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  • December 2013 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Paul Levy: Confronting a 'Corporate Campaign' (A)

By: James K. Sebenius
Hospital CEO Paul Levy confronts an SEIU unionization drive via a "corporate campaign" aimed at undercutting the hospital's relationships with key internal and external constituencies. Having shepherded one of Boston's top teaching hospitals much of the way through a... View Details
Keywords: Dispute Resolution; Corporate Campaign; Negotiating Campaign; Bargaining; Health Care; Hospitals; Unions; Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation; Strategy; Negotiation Process; Labor Unions; Health Industry; Boston
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  • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Mobile Energy Services Company

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
When Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap became CEO of the Scott Paper Co., the company owned a large, vertically integrated production facility in Mobile, Alabama. Dunlap sold part of the production facility, a cogeneration power plant (later known as Mobile Energy Services Co.), to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Investment; Projects; Vertical Integration; Energy Sources; Bonds; Ownership; Restructuring; Energy Industry; Alabama
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  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

ChemChina (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • September 2017
    • Case

    Christine Lagarde

    By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
    The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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    • May 2022
    • Supplement

    Borusan CAT: Monetizing Prediction in the Age of AI (B)

    By: Navid Mojir and Gamze Yucaoglu
    Borusan Cat is an international distributor of Caterpillar heavy machines. In 2021, it had been three years since Ozgur Gunaydin (CEO) and Esra Durgun (Director of Strategy, Digitization, and Innovation) started working on Muneccim, the company’s predictive AI tool.... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Industrial Products Industry; Turkey; Middle East
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    • August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    NerveWire, Inc.

    By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
    NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Behavior; Internet; Newton
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    • February 2003 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    AFP Provida

    By: Michael E. Porter, Arturo L. Condo and Andrea Prado
    Describes the evolution of AFP Provida, one of the early entrants into the Chilean pension fund system established in 1981. By 1999, AFP Provida was not only the largest pension fund administrator in Chile, but also the largest in Latin America in terms of number of... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Chile
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    • December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
    • Supplement

    The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings

    By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
    This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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    • March 2001 (Revised April 2001)
    • Case

    MiCRUS: Activity-Based Management for Business Turnaround

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan B. Schiff and Stanley Abraham
    MiCRUS is a new company, spun off from IBM as a joint venture between IBM and Cirrus Logic to produce semiconductor wafers at world-class costs for its two parent companies. The senior management team needs to overcome the bureaucratic, internally focused culture that... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Management; Semiconductor Industry
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    • April 2006 (Revised December 2006)
    • Case

    The Barber of Buenos Aires: Argentina's Debt Renegotiation

    By: Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
    Tells the story of Argentina's aggressive strategy for renegotiating its sovereign debt from 2003 to 2005. Most creditors accepted the offer to swap their debt for new securities worth 35 cents on the dollar, with no recognition of all past-due interest. Many holdouts,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Sovereign Finance; Government and Politics; Negotiation Tactics; Outcome or Result; Situation or Environment; Argentina
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    • 2012
    • Case

    ChemChina

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
    ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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    • Research Summary

    Accountability in the World Bank

    This research, now complete, examines the roles of civil society actors in advocating for greater accountability at the World Bank at three levels of decision-making: (1) the project level, (2) the policy level, and (3) the board governance level. The research finds... View Details
    • September 2017 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?

    By: Laura Alfaro, Hayley Pallan and Sarah Jeong
    In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
    Keywords: Productivity; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations
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    • Program

    Advanced Management Program

    responsibilities, the Advanced Management Program is designed to bring about a full-scale change that empowers executives to create and renew competitive advantage for their organizations. Three highly integrated modules are presented... View Details
    • 20 Sep 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Vadym Volosovych
    • December 2006 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    China Merchants Bank: Here Just For You

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, GuoQing Chen, HengYuan Zhu, Bin Yang, Michael Shih-ta Chen, G.A. Donovan, Waishun Lo and Yan Yang
    Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese banking sector. With a relatively small branch network when compared to its larger competitors, CMB uses an... View Details
    Keywords: Credit Cards; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Banking Industry; China; Hong Kong
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    • September 2017
    • Teaching Note

    The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?

    By: Laura Alfaro and Hayley Pallan
    In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations
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    • June 2013 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    Blackstone Alternative Asset Management

    By: Robin Greenwood, Luis M. Viceira and Jared Dourdeville
    This case explores reasons for Blackstone Alternative Asset Management's (BAAM's) growth from 2007-2013, a time when the overall fund of hedge funds industry contracted substantially. Additionally, the case analyzes evolving business models and value propositions... View Details
    Keywords: Hedge Fund; Fund Of Hedge Funds; Hedge Fund Industry Growth; Fund Of Hedge Funds Industry Growth; Evolving Business Models; Value Propositions In The Fund Of Hege Funds Industry; Business Model; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • March 2009
    • Article

    Risk Management and Calculative Cultures

    By: Anette Mikes
    Enterprise risk management (ERM) has recently emerged as a widespread practice in financial institutions. It has been increasingly codified and encrypted into regulatory, corporate governance and organisational management blueprints. A burgeoning literature of... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Practice; Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Value; Business and Shareholder Relations; Managerial Roles; Culture; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business or Company Management; Financial Services Industry
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