Publications

October 2004 (Revised May 2006)
Case

Wells REIT II

By: Arthur I Segel and Dwight Angelini

Dr. Richard Planter, a dentist, asks his financial adviser, Michael Saris, to review an offering memorandum for a new, private real estate investment trust. After reviewing the documents, Saris needs to develop an analytical framework and provide concrete advice... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Investment; Framework; Private Ownership; Mathematical Methods; Real Estate Industry

June 2011
Teaching Note

Knight the King: The Founding of Nike (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman

Teaching Note for 810077. View Details

Keywords: Market Participation; Public Ownership; Transformation; Business Startups; Going Public; Competition; Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry

September 1987 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Pizza Hut, Inc.

Pizza Hut, Inc. is a franchisor of eat-in pizza restaurants. It has decided to enter the home delivery market and is in the process of implementing that strategy. The case traces the development of the home delivery concept at Pizza Hut and the interaction between the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Franchise Ownership; Product Launch; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

April 2008
Teaching Note

China Resources Corporation (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Dennis Campbell

Teaching Note for [107013] and [107015]. View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Governance Controls; Performance Productivity; Problems and Challenges; State Ownership; Strategy; China

March 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Noodles & Company

Aaron Kennedy has successfully grown Noodles & Co. from a single global noodle shop to a chain of 58 restaurants spanning six states in seven years. In the face of increasing competition, Kennedy has plans to roll out 240 new stores in the next four years. He must... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

October 2002 (Revised February 2011)
Case

Union Corrugating Company (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens

Lauri Union graduates from Harvard Business School and takes over her family's steel-corrugated roofing and siding manufacturing firm, which her mother has most recently run. The industry is mature, entry barriers to competitors are low, and the company is over 50... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Industrial Products Industry

1987
Other Unpublished Work

Creating Stakeholder Value: NCR Annual Report

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Value Creation; Ownership Stake

November 1992
Case

Montecito State College

A state college seeks to boost enrollment in its extension courses and continuing education programs. Competition from other educational institutions is strong. Satellite campuses, developed to offer students greater convenience, have not proved popular. The college... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Marketing Communications; State Ownership; Education Industry

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

elections, yet the new owners had promised to find a way to finance and build a new home for the team. That Baer was able to help the ownership group keep that promise has to do, in no small part, with a well-honed instinct for marketing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

January 2012
Case

Family Firm Governance Vignettes

By: Lena G. Goldberg

Keywords: Family Ownership; Governance

November 2006
Supplement

The Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel

Keywords: Negotiation; Family Ownership

February 1998 (Revised July 2003)
Case

ICEDELIGHTS

Three second-year students at the Harvard Business School decide to buy a company. The case focuses on their thoughts about an entrepreneurial career, their search process, and the evaluation of an Icedelights (an ice cream/cafe) franchise. This is a rewritten version... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Franchise Ownership

December 1997 (Revised September 2014)
Exercise

Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord

By: Michael A. Wheeler

This simulation involves a negotiation between a real estate developer and a prospective anchor tenant in a proposed shopping center. Students are assigned roles, given confidential information, and asked to try to break the impasse over the "use, assignment, and... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Leasing; Real Estate Industry

01 Feb 2015
News

Jonathan Kraft is Prepared for Next Step

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

June 1989 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Fairfield Inn (A)

By: James L. Heskett

The Fairfield Inn, an economy hotel venture by the Marriott Corp., has developed a novel method for selecting and measuring the performance of its hotel personnel that fits the company's strategy. Because it faces the need to grow rapidly, questions have arisen as to... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Franchise Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Corporate Strategy; Accommodations Industry

July 2010
Teaching Note

Perfect Storm over Zurich Airport (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Michael L. Tushman and David Kiron

Teaching Note for 408023 and 408058. View Details

Keywords: State Ownership; Private Ownership; Crisis Management; Transformation; Air Transportation Industry; Switzerland

August 2013
Supplement

Lyric Dinner Theater (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe

Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Boards Of Directors; Family-owned Business; Hiring; Entrepreneurship; Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; Family Ownership; Entertainment; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Saint Louis