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October 1997 (Revised April 2002)
Case

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman

Outlines the dynamic shifts in the external environment surrounding Planned Parenthood's operations in 1994. Health care reform was threatening some of its core customer base. The organization had to come up with a strategy and a process for adapting to the new... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

July 2000
Case

Dawn Riley at America True (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Sports; Gender; Business Startups; North and Central America; New Zealand; San Francisco

July 2000
Case

Dawn Riley at America True (E)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Supplements the (C) and (C1) cases. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Management Teams; Sports; Business Startups; New Zealand; North and Central America

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July 2000
Case

Dawn Riley at America True (D)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Supplements the (C) and (C1) cases. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Management Teams; Sports; Business Startups; New Zealand; North and Central America

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2009
Case

The North America Environmental Fund (NAEF)

By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama

NAEF was the first VC fund created in Latin America. It was also the first fund to focus on green technologies. The fund and its managers confronted several issues regarding the under-developed governance and cultural structures required for succesful VC investments. View Details

Keywords: Clean Tech; Emerging Market; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Governance; Technology; Green Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; North and Central America

September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
Case

Partnership for a Drug-Free America (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Diana Chapman Walsh, Barbara Moeykens and Rima E. Rudd

Keywords: United States

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15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai say American economic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

It’s no secret the Federal Reserve and other central banks weren’t prepared for the swift, steep curve of inflation’s climb after COVID-19 snarled supply chains in 2021 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices soaring in 2022.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

August 9, 2010
Article

It's Time to Invest in America

By: Bill George

Keywords: Investment; United States

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20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

As part of his administration's strategy to rejuvenate American manufacturing, President Obama has called for the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) to advance and diffuse novel manufacturing technologies. To launch it, he has allocated... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

January 2025
Case

Shifting Winds: DEI in Corporate America

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and David Lane

In the 2020s, intense and conflicting social and political pressures challenged organizational leaders around the world. Prominent among these were powerful competing views on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) in the United States. Public... View Details

November 2, 2012
Editorial

America Needs a Chief Strategy Officer

By: Andy Zelleke and Justin Talbot Zorn

The White House needs someone to look beyond the crisis of the day and focus on the United States' role in the world. View Details

Keywords: International Relations; Government Administration; Management Teams; United States

December 2004
Teaching Note

Money and Banking in America (TN)

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Stephen A. Mihm

Teaching Note to (9-805-088). View Details

Keywords: United States

November 1988
Teaching Note

Hospital Corp. of America (B), Teaching Note

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-283-054). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; United States

April 2012
Article

Storybook-keepers: Numbers and Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America

To give an account of something is to tell a story about it, and to hold someone accountable is to make him responsible for that story. This essay explores the ways bookkeepers wove numbers into narratives and the way the stories they told influence their... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Accounting; United States

January 2000
Supplement

Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (Video)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

Taran Swan talks with HBS students about the events covered in the case. She discusses her definition of a leader, how she built the team, leaving Miami, and her relationship with headquarters management. View Details

Keywords: Business Headquarters; Leadership; Management Teams; Relationships; Situation or Environment; Latin America; Miami

July 1999
Case

Restructuring General Motors North America (A): Pay-for-Performance

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Presents the new pay-for-performance scheme adopted by General Motors (GM) in its 1999 reorganization of its sales and marketing organization. Once in operation, many administrative problems developed requiring a reconsideration of the scheme's basic architecture. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Compensation and Benefits; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Auto Industry; North America

June 2006 (Revised April 2007)
Case

Wendy Kopp and Teach For America (A)

By: William W. George, Diana Mayer and Andrew N. McLean

In 1995, Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach for America, faces a worsening budget shortfall and sharpening challenges from education experts concerning her organization's mission and effectiveness. Provides information on the leadership development of the... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Leadership Development; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry; North and Central America

Article

Leonard Bernstein and the Promise of America

By: Scott Duke Kominers

Keywords: Music Entertainment; United States

November 19, 2013
Guest Column

The Road to America Leads Through Gettysburg

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: American History; Abraham Lincoln; American Civil War; Leadership; United States

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