Governance of Enterprise
By: Michael C. Jensen and Richard S. Ruback
Jensen, Michael C., and Richard S. Ruback. "The Structure and Governance of Enterprise.", edited by Michael C. Jensen and Richard S. Ruback. Journal of Financial Economics 27, no. 2 (October 1990).
- 1999
- Chapter
Measuring the Performance of Australian Enterprises
By: Ian D. Gow and Stuart Sydney Kells
Gow, Ian D., and Stuart Sydney Kells. "Measuring the Performance of Australian Enterprises." In How Big Business Performs, edited by Peter Dawkins, Stephen King, and Michael Harris. St Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1999.