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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Alacra, Inc.
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Aldo Sesia
In 2009, the CEO of Alacra, a venture-backed information services firm that provides customized data primarily to financial services firms, must decide how to respond to the global economic crisis. View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., and Aldo Sesia. "Alacra, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 810-012, July 2009. (Revised January 2014.)
- November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Supplement
Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (D)
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann
Keywords: Crisis Management
Margolis, Joshua D., Thomas J. DeLong, and Terence Heymann. "Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-028, November 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
- April 1990
- Case
What Is Done Is Dun . . . & Bradstreet
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "What Is Done Is Dun . . . & Bradstreet." Harvard Business School Case 590-103, April 1990.
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don't evoke the outrage of multimillion-dollar paydays, curbing the risk-taking incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy in the world has also View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with everybody,” he recalls. “The... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Supplement
Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (C)
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann
Keywords: Crisis Management
Margolis, Joshua D., Thomas J. DeLong, and Terence Heymann. "Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-027, November 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
- November 1990 (Revised June 1991)
- Supplement
Final Voyage of the Challenger: Aftermath
Presents some of the events after the Challenger disaster. Includes the activities of the Rogers Commission, the changes in Morton Thiokol, and some recent problems with the Space Shuttle. View Details
Hauptman, Oscar. "Final Voyage of the Challenger: Aftermath." Harvard Business School Supplement 691-039, November 1990. (Revised June 1991.)
- November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Fire at Notre Dame de Paris
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jerome Barthelemy
In early 2019, the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral was severely damaged by a fire. Though many people still believe that the fire was due to errors made at the “sharp end”, the case suggests that it resulted from the combination of various types of errors that could have... View Details
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jerome Barthelemy. "Fire at Notre Dame de Paris." Harvard Business School Case 625-060, November 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
- November 20, 2023
- Article
How Ben Minicucci Piloted Alaska Airlines Through the Pandemic
By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Leadership; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Air Transportation Industry; Travel Industry
Gulati, Ranjay. "How Ben Minicucci Piloted Alaska Airlines Through the Pandemic." Inc.com (November 20, 2023).
- May 1995 (Revised May 1996)
- Teaching Note
AES Honeycomb Series TN
By: Lynn S. Paine and Charles A Nichols, III
1eaching Note for (9-395-132) and (9-395-122). View Details
- December 1994 (Revised January 1995)
- Supplement
AES Honeycomb (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah C. Mavrinac
Describes the actions taken by AES management. View Details
Paine, Lynn S., and Sarah C. Mavrinac. "AES Honeycomb (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 395-122, December 1994. (Revised January 1995.)
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
misplaced response to the financial crisis. It assumes that the financial crisis was caused by unethical MBAs gambling with other people’s money,” a point Vermaelen contests. He concludes: “Rather than focusing on pledges, businesses... View Details
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
CURRAN: "The most important thing I learned is that central planning in such situations doesn't work." Courtesy Dan Curran International relief agencies that raced to aid Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have a lot to learn from the unique View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
Colleges and universities are learning what companies have known for a long time—when scandal breaks, business can take a significant hit. New research from Harvard Business School concludes that high-profile scandals on college campuses—cheating, hazing, sexual... View Details
- April 1990
- Case
Perrier Recall: A Source of Trouble
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
When a laboratory discovered traces of the carcinogen benzene in bottles of Perrier, Group Perrier of America immediately announced a voluntary U.S. recall of all Perrier brand imported water. This case describes press coverage of the U.S. recall and the worldwide... View Details
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "Perrier Recall: A Source of Trouble." Harvard Business School Case 590-104, April 1990.
- December 1987
- Case
Putnam Companies: Crash Communications--1987
Keywords: Crisis Management
Greyser, Stephen A. "Putnam Companies: Crash Communications--1987." Harvard Business School Case 588-047, December 1987.