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  • February 2004
  • Case

The Making of Verizon

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Ryan Raffaelli
Through a series of mergers, Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon chairman and CEO, successfully shared the co-CEO title twice while building the largest telecom company in the United States. The strong and complementary cultures of the companies that Seidenberg and a key group of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Transition; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Risk Management; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Corporate Solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle (2001) (A)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced at the turn of the millennium. Until then, JLL sold piecemeal commercial real estate services to its corporate clients, who maintained relationships with a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America
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  • November 2008 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

UnME Jeans: Branding in Web 2.0

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This case introduces emerging Web 2.0 social media in virtual worlds, social networking sites, and video-sharing sites and encourages students to explore the opportunities and risks they present for brands. The case allows students to grapple with the strategic and... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Risk and Uncertainty; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 28 Jan 2022
  • News

Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots

  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

climate change management will figure into BP's corporate strategy. Climate change management was a major part of BP's strategy under Browne: In 1997 Browne broke from his colleagues, publicly declaring that global climate change was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • News

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

  • 02 Jun 2020
  • News

Great Leaders Use Tough Love to Improve Performance

  • January 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Blogs at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (A)

In May 2005, JP Rangaswami, the chief information officer at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), wonders how to extend the bank's use of blogs. Corporations are now increasingly using these tools to diffuse news, opinions, and knowledge and improve... View Details
Keywords: Blogs; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Governance Compliance; Investment Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 21 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

    Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

    By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
    This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put option writing strategy that offers monthly liquidity and complete transparency... View Details
    Keywords: Cost of Capital; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • November 2003 (Revised August 2005)
    • Case

    Reinventing the Automobile: General Motors' AUTOnomy Project

    By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
    Describes the history of General Motor's attempts to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car. As of 2003, GM developed several prototypes of such a vehicle to demonstrate the viability of the overall concept. Many uncertainties remained, however, with respect to the... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Management; Information Technology; Transition; Competency and Skills; Disruptive Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Auto Industry
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    • February 2002
    • Background Note

    Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework

    Identifies many of the legal issues likely to arise in the course of starting and growing a company. Suggests strategies not only for ensuring compliance with the law but also for using the law and the legal system to increase predictability, maximize value, marshal... View Details
    Keywords: Law; Entrepreneurship
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    • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Partners In Health: HIV Care in Rwanda

    By: Michael E. Porter, Scott S. Lee, Joseph Rhatigan and Jim Yong Kim
    In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at these sites. PIH successfully implemented a... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Health Industry; Rwanda
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    • July 7, 2022
    • Other Article

    Are Online Prices Higher Because of Pricing Algorithms?

    By: Zach Y. Brown and Alexander J. MacKay
    This article reviews recent work examining pricing strategies of major online retailers and the potential effects of pricing algorithms. We describe how pricing algorithms can lead to higher prices in a number of ways, even if some characteristics of these algorithms... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing Algorithms; Online Marketplace; Digital Strategy; Internet and the Web; Retail Industry
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    • October 1982 (Revised May 1992)
    • Case

    Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy

    By: Stephen A. Greyser
    In October 1982, Johnson & Johnson was confronted with a major crisis when seven deaths were attributed to poisoned Tylenol. The case reviews the facts as known a week after the incident occurred, and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior,... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 03 Apr 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: April 3, 2007

    Business School Case 307-077 Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 May 2017
    • News

    Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable

    • 12 Feb 2025
    • Video

    Strengthening Carbon Claims via the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI): A Conversation with Mark Kenber

    • October 2004 (Revised July 2011)
    • Case

    AT&T 2000-2004

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kerry Herman
    Provides an update on CEO Michael Armstrong's "Project Grand Slam" strategy to build the value of AT&T by offering a complete, integrated telecommunications solution to both corporate and residential customers, including wireless and wire line telephone, Internet,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Customers; Business or Company Management; Failure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Networks; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Wireless Technology; Value Creation; Telecommunications Industry
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