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January 2004 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Excel Academy Charter Middle School, The

This case is set in the summer of 2002 in a recently approved charter middle school in Boston. The school's founders face a choice of compensation plans as they finalize the initial teaching team in the school. In particular, the founders are actively considering two... View Details

Keywords: Teaching; Performance; Compensation and Benefits; Boston

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January 2004 (Revised November 2006)
Case

Fleet Managed Assets Division (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Todd H Thedinga

Paul Kennedy, executive director of Fleet's Managed Asset Division, must decide whether to extend further credit to Polaroid Corp. in the fall of 2001. Polaroid's credit rating had been declining rapidly, but it was a major employer in the Boston area with many... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Credit; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Boston

October 2003
Teaching Note

Competition in Japanese Financial Markets-2002; Competition in Japanese Financial Markets-2002 (Abridged); Morgan Stanley Japan-2002 (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna

Teaching Note to (9-702-455), (9-703-407), and (9-702-458). View Details

Keywords: Japan; United States

September 2003 (Revised September 2004)
Case

Grafica, Inc.: Winning the New Jersey Lottery (A)

Debra Taeschler, CEO of Grafica, is considering how to structure her agency's bid for the New Jersey Lottery account. The Lottery is facing declining sales in all major categories and plans to slash its 1999 marketing budget by 32%. Taeschler is debating whether to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; New Jersey

September 2003
Case

Executive Compensation at Reckitt Benckiser plc

By: V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu and Lisa Brem

Investors felt betrayed by the increasingly lucrative pay packages awarded to CEOs and other top executives at multinational companies. Yet, board members charged with adequately rewarding executives were forced to compete with rising packages of salaries and stock... View Details

Keywords: Design; Stock Options; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Netherlands; United States

2003
Chapter

Regulatory Laws and Political Culture in the United States and Germany

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; Germany

2006
Chapter

BioRisk: interleukin-2 from laboratory to market in the United States and Germany

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Testing and Trials; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Germany

January 2003 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Finding a CEO for the School District of Philadelphia: Searching for a Savior?

Following the largest state takeover of a local public school district in U.S. history, a new governing body must find a CEO to effect a large-scale turnaround in the Philadelphia school district. This case examines the context of large urban public schools and... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Restructuring; Education; Crisis Management; Education Industry; Philadelphia

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August 2002 (Revised March 2003)
Teaching Note

NerveWire (TN)

By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler

Teaching Note for (9-402-020), (9-402-021), and (9-402-022). View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Recruitment; Mission and Purpose; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry; Newton

March 2002 (Revised October 2005)
Case

Wal-Mart in 2002

By: David B. Yoffie and Yusi Wang

In its first quarter of 2002, Wal-Mart became the largest company on the globe (by sales) and expanded into Japan. Was the giant retailer unstoppable? This case explores Wal-Mart's top issues in fueling top- and bottom-line growth: diversification into groceries, new... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Expansion; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Global Strategy; Retail Industry; Japan; United States

September 2001
Supplement

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (B)

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Cambridge

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

July 2001
Case

Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Kristin Doughty and Ellen Pruyne

Paula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school so that long-standing inequities in academic achievement rates across race and socioeconomic class were removed. In her... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Strategy; Secondary Education; Restructuring; Leadership; Conflict Management; Education Industry; Cambridge

July 2001 (Revised September 2001)
Case

Recall 2000: Bridgestone Corp. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details

Keywords: Auto Industry; United States; Japan

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May 2001
Teaching Note

Tracmail TN

By: Paul W. Marshall, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju

Teaching Note for (9-801-037). View Details

Keywords: Service Industry; Information Technology Industry; India; United States

March 2001
Teaching Note

Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group TN

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Teaching Note for (9-300-085). View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry; Computer Industry; New Jersey

February 2001 (Revised January 2002)
Case

Tracmail

By: Paul W. Marshall, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju

Tracmail, an online customer service company based in India, is trying to handle support services (e-mail and chat) for companies worldwide. In its quest to break into global markets, Tracmail is contemplating a joint venture with a U.S. call center. Tracmail is also... View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; Service Industry; Information Technology Industry; India; United States

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August 2000 (Revised January 2003)
Teaching Note

Health Development Corporation TN

By: Richard S. Ruback

Teaching Note for (9-200-049). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Boston

September 2000
Teaching Note

Boston Beer Company: Light Beer Decision TN

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and John T. Gourville

Teaching Note for (9-899-058). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Boston

May 2000 (Revised July 2000)
Case

U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (A), The

By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis

Describes the dilemma Martin Kamarck faced as president of the Export-Import Bank in whether to provide U.S. companies financing for China's Three Gorges Dam project. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; China; United States

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