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  • September 2004 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004)

By: Andrew P. McAfee, F. Warren McFarlan and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Illustrates the challenges associated with centralizing IT decisions at Cisco after a decade of decentralized planning and project funding. When Brad Boston became Cisco's new CIO in 2001, he found that managers were starting to get frustrated with the results of their... View Details
Keywords: Management; Resource Allocation; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Business Ventures; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Projects; Planning; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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  • February 2016 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

The Jungle and the Debate over Federal Meat Inspection in 1906

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
In early June 1906, the House Committee on Agriculture heard testimony from two investigators appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to verify allegations of unsanitary conditions at Chicago slaughterhouses that had appeared in Upton Sinclair's recent novel, The... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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    William C. Vrattos

    Bill Vrattos is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Investment Strategies, a course on public market investing in the elective curriculum. He also co-teaches Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems, where he mentors student groups on... View Details

    • 11 Jul 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View

    Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
    • 24 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

    proposals, which would include the wind down of two government sponsored enterprises—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Between them they generated more than half of all US mortgage credit before failing in September 2008. According to a new... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • August 2, 2016
    • Article

    Uncalculating Cooperation Is Used to Signal Trustworthiness

    By: Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Martin A. Nowak and David G. Rand
    Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result, people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly mistakes? Here, we present experimental evidence that reputation concerns provide an... View Details
    Keywords: Social Evaluation; Experimental Economics; Moral Psychology; Cooperation; Reputation; Decision Making
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    • October 2022
    • Case

    EducationSuperHighway 2.0

    By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
    In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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    • 10 May 2020
    • News

    The Brilliant Success of Shackleton’s Failure

    • October, 2022
    • Article

    The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

    By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
    Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
    Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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    • 2022
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Organizational Behavior Reading: Managing Differences

    By: Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman
    This reading provides principles and practices managers can draw upon to leverage differences in social identities - such as gender and race - to create more effective work relationships, teams, and organizations. The Essential Reading's first section draws upon... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Identity; Management Practices and Processes
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    • January 2019 (Revised December 2019)
    • Case

    CrossBoundary Energy

    By: John Macomber
    Almost 500 million people are without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments and public utilities are challenged to bring generation and distribution to most of them. Considerable promise exists in “off-grid” or “mini-grid” technologies, notably using renewable... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Investing; Economic Development; Renewable Energy; Business Growth and Maturation; Developing Countries and Economies; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Infrastructure; Segmentation; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Africa; Tanzania; Ghana
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    • December 2024
    • Case

    Enerjisa Üretim: The Digital Era of Electricity Generation

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Sadika El Hariri
    Launched in 2017, Enerjisa Üretim was one of Türkiye’s largest private sector electricity companies. In its early days, the company faced some financial and operational troubles. When İhsan Erbil Bayçöl, the current CEO of Enerjisa Üretim, joined the business in 2018,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; Performance Improvement; Renewable Energy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Units; Partners and Partnerships; Leadership; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Turkey
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    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 13 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

    Collis and Leena Kulkarni, former research associates at HBS. “We found that candidates were talented, and yet they self-selected out,” Coffman says. Ultimately, that means many businesses advertising for executive positions may wind up... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • Web

    Strategic Positioning - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    of two things: a premium price or lower costs for the company. Achieving Superior Performance Within an Industry It’s possible to compete on low cost and be differentiated at the same time—but companies that try to be all things to all customers can View Details
    • Web

    Operational Effectiveness vs. Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Effectivenes... Operational Effectiveness vs. Strategy Too often in today’s companies, managers mistake operational effectiveness with strategy. Both are important. Both help drive superior performance. But managers who neglect strategic positioning can View Details
    • 20 Jun 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

    course of a single day, for a statistic, the temporal decay was a much more dramatic 73 percent. The difficulty in recall, in turn, stems not from loss of memory, per se. Instead, it has to do with conflicts with other similar memories that View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

    By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist
    This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective
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    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    sustainability metrics in their compensation systems—in order to mitigate the risks of climate change. Developing the Wind Industry 06 DEC 2019 | Climate Rising Wind power has more than tripled in the United... View Details
    • March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health

    By: Ranjay Gulati, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Ashley Whillans, Allison Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
    In December 2023, the 60-year-old weight management industry stalwart WeightWatchers announced the launch of WeightWatchers Clinic, which incorporated GLP-1s , a new class of prescription weight-loss medications, into the company’s portfolio of products and mobile app... View Details
    Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
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