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  • 13 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

organization to be successful, it needs to be led, managed, and governed well. Leading, Managing, And Governing Governance provides a broad sense of purpose or mission for the group and gives the group a sense of stability. Without stability, we cannot View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
  • April 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Supplement

Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott
In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Strategy; Investment; United States
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  • August 2015 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott
In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Finance; Strategy; Investment; United States
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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • News

The worst work model of the future? It’s not all office, or fully remote

  • June 2007 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Dressen (Abridged) (A)

By: Thomas R. Piper
John Lynch, CEO of the Dressen Division of Westinghouse, was elated by the proposed leveraged buyout by the private equity firm, Warburg Pincus Ventures. The buyout would rid the division of a 'bad' parent and place the division's destiny in its own hands. A recently... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Valuation
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  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

describes the strategic decision-making process regarding the introduction of fleet management in its early planning stages. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717427-PDF-ENG Harvard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2017 (Revised December 2018)
  • Case

Tamarin App: Natural Language Processing

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
In this case, students explore the challenges of using sentiment analysis to monitor and understand public perception around a software application, Tamarin SEO App. Technical topics include building a filtering classifier using naive Bayes and sentiment analysis This... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Branding; Data Analytics; Analytics and Data Science; Brands and Branding; Analysis; Perception; Planning
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  • 20 Jul 2017
  • News

Why the Death of Malls Is About More Than Shopping

    The Right Way to Rebuild America's Infrastructure

    Following the election of Donald Trump, spending on American infrastructure appears to be one area where Democrats and Republicans can agree—at least in principle. Trump has pledged to push for $1 trillion of new spending on roads, bridges, and more; but some Democrats... View Details
    • December 1991 (Revised February 1992)
    • Case

    Dayton Electric Corp.

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright
    Concerns a product redesign decision for one of the company's most successful motor products, its rectified power, medium D-C motor, the RPM. A one-year redesign program has proposed a design that comes close to meeting its stated cost and performance goals, but at the... View Details
    Keywords: Product Design; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Business Divisions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio
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    • September 1997
    • Case

    Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)

    By: W. Earl Sasser, Josep Valor and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Information Technology Services Director Mohamed Muhsin planned to restructure the World Bank's information technology in response to President Jim Wolfensohn's call to build a knowledge bank. Several reorganization efforts taken by the bank in the 1980s led to a... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Information; Knowledge Management; Mission and Purpose; Technology; Public Administration Industry
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    • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

    By: Mark Kramer, Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and T. Robert Zochowski
    ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest source of carbon emissions, remained committed to aggressively expanding its oil & gas business despite global warming. During the COVID pandemic this strategy resulted in massive losses as the price and demand for oil declined. ... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Global Warming; Impact Investment Funds; Hedge Fund Activism; Leadership Development; Business Model; Renewable Energy; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • July 1998 (Revised October 1998)
    • Case

    Jan Eriksson at Novartis Indonesia: Turmoil in the Indonesian Pharmaceutical Industry

    By: Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
    Jan Eriksson is the country manager of the Indonesian joint venture of Basel-based Novartis (Novartis Indonesia), the world's largest pharmaceutical company, formed by the 1996 merger between Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. The case describes the actions he has taken since... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Financial Crisis; Pharmaceutical Industry; Indonesia
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    • 24 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

    One December evening in 2011, while preparing a lesson plan, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes picked up the phone for his weekly conversation with Bernie Madoff. Soltes, who was doing an in-depth investigation on... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • October 2017
    • Supplement

    Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)

    By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Supplements the (A) case.

    Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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      Josh Lerner

      Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
      • June 1991 (Revised May 1992)
      • Case

      Cumberland Worldwide Corp. (B)

      Cumberland has been in Chapter 11 for 18 months and is trying to formulate a plan of reorganization that will satisfy a variety of claimants. Teaching objective: valuation and negotiation issues. View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Valuation; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy
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      • 12 Dec 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

      United States. But appearances can be deceiving. What may look to more casual observers like the end of globalization—or, at least, a major step back—is anything but, suggests a new working paper. Call it instead the “great reallocation,” says Harvard View Details
      Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
      • November 2016 (Revised November 2016)
      • Case

      Mark43

      By: Thomas Eisenmann, Mitch Weiss and Halah AlQahtani
      The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand, LAPD would be a second large and influential... View Details
      Keywords: Start-up; Software Applications; Government Markets; Rapid Growth Stage; Public Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; United States; New York (city, NY)
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      • February 1998
      • Case

      Lyondell Petrochemical Company

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Daniel P. Erikson
      In August 1994, Lyondell Petrochemical Co.'s corporate parent and largest single shareholder effectively shed its stock, resulting in the resignation of 5 of its 11 directors. The remaining outside directors immediately acted to overhaul the executive compensation plan... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Design; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Mining Industry
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