Publications

April 2006
Teaching Note

Business Plan for Room For Dessert (TN)

By: Michael J. Roberts and Joseph B. Lassiter III

Teaching Note to (899-008). View Details

Keywords: Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

Web

What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Trouble in Mouse Land

Michael Eisner announced that he would retire in 2006, Gold and Disney filed suit to challenge the designation of Robert Iger as his successor, charging that the board rubber-stamped Eisner’s pick without... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
News

Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events

Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and Charles R. ("Chuck") Lee (MBA '64), chairman and CEO of GTE Corporation. Edelman, who established the CDF in 1973, received the club's Leadership Award and was introduced and praised View Details

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:In Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009 Abstract This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

November 1997 (Revised October 2000)
Case

Interactive Minds (A)

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Christina L. Darwall

The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet are recounted. Raises the question of what the nature of this opportunity is, how well-positioned the protagonists... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Consulting Industry

August 1998
Case

HIMSCORP, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz

Himscorp is an industry consolidation of records storage companies providing management and retrieval services of active medical records to healthcare institutions. Kent Dauten, a former general partner at Madison Dearborn Partners with 15 years of venture capital and... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Initial Public Offering; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consolidation; Information Industry

01 Dec 2005
News

What’s Next for You?

coach and career management consultant Warren Radtke and by Thomas J. Tierney (MBA ’80), the former chief executive of Bain & Company and founder and chairman of the Bridgespan Group, which helps bring... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

support and perspective. Grown & Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection. Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life by View Details

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Apr 2000
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University's elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots will be mailed during the first week of April, and completed ballots must be received View Details

February 2015
Supplement

WebTracker, Spreadsheet for Students (Brief Case)

By: William A. Sahlman and Michael J. Roberts DBA

February 2015 (Revised January 2018)
Case

WebTracker

By: William A. Sahlman and Michael J. Roberts DBA

August 1998 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Business Plan for Room For Dessert: Adding Unique Ingredients to Life's Balancing Act

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Michael J. Roberts

Summarizes the business plan for a concept restaurant focused on late evening dessert service as well as its subsequent rollout plan. View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Planning; Business Plan; Outcome or Result; Service Operations; Experience and Expertise; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

01 Jun 1997
News

Short Takes

achieve the company's goals at the same time they are competing to enhance their careers. In a working paper titled "Cloaking Self-Interest with High-Minded Principle," HBS doctoral student Justine Fenwick and Assistant Professor Robert... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

April 1999 (Revised February 2001)
Case

Davis Boatworks

By: Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts and Matthew C. Lieb

A successful entrepreneur is considering his need for growth financing and his desire to achieve some personal liquidity. He has arguably the most successful sportfishing boat made, but sees the need both to grow further and to reduce his personal exposure to a... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Personal Finance; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry