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  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

growth and skyrocketing stock price made it difficult for most directors to challenge management's strategy and tactics. Still, board members understood that Enron was trying to move underperforming assets and potential investment losses... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • December 1998
  • Background Note

Note on Dedicated Sports Stadium Revenues

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman
An overview of the rapid growth of stadium development in professional sports in the 1990s. The range of special stadium revenue streams is described along with specific examples of stadiums for the Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers. View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Development Economics; Decisions; Growth and Development; Revenue; Sports; Buildings and Facilities; Sports Industry; District of Columbia; North Carolina
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  • 2023
  • Other Unpublished Work

Unprecedented: Remote Work and the Strange Economy of 2023

By: Randolph B. Cohen
The low unemployment rate which suggests a strong economy and the low productivity and GDP growth that seems more consistent with less robust conditions sit uneasily together. It's a mystery! But it may be that societal changes like remote work can reconcile the... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Employment; Working Conditions
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  • May 2024
  • Supplement

gWorks (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Growth Management; Applications and Software; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; United States
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  • March 2021 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) turned seventy-years-old and became the longest active authoritarian regime in recent history. By then, China was the world’s second largest economy by GDP (after the United States), and a high-technology industrial... View Details
Keywords: Party-state; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Society; International Relations; China
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  • Web

Publications - Faculty & Research

Details Keywords: Financial Crisis ; Financial Institutions ; Financial Markets ; Growth and Development ; Economic Sectors ; Financial Services Industry Citation Read Now Related Greenwood, Robin, David S.... View Details
  • March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

Climate Action in Miami

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Miami metropolitan area is a global epicenter of climate risk from heat and sea level rise, but leaders have only recently mobilized for action to respond to this systemic challenge. Resilient 305 began a collaboration across officials in the cities of Miami and... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Climate Impact; Change; Leadership; Cross-sector Collaboration; Coalition; Ecosystem; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Green Business; Adaptation; Environmental Sustainability; Infrastructure; Green Technology; Environmental Management; Miami
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  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice and outlook? Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • July 2024
  • Case

Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding

By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn
This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Business Cycles; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Development; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle; Japan
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  • 17 Mar 2020
  • Cold Call Podcast

Is There a Winner in Huawei’s Digital Cold War with the US?

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Technology

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 07 Aug 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

    Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
    • Research Summary

    By: Ashish Nanda
    Ashish Nanda's research focuses on ethics and economics of managing professional service firms.

    Nanda is working on a project that studies how management of conflict of interest influences professional identity, the role of professional associations, and the... View Details

    • August 2019
    • Case

    Experiencya Cuba: Two Entrepreneurs in Havana

    By: Charles F. Wu, Mariana Cal and Fernanda Miguel
    In 2019, two Cuban entrepreneurs discussed their growth strategy, given the regulatory framework instability, for private companies, in Cuba. Experiencya Cuba offered car and apartment rentals, airport pick-up, and tours around the island, all conducted in perfectly... View Details
    Keywords: Self-employed; Regulatory Changes; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Auto Industry; Transportation Industry; Cuba
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    • April 2009 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework

    By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
    Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management style was the most effective philosophy in an economic downturn. The sharing of customer information across units and its use in the creative process are key initiatives analyzed in the case. CEO Robert... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Management Style; Management Systems; Brands and Branding; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 2022
    • Report

    Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100

    By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
    The Competitiveness Roadmap for India lays out policy principles to guide India's efforts to move towards middle-income and beyond over the next 25 years. It covers a discussion of appropriate outcome ambitions, the underlying development approach, specific policy... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Strategy; Competition; Policy; Government Administration; India
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    • 22 Sep 2017
    • Conference Presentation

    A Strategy for Haitian Prosperity

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Overview of Haiti's economic performance; a framework for understanding competitiveness; Haiti's competitive position; policy recommendations for Haiti; building an overall strategy; moving to action. View Details
    Keywords: Haiti; Economic Growth; Haiti
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    • 2009
    • Article

    India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

    By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
    Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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    • 16 Mar 2004
    • Other Presentation

    UK Competitiveness: Entering a New Stage

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2003,... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United Kingdom
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