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    Co-Producing Knowledge

    View a short film by the International Growth Centre describing the co-production research model Professor Ashraf is using in Zambia.

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      Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

      Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

        1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

      • August 2004 (Revised February 2008)
      • Case

      Land Securities Group (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS

      A U.K. real estate firm, required to adopt international accounting standards (IAS) by 2005, must change the reporting of its primary asset (investment property) from the revaluation model under U.K. GAAP to either the cost or fair-value model under IAS. This would... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Investment; Standards; Real Estate Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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      • 09 Nov 2020
      • Video

      Muhammad Musa

      Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains the NGO’s operating model which includes establishing for-profit and social enterprise businesses and the provision of micro-finance. View Details

        Siyu Zhang

        Siyu Zhang is a second-year doctoral student at HBS. Zhang joined Harvard Business School in 2020 as a Research Associate and has been working on macroeconomic forecasting projects. Prior to joining HBS, he was a Data Scientist at John Hancock, where he utilized... View Details

        • 25 Apr 2014
        • Video

        Bob Gebhardt - Making A Difference

        • March 2003
        • Case

        Zara

        Fashion retailer ZARA has achieved spectacular growth via a distinctive design-on-demand operating model. This case describes this model and outlines a number of challenges facing the company, with a particular emphasis on its international expansion. Includes color... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Globalized Firms and Management; Production; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry
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        • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
        • Case

        Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

        By: Francois Brochet
        This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
        Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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        • November 2006 (Revised March 2010)
        • Case

        Two Ways to Fly South: Lan Airlines and Southwest Airlines

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Jorge Tarzijan and Jordan Mitchell
        To maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Looks at the different business models of two highly successful and profitable airlines: Chilean-based Lan Airlines and U.S.-based Southwest Airlines. Lan Airlines pursues a hub-to-spoke... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Service Operations; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Chile
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        • July 1990 (Revised October 1992)
        • Case

        Consolidated Equipment Co.

        By: Samuel L. Hayes III
        A mature company seeks to rejuvenate itself with internal R&D and external acquisitions. It has developed a DCK model for analyzing the value of a proposed acquisition. A rewritten version of an earlier case by J.K. Butters. View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Valuation; Business Growth and Maturation; Research and Development; Acquisition; Capital Budgeting
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        • 2015
        • Case

        Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

        By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
        Two Valmont Industries (an international leader in infrastructure products and services) colleagues, Robert (Bob) Meaney and Richard Berkland hoped to improve the lives of small and medium-sized farmers in the developing world through modern irrigation technology. In... View Details
        Keywords: Developing World; Farm; Farming; Small-scale Farmers; Agriculture; Agricultural Production; Water Management; Water; Leadership Skills; Agribusiness; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Leadership; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Ghana; Tanzania; Rwanda
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        • August 2000 (Revised December 2003)
        • Case

        Dell's Working Capital

        By: Richard S. Ruback and Aldo Sesia
        Dell Computer Corp. manufactures, sells, and services personal computers. The company markets its computers directly to its customers and builds computers after receiving a customer order. This build-to-order model enables Dell to have much smaller investment in... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Management; Working Capital; Manufacturing Industry; Computer Industry
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        • 15 Sep 2017
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation

        Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
        • September 2009 (Revised February 2011)
        • Case

        Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A)

        By: Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. Eccles
        Eden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the U.K. Contracting freelance consultants on a per-project basis keeps overheads lean so that Eden McCallum's fees are a fraction of the big firms' rates. Their flexible, low-cost model has... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Consulting Industry; United Kingdom
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        • 29 Jun 2010
        • News

        In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline

        • March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
        • Case

        Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.: Target Costing System

        Describes Nissan's sophisticated target costing system in the context of new product introduction. On the basis of consumer analysis and a life cycle contribution study, Nissan conducts an exhaustive analysis of component costs to determine whether a new model can be... View Details
        Keywords: Cost; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Japan
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        • 12 Mar 2024
        • HBS Case

        How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

        Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
        • 15 Aug 2007
        • Op-Ed

        3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

        agencies; and second, they are supervised by bodies lacking the financial sophistication inherent in structured products. Both point to an increase in risk for the international financial system. Recent analytical work raises concerns as... View Details
        Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking
        • March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
        • Supplement

        IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion

        By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
        In early 2016, Stanley Litow, IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and President of the IBM International Foundation, made his travel arrangements for still another flight from New York to discuss possibilities for application of a new... View Details
        Keywords: IBM; P-TECH; Stanley Litow: Robin Willner; Cuomo; Scaling; Innovation; New York State; New York City; Business Model; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Growth and Development; Technology Industry; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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        • August 2005 (Revised January 2012)
        • Case

        McKinsey and the Globalization of Consultancy

        By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Alexis Lefort
        Considers McKinsey's strategy during the first stage of the globalization of the management consultancy industry between the 1950s and 1973. Briefly reviews the history of management consulting before considering the factors that led McKinsey to open its first... View Details
        Keywords: History; Demand and Consumers; Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Service Operations; Consulting Industry
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