Publications

January 2014 (Revised December 2014)
Case

GenapSys: Business Models for the Genome

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble

GenapSys, a California-based startup, was soon to release a new DNA sequencer that the company's founder, Hesaam Esfandyarpour, believed was truly revolutionary. The sequencer would be substantially less expensive—potentially costing just a few thousand dollars—and... View Details

Keywords: DNA Sequencing; Life Sciences; Business Model; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Business Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

Educators

March 2022
Background Note

Climate Challenges for Cities: Introduction to Issues and Actions in the United States

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Catarina Mia Martinez

This background Note introduces the implications of climate change (global warming) for American cities. In the U.S., partisan political divides and unaddressed economic and racial disparities in climate vulnerabilities can inhibit action. The two main fronts for... View Details

Educators

1988
Chapter

The Evolution of the Corporation in the United States

Keywords: Business History; Business Ventures; United States

February 1979
Case

Gulf Oil Corp. and the United States Government (B)

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Energy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; United States

07 Apr 2016
News

Bain Capital Promotes Four, Renames Hedge Fund, Credit Units

Keywords: Bain; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

24 Apr 2014
News

Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet

of the solution for global conservation and natural-resource management. “We will not succeed in our work unless we encourage business leaders to understand the degree to which their businesses depend on the... View Details

Book Review

Review of "Benjamin C. Waterhouse: The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States, Simon & Schuster, 2017"

By: Sabine Pitteloud

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February 1979 (Revised September 1980)
Case

Gulf Oil Corp. and the United States Government (A)

By: J. Ronald Fox and Allan Grey

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry

November 2019 (Revised April 2021)
Case

United Technologies: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States

Educators

2018
Chapter

The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance

By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng

BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details

27 Mar 2013
News

Wells Fargo Investment Unit Paid Board Member’s Son $1.4 Million

01 Dec 2019
News

A united Tufts-Harvard Pilgrim is better for consumers, CEOs say

August 2023
Article

Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

By: Tom Nicholas

The influential Whitehall studies found that top-ranking civil servants in Britain experienced lower mortality than civil servants below them in the organizational hierarchy due to differential exposure to workplace stress. I test for a Whitehall effect in the United... View Details

Keywords: Mortality; Status; Working Conditions; Rank and Position; Welfare; Well-being; Health

Article

Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980

By: G. Jones

This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the nature of that "control" is far from... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Performance; Business or Company Management; Ownership; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States