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  • March 1999
  • Case

MySoftware Company (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Nicole Tempest
In 1997, Gregory Slayton took the position as CEO of MySoftware, which had been experiencing revenue and operating losses for the past two years. Within 90 days, he stabilized the company through a combination of cost cutting, financial discipline, and accountability... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Cost Management; Profit; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Outcome or Result; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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    Jan W. Rivkin

    Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

    Keywords: internet; internet; internet; internet; internet
    • 25 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 25, 2006

    competing bid for the shares of Nippon Broadcasting Systems (NBS). Livedoor, the other bidder, is a highly valued Internet company that has been accused of financial wizardry to keep its stock price high. Purchase this case: View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

    By: David Moss and Mary Oey
    What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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    • 2008
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

    By: David Moss and Mary Oey

    The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms of political support. Indeed, many... View Details

    Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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    • 18 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 18, 2006

    labor-management trust, product liability, foreign child labor, business e-ethics, the oil industry and climate control, and more. A new appendix, "Corporate Self-Assessment and Improvement," provides a corporate self-assessment... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

    Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • Web

    The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Conditions Related & Supporting Industries Many things matter for competitiveness. Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading , in which the business environment improves to enable increasingly sophisticated ways... View Details
    • 04 May 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University

      Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

      On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data... View Details

      • July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
      • Case

      'Clarín Lies!': Bias, Post-Truth, and Populism in Argentina's Media War

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Jose Liberti and Sarah McAra
      In 2012, Argentine media conglomerate Grupo Clarín and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner were embroiled in what some called “the mother of all battles.” Grupo Clarín was one of the preeminent media companies in Argentina, with leading newspapers, cable... View Details
      Keywords: Media Regulation; Media; Government and Politics; Policy; Newspapers; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Monopoly; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Argentina
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      • Web

      Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

      results are concentrated in industries with worse gender diversity reputations, consistent with legitimacy theory, where firms facing more public pressure use voluntary disclosure to help legitimize their reputations. We further examine... View Details
      • 01 Nov 2016
      • First Look

      First Look - November 1, 2016

      2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range of businesses around the world,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • August 2019
      • Case

      Preserving Trust at Care.com (A)

      By: Krishna G. Palepu and Julia Kelley
      Care.com was an online platform designed to match caregivers with individuals seeking care for themselves, others, and pets, through job postings, caregiver profiles, and directories of local day care centers. In March 2019, the Wall Street Journal had just published a... View Details
      Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Governance; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Emerging Markets; Trust; Technology Industry; United States
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      • January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
      • Case

      Henry Luce and the American Century

      By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Logan Wilcox
      Henry Luce, founder of the publishing company which produced Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, created the largest media company in the world by the mid-20th century. Luce's flagship magazine, Time, was able to gross over $20 million in sales during its... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Publishing Industry; United States
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      • March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
      • Case

      Harley-Davidson, Inc.--1987

      By: W. Carl Kester and Julia Morley
      After an LBO and near bankruptcy in the early 1980s, Harley-Davidson makes an astonishing recovery, going public in 1986. Its listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 1987 provides the occasion of an equity analyst to publish a research report in which she must issue... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Currency Exchange Rate; Reports; Crisis Management; Going Public; Research; Competition; Auto Industry; Japan; New York (city, NY)
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      • Person Page

      Press / Media

      By: Debora L. Spar

      I'll have a girl, please

      American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

      DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

      • 30 Sep 2019
      • Blog Post

      The Health Care Initiative at HBS

      at industry conferences like BIO, ASCO or JP Morgan. In fact, as I write this, we have a student and alumni gathering tonight at The MedTech Conference taking place in Boston. Faculty and curriculum HBS faculty offer numerous health care... View Details
      • 28 Jul 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: July 28

      provides excerpts from four Chairman's letters to shareholders from Pfizer's annual reports, followed by a description of the circumstances behind each letter. In the 2000 annual report, then-CEO Bill Steere discusses Pfizer's rise to View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 06 Aug 2021
      • Blog Post

      Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

      industry that would bring financial and job security. An aptitude for math and science led to an engineering scholarship to Penn State, a major in electrical engineering, and a position at a multinational oil and gas corporation after... View Details