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  • 13 Nov 2014
  • News

'Middle skills' key to workforce development

  • January 2013 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

MuMaté

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Alex Godden
MuMaté, a fictional cult beverage company, requires capital to fund national expansion. Its cofounders, who have bootstrapped to this point, are now negotiating with venture capital firms to raise a $3 million funding round. The case describes MuMaté's inception, early... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Growth Management; Negotiation; Expansion; Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry
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Eisenmann, Thomas, and Alex Godden. "MuMaté." Harvard Business School Case 813-085, January 2013. (Revised December 2024.)

    Chip Bergh

    Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

    • January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    Adams + Beasley Associates

    By: Dennis Campbell and Iuliana Mogosanu
    This case illustrates how a strong culture, founder-led SME designed and used a unique performance metric—the job security index—to manage through periods of economic uncertainty. The case centers specifically on how the job security index was used in an interactive... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Measurement and Metrics; Employee Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Small Business; Leadership; Organizational Culture
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    Campbell, Dennis, and Iuliana Mogosanu. "Adams + Beasley Associates." Harvard Business School Case 123-051, January 2023. (Revised June 2024.)
    • 01 Jun 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

    Chorn asks, "Do you give (mid-range managers) larger incentives in the hope of retaining them?" Special needs sometimes dictate pay in relation to expected performance. Veronica Serrano suggests that this occurs when "extraordinary performance or major... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 18 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

    (Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • March 2003 (Revised November 2005)
    • Case

    Bertelsmann AG

    By: Bharat N. Anand, Michael G. Rukstad and Christoph Kostring
    On July 28, 2002, Bertelsmann announced the firing of its CEO, Thomas Middelhoff, in a move that surprised industry observers, analysts, and many employees. Bertelsmann, a privately held company headquartered in Germany, was one of the largest global media... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Corporate Strategy; Entertainment; Media; Change Management; Integration; Resignation and Termination; Private Ownership; Initial Public Offering; Business Units; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; Music Industry; Germany
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    Anand, Bharat N., Michael G. Rukstad, and Christoph Kostring. "Bertelsmann AG." Harvard Business School Case 703-405, March 2003. (Revised November 2005.)
    • 27 Oct 2015
    • News

    Sweet Success

    Extension Field Station in Lake Placid, New York. “Mike was already working with grants from the state of New York to expand its maple industry,” Turner explains. “Senator Chuck Schumer was among those who believed this was the only agricultural View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • April 2011
    • Article

    Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation

    By: Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen and Per Stromberg
    A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term profit motives and sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Investment; Innovation and Invention
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    Lerner, Josh, Morten Sorensen, and Per Stromberg. "Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation." Journal of Finance 66, no. 2 (April 2011): 445–477.
    • 27 Oct 2017
    • News

    Wanted for any job: A bachelor’s degree. Is that smart?

    • August 1996 (Revised February 2000)
    • Exercise

    Decision-Making Exercise (C)

    By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto
    Provides questionnaires so students can compare their experiences with different decison-making processes. Students read "Growing Pains," a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study, and then work in teams to come up with recommendations using a consensus approach to... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict Management; Decision Making; Management Skills
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    Garvin, David A., and Michael Roberto. "Decision-Making Exercise (C)." Harvard Business School Exercise 397-033, August 1996. (Revised February 2000.)
    • April 2014
    • Case

    Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.: Taking on Seasonal Starvation in Latin America

    By: Christopher Marquis and Zoe Yang
    A company with a strong commitment toward corporate social responsibility since its founding days, Green Mountain faced an ethical decision point in 2007 as new information from the field uncovered a chronic dire problem facing coffee communities—seasonal starvation.... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Trade; Coffee; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; Central America; Mexico; Guatemala; Nicaragua
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    Marquis, Christopher, and Zoe Yang. "Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.: Taking on Seasonal Starvation in Latin America." Harvard Business School Case 414-065, April 2014.
    • 22 Dec 2022
    • Blog Post

    TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022

    AT HBS Sustainability is a core value at HBS, and we endeavor to build a healthier, more sustainable, and inclusive community. We know that environmental sustainability is of growing interest to our student community and teamed up with... View Details
    • 2023
    • Book

    The State and Capitalism in China

    By: Meg Rithmire, Margaret M. Pearson and Kellee S. Tsai
    This element explains China's political economic evolution from state socialist economy to a reform era state capitalism model to a more politicized, risk management approach we call "party-state capitalism." We emphasize the internal and external sources of perceived... View Details
    Keywords: China's Political Economy; State Capitalism; State-business Relations; State Ownership; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; China
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    Rithmire, Meg, Margaret M. Pearson, and Kellee S. Tsai. The State and Capitalism in China. Cambridge Elements, Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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    HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

    for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s View Details
    • May 2011
    • Article

    The Hollow Science

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and risks of their firms' assets. It's fair to say that business scholars bear some... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Risk Management; Practice
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    Kaplan, Robert S. "The Hollow Science." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
    • 30 Jul 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

    go astray. An organization's books may be in order, but its performance may be going down the tubes. What's to be done? Should the growing number of governance committees require management to establish... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
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    Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
    • News

    Today, the Tech Talent Shortage is Everybody’s Problem

    • October 2008
    • Case

    Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998 (Abridged)

    By: Huw Pill, Rafael M. Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
    What caused the 1997-98 Asia Crisis: Asian nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Ethics; Financial Institutions; Financial Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Asia
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    Pill, Huw, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 709-004, October 2008.
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