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  • 25 Mar 2022
  • News

Assistant Professors Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth: Empower

    H. Kent Bowen

    Professor Kent Bowen's current research and teaching is in the field of operations and technology management. He has served as course head for the required first year MBA course, Technology and Operations Management, two advanced level courses, Running and Growing... View Details

    • February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang
    In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details
    Keywords: Timing; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Business Model; Organizational Design; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; United States; Canada; China
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    • October 1991 (Revised June 1996)
    • Case

    Lotus MarketPlace: Households

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Managers at Lotus and Equifax must decide what to do about their new jointly developed database and software product Lotus MarketPlace which has been criticized as a threat to individual privacy. The Product, which would allow small businesses to buy targeting mail... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Business or Company Management; Rights; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Applications and Software; Product Marketing; Information Technology Industry
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    • 26 Apr 2024
    • HBS Case

    Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

    subordinates accountable, but they have no clue how to do that,” says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson in explaining what drew him to study Sanders’ sometimes-controversial leadership style. Gibson, who played football... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
    • October 2011 (Revised April 2013)
    • Case

    Kroll Bond Rating Agency

    The established credit raters were criticized for inflating the mortgage credit bubble that imploded in 2008. A new rating agency, KBRA, is considering how to capitalize on the opportunity this presents and how to enter the industry. A small group of managers have to... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Services Industry
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    • 18 Mar 2022
    • Video

    Assistant Professors Natalia Rigol and Benjamin Roth: Empower

    • October 1996 (Revised April 1997)
    • Case

    Northco (A)

    By: Ananth Raman and Bowon Kim
    A small school-uniform manufacturer wrestles with seasonal demand. The company is saddled with excess inventory when it is bought by a leveraged buyout firm. Students are required to identify ways to analyze and solve the problem. View Details
    Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Leveraged Buyouts; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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    • 12 Sep 2014
    • News

    Moving targets

    • 20 Feb 2020
    • News

    Productive Innovation: Building a Culture of Experimentation

    • 01 Aug 2018
    • News

    Inside the Emerging Economy With Millions of High-Paying Jobs

    • September 1996 (Revised September 2004)
    • Case

    Monterrey Manufacturing Company

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    A small manufacturing company plans and budgets sales and expenses to ensure that its strategy is feasible. It must trace costs of manufacturing through work-in-process to finished goods and cost of goods sold, and project cash flows and income. View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Business Earnings; Cash Flow; Sales; Budgets and Budgeting; Manufacturing Industry
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    • October 1996 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Eric Wood (A)

    By: Myra M. Hart
    Describes the early career of an MBA who went to work in a small business, bought the company, and is now contemplating an acquisition to expand the business. The issues involve personal/business finance and financial risk, as well as valuation and financial... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • April 2007 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    M-TRONICS (A)

    By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynda M. Applegate
    The new CEO of a small manufacturing firm pursues growth through the launch of Entrepreneurial Subsidiaries. While the firm grows revenues from $600 million to over $2 billion in 10 years, problems surface as the subsidiaries are integrated into the established... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Integration
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    • February 2004
    • Case

    Succession Capital Corporation

    In 2003, a small buyout company in Canada was deciding which company to purchase next. This case explores the challenges facing a young entrepreneur in the process of selecting a new acquisition when financial and human resources are constrained. View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Canada
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    • August 1994 (Revised November 1994)
    • Case

    Saturn: A Different Kind of Car Company

    Saturn was General Motors' (GM) response to Japanese companies' dominance of the small car market during the mid-1980s. In the three-and-a-half years since its first sedan rolled off the assembly line, the Saturn Corp. had accumulated an impressive list of... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Retail Industry
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    • December 2001
    • Case

    Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (A)

    By: Myra M. Hart, Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden and Susan Saltrick
    Sarah Vickers-Willis, HBS MBA 1999, faces a critical career decision: Does she redirect the Internet start-up she helped found or join in shaping a for-profit firm with a social mission? Sarah, a young Australian business executive, has always strived to "find space"... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Business Startups
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    • June 2008 (Revised August 2008)
    • Case

    The Suzlon Edge

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Juliana Seminerio
    With prices of oil, coal and gas at historically high levels, the wind industry had installed more than 20,000 MW of wind energy, representing a $37 billion investment in 2007. Besides high prices, wind energy represented a solution for consumers seeking an energy... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Cost vs Benefits; Renewable Energy; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Integration; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; India
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    • 03 Oct 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

    to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details
    Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
    • 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