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May 1992 (Revised May 2002)
Case

NIKE in Transition (B): Phil Knight Returns

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

After returning to the CEO/COO job, Phil Knight makes changes to Nike's strategy, organization, and management between 1983 and 1987 aimed at making Nike more responsive to the market place. He takes cost-cutting measures, and experiments with several management and... View Details

Keywords: Change; Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy

01 Dec 2020
News

Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a second-year course on... View Details

February 1993 (Revised March 1993)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A) (Updated)

The setting is a food manufacturing company that has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture momentum, the president has used information technology as one element in his program of transition. The case focuses on the... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Information Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Transition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry

09 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian & Xiaoxue Zhao

July 2011
Case

Barrick Gold: Implementing a Transition to IFRS

By: David F. Hawkins and Angel R. Solis

Barrick Gold must change from Canadian – GAAP to IFRS. Case covers the transition. View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Transition; Mining Industry; Canada

02 Apr 2020
Video

Incorporating Climate Risk into Financial Models: Bob Litterman on Transition Risk

Web

MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni

Help MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition 6ms Class of 2025 Technology Deadlines After graduation, your access to HBS resources will expire or transition. Please review the timeline below, and download any items you would like to retain... View Details

May–June 2018
Article

Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet research shows that job cuts rarely help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Transition; Strategic Planning

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1994
Book

The Transition in Eastern Europe. v.1: Country Studies

By: O. Blanchard, K. Froot and J. Sachs

Keywords: Transition; Europe

December 2010
Teaching Note

Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon (TN)

By: Michael L. Tushman and David Kiron

Teaching Note for 410705. View Details

Keywords: Vancouver; Canada; United States

15 Apr 2024
Video

Navigating Difficult Conversations About Family Enterprise Transitions

April 1991 (Revised September 1992)
Teaching Note

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A), Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-187-065). View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry

June 1990 (Revised September 1992)
Teaching Note

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (C), Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-190-071). View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry

June 1990 (Revised September 1992)
Teaching Note

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (B), Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-187-123). View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry

September 2024
Case

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners: Leading the Energy Transition

By: John Macomber and Maxwell Nii Laryea

A leading global infrastructure fund debates whether and when to become engaged in the electrolysis and distribution of hydrogen, as part of the hydrogen economy and the global transtion to a net zero energy world. The proposed billion dollar project consists of ... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Infrastructure; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Project Finance; Energy Industry; Spain

October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing

By: George Serafeim, Siko Sikochi and Namrata Arora

The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times Greater London, resulting in one billion tons of carbon emissions yearly. At the same time, an estimated 700,000... View Details

Keywords: Clean Tech; Digital; Carbon Credits; Carbon Offsetting; Climate Change; Entrepreneurship; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Health; Market Design; Business Startups; Transition; Environmental Regulation; Policy; Energy Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Kenya; Rwanda

2005
Working Paper

Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam

By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer

January 1991 (Revised June 1991)
Supplement

Olivetti Group (C): The Transition Concerto, Finale

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Roy V. Eales