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- June 2000
- Case
Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Information Infrastructure; Age; Service Delivery; Restructuring; Crisis Management; Health Industry; Service Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-099, June 2000.
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
of its post-civil war reconstruction. When Liberia emerged from a decade-and-a-half of war, fiscal obligations were several times higher than income. Its new leaders were able to restructure the country's commercial debt (to three cents... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
restructuring or explicit affirmative action policies for women. Being thoughtful about the implicit signals that are embedded in the structure of the organization in terms of who is in what types of positions may be a way of getting more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
C. Fritz Foley Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring Stuart C. Gilson Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Sabrina Howell Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
management had the potential to significantly improve the customer experience, Hilti was already a successful firm under its extant model and had to decide whether the restructuring of its business model was worth the risk. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
2015 Journal of Financial Economics The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings By: Ivashina, Victoria, Benjamin Iverson, and David C. Smith Abstract—What is the ownership structure of bankrupt debt claims? How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
Trian Partners and DuPont, co-written with Dhruva Kaul and Peter Lee. Investment management group Trian’s strategy is to invest in undervalued companies and work with management to restructure and increase value for the long term. (Trian... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
when they radically restructured their collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The new CBA instituted a uniform cap (as well as a floor) on team payrolls. It also set maximums and minimums for individual contracts and declared many more... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC). Key Benefits In this program, you will use a value framework—first introduced by HBS professor Michael E. Porter in his book Redefining Health Care—as a template for restructuring health care delivery... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
where people want to buy their cars,” Thomke says. “The companies can’t simply restructure their way out of their difficulties.” Thomke, an authority on the management of technology and product innovation, senses that “the culture within... View Details
- September 1992
- Case
Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market
First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Financial Markets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Wealth; Business Cycles; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market." Harvard Business School Case 293-036, September 1992.
- May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
- Supplement
Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
The (B) case tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI. View Details
Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Growth Management; Decision Making; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong; France; Italy; Spain
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Oliver Gassmann, and Roman Sauer. "Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-465, May 2017. (Revised September 2018.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
the Feds to grant us a waiver to restructure Medicaid so that we could expand its coverage, increase help for children, and, most innovatively, subsidize premiums for folks who needed help. That waiver was crucial; Governor Romney had to... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Collins Properties, must decide with its equity partner whether to continue funding the building's losses while trying to lease the vacant space, restructure the debt, or default on the loan and turn the building over to its lenders. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609050 NEC Electronics Harvard Business School Case 209-001 Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC, trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can Perry Capital, a U.S. hedge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
tranche of capital. I moved to Brazil, and my supportive wife’s only requirement was that I have a bodyguard and a bulletproof car. As CEO, I had to lay off 1,500 of the 4,000 employees. We did it with dignity, but the pain was personal. We View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
viewpoints; Restructure the governing process by forming an independent commission to redesign congressional rules to greatly reduce two-party control over which bills are considered and how issues are addressed; Reduce the influence that... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- April 2000 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Garanti Bank: Transformation in Turkey
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Maximilian Martin and Daniel Galvin
Discusses the complete transformation and turnover in every division of Garanti Bank. Describes the multiple change projects managed and cross-cultural issues confronted during the 1990s and the organizational challenge of transforming Garanti Bank into one of Turkey's... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Private Ownership; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Culture; Change Management; Expansion; Corporate Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Turkey
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Maximilian Martin, and Daniel Galvin. "Garanti Bank: Transformation in Turkey." Harvard Business School Case 300-114, April 2000. (Revised December 2005.)
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
coupled with this delivery system that was, wittingly or not, heartless. And I've been at it since then. I wrote Market-Driven Health Care, which was a very popular book. But the part of it that I thought was the most important, which is the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
he has to Pittsburgh’s business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure... View Details